Nonviolence makes the world a better place
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On Saturday, 20 July 2019 WR Nonviolence held the 15th Annual Day In The Park. There were community group exhibitors, arts and crafts vendors, kids’ games, meditation and an area for reflection, a labyrinth, and performers all day long in the Gazebo. It was sunny and hot, and everyone had a good time!
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Stephanie Villella from CTV News in Kitchener came to the 15th Annual WR Nonviolence Day In The Park on Saturday, 20 July 2019, and interviewed Matthew Albrecht:
CTV News Kitchener – Raising awareness about the power of peace
From the CTV News Kitchener article: Nonviolence Day in the Park spreads message of peace
CTV Kitchener
Published Saturday, July 20, 2019 7:51PM EDTBe peaceful and polite to your neighbours.
This was the message of those attending the 15th Nonviolence Day in the Park.
“Those little times when you feel like you’re objectified are not acceptable,” said Waterloo Region Nonviolence cofounder Matthew Albrecht. “An economic system that keeps people enslaved is not acceptable.
“Anywhere I look there’s an answer of nonviolence and a solution of how things can get better.”
Organizations and initiatives from across the region gathered in Victoria Park Saturday to share these ideas and educate people how to make a change without resorting to violence.
Meditation and religious groups were just two of the options participants learned about at the event.
Albrecht says growing up being bullied in school made him realize violence wasn’t the answer.
He adds that it all comes down to the golden rule: treat others the way you want to be treated.
“It’s that dividing line between good and bad,” said Albrecht. “We want to make that clear: don’t treat others like an object.”
You can see more pictures from the 15th Annual Day In The Park in our Photo Gallery.
On Saturday and Sunday, 22-23 June 2019, WR Nonviolence had an information table at the 
KW Multicultural Festival. We handed out programs for the 15th Annual Nonviolence Day In The Park (which is on Saturday, 20 July 2019 from Noon to 5:00pm), gave out information about our regular Tuesday Night meetings, chatted about the philosophy and practice of Nonviolence, and invited everyone to come to the Day In The Park!
If you’re an organization that supports the principles of nonviolence please join us as an exhibitor! Register now, it will be will be open for only a few more weeks!
Many, many thanks to the Fair Vote Canada Waterloo Region Chapter for loaning us their canopy, and saving us from the blazing sun!
On Tuesday, 14 May 2019 WR Nonviolence held its second Viewpoints forum at the Queen Street Commons Cafe, called Viewpoints on Poverty: Exploring Life In The Margins. Matthew Albrecht from WRN hosted, and the discussion panel was:
A podcast of the event will be published soon.
Pictures ©2019 by Paul Wilson, used by permission.
WR Nonviolence hosted the first Viewpoints forum Exploring Life In The Margins at the Queen Street Commons Cafe on Tuesday, 26 February 2019.
Pictures ©2019 by Paul Wilson, used by permission.
On the International Day of Nonviolence WR Nonviolence held a film showing as part of ANIFF, the Active Nonviolence International Film Festival.
On the United Nations International Day of Peace on Friday, 21 September 2018 members of WR Nonviolence and friends met to talk about peace. This was a Supplemental Discussion Night, to complement our regular project planning meetings held every Tuesday. The topic was supposed to be Finding Peace In Our Local Community, but discussion strayed to politics, and also on how to engage people in the community to participate in the projects put on by WR Nonviolence.
Participating were Peter, Michael, Allan, Barb and William, who were joined by David, Laurel and Bob. Unfortunately, Barb and William had to leave before Laurel had a chance to take pictures.
Pictures copyright © 2018 by Laurel L. Russwurm, used under a 
Creative Commons Attribution Only license.
On Saturday, 24 March 2018 a rally was held at Wilfrid Laurier University to show support for the victims of the shooting at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida on 14 February 2018.
Other media coverage:
CBC News: Waterloo Region shows support for March For Our Lives at community rally
The Record: Local voices join thousands worldwide in call to end gun violence
More pictures are available in the March For Our Lives Rally at WLU album on Flickr.
Pictures by Laurel L. Russwurm, used under a 
Creative Commons CC0 Public Domain Dedication.
On Saturday, 13 January 2018 Michael Chumakin held the first lecture on Anthropology for Social Activists.
