Bloggers Unite for Peace
179Sunday 22 November, 2015 by Uncle Spike
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil
is for good men to do nothing.”
Edmund Burke
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We are normal, everyday hard-working people with a common hobby, blogging. We hail from far and wide. We reside in different lands, on different continents. We speak different languages, eat different foods, and are of varying ages, professions, and religious and cultural backgrounds.
We do have one thing in common…
We believe that terrorist attacks, wherever they may be perpetrated; whether in France, Tunisia, Canada, Iraq, or in Denmark, Turkey, UK, Algeria, Yemen, USA, Lebanon, or in the skies over Egypt, or in India, Saudi Arabia, Australia, Afghanistan, Nigeria, Kuwait, Libya, Bangladesh, Syria, Mali or Belgium are nothing less than attacks on humanity itself. The list is long, and probably many more besides. In every place, in every country, we, as a community of human beings, are always the innocent victims.
However, we, as members of this humanity, have found we have much more, not less, in common than those who seek to polarise our global community through indiscriminate murder of our fellow brothers and sisters.
These attacks are carried out in the name of, or in support of, a cause few of us, irrespective of religious conviction, can even start to comprehend. Murder is murder, irrespective of whatever motive or cause. As a community of bloggers, standing together for peace, we say simply this…
We will not be separated or forced to cease our friendships.
We will not change our ways – we are happy as we are.
We are all different, and proudly so, and stand together as one.
We respect each other’s right to life.
We want to live in peace.
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Here’s how to add your support to our message of peace:
1) Publish the following statement on your own blog
2) Post a link to Twitter (#BloggersUniteForPeace) and/or Facebook
3) Reblog this post or any post that replicates this statement
4) Request to be added to the signatory list below by adding a comment or mailing uncle.spikes.adventures1@gmail.com
5) Add an image Widget using this image URL and link to this post
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Now signed by all of the following !
Uncle Spikes Adventures
Travel Tales of Life
Life After 50
Life on a Colorado Farm
Hello World
Kelly (Turkey)
Northwest Frame of Mind
New Bloggy Cat
My Food Odyssey
F-STOPMAMA
LETICIALULLABIES
Colin (Australia)
Marsha’s Bungalow
HAVE BAG, WILL TRAVEL
lindylecoq
cliffochomo
radical rumblings
Life on the Bike and other Fab Things
My Life Lived Full
EL ESPACIO DE CHUS
MARY J MELANGE
DESTINATION UNKNOWN
Pierr Morgan
Sued51’s blog
The Poet by Day
GUIDE TO AWAKENING YOUR INNER SELF
ENLIGHTENMENT ANGELS
SCATTERED THOUGHTS
Meandering with Misha
Always Backroads
The Isaiah 53:5 Project
Gill McGrath
doesitevenmatter3
NOT JUST SASSY ON THE INSIDE
e-Tinkerbell’s Blog
EDWINA’S EPISODES
Cryptic Garland
LEYA
COMBAT YID AND HER SERVICE DOG
Everyday Wonders
Infinite Sadness… or hope?
Elusive Trope
NewEnglandGardenAndThread
anotherdayinparadise
Stuff and what if…
Life With The Top Down
Station Stories
Sarah Potter Writes
SILENTLYHEARDONCE
ALLABOUTWORDSWA
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Reblogged this on Empower and Balance and commented:
Love this post. As you my readers know, my life’s work is to bring this planet and humanity to peace and Oneness. Our truth IS love and light, not darkness and violence.
Happy New Year and may this year truly BE a new one, with all that has separated us, kept us poor, struggling, and removed from our true beauty just fall away.
Love, katelon
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Thanks for this post. My life, work daily and my main blog are focused on ending the dark on this planet and bringing all humanity to the truth of Oneness, peace, abundance for all, filled with light and love.
Thanks for all you do for this end!
Katelon
Empowerandbalance.wordpress.com
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Thanks Katelon. Wouldn’t it be great if such words were never needed?
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Soon I feel this will be the case.
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[…] I was visiting my blogging friend Sarah Potter and she shared a link to Uncle Spike’s and his peace initiative in his post Bloggers United for Peace. […]
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I found you by way of Sarah Potter and would like to be added to the list of Bloggers for Peace. Nice cause to circulate.
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Oh http://wp.me/p28tjX-1H6
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Done… and very happy to have your support.
May we hope for a better 2016.
SPIKE
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Okay, Spike. I’m on board now http://sarahpotterwrites.com/2015/12/28/monday-morning-haiku-86-bloggers-unite-for-peace/
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You’re more than welcome aboard too 🙂
Do you want your blog adding to the list?
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Yes, that’s fine 🙂
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Done.
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[…] can read all about Uncle Spike’s peace initiative in his post here Further to this, you might like to check out his seasonal post Across the so-called divide, which […]
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Well said, Uncle Spike. And to add to this – peace begins in our own heart and extends to our interactions with neighbors and other people we encounter on a daily basis…
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Exactly; not rocket science, is it? 😀
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Saw this via https://etinkerbell.wordpress.com (http://wp.me/p2OhVs-yq and scheduled to post about it on Tuesday December 22nd. I fully support this declaration. Kudos to you.
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Thank you. I don’t know where next to take this, so every bit of support is a gain in my book.
Cheers,
SPIKE
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Thank you for liking my blog “Christmas on the Creek.”
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Always good to have a nose around what’s going on out there 🙂
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Thank you for liking my blog “Creek Life II.” Please come back soon? God bless.
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Welcome; always happy to discover something new 🙂
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