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Is world peace possible?

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Posted 01/03/04 - 03:59 PM:	#51
rabeldin wrote: When you reorganize society, will it be more or less coercive? Will it be more or less chaotic? Will it be more or less protective of the powerful? Society is self-reorganizing. Though certain groups and individuals can exert some influence in the reorganization process, the process itself is continuously changing at every scale and is impossible to control. Law generally lags the social progression and society can appear more coercive as old irrelevant laws are more harshly applied to reinforce a status quo that no longer exists. Where society persists in such behavior, chaos is more likely. As far as the powerful go, too much control has resulted in total loss for them in the past (Russia, France, Germany, Vietnam, etc..) so some prefer a more anarchic society to a more controlled one since they can never be sure that those in control are on their side.

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Posted 04/18/04 - 02:40 PM:	#52
I believe world peace is non existent for a few main reasons (i may miss a few but you get the gist of it) a) non-secular states, religious intolerance, religious misinterpretation (mainly in ME) b) ethnic persecution c) the US's hipocracy d) illiteracy e) sucky governments with power hungry leaders "When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace." -Jimi Hendrix

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Posted 04/18/04 - 06:25 PM:	#53
World peace is not perhaps a realistic aspiration, but I have confidence that it is possible. By this I only mean that it seems that most men, at least the sane ones, tend to be peaceful as long as they are either extremely well fed, well sexed, and have plenty of toys. Not only that, but one day it may be possible to place our trust in a system of all-powerful robotic policemen (hint hint). When this day comes, we may see peace at last.

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Posted 04/19/04 - 06:27 AM:	#54
On thinking about world peace an image sprung to mind - that of the garden of eden - a biblical metaphor of world peace - BUT look what happened - temptation reared it's ugly head - as long as there is temptation - there is no peace - temptation stretches across all cultures-all beliefs. I am by no means a religious person but maybe the Garden of Eden is what mankind should be ultimately striving for - maybe world peace is the meaning of life?

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Posted 04/19/04 - 07:00 AM:	#55
MiamiMedOB wrote: ... World peace will never happen as long as there are people on earth. Thank goodness! Peace would imply that we have all become clones of some inoffensive creature with no original ideas nor desires nor the passion to pursue them. The differences among our ideas and desires are what makes life interesting. Without them, we would be as organized as an ant colony.
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Posted 04/19/04 - 08:55 AM:	#56
Anyone ever see the movie "Patlabor 2"? In that movie one character asks another "what's worse? A just war or an unjust peace." I think I lean more to the unjust peace side. Reading some of the other posts on this thread about population subjugation through advanced technology or mental conditioning doesn't seem too pleasant to me. That, and so many of our technological break-throughs trace their origins to conflict. It seems to me that our capacity for strife is one of humanities greatest assets.
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Posted 04/20/04 - 01:25 AM:	#57
reading some of the posts here, it is still unclear what exactly we say when we say 'Peace'. Some contributors seem just to think about a world without war. This is very well reachable. The unimaginability of war in western Europe depends on the complex economical dependencies, which make war counterproductive. Therefor I think, world-scaled peace could be possible, too. An other thing is, whether or not it is desirable. I just shoot: the fact we consider this as a problem implies there is still enough "inner war" in us to still our heracleitian hunger to war

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Posted 04/30/04 - 05:57 AM:	#58
I'd like it to happen, but I think that world peace will never happen. People are infected with evil too much. There is no hope for humanity.

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Posted 05/04/04 - 08:04 AM:	#59
Yeah i'm late on the post... i'm the host with most, big deal it rhymes, you wanna fight about it? (Family Guy, Episode Where Peter teaches Cleveland Jr. to Golf, Chris Works) anyway... I would say that world peace is never possible, not because of people, or evil, or no such physical prescence, i would say so in the very art of ying-yang, you cannot have one without the other, and without one there is no other. cannot have earth without wind, fire without water, man without woman, a yo-yo without STRING, so you cannot have peace without war, that would infinitely break the balance of opposites on the world as we know it, and that my friends is the TRUTH!! (gravity/anti-gravity, hot/cold,luke-warm/warm?, boy/girl,light/darkness,heaven/hell, god/satan,jesus/damion,prince/michael jackson, cartman/kenny,stan/kyle,sun/black hole, blah/blah, etc.)
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Posted 05/04/04 - 12:52 PM:	#60
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