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FORUM MAJOR TOPIC No. 1: WAGE PEACE!FORUM MAJOR TOPIC No. 2: THE MASBATE PEACECAMP
MABUHAY!
Welcome to the "PEACECAMP-MASBATE ON-LINE FORUM ON PEACE""!!!
It's all about PEACE, it's all about Peace Education, it's all about our Peace Advocacy!
It's about WISDOM, WILL, WORK... for Peace. it's for ALL OF US who want Peace,
for all who sing... "All we are saying... is give PEACE a CHANCE!"
Read the postings here, let's think of them, let's post our personal responses, let's respond as persons to one another's personal responses... Let's all build the WISDOM for it, let's enflame our WILL for it, let's do the WORK for it!
Welcome to the PeaceCamp Masbate2010 On-line Forum on Peace on Peace for Peace!
This can be the start of something big!
We ask you to read the initial posting on this blogsite on July 28, the first day we created this blogsite ("Peace WITHIN, Peace Between, Peace Among...)
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We ask you to read these items from a messages postings inbox (comments on a posted photo) on Facebook and our gmail account, plus the Forum Moderator's responses. Shared thoughts, responses, and responses to responses will be grouped into threads according to these Major Topics and their Sub-Topics:
..... FORUM MAJOR TOPIC No. 1: WAGE PEACE!
..... FORUM MAJOR TOPIC No. 2: THE MASBATE PEACECAMP
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We ask you to read these items from a messages postings inbox (comments on a posted photo) on Facebook and our gmail account, plus the Forum Moderator's responses. Shared thoughts, responses, and responses to responses will be grouped into threads according to these Major Topics and their Sub-Topics:
..... FORUM MAJOR TOPIC No. 1: WAGE PEACE!
..... FORUM MAJOR TOPIC No. 2: THE MASBATE PEACECAMP
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briety Needed to Preserve PeacePosted here on August 4, 2010
Ding Reyes: “Nine-Eleven,” that used commercial planes to bomb out of existence the twin towers of World Trade Center in New York, was a heinous crime of unparalleled proportions. It happened on September 11, 2001, and many American voices, including official U.S. government pronouncements instantly built up a campaign that cried for blood. Washington threatened to retaliate with all its might against terrorism and all suspected of being supporters and sy mpathizers of supposed terrorists.
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........The crime was said to be so atrocious that it purportedly justified action even without having to prove guilt on the part of anyone. Psy-war flew thick as the smoke at the crime scene cleared. Entire citizenries were being agitated to take the side of American grief and indignation. Those who dared to publicly doubt the official story were suspected and targeted for harassment.
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........But Humankind was not about to be drawn into a stampede of hate. Peace-loving people around the world, including many Americans, held prayer and discussion sessions for peace to hold against the fires of collective fury.
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........And as ancient future-seer Nostradamus came to be quoted, a group of peace-lovers in the Phili ppines brought to life a counterpart character crying out loud for keeping our sanity in sobriety. That call, in ten quatrains, was Our Truth. And his name was “Nostraverus.”
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........But Humankind was not about to be drawn into a stampede of hate. Peace-loving people around the world, including many Americans, held prayer and discussion sessions for peace to hold against the fires of collective fury.
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........And as ancient future-seer Nostradamus came to be quoted, a group of peace-lovers in the Phili ppines brought to life a counterpart character crying out loud for keeping our sanity in sobriety. That call, in ten quatrains, was Our Truth. And his name was “Nostraverus.”
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........Let’s read and discuss those insightful quatrains of that collective poem in this web page: http://saniblakas.faithweb.com/NOSTRAVERUS.htm. And learn timeless valuable lessons about peace and its much needed defense.
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........Let’s read and discuss those insightful quatrains of that collective poem in this web page: http://saniblakas.faithweb.com/NOSTRAVERUS.htm. And learn timeless valuable lessons about peace and its much needed defense.
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(about "Sobriety Needed to Preserve Peace")
Posted here on August 5:
Moderator: Shortly before midnight last night, I posted here and in my own personal blogsite (readdingz.blogspot.com) an article introducing a ten-quatrain poem that was written on the basis of personal sharings among a group of SanibLakas members and friends about nine years ago, during the tension-filled month of September 2001, at the heels of the “Nine-Eleven” plane-bombing of the World Trade Center twin towers in New York. I provided an intro for this in a separate posting in my Facebook wall and in the walls of my Facebook friends. That has resuted in a thread of postings where two of my good friends joined in a friendly exchange that I embed below:
Ding/Ed Reyes (original post): ... Peace!" in http://peacecamp-masbate.blogspot.com/. with an embedded link to
Erik Villanueva (leader in cooperativism): The 9-11 attacks were atrocious.
