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Carrot Cake
Preheat oven to 325 degrees F.
In a bowl, combine:
2 cups flour
2 tsp baking soda
2 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp salt
In another bowl, blend:
1 1/3 cup vegetable oil
2 cups sugar
Beat in:
4 eggs, one at a time
Stir in:
3 cups VERY FINELY GRATED carrots. (About 4 large peeled carrots, or a 1 lb bag of baby carrots.) If you have a food processor, use that! The finer you can grate them, the better.
Add dry ingredients. Mix well. Pour into a lightly greased 13×10 cake pan (the batter is very runny) and bake it for 1 hour and 15 minutes. Test with a toothpick after about an hour, just to make sure you don’t overcook it. Cool before frosting.
Cream Cheese Frosting
Combine (cream):
1 stick salted butter
1 8-oz pkg cream cheese
1 box powdered sugar
Add:
2 tsp vanilla
1 cup chopped pecans (or toasted walnuts)
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Every Church A Peace Church
Duty to Warn:
The Sure-fire Way to Prevent Combat-related Traumatic Brain Injury, Gulf War Syndrome or Combat-induced PTSD:
Become a Conscientious Objector
Gary G. Kohls, MD
“War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.”–John F. Kennedy
“Now I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. You win it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.”–WWII General George Patton
“We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we do about peace – more about killing than we do about living.”—WWII General Omar Bradley
Those three quotes, all by men who have known war intimately but have also been willing to speak the unwelcome and sobering truths about the realities of war and killing, have helped to guide my own philosophical, theological and political beliefs as they have evolved over the decades since the war of my maturing years, the Vietnam War.
My beliefs are similar to many other patriotic citizens who love their country so much that they are willing to have a lover’s quarrel with it when they see it engaging in activities such as torture and other covert and overt activities that are, by definition, international war crimes, crimes against humanity and crimes against the peace.
Some of us love our country so much that we are willing to speak out when its leaders engage in policies that are highly likely to lead to financial and moral bankruptcies.
Some of us who are citizens of the United States love it so much that we cannot, in good conscience, participate in activities that are making it a pariah state and lately even a laughing stock of the world, with serious loss of respect in the international community.
In the endless war-mongering doctrines that were artificially unleashed during the Cheney/Bush/Rumsfeld rule of the past 8 years, an increasing number of people of good will have become courageous objectors to war and killing on the basis of their conscience -the definition of a conscientious objector.
Conscientious objectors (COs) to war take seriously their duty to warn others about the psychological, spiritual, neurological and physical dangers that are never part of the discussions that nations have prior to going to war. COs are never allowed to air the many valid reasons young people should consider before enlisting or being conscripted into the military.
Never given a place at the table when national, or even local policies are formulated, they must resort to going to the streets to express their deeply felt beliefs. And when they do that, they risk being arrested (“detained”, taken into “protective custody”) and punished under laws designed to silence dissent. There are many examples of such courageous and unjustly maligned prisoners of conscience in the history of our so-called democratic nation.
People of conscience are rarely invited to “balance” media discussions about war, and therefore are, in effect, censored out of such important national debates. Thus, in our militarized nation, no one is allowed to warn the citizenry about the dangers of being an active part in the organized violence called war.
I am a conscientious objector to war and killing partly on the basis of my experience as a practitioner of holistic mental healthcare. In my practice I have witnessed countless examples of the despair-inducing suffering of depressed and sleep-deprived war veterans as they re-experience their daily flashbacks, their nightly nightmares, the guilt and the psychological and spiritual damage that results from training for and then engaging in the killing operations of war, consequences they were not warned about ahead of time.
Another part of my commitment to nonviolence and antiwar activism is my understanding of the teachings and ethics of Jesus of Nazareth, who, in so many words said: “violence is forbidden to those who wish to follow me” and proved the logic and practicality of living a life committed to the unconditional love of friend, neighbor and enemy.
But for me, the strongest reason for committing to a life lived as nonviolently as possible is that violence breeds more violence. Families who have fathers, grandfathers, uncles, brothers and other father figures in their families who have been trained in military violence are often afflicted by intrafamily domestic violence that almost seems hereditary. Such familial violence is actually contagious and learned and is not hereditary. Nations and their armies commonly display this “violence begetting violence” reality by their need to avenge the last lost war and regain their “military honor” by engaging in another cycle of violence. (Witness the Hatfields and McCoys; the France vs. Germany wars; Hitler’s willingness to start WWII after Germany’s humiliating loss in WWI; and the US’s need to get rid of “the Vietnam-loser Syndrome” by “kicking butt” in Iraq.)
Here is another testimonial from someone who knew war up close and personal. Nearing the end of his life, Hermann Goering, Adolph Hitler’s right-hand man, speaks:
“Why of course the people don’t want war. Why should some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally the common people don’t want war; neither in Russia, nor in England, nor in America, nor in Germany. That is understood. But after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.”– Hermann Goering, head of the Nazi army’s equivalent of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Head of the Luftwaffe, April 18, 1946
The most deeply spiritual and courageous people that I know are people like my friends, Duluthians Rodger and Penny Cragun, nonviolent conscientious objectors to war who live out their values by protesting war and risking arrest, exercising their Constitutional right to dissent wherever and whenever they feel they can make a difference.
