Where my mind is today…
“Christian nonviolence is not a strategy to rid the world of violence, but rather the way Christians must live in a world of violence. In short Christians are not nonviolent because we believe our nonviolence is a strategy to rid the world of war, but rather because faithful followers of Christ in a world of war cannot imagine being anything else than nonviolent.”
-Stanley Hauerwas interpreting Yoder’s pacifism
“Jesus did not bring a new idea : rather in him an old idea ceased being an idea at all and became a living reality.”
-John Knox
“I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.”
-Susan B. Anthony
“Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is .”
“Nobody can hurt me without my permission.”
“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
“There is enough for everyone’s need but not enough for everyone’s greed.”
-Gandhi
“If we have more than we need while someone else has less, then we are thieves.”
– Shane Claiborne
If the attitude we have toward water as a power source is the same as we have toward oil as a power source, then we will be in the same energy crisis in the future.
- paraphrased comments of Joan Chittister
“What you believe follows only after what you do.”
- Scott-Martin Kosofsky, a book designer and editor, decided to revise the “Book of Customs,”
Quote about end of the oil age
Thomas Freidman was asked questions by readers of Time magazine. At the end he quoted someone else as his response to the future of energy. I do not know the original person who said this nor do I know what the exact question was but I liked what was said.
“The stone Age did not end because we ran out of stones.”
There was more to the quote, but the point being, we may not run out of the oil age because we run out of fossil fuels. The oil age will end with innovation.
This holds true for all sorts of things as well. Things only will change with innovation and imagining something new. The mainline church will not end because we run out of people needing community. Rather the current expression of the mainline church will end because there is something new on the horizon.
Raise the price of gasoline…
I read that Denmark raised the price of gasoline in their country to something like $10 a gallon. This forced the country to reexamine their energy policies and dependence on foreign energy. Over the course of 10 years they are now 100% free of foreign oil and their country is mainly run on clean energy.
So, do we need to raise the cost of gasoline in order to break our addiction and ‘fuel’ innovation toward clean energy? We are already in what seems to be an economic recession, if we are getting used to cutting back why not raise the prices now and focus on getting the country by until these technologies (which already exist) become the standard?
