5/15/26
6/17/25
REAL PEACENIKS DON'T CHOOSE A SIDE
REAL PEACENIKS DON'T CHOOSE A SIDE
A while back a man I met, who was an important person in a Peace nonprofit, invited me to go along with him to one of their events. It was at a beach city rather far away and he promised he would provide transportation and get me back home on time, which was important to me because I'd agreed to pet sit for some other friends who were leaving town that evening.
He did come and get me and he did get lost on the way and he did drive through an area that posted that there was no parking, so security guards gave chase, but he got a space near their set up. ***
Soon I realized two things. One was that I was expected to volunteer rather than just sit there and listen to some speakers. And I was through volunteering. Second that it was assumed that, without really knowing anything about this Peace nonprofit, I was joining them. No, I was just checking them out. Along for the ride.
At one point they got a group to take hand made posters on a walk-around because they had heard media would be there. I kept sitting under a tent. I didn't like hearing that locals called them Anti-American, but that was not my beef with them.
It was that a woman speaker, who I'd known about from another setting, tied Peace into Vegetarianism (or as that Veganism?) and not eating beef.
Yet, as a chiropractor once told me, we have carnivore teeth and carnivore intestines.
Yet, hunger and starvation are so common on this earth that I can never put someone down if all they eat is what they can afford; five for a dollar instant noodles, 7/11 hot dogs, cat food without owning one, dandelions and mud. **
I hate it when I hear people talking The Liberal Mob but in this case it really as. What, I asked myself, was that walk-around actually doing to create Peace? Nothing! These people were calling attention to themselves as superior in knowledge and intelligence.
Since then the war between Israel and Iran broke out, on top of the war between Russia and Ukraine. And the man starting tucking a Palestinian flag into his hat just to become a walking advertisement and sided with them or, you could say, Iran. Yes, this broke our friendship.
This was followed by my sudden understanding that the small group of protesters that proudly gathered on a street corner every Friday night so cars going by them could honk had also sided with the Palestinians. And the above mentioned woman speaker who tied Peace into not eating beef was one of them and had also wrote a letter to the editor of a small liberal newspaper and he, a Jew, published it.
Ah... choosing sides and cheering for ANYONE committing war is NOT the ideology of a REAL PEACENIK! Destruction is evil. It doesn't matter who has started it or who is doing furthering it, or who is winning. It's a horror upon this earth. It wastes people's lives. I have no way to cause PEACE ON EARTH but I do wish for it. And there's that song that goes "Let there be peace on earth and let it begin with me."
It's not easy to restart a homeland.
You do not have to be Jewish or even like Jewish individuals or culture to understand WHY there's an Israel. "Complications" have been pointed out to me such as that there are so far fewer Jews than Moslems, or that biblical prophecy says God gave Jews their homeland back after centuries of wandering, but, true or not, when it comes right down to it, people like me think who we're looking at when we see Pro Palestinian protesters on street corners is...
NEO NAZIS
That makes us very uncomfortable.
We know there was a Holocaust in Europe in World War II. (And we do not look forward to World War III and do not believe in End Times and The Rapture.) We know Jews were blamed for a bad German economy and ours is failing. We know Adolph Hitler was a mesmerizing speaker and that at rallies people were excited by his message just like some are excited by President Trump's. We know dehumanization started with comparing Jews to rats, and people started believing they were not humans but needed to be exterminated. And we know that the murders started with people who were disabled in care homes, people who were gay, people who were dependent on the state for income being euthanized as undesirables for their weakness and expensive dependency; our homeless could be next. We know this one:"First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me."
According to AI, "This is a famous passage from a sermon by German pastor Martin Niemöller. It is a powerful statement about the dangers of indifference and apathy in the face of oppression and the moral interconnectedness of all people."
Am I saying that no Jew is at fault for furthering war? Hell no. But, a real PEACENIK doesn't cheer when buildings fall and innocents lay under them. They aren't watching the media and yelling "Kill them all!" If you're for PEACE, you'll suggest trying to come to an agreement or staying out of each other's way until another agreement can be reached.
The Friday corner protesters are especially horrible because that neighborhood is full of Italians who have Jewish roots. So in that way it becomes a small town spectacle designed to aggravate and since when does a protest for PEACE turn out to be so passive aggressive if not obviously violent?
