WHAT IS PEACE-THE REALITY

My earlier attempt to arrive at an agreement for the word PEACE as in “WORLD PEACE” raised more questions than it answered.  Which is good.

absence of conflict

World Peace is an ideal of freedom, peace and happiness,
within and encompassing all Nation's.

when I am still within myself

never having to say “you are wrong”

Reality is what people hide behind, when they are afraid to change it.
(little to do with peace but I thought it profound… thanx Dave)

These are just a few of the ideas that came to light. 

It may not be possible to come up with a single definition but while we are pursuing that goal we are keeping the concept of peace in our consciousness, which can only be good.

What does PEACE mean to you?

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If one were to come up with a single word/definition
of PEACE-
it would have to be Pacifism.
The opposition to war or violence as a means of settling
disputes or gaining advantage.

Many of the posts in the previous “What is Peace” thread
alluded to personal peace being a necessary pre=requirement
to attaining World Peace.
While I  myself believe that many without personal peace are
more inclined to strive for peace on a Global Level.

Our recent day here in Australia against Domestic Violence,
gave me food for thought.
DV is large scale and yet often ignored-people will turn a blind eye,
or not become involved.
Yet they may be an advocate of World Peace- which is therefore
being totally hypocritical.
So I guess a lot of peace really does have to start at home-
except it may not necessarily be your'e own home.

We all need to become Peacekeepers in our own environment
in endevour for it to spread and grow.

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Let's MAKE it a Reality !
Starting with our newly named thread, Andrew-
and-our new photo/image-
to help us imagine!!!

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Perhaps we need to stir up the masses to recognise that the reality of world peace is just a change of heart away. 

To learn to give rather than take, to love rather than fear, to negotiate rather than argue, to reason rather than kill, to share rather than hoard. to listen rather than interrupt.

Quite simple really.

-an eccentric village idiot.

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Just a heart ( or heartbeat?) away -
put that way , World Peace seems so attainable.

Perhaps we could apply what you have written, Andrew,
as the new,
Six Commandments!

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Six signs of a repentant heart.

Not the sort of thing you can force people to do, but I think everyone here has had to repent, turn away from, change their minds, all means the same thing, and decide they (we) are not going to accept this world is going to hell, not without a fight anyway.

We can sustain this worlds population with what we have if people stopped hoarding and started sharing.

It's time…

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“Six signs of a repentant heart” ! Lol-I like that!

And to quote Neil Young..

“Comes A Time”

Comes a time
when you're driftin'
Comes a time
when you settle down
Comes a light
feelin's liftin'
Lift that baby
right up off the ground.

Oh, this old world
keeps spinning round
It's a wonder tall trees
ain't layin' down
There comes a time.

You and I we were captured
We took our souls
and we flew away
We were right
we were giving
That's how we kept
what we gave away.

Oh, this old world
keeps spinning round
It's a wonder tall trees
ain't layin' down
There comes a time….

It is true- it is surely time that we all got off our proverbial's and
actually do something more towards helping the World attain
Peace -
or just maybe it WON'T keep on “spinning 'round” !

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The reality is that we must always work to attain peace,
no matter where we are or what we are doing.
In reality it is not always easy to make peace, even
in our everyday lives- but if we hold onto that thought
-the reality is -we CAN make it happen!

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I love what you said Andrew, about peace being a change of heart. It really is so simple, yet so many are caught up in the delusion of being right and the ego.

Peaceful love offerings
Ever pure in the heart of our being
Always sending love
Caring and kindness to a stranger
Exactly the way it could be

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“We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms.

“The first is freedom of speech and expression - everywhere in the world

“The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way - everywhere in the world

“The third is freedom from want … everywhere in the world

“The fourth is freedom from fear … anywhere in the world”

- President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in a message to congress 6 January, 1941.

The desire for world peace has been with us for a loooong time.

Do we have cause for optimism that it can be realised? In our lifetime?

Next year marks the 40th anniversary of man setting foot on the moon.  For those that remember it was one of the most remarkable days in history.  People from every continent, from every religious or political persuasion stopped and were mesmerized by a sketchy ghostly TV image of a man in a space suite stepping off a ladder onto another world.

For a brief moment of time we had world peace.

How hard can it be to give men and women the incentive to open their hearts to accept the rest of humanity on equal terms and open their minds to see the need and help those in less fortunate circumstances than themselves.

An Australian Aboriginal archaeologist friend of mine told me that before whites came and took over, his ancestors would work about 3 hours per day hunting and the women spend similar time gathering.  Child rearing was a tribal responsibility.  It was as close to an idyllic lifestyle as could be imagined.

Similar has been found to be true of all primitive lifestyles.

So what went wrong?

How have we gotten ourselves into an environment that requires us to spend a completely inordinate amount of time working just to survive? At the same time choking our planet through poor use of non sustainable carbon based energy just to serve faceless self important wealthy individuals and their 'bottom line' mentality.

i think the hippies of the '60's were onto something when they started to form communes.  Of course the more skeptical would suggest that had some of the hippies not come from extremely wealthy families to provide the money to buy the land the communes appeared on it would have been a non event.  I don't know, I was too young when it happened.

According to business friends of mine, China is now the awakening giant, but their focus is on the capitalistic lifestyle of the West, not preserving whatever the culture was prior to the arrival of communism. As everybody knows, capitalism can be a good thing as far as everyone doing their share of the work, for equitable pay, according to the responsibility of the position, but it opens the door to unscrupulous manipulation by the wealthy to gain favourable treatment by legislators and politicians when issues crop up that affect their profits to the detriment of all other considerations.

The time to bring light and understanding to China is NOW.

Tomorrow, when capitalism has taken hold, will be too late, the poor will get poorer and the rich richer.  And the great 'divide' between them will get greater.

In love and peace

an eccentric Aussie