And What Is Peace?

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  1. Ken Anderson

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    True peace can only be attained by killing everyone you disagree with. I can't remember which part of the Bible that's from.
     
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    Sounds more like the Qur'an.
     
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    Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave the way open for God’s wrath [and His judicial righteousness];

    for it is written [in Scripture], “VENGEANCE IS MINE, I WILL REPAY,” says the Lord.

    “BUT IF YOUR ENEMY IS HUNGRY, FEED HIM; IF HE IS THIRSTY, GIVE HIM A DRINK; FOR BY DOING THIS YOU WILL HEAP BURNING COALS ON HIS HEAD.”

    Do not be overcome and conquered by evil, but overcome evil with good.
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    Encouraging and challenging you to seek intimacy with God every day.

     
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    Ambrose Bierce, in The Devil’s Dictionary, provided an interesting view of “peace” in his definition of “war”.

    “WAR, n. A by-product of the arts of peace. The most menacing political condition is a period of international amity. The student of history who has not been taught to expect the unexpected may justly boast himself inaccessible to the light. “In time of peace prepare for war” has a deeper meaning than is commonly discerned; it means, not merely that all things earthly have an end — that change is the one immutable and eternal law — but that the soil of peace is thickly sown with the seeds of war and singularly suited to their germination and growth. It was when Kubla Khan had decreed his “stately pleasure dome” — when, that is to say, there were peace and fat feasting in Xanadu — that he

    heard from afar
    Ancestral voices prophesying war.

    One of the greatest of poets, Coleridge was one of the wisest of men, and it was not for nothing that he read us this parable. Let us have a little less of “hands across the sea,” and a little more of that elemental distrust that is the security of nations. War loves to come like a thief in the night; professions of eternal amity provide the night.“

    https://www.fulltextarchive.com/book/THE-DEVIL-S-DICTIONARY/5/
     
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    Peace?
    If we could just have a tiny piece of peace, maybe enough folks would find out that they like it and try to keep it that way.
     
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    You know, that is what probably 90% of working, common folks want. It is these egomaniacal, one-world wannabe tyrants that want to impose their will on the rest of the human race that make things miserable.
     
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    Break out the guillotines.
     
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    i.e. status quo.

    To break out, to break free, is difficult for many, and not even tried by most. They don't have the courage nor the desire for truth, hunger for truth, enough, to try.

    Religion brings no peace. War? Yes. Death ? Yes. Peace, no.

    The Peacemaker ? Travels. Quietly usually.
     
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    Bobby the anti-American gang let in the Trojan Horse aka liberals third world army, so they will just use it on us. No borders, No nation.

    Of course, they couldn't done it without our help.

    Despite its many (many) variations, this is the actual quote: Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. According to Wittes, the words appear in a letter widely presumed to be written by Franklin in 1755 on behalf of the Pennsylvania Assembly to the colonial governor.
     
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    So does the traitor, who rots the soul of a nation.
     
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    Boy.

    That means both comparative wealth and a fair degree of isolation.

    So that's personal peace, I'm thinking.

    How about social peace? Maybe that too requires relative wealth and much less density/interactions.

    I think that personal peace is maybe the best anyone can do.
     
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    The traitor, enemy of people, the deceiver betraying the country and the people daily, practically runs the gov and drug makers and corporations and banking system world wide. No need for being quiet - it controls most things.
     
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