Peace is an ideal, sure, but is it attainable?
I say yes. However, I've recently heard someone dare to say that peace is nonexistent, and will never be acquired. To him, peace seems to mean conformity and agreement on everything. Since no one can agree on what peace means, let alone how to achieve it, we could never really live in a peaceful world.
I cannot believe this. First of all, agreement and conformity aren't peace, they're boring. What kind of a world would we live in if everyone agreed on everything and no one questioned anything? Second, just because we disagree does not mean that we can't live in peace, although it would be more difficult.
Peace is being content, finding calm in the middle of the storm; peace is belonging and knowing who you are. Peace is possible.
We can live in a world where peace and justice aren't ideals, but reality. We truly can agree to disagree, if we educate ourselves. We don't have to fight over who is right and who is wrong, we can acknowledge that everyone is different, but valuable to this world. If we can learn to talk rationally about our beliefs, rather than trying to make them believe what we do, we can learn to appreciate everyone, without fearing the "other."
Peace is possible, and I remain hopeful for it.
i like to think we can get peace. i hope so soon
Of course peace would be great but theres a slim chance we can achieve it.
I hope we never come to world peace. Do you know how much that would suck? It would put our economy in the shitter (because the American economy works by making nations trade with us in order to spite other nations). Also, do you know how boring the news would be if there were peace? It would be a bunch of personal stories about someone's dog who saved the owner from a fire. Who the hell wants that?
--Mike
I can't believe you would rather live in a world of violence and poverty because that, according to you, makes life more interesting.
No, I would rather live in a world that makes life worth living. If there were peace, the idea of peace would lose its value because you'd have nothing to compare it to.
--Mike
Ok, that seems like a more valid argument. That first post is pretty ruthless.
A Catholic priest came in to our health class to talk about the Catholic faith (we had many different officials from many religions talk to us in that class), and he was asked the question, "if God exists, why is there so much evil in the world?" He said that if there weren't evil in the world, we wouldn't be able to compare good to anything and nothing would motivate us to do good. I'm a Jew, and I had thought that Catholicism was a very strict and stuffy religion, but after that guy came in, my opinion changed.
--Mike
Ok, I understand that point of view.. but if our whole purpose is to glorify God and bring God's word to others, I don't see how we can do that without advocating peace and justice.. any ideas?
Good and Righteousness isn't necessarily peace, at least not world peace...
--Mike
I have also heard the argument that there is no evil only lack of good, which is necessary in order to show us what good is. But doesn't that sort of mean that God is only good because there is no power "more good" to make him look evil? And what was evil before the archangel Gabriel fell from God's graces and became the Devil? Whose to say that God wasn't the Devil to some other power and we are living in his hell?