What are some successful examples of pacifism paying off in history?

What are some successful examples of pacifism paying off in history?

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  1. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Pacifism is just laziness, no man is so devoid of self-respect that he wouldn't want to crush his enemies to dust. Laziness never pays off in the long run.

  2. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Jesus Christ.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      >I didn't come to bring peace, but a sword

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        The old testament never mentions God actually using a sword, that's what I've read. Only that he grasps it in judgement.

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          that's because the quote is from the new testament

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            Nope. Something similar or maybe even the exact wording is found in the old. A sword is mentioned and God grasping it. The new testament is often found in the old, see zechariah where yeshua the high priest is mentioned. Jesus. Typology.

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          >The old testament never mentions God actually using a sword

          Ezekiel 21
          >3and tell her that this is what the LORD says: ‘I am against you, and I will draw My sword from its sheath and cut off from you both the righteous and the wicked. 4Because I will cut off both the righteous and the wicked, My sword will be unsheathed against everyone from south to north. 5Then all flesh will know that I, the LORD, have taken My sword from its sheath, not to return it again.’

          Isaiah 34
          >5When My sword has drunk its fill in the heavens,
          then it will come down upon Edom,
          upon the people I have devoted to destruction.
          6The sword of the LORD is bathed in blood.
          It drips with fat—
          with the blood of lambs and goats,
          with the fat of the kidneys of rams.
          For the LORD has a sacrifice in Bozrah,
          a great slaughter in the land of Edom.

          Isaiah 27
          >1In that day the LORD will take His sharp, great, and mighty sword, and bring judgment on Leviathan the fleeing serpenta—Leviathan the coiling serpent—and He will slay the dragon of the sea.

          Jeremiah 47
          >6‘Alas, O sword of the LORD,
          how long until you rest?
          Return to your sheath;
          cease and be still!’

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            I dunno, OT is full of schizo stuff, I don't really read it, it basically commands me to genocide pagans.

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            Not any pagans. Specifically the old testament commanded Israel to kill the sinners and wicked men women and children even cattle iirc of ancient Canaan. Not just "any" pagans.

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          >be god
          >infinitely powerful
          >use a pointy sharpened metal stick
          We really aren’t a very imaginative species are we?

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            are you moronic?

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            Sure, you? Is it not clear to you from this sort of thing that religious works are clearly written by men and not divinely inspired?

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            >how come God uses relevant metaphors we can understand, instead of referencing stuff we have literally no idea about?

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            He’s god. Surely he can explain the strong nuclear force to a prophet or two, but nope: metal swords

  3. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    It works when your enemies become a universal democracy and elect cuckolds

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      Are you saying Gandhi had sex with the queen's husband?

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        Yes

        He dipped his head in oil and rubbed it on that pasty Anglo flesh

  4. 10 months ago
    Dirk

    The Mennonite movement

  5. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Amish, the majority of whom practice pacifism

  6. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    mormons were pacifists right?

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      Frick no

  7. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Qaukers

  8. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Amish and Mennonites

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      Qaukers

      The Mennonite movement

      how are any of these "successful"?

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        >Qaukers

        >not successful

        Black person homosexual.

        KYS

  9. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    It never works as a buff to yourself, only as a debuff to your enemy.

  10. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Actual answer: impossible to say because pacifism is NOT going to war, so basically every time someone would have gone to war and lost but didn't, we don't tend to write that kind of thing down

    Like if Russia didn't invade Ukraine they would be better off

  11. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    One of the reasons the civil rights movement in the US was so effective was because the participants primarily used civil disobedience while the opposition could be very violent. Ordinary citizens turned on their new TV for the evening news and saw news of assassinations and police violence against people who just sat down or walked around.

  12. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    This will only be worthwhile if the mangaka makes him fail like in history. It's fine if he rps as a pacifist monk because of his superhuman abilities, but not everyone has that luxury.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      it's coming anon
      you don't do a superbly well-researched historical manga and then throw a massive curveball at the ending, that's not how those work. Ad Astra didn't end with Hannibal winning.

  13. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Switzerland

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      >Blocks your path

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        Owning weapons and not using them is pacifism.

  14. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    The rise of Christianity is a good example. Jesus' message of turning the other cheek has had a strong influence at the socio-cultural level

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      This, the rise of christianity in rome was through literal slaves ideologically overtaking their masters.

  15. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    I have zero respect for pacifists. Your stance isn't strong. Your stance isn't merciful. Your stance isn't inspiring.
    Your stance is just nothing. In action.

    What gets my idealist juices flowing is actually someone like Chisato from Lycoris Recoil: she is a pragmatic idealist. She believes in violence, and she believes in mercy. She takes her enemies out, and then administers first aid. She uses non-lethal means upon enemies that shoot back live bullets.

    This is genuine strength.

    Pacifists, meanwhile, just off yourself.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      moronic weeaboo manchild.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      >disgusting Otaku manchild
      >absolutely abhorrent take
      Many such cases!

  16. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    the coralian movement

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