Ding Reyes: they were atrocious, but not a valid excuse to skip due process esp. the necessity to prove the guilt of any suspect about to be punished with counter-atrocities.
Erik Villanueva: 9-11 and other terrorist attacks do not justify the sufferings of innocents anywhere from whatever source, but they justify every action to stamp out terrorism using military and other means. They are attacks on humanity, and so are the attacks on, say, MV Rachel Corrie by Israel. Humanity is at war with terrorists and warmaking states and peacemakers must see this as starting point unless they want the peace of cowards without conviction.
Ding Reyes: the other extreme is to favor endless overreactions to overreactions, like the US overreactions to their own suspicions about Iraqi WMDs (weapons of mass destruction), mounting a full-scale invasion the UN security council had voted against, and unable to find any WMDs, admitted later by CIA to have been unproven, settled for capturing the Iraqi oil supply, while keeping the attempt to project a “moral high ground” for themselves as policemen of the world, and getting the Philippines and Spain into the coalition of the gullible (at least not of the cowards?). Peace, Erik.
Rex Deveraturda (businessman in Zambales): Any act that results in to the death or injury of parties not directly involved in the game of war or struggle is inhuman and would easily fall under the category of terrorism. Be it by a group of like-believers or by a nation that thinks it has policeman's role to play in the world's politico-economic arena. We must condemn any and all acts that kill innocent lives, destroy peace and squander our chance to Live as One.
Erik Villanueva: You are right, they are not cowards in a sense. but to get along with your US-bashing, they are cowards in the sense that they take on only militarily weak iraq and afghanistan and leaves china and the saudis alone. despite US bunglings, saying there is no basis for the war on terror will not make peacemaking credible. Yea, man! Peace, man!
(Other people are invited to join in this and other conversations.)
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Anger Punishes... the AngryPosted here on Aug. 3, 2010
Ding Reyes: Anger Punishes. Anger Unreasonably Punishes... the Angry.
(Part of the contributor's personal article written on August 2, and uploaded in
http://readdingz.blogspot.com/2010/08/three-ws-on-internet-wisdom-will-work.html)
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http://readdingz.blogspot.com/2010/08/three-ws-on-internet-wisdom-will-work.html)
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Peace Within, Peace Between, Peace Among...Posted here on Aug. 2, 2010
May Peace be WITHIN you, and WITHIN me...
May Peace be BETWEEN and AMONG us...
May Peace be in the Conscious Living Oneness of the Earth,
.....our planetary home and family!
May Peace be in our every breath, in our every smile!
Real, durable peace is dynamic peace
.....in our Conscious Oneness, in our Synergy!
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Brave Attempt... doableMay Peace be BETWEEN and AMONG us...
May Peace be in the Conscious Living Oneness of the Earth,
.....our planetary home and family!
May Peace be in our every breath, in our every smile!
Real, durable peace is dynamic peace
.....in our Conscious Oneness, in our Synergy!
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Posted here on Aug. 2, 2010
Melo Acuña: It's a brave attempt to put all the killings behind but place the persons responsible before the bar of justice. That would be a great lesson for all.
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Moderator: You're right, Melo! But at least, let's try to unify minds and hearts about what is right and what is wrong on the peace question, and motivate all to be peace advocates. Mahirap na rin iyon, pero mas doable for everyone.
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'Be Peaceable to All Men!'
Posted here on Aug. 4, 2010
Melo Acuña: It's a brave attempt to put all the killings behind but place the persons responsible before the bar of justice. That would be a great lesson for all.
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Moderator: You're right, Melo! But at least, let's try to unify minds and hearts about what is right and what is wrong on the peace question, and motivate all to be peace advocates. Mahirap na rin iyon, pero mas doable for everyone.
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'Be
Peaceable to All Men!'Posted here on Aug. 4, 2010
Arlene Andes (International Presenter in Europe, based in London & Brussels):
"Give peace a chance. Be peaceable to all men".
..You have my full support. If you have any announcements to make, please email it to me ASAP. It would be aired on our radio & TV programs in Manila, Pilipinas Online, Bantay OCW over Radyo ng Bayan, 738 KHz, AM Band, 1:00-2:00 pm, Monday-Thursday and NBN-Channel 4, 10:00-11:00 pm, Monday-Friday.
