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.
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.
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