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Originally posted by Obl1vion
We will never find peace, until we put the energy in to finding it. Human beings have the potential to do about anything, except love each other for a long duration of time, even when we are different looking, or believe something differently, or act differently.
Peace is something hard to accomplish within a world where there are billions of human beings all differant from each other.
Each and every human emotion contributes, to why peace as a whole within the World among every human being is impossible...
It is and will always be to complicated...
hell stories in the bible prove this theory if not fact...
It seems by design, we are designed, to reach a certain point and then plateau.
Not to mention the knowledge we gained eons ago or even as early as a year ago, we have forgotten,
just due to the holes in our memories...
I think Mankind, has everything we need to make this world better, better life for those without, better existence for the Animal kingdom we rule, yet its the same flaws as before, its the same comfort level in the way as before that prevents us from soaring with Eagles...
It will never work unless each number that builds up the number billions on this planet believes it can...
I think that is impossible...
Unless someone had some kind of magic....
next year their will be other stories just like the ones coming to a head in the current events, its the nature of mankind...
Hell at one point in our existence we thought gladiators killing each other was humane and entertainment..
Or even having slaves, was ok...
Or even conquering people pillaging their villages and raping was ok..
You think mankind does not make this behavior Instincts? or instinctive? For some I beleive its in the genetics and instinctive to behave or believe in such fashion...
Which therefore makes such en devours of peace, very hard to conceive..
edit on 30-3-2012 by Obl1vion because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by NoRegretsEver
I wondered how so many hateful people would be on a site like this, white against black, Asian, against Indian, it wouldn't stop. I couldn't put my finger on it, all I knew is that it was happening. Then I realize what similarities were in common, and this was NOT a racial thing, because you know what to be honest, many of us, even those that may seem a bit racist aren't.
Originally posted by usmc0311
I feel the same way. I have stayed away from all those threads due to all the hate. I grew up in a predominantly white small town.(white male myself), and was raised around racist and bigoted people but it never took with me. My intuition always told me it was wrong.
It wasn't until I joined the Marines that I understood why. I have served with so many people of a different race or skin color and I it has reaffirmed my intuition by showing me that we are all the same, and we are all here sharing this planet together. To me difference in skin color or ethnicity is no different than differences in hair or eye color.
I can understand why so many people hold the hate that they do though. It has been instilled in us all everyday by mainstream media and our current culture. Stories like the Florida incident is proof of that. Just when racial tensions cool down incidents are brought in the mainstream to fuel the fire.
I sincerely hope that someday we will all get oer ourselves and realize we are all the same and we are in this together. Until then we will never succeed as a intelligent species. If you look from an outside perspective it is very primitive of us to act that way and it's time to evolve past it. Anyway, just my two cents.