WORLD PEACE

World peace. What a concept. Was watching the UN speeches, particularly Iran's president and Libya's president. I was thinking about the tension with all countries. Palestinian and Israeli tension. North Korean tension, Northern Ireland, Dar fur, all the major wars and some of the minor wars.

I look at my own life and notice the anger that I have experienced and almost likely not completed free of experiencing again, not that I want to be angry, it's that I am not enlightened. Or, should I say I haven't transformed or evolved to this way of being or existence. So, I ask myself, how can the world have peace until I and other human beings have peace within themselves?

It makes no sense to me to be violent in order to maintain that which is good or holy.

The sad part of this is that the proverbial we, are all to blame.

It seems that human beings want to make are beliefs fit our lifestyles, and we pick and choose what fits. I think we need to simplify and have inclusion rather than exclusion. I see it a lot with people that claim to be Christian. I don't think that if you think that you are born again and someone is not, that you should exclude them or judge them. Also, the other thing that I see a lot of is wealthy Christians validating their wealth, making statements like God wants me to be happy and have wealth. The first thing I think is how about if it is at the price of others and that it is based in greed. I recently had a Christian man tell me that a little greed is good for the country, because we are a capitalist country with a free market.

On the other hand you have Muslim terrorist who think that God wants them to kill all the infidels. Then you have other religious groups that see this and think all Muslims are bad. Were is the inclusion?

It seems that we as a world cannot afford to be right wing. Nor can we afford to be left. Maybe if we as as a world were somewhere in the middle, we would have more peace. More peace with are wife, our children, our neighbor, and other countries. Maybe we don't have all the answers and we should try to get along. If not for the reason of good, than for the reason of maintaining human existence.