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Don Shabkie
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Kenneth Lawrence Schroeder replied to Don Shabkie's discussion 'Peace Testimony and the Taliban' in the group Peace and Witness
Be examples, be patterns... The Qu'ran itself says: Repel evil with what is better. Then will he, between whom and thee was hatred, become as it were thy friend and intimate. Chapter 41, verse 34 Of course, to love one's enemies requires…
1st month 19
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anne stansell replied to Don Shabkie's discussion 'Peace Testimony and the Taliban' in the group Peace & Witness
Rosemary, I guess that is the case, I really don't know what the outcome of the committee meeting was. When the committee person told me that the people she contacted, declined to write a letter, I just said thats fine. I wrote one for myself…
9th month 2, 2010
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Rosemary Gould replied to Don Shabkie's discussion 'Peace Testimony and the Taliban' in the group Peace & Witness
Very disappointing when you feel strongly about something and your meeting just seems to give a collective shrug. But I sometimes find it's a longer process than that. We had a simple issue with part of the building falling down(!) It took a…
9th month 1, 2010
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anne stansell replied to Don Shabkie's discussion 'Peace Testimony and the Taliban' in the group Peace & Witness
Rosemary, Thanks for the link I will check it out. There was some question raised about writing our Senators and such but the people that were contacted in the meeting declined. I wrote my letters and sent them.Anyway I will definitely check the…
9th month 1, 2010
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Rosemary Gould replied to Don Shabkie's discussion 'Peace Testimony and the Taliban' in the group Peace & Witness
Anne, I think there are many people out there trying to do something. I just googled "quaker afghanistan women" and came up with this website: http://afghanistan.quaker.org/AidOrgs.htm Perhaps your meeting's peace committee would be…
8th month 31, 2010
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Jeffery Agnew replied to Don Shabkie's discussion 'Peace Testimony and the Taliban' in the group Peace & Witness
The question of how best to deal with the evil -especially, great evil; was really struggled with by that generation which came of age in the age of progress, then lived through the war to end all wars only to be faced by the great depression and…
8th month 31, 2010
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anne stansell replied to Don Shabkie's discussion 'Peace Testimony and the Taliban' in the group Peace & Witness
Forrest and Jeff, First off I did not call anyone evil. I was referring to the acts themselves. Yes, we all can commit evil acts. There are a lot of Quakers who feel we, as part of our country are implicit in the evil of war. So, with that cleared…
8th month 31, 2010
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Jeffery Agnew replied to Don Shabkie's discussion 'Peace Testimony and the Taliban' in the group Peace & Witness
It seems to me a first step is not to demonize an enemy, to recognize that of God in everyone isn't looking for some grain, however tiny it might be, that is 'salvageable'. It is to recognize in each other we are fundamentally made in…
8th month 31, 2010
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Forrest Curo replied to Don Shabkie's discussion 'Peace Testimony and the Taliban' in the group Peace & Witness
We have scored a lot of points by providing actual food to people who were hungry. In doing so, we were right in not making conversion to our ways a requirement for our help. Where we went wrong, in hindsight, was that this at least looked more…
8th month 30, 2010
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anne stansell replied to Don Shabkie's discussion 'Peace Testimony and the Taliban' in the group Peace & Witness
Forest, It is true to say we can't stop all violence. I am not sure what you mean by "trying to do good practical means" What good does it do to tell people who are starving, brutalized and murdered to be "warmed and…
8th month 30, 2010
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Forrest Curo replied to Don Shabkie's discussion 'Peace Testimony and the Taliban' in the group Peace & Witness
How do we remain non-violent when an evil such as the US government is running rampant? We simply recognize that no violence we could imagine would improve the situation. To reduce the temptation that turns people to supporting violence... we would…
8th month 30, 2010
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Forrest Curo replied to Don Shabkie's discussion 'Peace Testimony and the Taliban' in the group Peace & Witness
Maybe we simply don't have the power to eliminate violence from the world? Quakers have known for a long time that no one has the power to eliminate violence by doing violence. So we try to think of better ways-- and this is infinitely better…
8th month 30, 2010
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anne stansell replied to Don Shabkie's discussion 'Peace Testimony and the Taliban' in the group Peace & Witness
I have personally been pondering this question lately. I am so appalled by the violence directed at women by Sharia law (probably not spelled right). Someone sent a video to a local friends discussion, of a woman being stoned to death. I did not…
8th month 30, 2010
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Aaron Crosman replied to Don Shabkie's discussion 'Peace Testimony and the Taliban' in the group Peace & Witness
I don't think there are easy answers when dealing with forces like the Taliban, any more than there were easy answers for Friends who had to make choices about the supporting the war effort during WWII. Groups like Friends Peace Teams and…
9th month 18, 2009
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I've asked myself many times "How do we remain non-violent when an evil such as the Taliban is running rampant?" I'm a member of the Rockingham Meeting, and my good friends there Jack and Susan have offered many good answers.Fighting evil with violence generally fosters more violence, and thus we create an endless cylce--that is one way many Friends answer this question (there are other answers as well). You may be interested to read this article in Time Magazine today:…See More
Don Shabkie added a discussion to the group Peace & Witness 9th month 18, 2009

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Hi, my name is Don Shabkie, and I live in Greenville, SC. I'm a member of Rockingham Monthly Meeting.

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Deuteronomy 28 – If you obey the voice of God by observing the law, you will prosper.  Disobedience will bring destruction (28:45). The big word in this chapter, as in others, is if or “provided” or “so long as.”  This is the great condition that hangs over the redemption people.  The word does not disappear under the new covenant either as we sometimes like to think.  “You are my friends if you do as I command you.” (John 15:14).  The convincing power of the gospel is not in its syllogistic…See More
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Listen to this post: http://www.turtleboxstories.com/audio/whereministrymeets.mp3 Yesterday was sandwiched between a traditional Bible study and a new women's group on astrology and archetypes. Could I have chosen anything more different? One is an ongoing study of Luke that my mother initiated in December with, mostly, retired women. I felt called to join because when else might I have the chance to do a Bible study…See More
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