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Why isn't there Peace in the World?

Guitar's Cry

Guitar's Cry

Disciple of Pan
Humans are pack animals; we like to form groups to feel secure either in our survival or our mental paradigms. We also like to create harmony by destroying the opposition, rather than recognizing that the opposition also creates its counterpart.
 
Starfish

Starfish

Please no sarcasm
mball1297 said:
Do you really think that people throughout the centuries or millenia haven't thought the same thing? I'd be more inclined to believe that your proximity to this particular time period and your disconnect from the past heavily influences your negative view of the present. I'm sure people thought the same thing during the fall of Rome, and WWI and WWII, among many other times.
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You're probably right about that. We do know that these are the last days. And we have the promise that God's kingdom will prevail. It's supposed to get pretty rocky before that happens though.
 
Quagmire

Quagmire

Imaginary talking monkey
Staff member
Premium Member
Jaiket said:
I don't think that is legitimate reasoning. People living under the constant threat of violence, even when they are not dodging militias and lynch mobs, are not living in peace.
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Yes, but why is that? It's because we humans stress on hypotheticals (and unless something is actually happening at the moment, regardless of whether it's likely or even immenent, it is, for the moment, just a hypothetical).

Going back to the rabbit/owl analogy; the rabbit is under constant threat from any number of things that would like to eat him, but, unless he actually sees the owl's shadow, or catches it's scent, etc, as far as the rabbit's concerned, the owl isn't an issue (the leaves he's munching on are the issue at hand).

If we can suspend empathy for a moment for the sake of objectivity you can see that the only difference between the rabbit's situation and that of a human living in a war zone (for example) is what they each do with the time between violent events; the rabbit lives in the moment, we humans stress (fear, anger, outrage, hatred, grief...) over what just happened or what could happen next.

Not saying that isn't as it should be, just saying it goes a long way to explain the apparent lack of peace in the world, not just psychologically but pragmatically; our reality is disrupted by violence (even hypothetical violence) and we respond with more violence (including the violence going on in are heads as a result).
 
Panda

Panda

42?
Premium Member
Humans are a violent species. It is in our instincts to kill. I don't think we will ever be peaceful.
 
zenzero

zenzero

Its only a Label
Friend Sunstone,
Why isn't there Peace in the World?
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Frankly speaking when was the world at peace?
With times dimension of intensity changes at both poles or else it remains the same.
People like Buddha, Jesus, Lao Tzu etc. have been shouting from roof tops that PEACE is wiithin and not outside. PEACE is when the MIND is at REST / STILL / SILENT.
If your mind is THINKING it can never be at PEACE.
The world outside is only a manifestation of the gross total mind on earth and so is always in a balance as one mind makes a movement its opposite automatically takes position to balance it without the other knowing it.
So would say 8 BE MEDITATIVE* and Be peaceful.
Love & rgds
 
michel

michel

Administrator Emeritus
Staff member
Frankly, lack of peace (I agree with the Quagmire who mentioned that there is a lot of peace, but that peace is silent) lies, I believe, in fear of the unknown..

And whatever is not exactly within our comfort zone is the unknown.

And yes, there are all the negative human attributes, such as egotism, greed etc.but they are the product of the natural survival instinct.

Guitar's Cry said:
Humans are pack animals; we like to form groups to feel secure either in our survival or our mental paradigms. We also like to create harmony by destroying the opposition, rather than recognizing that the opposition also creates its counterpart.
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I think that is what I am trying to say.......
 
cardero

cardero

Citizen Mod
I am watching a documentary on the Iron Mountain Report that has shown that there is no economic security in peace. At least to the people who hold all the money.
 
blackout

blackout

Violet.
cardero said:
I am watching a documentary on the Iron Mountain Report that has shown that there is no economic security in peace. At least to the people who hold all the money.
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There is no economic security in peace for those who hold (and MAKE) all the money.

Let me add...
There is no power/ruling security in peace for those who hold/make all the money
and literally own the world (including the govts and people).

It is a systemic problem in every way.
 
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