References. December 13, 2018
http://iaoa.org/, The International Association for Ontology and its Applications.
Ontology:
- the branch of metaphysics dealing with the nature of being.
- a set of concepts and categories in a subject area or domain that shows their properties and the relations between them (e.g. god’s existence, atomic composition of things).
- the term has a somewhat different meaning in IT industry; is currently used a lot in IT area.
Michael Chumakin: http://thinking-tools.livejournal.com/ , tag ‘English’, Измерение ума в рамках концепции речевого сознания / Михаил Михайлович Чумакин
ISBN 978-3-330-03287-3, speech consciousness, intellectual implements taxonomy.Francis Bacon, 1561 – 1626. Induction: from observing facts to generalizing (as opposed to deduction). Knowledge is power. New Organon (new method, as opposed to Aristotle), science propagandist.
Galileo Galilei, 1564 – 1642. Acceleration, elescope, father of science: experiment, a trial.
Rene Descartes, 1596 – 1650. Algebra (x, y, z), cartesian coordinate graf, analytical geometry, Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One’s Reason and of Seeking Truth in the Sciences.
John Locke, 1632 – 1704. Social contract, “tabula rasa”: knowledge is determined only by experience derived from sense perception, empiricism.
Isaac Newton, 1642 – 1727. Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy. System of the World. Optics. Physical Laws. Gravitation.
Carl Linnaeus, 1707 – 1778, also known as Carl von Linné, Swedish, “binomial nomenclature” == “scientific name”. He is known by the epithet “father of modern taxonomy”.
Auguste Comte, 1798 – 1857, French philosopher known as the founder of sociology and of positivism.
Herbert Spencer, 1820 – 1903. Coined the phrase ‘survival of the fittest’, social Darwinism.
C. P. Snow, Rede Lecture, 1959: The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution.
Paul Feyerabend, Against Method: Outline of an Anarchist Theory of Knowledge, 1975, philosophy of science.
Positivism:
- a philosophical system that holds that every rationally justifiable assertion can be scientifically verified or is capable of logical or mathematical proof, and that therefore rejects metaphysics and theism.
- the theory that laws are to be understood as social rules, valid because they are enacted by authority or derive logically from existing decisions, and that ideal or moral considerations (e.g., that a rule is unjust) should not limit the scope or operation of the law.
Ludwig von Bertalanffy, 1901 – 1972. Zu einer allgemeinen Systemlehre, Biologia Generalis, 1948. General System Theory, 1968.
Humberto Maturana, born 1928. Autopoiesis, Structural Coupling And Cognition, 1973.
…living systems … existed … as autonomous totalities in a molecular medium with which they were in recursive molecular interchange. Through this understanding my claim became that a living system is a dynamic composite entity, realized as a unity as a closed network of productions of components such that through their interactions in composition and decomposition the components.Sir David R. Hawkins, M.D., Ph.D., is an internationally renowned psychiatrist, consciousness researcher, spiritual lecturer, and mystic. Author of more than eight books, including the bestseller Power vs. Force, Dr. Hawkins’s work has been translated into more than 17 languages. In the 1970s, he co-authored Orthomolecular Psychiatry with Nobel Laureate Linus Pauling, revolutionizing the field of psychiatry.
Power vs. Force
Levels of human consciousness:
shame, guilt, apathy, grief, fear, desire, anger, pride, courage, neutrality, willingness, acceptence, reason, love, joy, peace, enlightment.Science as a way to distinguish between two aspects, and go deeper at every step.
Scientifc reasoning is object oriented: there is a certain knowledge system(structure) related to a rigid object structure.
Philosphical reasoning uses categorial structures, categories. “What are the bases of my reasoning?”
Observation, hypothesis, theory, model, Math, formulae, experiment, formal logic, procedures, taxonomy.
Features of a dead matter thing vs a live matter object:
factors Dead matter Live matter Being (existence) Eternal, static, constant Life-death cycles of any organism, thus: constant change; the whole population of a species tends to live forever Condition of being independent Only under certain environmental conditions Plus: needs other forms of life to survive Laws of Nature e.g.: Instantaneous gravity force, other Newton Laws ‘Dead matter world’ laws plus laws of its own Any part of an organism seems to work coordinated with other parts towards its survival, thus: function exchange among organism components A sample avarage The best among all species
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