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2The Masbate PeaceCamp"Give peace a chance. Be peaceable to all men".
..You have my full support. If you have any announcements to make, please email it to me ASAP. It would be aired on our radio & TV programs in Manila, Pilipinas Online, Bantay OCW over Radyo ng Bayan, 738 KHz, AM Band, 1:00-2:00 pm, Monday-Thursday and NBN-Channel 4, 10:00-11:00 pm, Monday-Friday.
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(FORUM TOPIC No. 2)
Solidarity Message from Bacolod City
Posted here on Aug. 2, 2010
May Altarejos-Cueva, Proponent/Chair, "Project C.A.R.E.S." --Community Activities Reach
ing to Everyone thru Services), Bacolod City, Negros Occidental: "Let's GIVE PEACE A CHANCE! We can do our share. May your tribe increase. Stay safe."
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......................Moderator: Thanks so much for your message, Ms. May! (Ms. May Cueva's "Project CARES" commemorates 10 years so far of community service)
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May Altarejos-Cueva, Proponent/Chair, "Project C.A.R.E.S." --Community Activities Reach
ing to Everyone thru Services), Bacolod City, Negros Occidental: "Let's GIVE PEACE A CHANCE! We can do our share. May your tribe increase. Stay safe.".
......................Moderator: Thanks so much for your message, Ms. May! (Ms. May Cueva's "Project CARES" commemorates 10 years so far of community service)
Masbateña Educator is Grateful
Posted here on Aug. 1, 2010)
Dr.Noemi Alindogan, Cagayan de Oro-based professor with roots in Ticao Island, Masbate (Dr. Medina was the Founding Chairperson of the mainly-Academe-based Lambat-Liwanag Network for Empowering Paradigms.): Thank God that a very good friend of mine, Prof. Ed Aurelio Reyes, started a peace advocacy project in my native province, Masbate. I'm from San Fernando, Masbate but I decided to settle for good here in Mindanao as I felt so desperate and so all alone to work on a project like what Ed has just launched today. Actually, my dream for my beloved Masbate has found fulfillment at Misamis Oriental State College for Agriculture and Technology where I am presently working.
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Noemi Alindogan, Cagayan de Oro-based professor with roots in Ticao Island, Masbate (Dr. Medina was the Founding Chairperson of the mainly-Academe-based Lambat-Liwanag Network for Empowering Paradigms.): Thank God that a very good friend of mine, Prof. Ed Aurelio Reyes, started a peace advocacy project in my native province, Masbate. I'm from San Fernando, Masbate but I decided to settle for good here in Mindanao as I felt so desperate and so all alone to work on a project like what Ed has just launched today. Actually, my dream for my beloved Masbate has found fulfillment at Misamis Oriental State College for Agriculture and Technology where I am presently working. ..........It was only last Friday, July 30, when we launched with a big bang, the Gender and Peace Learning Center which I put up for the College. During the program, I presented the Vision, Mission and Goals of the Center and the activities I have scheduled for implementation for this School Year. I brought up my almost 200 books on gender and peace for our resource and research unit. I will also be conducting regular seminars on gender and peace for the faculty and students which include the children from the Higaonon tribe.
...........Sayang, dapat sa Masbate ko gagawin lahat yan kaya lang, pinanghinaan ako ng loob sa mga nangyayaring hindi makatarungan na para bang wala nang katapusan. Kinakailangan pang si Ed Reyes na taga Zambales pero ipinanganak sa Cagayan de Oro, Misamis Oriental ang makaisip kung paano umpisahan ang pagsagot sa hamon ng panahon.
..........Maraming salamat, Ed sa pagsindi ng sulo na siyang magsisilbing tanglaw para sa pagkakaisa ng sambayanan tungo sa kapayapaan. Mabuhay ka, Ed at kayong lahat na nakikiisa sa paghasik ng mga kaisipan at gawaing pangkapayapaan para sa Masbate.
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..........Ito si Noemi Clemente Alindogan- Medina, tubong Ticao, Masbate
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Moderator: Thanks so much for your message, Dr. Noemi. Although I would have been so proud to claim having started this project, i have to clarify that I am just assisting it. Hindi po ako ang nag-initiate ng laudable project na ito, kundi ang best friend kong si Ms. Hyacinth R. Merioles, at ako ay tumutulong lamang, bilang isa sa kanyang mga tagapayo at katulong dito, at ang inilunsad ngayong on-line forum na proyekto ng "www.Peacecamp-Masbate2010" ay isa sa partikular kong assignments sa PeaceCamp project. Ms. Merioles, an International Studies graduate of Miriam College in Quezon City, is a proud Masbateña. And Masbate has big reason to be very proud of her, too.
