The ongoing violence that people direct at one another is a never-ending cycle. Dhammapada: not by enmity is enmity quelled. To create peace between people I need to cultivate a state of mind that is non-violent and morally sound. The fear that I will somehow lose money, power, prestige, opportunity, based on the hatred of others if I don't respond with hatred is a lie. As a believer God commands me to have faith in the power of God to sustain me.

Psalm 91:2-7 I will say of the LORD, "He is my fortress, my God, in whom I trust." Surely he will save you from the fowler's snare and the deadly pestilence. He will cover you with his feathers, and und his wings you will find refuge. His faithfulness will be your shield and rampart. You will not fear the terror by night or the arrow that fleis by day, nor the pestilence that stalks in the darkness, nor the plague at midday. A thousand may fall at your side, ten thousand at your hand, but it will not come near you.

I do not need to be afraad and therefore angry because God is sufficient to carry me through any hardship or difficulty. I can be free from violence because God can protecct me and I have no need to defend myself. My faith is sufficient defense.

sisterhood

writing outside of my experience- either a process of looking in at myself or not looking at myself. What is the ethic of how we treat each other. We keep looking at each other- the woman from groups, the woman who is my sister, my ex-roomate, the woman who hugs me who hates me, the woman who has faith in me, the woman who respects my work. I look back at the variety of experiences of me, experiencing them based on their perception of me. The concept from Buddhism that the perception they have of me and me of them is based on my own mindstate ought to tell me that what I see in them and they see in me is an illusion based on our perceptions, not the fundamental reality behind our dependent and temporary existence. In Christian thought the concept is how do we love God if we do not love each other? In Islam the concept is similar, if our existence is a series of veils over the fundamental reality of God that forms the base of all being, then disliking another person is similar to disliking God, and oneself- it is a function of our separation from the truth of God's tender care. So we keep trying to defend ourselves from the fear of other people's existence and hatred by lowering our moral standards, by relaxing our vigilance about our moral values, thinking that we will win more money, power, status, or even peace of mind and happiness. The truth is we cannot attain our goal as spiritual people by lowering our moral standards to protect ourselves from the vindictive spite of others. We have to raise our standards and strive for God, for Allah, for being without influxes and attachments. We have to seek God more diligently, and not be dragged into the illusions of the world because the illusion promises what it cannot provide.

Rom. 12:2 "Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind."

Rom. 12:21 "Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good."

Feminism

Feminism and the female imaginary. writing to jam the machinery. Within the constraints of the global system that produces our collective meaning what will we accomplish for our future. Is our future in our ideology, and if so can we see our ideology with meaning that we create or are we incapable of creating meaning outside of the paradigm of global culture.
united against a common enemy
women in solidarity
what is sisterhood
how does our self-knowledge and becoming involve inner reflection, gnosis
what do Process theologians, Freudians, Gnostics and Islamic Feminists have to say to eachother