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100 years ago on Xmas Day

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100 years ago, soldiers freed themselves from the mindset of their leaders and reached across trenches to find some humanity (Update: replaced the Sainsbury ad with this video). We need to do this 365 days a year. Michael Rivero’s video below, “All Wars are Bankers Wars“, puts perspective on war.

 

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  1. So was the event, the topic of the sermon here on Christmas Eve. Seems that the head warmongers objected and referred to both sides fraternising with the enemy.
    Fancy!
    Well selected.

  2. Charles Hamilton Sorley was a British boy studying in Germany and then had to go to war against Germany! He died in 1915 at age 20, having written this and other poems:

    To Germany
    You are blind like us. Your hurt no man designed,
    And no man claimed the conquest of your land.
    But gropers both through fields of thought confined
    We stumble and we do not understand.
    You only saw your future bigly planned,
    And we, the tapering paths of our own mind,
    And in each other’s dearest ways we stand,
    And hiss and hate. And the blind fight the blind.

    When it is peace, then we may view again
    With new-won eyes each other’s truer form
    And wonder. Grown more loving-kind and warm
    We’ll grasp firm hands and laugh at the old pain,
    When it is peace. But until peace, the storm,
    The darkness and the thunder and the rain.

    • Agree—thanks for the link. I found it a little odd that Sainsbury found it proper to benefit using an ad. I thought the irony of putting it alongside “All wars are bankers wars”… might show them up. But agree won’t give them any more air.

      • I will surely come back here! (How about scrapping the bankers’ X out of Xmas and putting the rightful owner back in!) 🙂 Love & Peace! MERRY CHRISTMAS A HAPPY NEW YEAR! Lu.

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