The CO Manifesto below summarizes nicely the reasons behind my professional duty to warn others about the potential for spiritual death and destruction that happens whenever anyone is involved in homicidal violence.
We Will Not Kill
Become a Conscientious Objector
Gary G. Kohls, MD
“War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.”–John F. Kennedy
“Now I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. You win it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.”–WWII General George Patton
“We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we do about peace – more about killing than we do about living.”—WWII General Omar Bradley
Those three quotes, all by men who have known war intimately but have also been willing to speak the unwelcome and sobering truths about the realities of war and killing, have helped to guide my own philosophical, theological and political beliefs as they have evolved over the decades since the war of my maturing years, the Vietnam War.
My beliefs are similar to many other patriotic citizens who love their country so much that they are willing to have a lover’s quarrel with it when they see it engaging in activities such as torture and other covert and overt activities that are, by definition, international war crimes, crimes against humanity and crimes against the peace.
Some of us love our country so much that we are willing to speak out when its leaders engage in policies that are highly likely to lead to financial and moral bankruptcies.
Some of us who are citizens of the United States love it so much that we cannot, in good conscience, participate in activities that are making it a pariah state and lately even a laughing stock of the world, with serious loss of respect in the international community.
In the endless war-mongering doctrines that were artificially unleashed during the Cheney/Bush/Rumsfeld rule of the past 8 years, an increasing number of people of good will have become courageous objectors to war and killing on the basis of their conscience -the definition of a conscientious objector.
Conscientious objectors (COs) to war take seriously their duty to warn others about the psychological, spiritual, neurological and physical dangers that are never part of the discussions that nations have prior to going to war. COs are never allowed to air the many valid reasons young people should consider before enlisting or being conscripted into the military.
Never given a place at the table when national, or even local policies are formulated, they must resort to going to the streets to express their deeply felt beliefs. And when they do that, they risk being arrested (“detained”, taken into “protective custody”) and punished under laws designed to silence dissent. There are many examples of such courageous and unjustly maligned prisoners of conscience in the history of our so-called democratic nation.
People of conscience are rarely invited to “balance” media discussions about war, and therefore are, in effect, censored out of such important national debates. Thus, in our militarized nation, no one is allowed to warn the citizenry about the dangers of being an active part in the organized violence called war.
I am a conscientious objector to war and killing partly on the basis of my experience as a practitioner of holistic mental healthcare. In my practice I have witnessed countless examples of the despair-inducing suffering of depressed and sleep-deprived war veterans as they re-experience their daily flashbacks, their nightly nightmares, the guilt and the psychological and spiritual damage that results from training for and then engaging in the killing operations of war, consequences they were not warned about ahead of time.
Another part of my commitment to nonviolence and antiwar activism is my understanding of the teachings and ethics of Jesus of Nazareth, who, in so many words said: “violence is forbidden to those who wish to follow me” and proved the logic and practicality of living a life committed to the unconditional love of friend, neighbor and enemy.
But for me, the strongest reason for committing to a life lived as nonviolently as possible is that violence breeds more violence. Families who have fathers, grandfathers, uncles, brothers and other father figures in their families who have been trained in military violence are often afflicted by intrafamily domestic violence that almost seems hereditary. Such familial violence is actually contagious and learned and is not hereditary. Nations and their armies commonly display this “violence begetting violence” reality by their need to avenge the last lost war and regain their “military honor” by engaging in another cycle of violence. (Witness the Hatfields and McCoys; the France vs. Germany wars; Hitler’s willingness to start WWII after Germany’s humiliating loss in WWI; and the US’s need to get rid of “the Vietnam-loser Syndrome” by “kicking butt” in Iraq.)
Here is another testimonial from someone who knew war up close and personal. Nearing the end of his life, Hermann Goering, Adolph Hitler’s right-hand man, speaks:
“Why of course the people don’t want war. Why should some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally the common people don’t want war; neither in Russia, nor in England, nor in America, nor in Germany. That is understood. But after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.”– Hermann Goering, head of the Nazi army’s equivalent of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Head of the Luftwaffe, April 18, 1946
The most deeply spiritual and courageous people that I know are people like my friends, Duluthians Rodger and Penny Cragun, nonviolent conscientious objectors to war who live out their values by protesting war and risking arrest, exercising their Constitutional right to dissent wherever and whenever they feel they can make a difference.
The CO Manifesto below summarizes nicely the reasons behind my professional duty to warn others about the potential for spiritual death and destruction that happens whenever anyone is involved in homicidal violence.
We Will Not Kill
So, for the record, here is what conscientious objectors object to:
We object to killing.
We object to killing in the name of capitalism.
We object to killing in the name of communism.
And we object to killing in the name of religion.
We object to being forced to register for war and killing.
We object to being forced to participate in the preparations for war and killing.
We object to killing innocent civilians.
We object to killing soldiers.
We object to nuclear weapons for killing.
And we object to conventional weapons for killing.
If war comes, many of us will perform peaceful alternative service.
And many of us will go to jail rather than compromise deeply held beliefs.
But we will not fight,
Because we will not kill.
Dr. Kohls is a recently retired physician from Duluth, MN whose practice dealt extensively with posttraumatic stress disordered (PTSD) patients, many of whom were military veterans and all of whose serious neurological and psychological disabilities were preventable.
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