a world at peace

[zx2guy]

im starting to wonder how much "backlash" the world in itself can take. i mean this is turning into one hell of a powder keg here. we have cultural problems, religous, international, national, terror, "factions" (< for lack of a better term of some groups). i do agree with DVS people need to chill. but im sure that wont happen... people no longer forgive and forget, not take things so literal. shit in 10years time i have no doubt that things people say now sarcasticly will get thier asses shot.

and did any one else hear about this "international day of anger" someone is promoting? obviously this person needs to be drowned out of the spotlight. could you imagine if people get behind this idea? hell even worse what if a nation in itself decides to join in. there will be hate killings (in my eyes above all the worse type> there is no reason to be murdered because of the color of your skin... religion... in my mind the one that sticks out was some guy i think in colorado(?) that was gay, he was tied to a fence with barb wire and left for dead (and he did). what pissed me off most about the story was one of them was a friend of his that strung him up). and my problem with this day of anger is.... could this be the match that starts ww3? and how will we draw our battle lines? religion? race? nation?

[03cavPA]

We have a world population that is competing for limited resources. Wait until China and India really get cranking on their consumer economy.

The rest of us will have to take a back seat, or fight for it. Not a happy thought.

[zx2guy]

Originally Posted by AlbanyCartel

We will always have conflict as long as there are things that distinguish us.

what ever happened to cherishing our differences... now if everyone doesnt get what everyone else has, they throw a fit.

[thrasher]

Originally Posted by AlbanyCartel

John Lennon had it right...

"Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace..."

We will always have conflict as long as there are things that distinguish us.

I would argue that we will have conflict as long as we have people who are willing to kill to advance their goals. We still teach violence to our children as a means to solve problems, and as long as that continues, we will never have peace. It starts with a change in mentality, not by continuing to kill those who kill us. Ghandi had it right by advocating non-systems, non-violent thinking, and it was working, until he was quite ironically murdered.

[Muscletang]

I'll throw something in here.

There will NEVER be world peace because of three reasons...

A. Somebody, somewhere, will always want power.

It doesn't matter if we have a nice government like in Star Treck where everybody is equal and has a share. Somebody will always want complete and total power over everybody and everything. It's human nature.

B. This guy is different from this, one doesn't like the other for it.

Hell some are still bitter about the Civil War. Again, it's human nature to fear the unknown or different.

C. My beliefs are correct, yours are not.

See Osama Bin Ladin. Finally, it's human nature to hold our beliefs close and defend them, sometimes stupidly like suicide bombing but still defend.

[chadwick_90]

I think the U.S should just stay out of other countries problems. Why does our government spend more time and money in other countries than here in the U.S.