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Top Pun's mission is to maximize prophets. Top Pun creates serious, funny, and seriously funny peace and justice designs which are available on your choice of products such as buttons, T-shirts, and bumper stickers. Top Pun blogs to highlight additional facets of his word artistry such as pun-filled poetry and funny political satire, free posters, as well as political actions of local and global importance -- and don't forget the noncommercial, public health radio show available online, Just for the Health of It . Top Pun's serious playfulness ever reminds us that justice is no yoke, and the pun is mightier than the sword!
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Tag Archives: Nonviolence
POEM: Eulogizing Fort Hood
Eulogizing Fort Hood It is not ours to ask Why those so schooled In violence Should act violently On a vocation so seriously Taking Won too many weepings Lead so quickly Penetrating human hearts Our own flesh Not at home … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, News, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Guns, Heart, Nonviolence, Poems, Poetry, Questioning, Rage, Veterans, Violence, Vocation
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POEM: Whimsically Beat
You may beat me physically But I’ll beat you whimsically The unbearable lightness of being calls for whimsy, not brute force. Violence is appealing to persons of low character. Whimsy is an invitation to the finer things in life. For … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Analogy, Character, Generosity, Humor, Life, Love, Nonviolence, Perspective, Physics, Poems, Poetry, Power, Reality, Rules, Short Poems, Universe, Violence, Whimsical, Whimsy
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POEM: A Rude Invitation
Violence is an invitation To more violence And a rude invitation at that Such invitations need not be returned As you might have guest Violence begets violence. Means produce ends. How can we escape this vicious cycle? Must we accept … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Acceptance, America, Creation, Creativity, Crises, Experience, Freedom, Gandhi, Healing, Human Rights, Justice, Nonviolence, Nonviolent, Pacifism, Patriotism, Poems, Poetry, Possibility, Power, Rage, Reality, Sacrifice, Self-Fulfilling Prophecy, Short Poems, State, Violence, War, Work, Xenophobia
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POEM: Chapter 58 – Isaiah
Chapter 58 – Isaiah Isaiah was a man A kind of a man More generous than his wealth Untouchable by another’s profits With a frugality beyond any poverty He was a gentle man With a purposefulness typically beyond words Speaking … Continue reading
Posted in Peace, Poems, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Absurdity, Ancient, Bible, Change, Civil Disobedience, Courage, Cruelty, Economic, Evil, Faith, Food, Freedom, God, Healing, Heart, History, Holy, Injustice, Irony, Jesus, Joy, Justice, Law, Life, Love, Meaning, Modern, Mourning, Nonviolence, Nonviolent, Ode, Oppression, Pacifism, Poems, Poetry, Poor, Poverty, Power, Powers that be, Present, Prison, Quotes, Rebellion, Rich, Sabbath, Social Justice, Time, Violence, War, Wealth, Work
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SPEAKING TRUTH TO POWER: A Christian Perspective on Justice
Here is a portion of a document that I drafted a couple of years ago while I was a board member of Toledo Area Ministries (TAM). It was never adopted in any form, but I put a lot of work … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Peace, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
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POEM: Hypothetical Questions
Your hypothetical questions Have prevailed I will no longer oppose violence Except in the real world
Posted in Poems
Tagged Nonviolence, Pacifism, Poems, Poetry, Questions, Short Poems, Violence
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Driveby Conversation: No War in Iran
Every Sunday in Toledo Ohio, the Northwest Ohio Peace Coalition has a demonstration at a major intersection to protest current wars and potential future wars. The Northwest Ohio Peace Coalition has been doing this every Sunday since the beginning of … Continue reading
