Transcript
Hello, welcome to another DailyJim. It's Wednesday, January 24th, I think. Yeah, 2024. And today I wanted to talk about Gandhi Martin Luther King. And.
There are three kind of these three ways to deal with conflict. Um, I think so. I was watching, uh, scrolling through TV, and I saw Gandhi was showing this film from the early 19 eighties. I haven't seen it since I was in seventh grade. I believe, I think seventh grade history class. I watched it. So I don't know how old was I then maybe 12. I think we watched, cost a few days because it's 3.5 hours long. So today I was watching it with my dad. And, um, yeah, I, I think something that jumped out to me and, uh, and I did a little more research on it, uh, later watching some youtube videos was this idea that there's kind of three ways to deal with conflict. Um, and Gandhi and mlk, I think both were talking about this where the idea is, uh one way is if somebody attacks us, we can respond with an attack. So if they use violence against us, we can respond with violence.
Another way is if somebody uses violence against us or oppresses us or whatever you want to call it or attacks us. Um then we don't respond. We just kind of accept it and we kind of avoid it. We just kind of acquiesce as Martin Luther King said. Um, and then the third way that they've proposed is more of like active resistance which uh they call Nonviolence or nonviolent resistance.
And, um.
So I think most of the time people think of, who I'm either gonna fight or I'm gonna go quiet if you get into an argument with somebody in your family or if there's some conflict, sometimes one person gets loud, the other person gets quiet and the person who gets loud sometimes starts shouting and making and calling the other person names. Um, and really attacks with words or with uh with uh fists or whatnot. And the other person avoids, they go quiet, they leave the room, they may leave the house, they may, um, shut the phone off, they may not talk to the person for a couple of hours, days, weeks, months, who knows?
And I think we get stuck thinking that there's only two options, but there's a third option of actually coming together and trying to resolve the conflict which they name uh non violent resistance. But I think another way to look at it and frankly another way that MLK talked about it was love. So I think it's almost like another way to name those is that you have war, which is responding with violence, you have peace, which is, almost pacifism listen, I don't want to resist, you know, whatever. I almost acquiescence sometimes. Like I just want to be at peace. Can we just be peaceful? You know, you've been in those fights before? Like, can people just get along? Can we just stop arguing? Can we just stop fighting? It's so much of a, can we stop fighting the anger? I can't deal with the anger and the frustration. So can we just pretend it doesn't exist and get rid of it? So that's kind of a peace approach maybe. And then a love approach would be, can we talk about it and go deeper so that we can resolve it because I'm a human that has feelings, you're human, that has feelings. I I'm connected to my humanity, but also your humanity. And can we try to get through this together or at least understand each other or on a deeper level?
And I think often when we think when I hear peace these last couple of days, it's been really on my mind when a lot of times I think when we say peace, we just want. It's just like it's, you know, so when you get in a conversation with somebody and they get overwhelmed and say, ah, is ok, can we just stop talking about it? I don't want to talk about it again. It's the, can I just avoid it? Can we just pretend we're at peace now? Maybe there's a quote unquote an actual peace where we reach. But I think life just has so much conflict in it that are we ever in this stability where we're completely at peace? Um If peace means stability, steadiness, absence of conflict, if peace literally means absence of conflict, are we ever in it? Does peace mean absence of violence or absence of hatred just asking somebody? This does peace means abs absence of hatred and presence of love? Or is it merely the absence of hatred? If it's just the absence of hatred and doesn't have the presence of love, are we these human beings that just, hover near each other, actually more semi distant from each other kind of disconnected from each other where, you know, if something happens, well, that's their own problem. Or do we help each other out when something happens? Do we feel the pain of our neighbor? Do we feel the joy of our family? Do we feel what other people are feeling? Do we share that common humanity with others or do we.
Kind of maintain the peace? Will you be over there? I'll be over here. Is there peace with integration or does integration and closeness inherently bring um some tumultuous nature to it?
These are things that I'm thinking about um today after watching a little bit of that movie and just reflecting more on. OK. And Gandhi in general, I hope to hear what you're thinking about these if you've read the transcript online or listened to the episode or um yeah, I mean, those are the main ways to listen to this at this point. So um on that note, I'm going to end for the night and look forward to talking to you soon. Bye.
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