Stopping Some Insanity..

 

 

 

 

These are the first two Peace Seed Rosaries I ever made back in 2008. I'm shipping the last ones I'll ever make to the Peace Abbey Foundation tomorrow.    Calling it quits.    Fourteen years is enough.   The bootlessness of praying for peace really got to grinding on me in the last five or so years. There's either nobody at home listening or if they are at home and listening, they just don't give a fuck - cuz the score is roughly 150-0 in favor of war. What's the 150 you ask?  Here they are in chronological order (and these are just the biggies...the count  doesn't include things like Barack "Nobel Peace Prize" Obama's kill list or any other dirty little assassinations we or some other empire commit.): The Peloponnesian War War of Alexander the Great Punic War Gallic War Caesar’s invasion of Britain Great Jewish Revolt Yellow Turban Rebellion War Against the Moors in North Africa Roman–Persian War Fall of Rome Byzantine–Arab War Muslim Conquest of Egypt First Siege of Constantinople Arab-Chinese War Saxon Wars Viking raids across Europe Bulgarian Siege of Constantinople Zanj Rebellion in Southern Iraq Croatian–Bulgarian War Viking Civil War Norman Conquest of England First Crusade Second Crusade Third Crusade Fourth Crusade Children’s Crusade Fifth Sixth Seventh Eighth Ninth Crusade Norman Invasion of Ireland Mongol Invasion of China Mongol Invasion from Russia Mongol Invasion of Afghanistan Mongol Invasion of Vietnam The Hundred Years’ War Chinese Domination of Vietnam Polish–Lithuanian–Teutonic War Hunger War Fall of Constantinople Wars of the Roses War of the Priests Muscovite–Lithuanian Wars The Spanish Conquest of Mexico The Mughal Conquest of India Wars of the Two Brothers The Spanish Conquest of Peru Thirty Years’ War Pequot War First, Second, and Third English Civil Wars Cromwell’s Conquest of Ireland Cromwell’s Conquest of Scotland The 335 Years’ War The French and Indian Wars Second Cherokee War American Revolution French Revolution Haitian Revolution The Napoleonic Wars The Bolivian War of Independence Argentine War of Independence Mexican War of Independence Bolivian War of Independence War of 1812 Columbian, Chilean, Peruvian, and Ecuadorian Wars of Independence Lower Canada Rebellion Upper Canada Rebellion Second Seminole War Mormon War Pastry War Honey War First Anglo–Afghan War First Opium War The Land Wars Crimean War American Civil War Sioux Wars Second Anglo–Afghan War The Boer Wars Cuban War of Independence Spanish–American War Mexican Revolution World War I Russian Revolution Third Anglo–Afghan War Irish War of Independence Afghan Civil War Japanese Invasion of Manchuria Saudi–Yemeni War Spanish Civil War World War II Palestinian Civil War Arab–Israeli War Cold War Korean War Cuban Revolution Tibetan Rebellion Vietnam Bay of Pigs Sand War Six–Day War Laos Cambodia The Troubles Prague Spring Nicaraguan Revolution Salvadorian Civil War Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan Contra War in Nicaragua Second Sudanese Civil War The Iran–Iraq War Falklands War Israeli Invasion of Lebanon The First Intifada The Israeli Invasion of Lebanon US Invasion of Granada US Invasion of Panama First Intifada Afghan Civil War Rwandan Civil War Chechnya Bosnia and Herzegovina Chechnya Afghanistan Kosovo Iraq Chechnya Afghanistan Rwanda Darfur Iraq Haiti Pakistan Lebanon Kenya Zimbabwe Congo Gaza Somalia Georgia Iraq Pakistan Afghanistan Libya Syria Ukraine List from: Postcards From Babylon by Brian Zahnd Pretty compelling record no?     Doing the same thing over and over again (praying for peace) and then getting crushed by war over and over and over and over and over and over again is the very definition of insanity. So - I'm giving up this little bit of insanity and delusion so that the rest of the insanity and delusion remaining in my head have some additional room to stretch their legs and really get going on some "new projects"  And oh yes - I didn't pick on Gandhi in this post ..the old kink.. as one of the other contributing factors for calling it quits..

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