Violence Protects the State
Stephanie N. Van Hook, Executive Director of Metta Center for Nonviolence in Petaluma, California, has written a commentary in Znet on How Violence Protects the State. Here is an excerpt: “Violence in opposition to the State relieves the State and … Continue reading
Posted in News, Peace, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Anger, Change, Culture, government, Harmony, History, Humanity, Injustice, Life, Logic, Love, Modern, Nonviolence, Nonviolent, Power, Propaganda, Protesters, Rage, Respect, Risk, State, Unity, Violence
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Every Revolutionary Ends Up Oppressor or Heretic
Every Revolutionary Ends Up Oppressor or Heretic–PEACE QUOTE BUTTON Every Revolutionary Ends Up Oppressor or Heretic–PEACE QUOTE BUTTON This cool design is linked to a button, but other great Top Pun products like T-shirts, bumper stickers, mugs, caps, key chains, … Continue reading
Posted in Peace, Political and Philosophical Musings, Top Pun Design Commentaries
Tagged Attitude, Authority, Camus, Change, Conventional Wisdom, cool design, Egalitarian, Equality, Freedom, Heretics, History, Ironic, Justice, Life, National, Nature, Nonviolence, Oppression, Paradigm Shift, Philosophical, Politics, Poor, Power, Powers that be, Punishment, Reality, Revolution, Revolutionary, Society, Status, Status Quo, Top Pun, Violence, Wisdom
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It Takes Enemas for War to Happen-FUNNY ANTI-WAR BUTTON
It Takes Enemas for War to Happen-FUNNY ANTI-WAR BUTTON It Takes Enemas for War to Happen-FUNNY ANTI-WAR BUTTON This cool design is linked to a button, but other great Top Pun products like T-shirts, bumper stickers, mugs, caps, key chains, … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, Peace, Top Pun Design Commentaries
Tagged Awareness, cool design, Creativity, Crude, Enemies, Funny, Humor, Moral, Musings, Nonviolence, Nonviolent, Playfulness, Puns, Time, Top Pun, War, Work
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Peace Lecture: The End of War? Nonviolence in the 21st Century
“The End of War?: Nonviolence in the 21st Century” Nakamoto Peace Lecture Gwynne Dyer 7:30 P.M. Thursday, February 2, 2012 Bowen-Thompson Student Union Theater Free and open to the public One of the world’s great geopolitical analysts, Gwynne Dyer has … Continue reading
Posted in Peace
Tagged Change, Climate Change, Conflict, Culture, Events, Future, History, Military, Nonviolence, Political, Science, Toledo, War
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Support the Police, Beat Yourself Up – FUNNY POLITICAL BUTTON
Support the Police, Beat Yourself Up – FUNNY POLITICAL BUTTON Support the Police Beat Yourself Up – FUNNY POLITICAL BUTTON This cool design is linked to a button, but other great Top Pun products like T-shirts, bumper stickers, mugs, caps, … Continue reading
Posted in Top Pun Design Commentaries
Tagged Civil Disobedience, Civil Rights, Control, cool design, Culture, Democracy, Demonstrators, Direct Democracy, Environment, Funny, Future, Job, Justice, Law, Meaning, Nonviolence, Nonviolent, Normal, Occupy Wall Street, Play, Police, Police Brutality, Political, Reality, Responsibility, Social Movements, Society, Top Pun, Wall Street, Work
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“PUNS NOT GUNS” Manifesto by Top Pun
“PUNS NOT GUNS” Manifesto “Some claim that puns are the lowest form of comedy. Dan, rather, says, “Guns are the lowest form of community.” Choose your weepin’! I prefer to hit ’em in the groan. Though puns and untrained minds … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Peace
Tagged Anti-Gun, Business, Church, Community, Consciousness, Funny, Guns, Haiti, Inspiration, Justice, Life, Manifesto, Mennonite, Mennonites, Mom, Nonviolence, Normal, Paradoxes, Play, Poverty, Present, Puns, Rhyme, Social Justice, Time, Top Pun, Truth, Violence, Vocation, World Hunger
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Blessed are the Peacemakers
Blessed Are the Peacemakers – Jesus Quote–BUTTON Blessed Are the Peacemakers – Matthew 5:9 – Jesus–BUTTON This cool design is linked to a button, but other great Top Pun products like T-shirts, bumper stickers, mugs, caps, key chains, magnets, posters, … Continue reading →