Don't think I'm claiming to be a PEACENIK but I sure am trying to be. I'm reminded that there is no glory or beauty in what's going on in these wars. These wars are ecological disasters for the whole planet and have and will effect all participants negatively, especially the children, for generations forward. In those ways there is no winning.
Christine Trzyna
C 2025
Additions on June 22, 2025 First Day of Summer
Slight edit July 15, 2025
*** No he did NOT get me home on time.
** It used to be said that it was less expensive to be vegetarian due to the price of meat but I don't think that's true anymore. My experience with vegetarians is that they have become a new elite due to the affordability of expensive supplements as well as the cost of organics and other "special" foods.
In Los Angeles one child in five goes to bed hungry. School lunches are sometimes a child's only meal.
8/27/24
UKRAINE AND RUSSIA : WHAT WE DON'T GET ABOUT RUSSIA
RUSSIA is so huge that it expands through ELEVEN TIME ZONES. All that land, all that space, but it wants Ukraine, which is the size (square miles not shape) of our state of TEXAS.
Why not use the billions of dollars dedicated to destroying UKRAINE and UKRAINIANS to build a new city within Russia, improve infrastructure, and so on? (Pick a good spot and build an all new city!)
Why do Russians have no apparent concern about a generation (or two) of young men being wiped out, leaving Russian women with fewer men to partner and mate with?
***
What seems "good" about Ukraine actually going into Russia to advance their cause?
We do not believe that the Russian people actually realize what is going on. We think the information they are being given is not honest and many of them may not understand what's been happening. Hard to believe, we know, but that's what we think. As Ukraine goes after bridges and military targets, never the less the strikes within Russia INFORM the Russian people, YES THIS IS A WAR.
Are the Russian people without an opinion?
***
We hope for an end to the violence, the ecological disaster, and a comfortable peace between the two countries.
2/4/24
10/30/23
NOT IN OUR NAME - CEASE FIRE DEMANDED - JEWISH VOICE FOR PEACE - GRAND CENTRAL STATION
The largest peaceful protest New York has seen in over two decades.
4/9/23
LEX FRIDMAN PODCAST with PILOT RYAN GRAVES - ON THOSE UFOs WE SAW FILM OF and SO MUCH ELSE
A couple hours of interesting, intellectual, and philosophical discussion about the experience of flying our best technology, about war, and about the reality of UFOs (UAPs) that navy pilots see out there. An excellent podcast.
2/27/22
SUNDAY MORNING SUN DEFIES HORRORS OF WAR
THROUGH THE DRAPERIES OF MY BEDROOM COMES THE SUN. Have to get up early to take my dog out. Go back to bed. Snuggle for warmth. Have to go to the store for groceries this morning. Don't feel like getting dressed. Would like to read one of the books I ordered in but have been watching one YouTube video after another to follow developments and listen to opinions about what's happening in Ukraine. Of course I support Democracy over Dictatorship.
Musk links Ukraine to the Internet from space.
McCain was right.
Our intelligence was right.
Thinking of various people I've met over the last couple years - in stores, in coffee houses, taking walks... who informed me that they did not TRUST our government.
Walmart dog food isle: Man and his wife and I start talking about all the dog food coming in from China on those backed-up ships and dog food shortages and prices going up. Start talking about nonprofit groups that spay and neuter at no charge. Man says they called everywhere after having cats and dogs - kittens and puppies - arrive to their yard. Have you tried Sam Simon? Conversation, lead by husband, turns to why they are not wearing masks, not taking vaccinations, and fast forwards to his list of governmental agencies you cannot trust. His list includes the FBI. "They are all corrupt," He says.
I know I have to get out of the conversation at that point.
I still think the United States of America is the best.
I wish them a good day and move on.
On my list of things to buy today is dog food.
I see the film of refugees heading for the Polish border especially and people in their winter coats and hats, pulling wheeled suitcases, and some of them have brought their pets along.
A white chihuahua in a lady's arms.
HUMANS IN A DOG'S DISGUISE
My human in a dog's disguise is sleeping a lot. Some days she wants to half run around the block, some days she doesn't want to get out of bed, or goes right back in...
Has Putin gone mad?
How will this play out?
We are on high alert for nuclear war.
C 2022 Christine Trzyna