Idea of Peace, No peace at all

One problem I always have with peace idealists is that they're normally inconsiderate to anything that isn't peaceful.

That aggression towards anything that does not represent peace is but another form of violence (idealogical) that will indeed spark more conflict. I do not believe the general idea of peace itself is real peace.

Peace keepers aim to destroy/smother ideas of violence and what they consider ignorance through their own teachings. Either way the opposite idea will lose power as the opposing idea gains strength, it's all a tug of war of dominance and finger pointing of who is more right and who is more wrong.

For peace to be absolute you would have to look all directions, favor all but favor none. Be all things and also be nothing at the same time. Since so far as we know matter and energy does not disappear, this seems unlikely at our current stage of thought.

It find it funny that the idea of either absolute chaos or absolute order are both destructive and indeed more or less unnatural. Absolute violence or Absolute peace seems to also be both destructive and indeed unnatural as well.

I do agree less violence usually means less suffering for living things in general, however peace and non-violence does not escape the power struggle of ideas. Therefore general peace is probably no solution at all, instead it is but one of many points of views.


Another point I'd like to make is the arrogance of human thought.

What makes a person think that they themselves or anyone else is more important then say a pebble in the river?

What makes a person think that they themselves or think living beings are more important than a planet without life (collections of pebbles)?

What makes a person think they themselves or anything living is better than entire galaxies without life?

The idea of peace plays on the belief that the living is of more value than the non-living.

But it is non-life that sparks life itself and once we die we become non-life. From non-life we become life.


I think the real question is, can we transcend both aspects of life & death as well as thoughts itself and go beyond.

 

Have you ever watched an innocent animal being slaughtered? Perhaps an Orca playing with the life of a baby seal for pure amusement?

What do you think about these two events, are they really so different?

Is the human life worth more than animal life? Is life itself worth more than non-life?

Or it is all a spiral of existence and events in the past, present, future and unknown?

 

I would let a person die in order to save an entire galaxy of non-life.

 

What makes your view better than my view? What makes my view better than your view?

Am I to blame the Orca for killing a baby seal out of entertainment? Am I to blame the universe for allowing the thought of violence?

Do I have the right and am I so enlightened to judge things beings for what they are?

 

No that is not what I am saying, I am saying that everything matters.

So when someone claims something is more or less important than something else they're saying something matter more universally.

I do not think this is so.

I think it's really all a matter of preference and this idea of a person's idea being absolutely right is but symbolism for disrespect for all things in existence.


It's the realization that everything (ideals) you've ever known to be true is indeed just a preference. It is not universal law and you do not really have the authority to judge everything in existence and thought of in existence.

 

The belief that peace may give peace to all. The belief that peace is positive for all. The belief that peace is the only way to enlightenment.

I believe the thought of something being absolute right and/or of more value than others things may help prevent enlightenment/truth.

 

Indeed, that is all I wish to state and you worded it better than I.

 

As an idealist myself I wish the world would move past all of this and see the universe for what it is. See everything for what it is. To embrace truth to embrace not only themselves but everyone and everything.