?World Peace?

[Darorinag]

What do we have to change to have a World Peace ?

<Radical mode> Wiping out we-know-who. </radical mode>
<Softer mode> Sending Bu$h and $haron to hell, so they can sort out their financial issues there. </softer mode>

and what is more important to change first .. ?

The more radical solution would be ideal. It would put an end to the problems. The softer solution would also work, by eliminating the root of the problem, although you still run the risk of Sharon's minions doing the same thing after he's gone to hell...

is there a perfect solution .. ?

Yes. Having a solution is a perfect solution. I think the radical solution is a perfect one. But not too many people will like it, for obvious reasons (propaganda yada yada yada)..

[Darorinag]

the idea of "world peace" reminds of the book I read in 6th grade, The Giver, their world seemed peaceful, but it was boring and plain...who would want to live in a world where everybody is the same?

Sounds like a plagiarised version of Sir Thomas More's Utopia.

[Darorinag]

To achieve World Peace people should realize that they are not unique.

And that begins from who? Yes, let's spell it out, kids. Z-i-....<censored>

[Crimson Glow]

Whats interesting is that in my Political Science class we were discussing democracy and how almost every nation that is democratic has peaceful relations

And which such peaceful nations are these?

For there to be World Peace, everyone would have to agree on everything.

That's not necessarily true. It's not the differences in views and lifestyles that causes the violence. It's the inability to accept those differences. If people could learn to petrify the ego, and not be such control freaks, there wouldn't be this constant need to conquer anything or anyone that is not like ourselves in order to conform those entities to our likeness. People opening their minds to greater possibilities and things beyond their immediate surroundings. People realizing what a small, pathetic, insignificant part of existance they are in the grand scheme of things. Humility, humbling. These are things that don't seem to be a part of human nature. Or perhaps we have defied them long enough that they no longer are. THIS is the part that will never change, thus the reason we will never see world peace.

[EvrLstngDaze]

What do we have to change to have a World Peace ?

is there a perfect solution .. ?

yes, kill yourself and everyone else too...look at the stars, so peaceful, no humans there yet (to the best of out knowledge ) other than that, there's no other way to achieve peace the way I look at it...but of course why would you want to kill everything? might as well just "live and let live" (i'm sure that's in another context, but hey, anything goes)

[Darorinag]

A book that I'm reading now satirizes the concept of peace and the threat of nuclear war. It's by James Morrow - This is the Way the World Ends. Great book. Worth the read.

[Inna]

And which such peaceful nations are these?

such as the US, UK, France, Germany, all the other European nations, Russia, South American countries that are democratic, Japan, S. Korea...so on and so forth...I'm not saying that every democratic nation has peaceful relations with other democratic nations, but majority do.
US and other democratic nations didnt have good relations with Russia until the Soviet Union broke up, same as with S. America when it was controled by Communism, and some European countries during WW II.

p.s. this is not my own philosophy...it is what we discussed in class.

That's not necessarily true. It's not the differences in views and lifestyles that causes the violence. It's the inability to accept those differences. If people could learn to petrify the ego, and not be such control freaks, there wouldn't be this constant need to conquer anything or anyone that is not like ourselves in order to conform those entities to our likeness. People opening their minds to greater possibilities and things beyond their immediate surroundings. People realizing what a small, pathetic, insignificant part of existance they are in the grand scheme of things. Humility, humbling. These are things that don't seem to be a part of human nature. Or perhaps we have defied them long enough that they no longer is. THIS is the part that will never change, thus the reason we will never see world peace.

I can't help but agree with you...if only it was possible

[SagGal]

That's not.......................see world peace.

Well said.
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[sSsflamesSs]

yes, kill yourself and everyone else too...look at the stars, so peaceful, no humans there yet (to the best of out knowledge ) other than that, there's no other way to achieve peace the way I look at it...but of course why would you want to kill everything? might as well just "live and let live" (i'm sure that's in another context, but hey, anything goes)

I was going to offer that as my answer, but thought it was too radical.

[sleuth]

I was going to offer that as my answer, but thought it was too radical.

world is chaotic because of extremists .. shoving theire beliefes down our throats..ppl trying to change each other...some of them trying to change the world....
can't we just be cool enough and live like stars (EvrLstngDazE)