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The Compassion and Health Campaign – The World Peace Diet.

An extraordinary one-day event to spread the word about “The World Peace Diet.”  Lots of free gifts available if you take part in this one-day-only opportunity.  Here’s the message from our friends at The World Peace Diet…

As seekers of truth, compassion, and health, we are learning to question the assumptions of the established order, and to rely more on our inherent wisdom to bring healing and peace to our lives.

There is a book, written by our friend Dr. Will Tuttle, called The World Peace Diet. It helps you understand the power of food, and the cultural mentality reinforced by our practice of food, for many levels of healing-–physical, psychological, cultural, ecological, and spiritual.

Many people have called it a revelation, and one of the most important books of the 21^st century.

Today, Friday, March 12, Dr. Tuttle is coordinating a special offer for this critically-acclaimed book called “The March 12 World Peace Diet Compassion and Health Campaign.” Please pick up a copy of The World Peace Diet today and pass one along to a friend, library, school, etc.

Many generous and caring sponsors have donated excellent bonus gifts and prizes to anyone who buys The World Peace Diet (today only).  Including NonviolenceUnited.org! :)

There are downloadable audio books, recipes, music, e-books, discount coupons and the chance to enter drawings for some terrific prizes! There are over 50 gifts and prizes, all told, and anyone who buys the book on March 12 (only) is eligible to receive them. Here’s the link to this special campaign http://worldpeacediet.org/promo.htm

It’s a great way to help animals, the Earth, hungry people, and all of us, and spread the message we believe in.

This is the page to go to – http://worldpeacediet.org/promo.htm – everything is explained there.

P.S. – Please share this special offer with your friends and colleagues, and encourage them to do the same.  This is not an exclusive offer. The more of us who participate, the better it will be for everyone.  This is a one-day offer–March 12 only.  Thanx!

There’s no real word for Active Nonviolence. Nonviolence is one of those “non” words — a “not” word. But it is much more than not-violence. It is active, creative, courageous, sometimes complicated, often difficult, organized, and driven.

It’s difficult to describe, build, or recognize something that doesn’t have a name. Did the word smiths purposefully write Nonviolence out of our language and therefore out of our understanding?

Even Gandhi struggled with what to call the Nonviolent fight for India’s independence. He announced a contest to find the best word to describe the new powerful movement. Satyagraha, roughly translated from Sanskrit to mean “Truth-Force,” won the contest. But the word Satyagraha hasn’t entirely caught on… it doesn’t really roll off the tongue.

In his book, Nonviolence: 25 Lessons From The History of a Dangerous Idea (meaning “dangerous” to the status quo) Mark Kurlansky asks what if “war” was a non-word? What if the only word for war was “nonpeace?” When we would talk about waging nonpeace, our natural question would be, “Why? Why don’t we want peace?” Nonpeace seems abnormal and impotent. It’s a non-word afterall.

Kurlansky’s book goes on to explore historical examples of Nonviolence, question some of the reasons people support violence, and delve into the “25 Lessons” — all of which are summarized at the end of the book. Here are some “lessons” we found particularly interesting:

• Practitioners of Nonviolence are seen as enemies of the state.
• Once a state takes over a religion, the religion loses its Nonviolent teachings.
• A rebel can be defanged (made less threatening to the status quo) and can be co-opted by making them into a saint after death.
• Wars do not have to be sold to the general public if they can be carried out by an all-volunteer professional military.
• A conflict between a violent and a Nonviolent force is a moral argument. If the violent side can provoke the Nonviolent side into violence, the violent side has won.
• Violence does not resolve. It always leads to more violence.

Thanks for stopping by.  And thank you for all that you do.

:) matt