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What have you been seeing in the elections happening this year?

There is no just war - QUNO In 1660, George Fox and other early Quakers presented King Charles II of England with a declaration outlining core Quaker beliefs. At QUNO, grounded in Quaker

“We utterly deny all outward wars and strife and fightings with outward weapons, for any end...” QUNO echoes the testimony of #Quaker leader George Fox nearly 400 years ago. We mourn the lives lost and call for an end to military action in #Iran: https://quno.org/newsroom/there-is-no-just-war/

...you think civil disobedience doesn't help people? What do you think happened during the civil rights movement in America?

For Quakers, civil disobedience is a form of prayer as is protest in general. We've been dying a lot of praying!

My joy is unending, and my day is saved /s

We Pray For Children We Have Never Met | Ellen June Wright YouTube video by Nymphrodell Salavin

There is no just war with Iran.
There is no grand liberating army to root for. There is no noble stand of self-defense against an army of oppression. When the dust settles, there will be no peace. Violence only begets violence, and children starve.
#peace #Iran #Quakers #poetry #prayer

I wonder why...

Also, there's no law allowing the military to draft women. You'd get a headsup in the media months before it became a reality that Congress was debating an ammendment to the Selective Service Act. Quakers will run draft counseling services if it comes to that.

Quaker Finder Friends General Conference offers Quaker Finder as a tool for Friends and visitors to find a meeting, church, or worship group.

Yes! We are! Here's a helpful tool for finding a Quaker meeting near you: www.fgcquaker.org/find-a-meeti...

Bear in mind that there are a couple of different flavors of Quakerism today, including meetings with and without ministers. Those without ministers are the ones you're probably thinking of.

Telling someone they're not "x" when they are isn't acceptance, it's rejection with a smile. That's a profoundly damaging thing to do to people.

You claim to accept people when you deny a basic tenant of their identity as misimformed, or formed by childhood trauma. I don't wish to dismiss childhood trauma, but every trans person I know has trauma because their identy as a trans person wasn't accepted, not trauma leading to their identity.

You are being hypocritical here. You claim to be in support of care and acceptance of all people, when there is a well established care need that you deny. There are reams upon reams of legitimate medical research into why gender affirming care is not only necessary but life saving.

That kind of behavior is unacceptable. I'm sorry you went through that! Where were you attending, if you're okay with sharing. I don't have the kind of connections to change that Meeting, but I certainly can warn people off!

If that is the case, there can be long, thoughtful conversations that would eventually convince them of their mistaken information. If, though, they are not here in good faith, any attempt at dialog will go nowhere. Either way, I would like to kindly ask you to not jump to this kind of rhetoric.

I've been struggling with how to respond to this account. There is a group of Quakers in the UK who are terfs (many of them are fully anti-lgbtq). This user could easily be a real Friend who has been mislead by the god of this world, and genuinely believes that what they are doing is loving.

That's valid 🙁

I almost cried when I saw the news. My only hope is for this to take long enough that someone will be in the White House who will be actually anti-trust, but that's a slim hope.

I always love it when people discover PUF!

I'm looking to get a bachelor's in religion first, which is part of the timeline.

I'm going to pursue an MDiv from Earlham with an emphasis in peace and justice. I'm not ready accidentally and financially yet. I'll be comfortably at that point in ~7 years with where my life is at right now, but I don't love that timeline, so we'll see if that ends up shortening!

Thank you ❤️

Since posting this, I have looked into Earlham School of Divinity's remote learner program and what getting a degree through it would look like for my life, and I'm definitely going to do it! There are a lot of steps before I get there, but it's a journey I'm excited to take.

He was raised as a Quaker and used that fact as a tool to gain respect, but he upheld no Quaker values and virtually no Quaker practices. The Quaker faith is necessarily anti oppression from its foundational tenants. That man... not so much!

His Wikipedia just says, "Lutnick is of Jewish descent."

Friend, your comment is troubling. He absolutely should not have thrown that rock, but it was only a rock, and it only caused a cut. That does not warrent 20 years in prison. I am concerned to see how vengeful you are. Punitive "justice" isn't Quakerly either.

Song of Choices | Peggy Seager YouTube video by Nymphrodell Salavin

I recorded the original audio on October 31st. I was angry that people were still waking up to what Trump's regime means for the US 280 days into his second presidency. 110 days later ICE has murdered two American citizens on camera and people are still waking up. The song comes from the 70s.

There's an active Quaker meeting there to this day!

Quakers kept human beings in forced servitude for ~100 years before it was fully abolished among our members. The reality is that every major religion endorsed slavery at one time, as did most civilizations around the world. Even today, there are ~45 million people enslaved. That's a harsh reality.

Shelter Island is so named because it was a shelter for Quakers from persecution by Puritans

Regarding the enslaved "servant," Quakers were the first white religious group to condemn slavery and work towards its abolition, but we started on the side of the enslavers.

The Quakers I know who watched it have a fairly low view of it, but I haven't seen it myself yet.

Not all new technology is good. This technology tries to eliminate human creativity, undermines the education system, and reduces efficiency and quality of output in employees forced from the top down to implement it. It's also very environmentally damaging. Please undo this disastrous decision.