..........Ito si Noemi Clemente Alindogan- Medina, tubong Ticao, Masbate
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Moderator: Thanks so much for your message, Dr. Noemi. Although I would have been so proud to claim having started this project, i have to clarify that I am just assisting it. Hindi po ako ang nag-initiate ng laudable project na ito, kundi ang best friend kong si Ms. Hyacinth R. Merioles, at ako ay tumutulong lamang, bilang isa sa kanyang mga tagapayo at katulong dito, at ang inilunsad ngayong on-line forum na proyekto ng "www.Peacecamp-Masbate2010" ay isa sa partikular kong assignments sa PeaceCamp project. Ms. Merioles, an International Studies graduate of Miriam College in Quezon City, is a proud Masbateña. And Masbate has big reason to be very proud of her, too.
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'Great peace work!'Posted here on August 1, 2010
Rafael Pablo Molina Fernando: This is great peace work Ed!!! SHANTI.Thursday at 4:08pmModerator: great peace work, and i'm proud to be part of it. Ms. Shayne started it and got me into the team. I'm asking you now to join us ACTIVELY in this effort. at least, on line. Nag-start ka na nga, eh!
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'Sana, Matuloy… masaya!'
Posted here on Aug. 3, 2010
Reina Marie Ramos: mam, xna m2loy ung peace camp ntin pra masaya
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Christian: O NGA MAM SALI TAU EEJJEJEJEJEJEJEJ
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Moderator: matutuloy at magtatagumpay yon! kasi, titiyakin natin! di naman siguro kokontra ang Panginoon kung taos sa puso natin ang pagtataguyod sa kapayapaan, sa mulat na kaisahan ng mga tao na lahat naman ay Siya ang lumikha. At, tama ka, MASAYA!
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Christian: Tama!
'Sana, Matuloy… masaya!'
Posted here on Aug. 3, 2010
Reina Marie Ramos: mam, xna m2loy ung peace camp ntin pra masaya.
Christian: O NGA MAM SALI TAU EEJJEJEJEJEJEJEJ
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Moderator: matutuloy at magtatagumpay yon! kasi, titiyakin natin! di naman siguro kokontra ang Panginoon kung taos sa puso natin ang pagtataguyod sa kapayapaan, sa mulat na kaisahan ng mga tao na lahat naman ay Siya ang lumikha. At, tama ka, MASAYA!
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Christian: Tama!
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'Go-go-go, Peacecamp-Masbate!'
Posted here on Aug. 3, 2010
Orlan Tiu de Guzman: Mabuhay tayong lahat!
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COMING SOON AS A SECTION FOR THIS ON-LINE FORUM...
MGA HABILIN SA KABATAAN (para sa Kapayapaan)
'Go
-go-go, Peacecamp-Masbate!'Posted here on Aug. 3, 2010
Orlan Tiu de Guzman: Mabuhay tayong lahat!
Go, go, go, Peacecamp Masbate! . ..............As we know it, several peace camps have already been started all over (mostly in Mindanao). I know of one organized by Binhi ng Kapayapaan, Inc. that links Christian, Muslim & Lumadnon youths from Mindanao, Manila and Nueva Ecija. I've heard of several also in Metro Manila --Youth Peace Camp c/o Communication Foundation for Asia and a recent one last month by the Asia America Initiatives and Young Moro Professionals Network. It is good to know that all this sowing of seeds of peace have been started..
May peace that starts from within us radiate to others all around the country!
..........And now here is one for another province (it is best that seeds are sown throughout as wide as possible!). . ..........Let us envision peace camps sprouting all over the archipelago to create a critical mass of empowered and awakened youth peace-sowers, and let us work together for this to happen!
Bathala Nawa!
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COMING SOON AS A SECTION FOR THIS ON-LINE FORUM...
MGA HABILIN SA KABATAAN (para sa Kapayapaan)We are asking adults and young adults (18-30 years old) to post messages here that they would wish to express to the youth about peace. At the same time, considering the state of peace (actually, unpeace) prevailing in society in our homes and our localities, our countries and our planet at present, we do have reason to be very humble, and that the youth probably already know by heart much more than what we do and than what we can try to "teach" their minds. .....................................................--Moderator
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Maraming salamat po! We've started! We're all together in this! This can be the start of something big! Mabuhay tayong lahat!
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