The Reading People for Peace sponsors monthly peace vigils on the Town Common in Reading, MA. All vigils are from 11 a.m. to noon on the second Saturday of each month. We are a non-partisan group that believes people must actively seek peace in order to have peace. Our members represent all major faith communities. Please joins us if you can.
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SO how does standing around the common once a month promote peace? How do we get peace today?
— Steve · May 17, 10:18 PM · #
This web site is pathetic….Woodstock is never coming back!….Your bus left 40 years ago!
— Mark · Jun 1, 07:33 PM · #
@Mark: We’re not Woodstock types. Sorry you find the idea of learning to get along with other people to be pathetic. I think you’ve unintentionally identified the problem. You view people whose world view doesn’t correspond to your own as being “pathetic”, and thereby not fully human.
@Steve: “How do we get peace today?” Sadly, there is no magic wand. Peace comes when people decide it’s important. People who never think about peace one way or another will ever come to the conclusion that having peace is important to ensuring our own future as well as that of our children. We vigil as a means of suggesting that people begin to think about the problems of peace, rather than reflexively support the default view that violence is the first and best solution to any and all problems. An approach, by the way, that hardly ever works.
I can imagine how our vigiling on the common can, eventually lead to peace. But why don't you tell me how not vigiling on the common can lead to peace. Can you suggest a better way?
— lgpiper · Jul 19, 12:43 PM · #