Everyday is Armistice (satire)

It is a big coincidence I was born on Armistice Day (Nov.11). While I'm thankful for the Allieds winning the Great War, the causes of World War 1 were imperialism, militarism and nationalism going back to the 1870s.

In the uneasy peace that followed Armistice in 1918, peace prevailed only to have militarism arise again, leading to World War 2 with Germany and later Japan entering the war.

In Japan's case, the peace-loving government was replaced through assassinations by young military officers with militarists between World War 1 and World War 2. This led to Japan's role as aggressor in Asia, which to this day is propagandized by China and South Korea, despite the fact that most Asians are peace-loving.

Today, it is unlikely there will be another world war.

While there may be minor wars such as the crises in Africa since 1947, Israel -Palestinian conflict, Afghanistan, Iraq, the Ukraine, and the like, most nations know that total war is a costly prospect.

Even though I have stated that the Islamic State should be bombed into submission, it is an impossible act of war that would offend the Arab League. Therefore I am retracting that statement because it was an off-the-cuff response based on a distaste for violent Islamist and especially Jihadist conflict, which violates the message of peace and submission in Islam.

For I believe in peace and nonviolence, and loathe Jihadi warfare because its sharia makes a mockery of Islam.

However, Islam is not the cause of 911. Rather, it was due to the inaction of supposedly great men who failed to act when they were warned. Even Afghan and Iraq conflicts happen because these same men fail to act in the name of peace and non-violence.

True, the West claims to act in the name of democracy, but when forced on a people, only anarchy will result. This is true for the Middle East, the Ukraine, Sudan, and Nigeria as it is for the West.

While I know that my love of peace and nonviolence cannot effect world peace, I know that it affects my life greatly, much more than the same old story since Armistice Day in 1918. Instead, I vow to make every day my armistice day from this day forward, while I briefly and silently mourn for lives lost in conflicts around the world...

When my birthday comes, hopefully the karma of my statement of peace and nonviolence will bear fruit.

Love, peace, respect, and solidarity to all likeminded people.

A Frog in the Well (A Proverb about Visible Minorities)

The frog in the well knows nothing of the great ocean. — Japanese Proverb

Likewise, people who socially isolate themselves from other communities actually know nothing about the ocean of humanity that stretches around the world.

Just knowing my own ethnic community means I don't know jack about other ethnic minorities with whom I share similar stories of aversion, outright hatred, and other injustices which are all in common.

As long as we remain in our communities, and refuse to join in solidarity with other visible minorities, we are doing an injustice to the betterment of visible minorities, both in Canada and around the world.

La Liberté dans Solitude / The Freedom in Solitude (poem)

Je suis seul et heureux avec elle!
Ce n'est pas un problème pour moi.
C'est la liberté que j'aimez
tres beaucoup, d'autant
plus que je ne croyais possible,
Car je suis reconnaissant à
amis, famille et quelquefois inconnus!

[Translation:English]

I am single and happy with it!
This isn't a problem for me.
It's the freedom that I enjoy
very much, especially
more than I thought possible,
because I am grateful to
friends, family and sometimes strangers!

Nohchallah - Chechen Hospitality and Moral Code of Tribals

"Nohcho" means a Chechen. The term "nohchalla" encompasses all features of the Chechen character in one word. These included the entire range of moral, ethical and moral norms of Chechen life. You could also say that this is Chechen "code of honour".

Hospitality is "nohchalla." Politeness and docility is "nohchalla." Mutual reciprocity is "nohchalla." Yet the term "nohchalla" is incompatible with "rank" and "status". Thus, the Chechens have never been princes nor have they formed a kingdom.

"Nohchalla" is the ability to build lasting relationships with people, in no way demonstrating one's superiority, even being in a privileged position. Rather, in such a situation one should be especially courteous and friendly, so as not to hurt anybody's feelings.

"Nohchalla" is friendship for life: in the days of sadness and joy in the days. Friendship for life has the notion of the sacred. Inattentiveness or discourtesy towards a brother is forgiven, but never towards a friend!

"Nohchalla" has a special reverence for women. While stressing respect for the relatives of his mother or his wife, a man with a horse goes right to the entrance to the village where they live. So cherish the honour given women that only a man brought up in the spirit of "nohchalla" displays.

A personal sense of freedom and the willingness to defend it is "nohchalla." For "nohchalla" obligates the Chechen to respect anyone, but to reject coercion, force, and violence.

Indeed, "nohchalla" is not law but what a Chechen does knowingly and voluntarily. It is currently the democracy of the Nokhchiin.

Translated from http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng§ion=musiceng&row=15