Author: Pat

We’ve been focusing so much lately on the development of WorldDebatingForum.com rather than posting on this blog that we feel a need to re-state why we’re dedicating ourselves to the philosophy of No Hate No Violence.

We very simply believe that if we can encourage this alternative ideology, over time the U.S and the world can become a much better place.

This human rights-based approach is a peaceful ideology that combats Hate and Violence, not only in religious or political attitudes but also by offering a pragmatic approach to coming up with solutions designed to stop hate.

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SO, WHAT IS THE NO HATE NO VIOLENCE PHILOSOPHY?

Simple. There Should Be No Place In This World For:

HATE OR VIOLENCE IN POLICE COMMUNITY RELATIONS

HATE OR VIOLENCE IN GENDER RELATIONS

HATE OR VIOLENCE IN RELIGION

HATE OR VIOLENCE IN RACE RELATIONS

HATE OR VIOLENCE IN POLITICS

What we need right now is an alternative ideology to combat terrorists, racists, bigots, religious zealots, radical politicians, and anyone else spreading hate and violence. If you hate anything; ask yourself why? Hate is a choice and everyone has the power to change their choices in life.

In America, we are fortunate to have free speech and the ability to believe in what we want. We can disagree with a belief and promote our own. What we should NOT do though is promote hate or violence to accomplish our goals.

No Hate No Violence is a safer ideology for all parties. And all individuals. It is an alternative approach to combat terrorists, racism, negative politics, and discrimination. Who can logically disagree with these thoughts?

Who can argue with it? Who should listen to them? If they hate, that is their problem. Show them how to make a change so they can talk without hate.

If you ask anyone if they believe in hate or violence, most would say no. So why then do we have so much in the world? Those who preach violence through the guise of religion and or for any other reason should not be able to benefit from the tax deductions recognized and provided by the U.S. Government.  Many other such benefits are wrongly given to those who promote violence.

If you have a hateful attitude, you may know some people who agree with you, but the majority of your peers, friends, family, and society probably do not. If you commit or promote violence in this world then someone – a group, a government, a country, or all the above will always be against you. Violence is the last resort for solving issues of any kind, and we all know that it simply doesn’t solve anything.

We all need to work on discouraging hate and violence in the world, which starts with us and our elected leaders and politicians. The more we identify with this ideology, the faster we can minimize hate and violence in the world, and the sooner we can help spread the message and have others do the same.

Human rights, especially women’s rights, need to be promoted again, and more often. The more we can eliminate, or minimize hate, the better the world will be. Some ideas will work better than others, but together we have the ability to change this ideology. It might take another hundred years to change all of this in the world and the way most people think, and approach hate and violence, but every person that adopts this type of thinking will help in the fight for peace and tolerance around the world.  The U.S. stopped promoting human rights around the world over the last several years allowing the problem to grow.

Also, if you can change your attitude and eliminate “Hate and Violence” the happier you will be. Hate does not make anyone happy.  If you believe in no hate no violence, scream it from the rooftops, share it with a community leader, a co-worker, your local politician.  Pass it on.

This ideology needs to spread to people who can honestly and passionately get behind it and influence it, individuals(s) who can develop it into policies and spread the word and transform these words into action.  Someone strong (like the American President) who could be honest about the human shortcomings we all have could do the most. We may not be able to eliminate all hate or violence in this world, but together we can significantly minimize it.  We can be the good guys again and create a platform from which we can work to eliminate the Hate and Violence we see spreading everywhere.

SHIFTING OUR ATTITUDE TO SHIFT THE WORLD

The longer I live, the more I realize how much impact attitude has on people’s lives. A person’s attitude is more important than education. It’s more important than money, circumstances, failures, successes, appearance or skill. It’s especially more important than what others think, say or do. The attitude of everyone involved will make or break a company, a church, a home – or a country.

Look at politics. A change in attitude could be one of the largest, fastest influences on our country’s political ideology. We need to go back to the days when politicians had an attitude of compromise. Instead of focusing on what they perceive will keep them or their party in office and in control, they should compromise for the people they serve. Politicians need to shift their attitude back to the time when they existed to help the people they are sworn to serve and who elected them to do so.

