As the end of this year approaches, I have made some time to reflect on what I would really like for 2009. Have you? We'll have a new president in a scant twenty-three days. My personal and professional lives grow apace. I wasn't surprised when the idea that snagged me was Peace. Then I received the text of this email:
Vote for Peace at Change.org and Help Spread the Word
The website Change.org is holding an online event through January 15, 2009 calling for the "Top 10 Ideas for America," which they will present to the Obama Administration on Inauguration Day. Change.org says, "We will then build a national campaign to advance each idea in Congress, marshaling the resources of Change.org, MySpace, and our dozens of partner organizations and millions of combined members." Imagine our campaign with expanded support like that!
The idea to "Appoint Secretary of Peace in Department of Peace and Nonviolence" is currently in first place in the category "Other" and second place overall. We need your help to keep it there all the way through January 15. Visit the site today and vote for peace, then use their "Email a Friend" link to spread the word.
Peace is the only idea I've ever found that encompasses all good for all beings on this and every other planet. There is no common definition of peace. Instead, it means different things at different times to different people. True peace is a growing, dynamic way of being in the world wherein all are blessed.
Won't you add your voice to the rest of us at change.org and click your vote for peace?
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Indeed. The idea of a Department of Peace is to learn to change our first response to any incursion from one of automatic retaliation to one of proposed resolution.
This new department won't prevent us from intervening for the right reasons. It is to prevent pointless or unethical "adventures". It will encourage diplomacy and it will seek to promote this idea to other nations as well. We can be a world leader for peace, change our image in the eyes of the world. We need a lot of studying to learn how to go about providing and creating peace. But we can eventually figure out a peace strategy.
I am reminded of a novel I read once. It was sci-fi (naturally) and it dealt with a "benign" ruler who wanted nothing but peace for his planet. He created a virus that would make people ill and pass out anytime they experienced negative emotions such as anger, hatred or rage. After many centuries, the people were conditioned to a point where they simply did not have any negative emotions.
One would think that would be Utopia. A paradise where there was no hatred, no violence, no war..
BUT...
But the "virus" was imperfect. It left a small genetically anomalous portion of the population free of the "disease".. Therefore, that portion of the society was free to prey on the rest of the populace.
My point??
Unless ALL agree that peace is the ONLY way to go, there will never be peace.
That is why, for those who desire peace, they must be prepared for war...
Otherwise, the only "peace" that will be found is the peace of slavery or the peace of the grave...
Michale.....
Yes, we are overdue for a Dept of Peace.
There is nothing to be lost by this initiative, and everything to be gained.
But at what cost???
Michale.....
The good news is that peace costs nothing!!
Let's turn your question around.
War resolves nothing..
But at what cost???
Hello, Michale,
The good news is that peace costs nothing!!
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Peace CAN cost nothing..
It can also cost EVERYTHING...
Which is why Europe and the US choose NOT to live in "peace" with Germany and Japan in the 1940s...
Michale....