Proposed World Peace Day

• robertteh

  10 Jul 07, 22:15

  For thousands of years mankind has been at wars.
  
  After the second world war, mankind should have learned the truth about wars, that is there is no victor.
  
  So whether a war is started by the need for national or economic security, greed or ambition, the second world war conclusively proved one truth - the world is too small to be engaged in conflict. It will be destroyed as witnessed by the release of the first atomic bomb on hundreds of thousands of innocent people in Nagasaki.
  
  But men are as obsessed today as ever with their own self-importance that they must prove something superior about themselves and not see the futility of wars.
  
  The Japanese people and their leaders are still far from remorseful about their own "Asian Co-prosperity" war. They try to justify their last war as a war of self-defence.
  
  Now earth warming, ecological pollution and depletion of oil and other natural resources are further bad news that the small earth we live in has only a limited life and even without war mankind has not many good years ahead to live for.
  
  So now let us examine and re-examine what the almighty want of us in this earthly life of ours. Did he really ask people to fight it out or engage in conquering others or our neighbours?
  
  One would have thought from reading of bible or koran that the clear god message : "Love thy neighbours" even if god at the same time has said other things like "Do not sin".
  
  Do denizens of the world have a higher or more noble reason to disagree with such basic wisdom. If they do then they have to tell us whether god was wrong about the first advice.
  
  If they treasure and trust their own almighty whoever he might be, surely they will be more patient with their neighbours even if they don't love them.
  
  Let us all declare as "World Peace Day" the anniversary of second world war and tell the Israelis and Palestinians on this day there is no purpose to fight on but there is god's purpose to live in love and not hatred.
  
  
• Ito_^

  10 Jul 07, 22:19

  yeah.
  
  the underlying reason of the war of ideology between jews and muslims is anything but religion.
  
  but really, i don't think we need another bloody something day that noone remembers.
• SingaporeTyrannosaur

  11 Jul 07, 12:53

  "Only the dead have seen the end of war"
• ndmmxiaomayi

  11 Jul 07, 12:57

  Till the day all humans regarded each other as the same, we will not see peace.
• zix1

  11 Jul 07, 13:03

  Originally posted by ndmmxiaomayi:

  Till the day all humans regarded each other as the same, we will not see peace.

  agree Unfortunately, this day will never come.
• crazy monkey

  11 Jul 07, 18:10

  Originally posted by robertteh:

  For thousands of years mankind has been at wars.
  
  After the second world war, mankind should have learned the truth about wars, that is there is no victor.
  
  So whether a war is started by the need for national or economic security, greed or ambition, the second world war conclusively proved one truth - the world is too small to be engaged in conflict. It will be destroyed as witnessed by the release of the first atomic bomb on hundreds of thousands of innocent people in Nagasaki.
  
  But men are as obsessed today as ever with their own self-importance that they must prove something superior about themselves and not see the futility of wars.
  
  The Japanese people and their leaders are still far from remorseful about their own "Asian Co-prosperity" war. They try to justify their last war as a war of self-defence.
  
  Now earth warming, ecological pollution and depletion of oil and other natural resources are further bad news that the small earth we live in has only a limited life and even without war mankind has not many good years ahead to live for.
  
  So now let us examine and re-examine what the almighty want of us in this earthly life of ours. Did he really ask people to fight it out or engage in conquering others or our neighbours?
  
  One would have thought from reading of bible or koran that the clear god message : "Love thy neighbours" even if god at the same time has said other things like "Do not sin".
  
  Do denizens of the world have a higher or more noble reason to disagree with such basic wisdom. If they do then they have to tell us whether god was wrong about the first advice.
  
  If they treasure and trust their own almighty whoever he might be, surely they will be more patient with their neighbours even if they don't love them.
  
  Let us all declare as "World Peace Day" the anniversary of second world war and tell the Israelis and Palestinians on this day there is no purpose to fight on but there is god's purpose to live in love and not hatred.
  
  

  so many proposals
• ShutterBug

  11 Jul 07, 18:40

  
  Pessimistic as I may sound....,
  
  but I am quite afraid we're bound to wipe ourselves out & become just as extinct as the dinos of millions of years ago...
  
  But regardless of causations of our extinction, I also believe we will be replaced...just as we have replaced the cave men of millions of years ago...
  
  I think that in millions of years into the future, we may be regarded much like our barbaric cave men ancestors, by the new ruling occupants of Earth...
  
  I feel that this is the Universal Rule/Law of planetory inhabbitant cycle...
  
• ShutterBug

  11 Jul 07, 18:45

  
  Pardon me..
  
  I also forgot to state that -
  
  we have already gone BEYOND redemption...
  
  
• robertteh

  12 Jul 07, 00:12

  Originally posted by crazy monkey:

  so many proposals

  You mean disposals of hypocrisy and wrongfulness like ministers writing their own pay cheques?
• Cool-gal

  12 Jul 07, 00:33

  WORLD PEACE!!!
  Peace be with all of you!!