The change starts by shifting the political focus. Once politicians start focusing on the issues instead of gossip and their own special interests, the attitudes of the people will start to change. The silent majority will wake up, become proud of their country, and get involved in working for everyone, not just themselves. In turn, the politicians’ attitudes will continue to shift, and they’ll start working harder to agree instead of disagree. And the cycle will continue, moving the country closer to actually fixing our problems.

The remarkable thing is that this change is something we, the people, can make every day. Every day we have a choice regarding the attitude we embrace. We cannot change the past, nor the fact that other people will act a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. But we can change our attitude. And we’re the only ones who can change it.

I am convinced that life is 10 percent what happens to us and 90 percent how we react to it. So change how you react to all things in this world, and you might just change the world itself. Hopefully, our political leaders will actually lead us in this effort.

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Let’s Enjoy life! Pass It On!

Patrick Lockhart

Founder and CEO: No Hate No Violence Press

This testimonial came from my ex sister in-law who is Jewish, she got it from her priest brother in-law. This is a great example of what we could see after the virus subsides; with the right

Attitude, If we Help, love and think of others,

We have no room in our hearts for hate. These words speak for themselves. Thanks sister and Father Garry.

They say that in Wuhan after so many years of noise

you can hear the birds again.

They say that after just a few weeks of quiet

the sky is no longer thick with fumes

but blue and grey and clear.

They say that in the streets of Assisi

people are singing to each other

across the empty squares,

keeping their windows open

so that those who are alone may hear the sounds of family around them.

They say that a hotel in the West of Ireland is offering free meals and delivery to the housebound.

Today a young woman I know is busy spreading

fliers with her number through the neighborhood

so that the elders may have someone to call on.

Today Churches, Synagogues, Mosques and Temples

are preparing to welcome and shelter the homeless,

the sick, the weary.

All over the world people are slowing down and reflecting.

All over the world people are looking at their neighbors in

a new way.

All over the world people are waking up to a new realty to how big we really are,

to how little control we really have,

to what really matters.

To love.

So we pray and we remember that

Yes, there is fear,

but there does not have to be hate.

Yes, there is isolation,

but there does not have to be loneliness.

Yes, there is panic buying,

but there does not have to be meanness.

Yes, there is sickness,

but there does not have to be disease of the soul.

Yes there is even death.

But there can always be a rebirth of love.

Wake to the choices you make as to how to live

now.

Today, breathe.

Listen, behind the factory noises of your panic

the birds are singing again.

The sky is clearing.

Spring is coming.

And we are always encompassed by Love.

Open the windows of your soul.

And though you may not be able

to touch across the empty square,

Sing.

Let’s decide that this is the year of mercy.

This will be a very good year for us to change and to improve the way we help other people in this country. We need to stop thinking about what’s wrong with this country (and all those people who we think are to blame) and more about how we can work together, including those we are wasting our time blaming, to fix this country. And by “we” I do not include our government. I also do not include our politicians, or our regulators, or anyone who thinks they are ‘in charge’. I mean us, as individuals.

I believe this can be the year of mercy for those who are of faith in the world. In Church Latin (6^th century) mercy was given a specific link to the heavenly reward earned by those who show kindness to the helpless and those from whom no requital can be expected. The meaning “disposition to forgive or show compassion” is found from the early 13^th Century. Also, a sense of “an act or exercise of forbearance or good will” is seen beginning @ 1300 AD.

It’s hard to have tolerance and mercy and to forgive people for their past transgressions, because most of the time it’s more a misunderstanding than a reality. But still, you can really put out an olive branch to help others.

The poor can help the poor by helping each other, which they do all the time. The middle income can help the poor, which they do some of the time. The rich could help the poor in so many more productive ways if they put their mind to it. Without a doubt, people with significant wealth could absolutely eliminate homelessness in less than a year if that were their priority. If we can eliminate Isis, we can certainly get rid of homelessness – don’t you agree? And we have some suggestions and more ideas.

What if 1/10 of 1% of the people in this country who have an empty bedroom, went down and approached a homeless family and said, “I have a bedroom for you. You can have it for up to a year.” I don’t mean just approach anybody. Go talk to bunch of people and find somebody that might fit. And yes, you’ll give them some money and you’ll help feed them. But what you are really going to do, is help them get on their feet, find a job and help them become independent. That’s all they need. That’s all half of them need.

There’s no one answer to the homeless problem, but I do believe that we could make a dent in it. The rich could take a few billion dollars and built temporary shelters for the homeless outside the town. Then they could help move them back in the town after they got their life back together with all the assistance they needed.

Yes, a lot of the people are on drugs. We need to figure out how to deal with that. I think every town needs to build fairly substantial drug rehab centers and mental health facilities.

We’re probably going to eventually realize that we have to empty our prisons of the nonviolent criminals, although I think the jury is out on whether it that makes sense or not. From what I see happening, prisons and mental health facilities can be created without bars on the doors and with more openness, respect and support. Let’s decide help each other. We need more mental health professionals, not just putting all the burden on our existing professionals who are by and large doing the best they can. There’s no doubt we need to spend a lot more money in this area.

We created what we are facing today a long time ago. However, we believe that if we could get the majority of the people living homeless off of drugs and into mental health support, the numbers would drop dramatically.

It’s hard to determine whether somebody is mentally ill as a disease state or whether it’s drugs which are causing their mental illness. Some people have been on drugs too long and that’s created their mental illness. That’s just a fact of life. But imagine what we could do, if even 10% of the people who can afford to really reached out. Can you imagine taking a woman and her child off the streets and helping them get their life back together for year? And then seeing them go on to become a family?

For sure, you wouldn’t have to consider them family, but what if you’re lonely and could really use some good company. Perhaps you want children and can’t have children. You can foster parent children with milder issues and take care of them first. Probably 30-40% of the people on the street don’t want to be there.

Many if not most homeless people don’t want to be there, but if they’re on drugs they can’t help themselves and they probably just plain don’t know any better. They’re afraid..

Well I think we should re-arrange our legal system – we don’t need rules and laws that hurt people and punish them for being homeless, but of course we can’t just throws benefits at homeless people and expect that everything will be ok without any personal efforts. But in this time, in this year when mercy is more important than at any time in recent history, let’s see what we can do to help all people, especially the “least among us”. Let’s extend an olive branch, even if it’s just going downtown and giving people some food – that would help.

It’s nuts to think that giving more and more money to the government is going to eliminate the homelessness. The money will not go to where it needs to go and just giving people money isn’t the answer either. You need to help them redirect their lives to where they can be happy. Can you imagine how good you would feel if you helped turn around just one person’s life every year remaining in your lifetime? You will have had a successful life no matter what else you have or haven’t done. No matter what problems you have had, or what mistakes you may have made, if you can help one person go from the street to a productive happy life, you will be one of the happiest people on Earth – and so will those people whose lives you have touched.

Hate-filled and disrespectful “free speech” is alive and well in the Democratic Party, which has been my party for 50+ years. The so called “debate” the other night was filled with nasty and embarrassing moments – again. No order, no self-control, no facts or fact checking, way too many straight-out lies, and the moderators quickly lost their grip on the process – again.
Who runs the best debates – go back and look. Who asks hard questions of all candidates, enforces the rules of debating, and never lets people talk over each other – all to make sure the audience can hear and understand what is being said. Whether you like what is being said or not – that isn’t the point here.

Saying what you disagree or agree with using facts and reasoning with respect – that’s debating. Pushing forward just points of view and facts that you like and ignoring, rejecting and disrespecting everything else – that’s not debating or helping the voters learn.
A debate should be about people discussing facts and ideas, making reasonable even if passionate arguments, and listening to each other. We did not hear a debate the other evening because of the lack of control by candidates and moderators alike, the hateful bickering, accusations and innuendos, with all the shouting and “look at me” grandstanding to grab attention. Again.
We at NO HATE NO VIOLENCE believe in debating done correctly with good facts and respect.