The Key To World Peace

Lennox · Post by **Lennox** » Fri May 19, 2006 12:51 pm

It is so easy to write down the answer to the world's violence problems. I feel like the key to world peace is respect. If respect were to encompass the world, there would be no war and more than likely crime would drop 99% (you have to take into consideration traffic laws). If all groups were to respect each other's religion, boundaries, beliefs, etc. the world would be a far more civilized place. Now don't be confused, notice I said respect not agree with. You can respect an individual's views but not agree with them at all. I think this is the most serious issue plaguing the world right now. Everyone wants respect from everyone else, but they aren't willing to give any. How does the rest of the ForumGarden world feel?

Bez · Post by **Bez** » Fri May 19, 2006 12:59 pm

Lennox wrote: It is so easy to write down the answer to the world's violence problems. I feel like the key to world peace is respect. If respect were to encompass the world, there would be no war and more than likely crime would drop 99% (you have to take into consideration traffic laws). If all groups were to respect each other's religion, boundaries, beliefs, etc. the world would be a far more civilized place. Now don't be confused, notice I said respect not agree with. You can respect an individual's views but not agree with them at all. I think this is the most serious issue plaguing the world right now. Everyone wants respect from everyone else, but they aren't willing to give any. How does the rest of the ForumGarden world feel?

I agree. Respect and tolerance :-6

Rapunzel · Post by **Rapunzel** » Fri May 19, 2006 1:47 pm

Bez wrote: I agree. Respect and tolerance :-6

I agree. Respect, tolerance and good manners/politeness. :-6

Jives · Post by **Jives** » Fri May 19, 2006 2:39 pm

There's a funny activity I do in the beginning of the year to break the ice. I separate the class into four "islands" and tell them they are staranded and have to survive.

Each group can get 15 items of survival gear from a list of 40 items in the wreck of their airplane. Included are rafts and guns as well as fishing equipment and rope, etc.

EVERY group always chooses a gun and a raft.

Now....each island I give them has a critical flaw. One has no food, one has no water, one has neither but has building materials, and one has neither but has breat weather and caves.

Obviously the answer is to work together, gather food from one island, water from another, building materials from another and live on the last.

No group in 13 years has EVER figured it out. Sometimes they go to an island and saughter it's population and steal their stuff. Other times they just die of starvation. Most of the time, though, they kill each other and turn cannibal.

What does that tell you about the basic foundation of human nature?

Bez · Post by **Bez** » Fri May 19, 2006 2:49 pm

Jives wrote: There's a funny activity I do in the beginning of the year to break the ice. I separate the class into four "islands" and tell them they are staranded and have to survive.

Each group can get 15 items of survival gear from a list of 40 items in the wreck of their airplane. Included are rafts and guns as well as fishing equipment and rope, etc.

EVERY group always chooses a gun and a raft.

Now....each island I give them has a critical flaw. One has no food, one has no water, one has neither but has building materials, and one has neither but has breat weather and caves.

Obviously the answer is to work together, gather food from one island, water from another, building materials from another and live on the last.

No group in 13 years has EVER figured it out. Sometimes they go to an island and saughter it's population and steal their stuff. Other times they just die of starvation. Most of the time, though, they kill each other and turn cannibal.

What does that tell you about the basic foundation of human nature?

That's why there's Leaders, Deputy leaders, Thinkers and Doers.... get them together as a TEAM and they'll succeed.

Lon · Post by **Lon** » Fri May 19, 2006 4:56 pm

I have often wondered what the world would be like without ANY religions.

Would it be better? Worse? Would there be wars if no one believed in a deity of any kind? Would there be peace and understanding, compassion and tolerance, or chaos strife and mayhem? Are people capable of being kind, considerate, understanding and compassionate without a belief system?

OpenMind · Post by **OpenMind** » Sat May 20, 2006 5:59 pm

Jives wrote: There's a funny activity I do in the beginning of the year to break the ice. I separate the class into four "islands" and tell them they are staranded and have to survive.

Each group can get 15 items of survival gear from a list of 40 items in the wreck of their airplane. Included are rafts and guns as well as fishing equipment and rope, etc.

EVERY group always chooses a gun and a raft.

Now....each island I give them has a critical flaw. One has no food, one has no water, one has neither but has building materials, and one has neither but has breat weather and caves.

Obviously the answer is to work together, gather food from one island, water from another, building materials from another and live on the last.

No group in 13 years has EVER figured it out. Sometimes they go to an island and saughter it's population and steal their stuff. Other times they just die of starvation. Most of the time, though, they kill each other and turn cannibal.

What does that tell you about the basic foundation of human nature?

True intelligence is very rare

Accountable · Post by **Accountable** » Sat May 20, 2006 6:10 pm

Lennox wrote: It is so easy to write down the answer to the world's violence problems. I feel like the key to world peace is respect. If respect were to encompass the world, there would be no war and more than likely crime would drop 99% (you have to take into consideration traffic laws). If all groups were to respect each other's religion, boundaries, beliefs, etc. the world would be a far more civilized place. Now don't be confused, notice I said respect not agree with. You can respect an individual's views but not agree with them at all. I think this is the most serious issue plaguing the world right now. Everyone wants respect from everyone else, but they aren't willing to give any. How does the rest of the ForumGarden world feel?I don't know if respect comes from empathy, the other way round, or if they are not related at all, but I'd love to see both.

OpenMind · Post by **OpenMind** » Sat May 20, 2006 6:34 pm

More powerful than respect is compassion. This is the same love that is both selfish yet encompasses all of life as a part of itself. Respect comes naturally, without thought, to a person full of compassion.

Accountable · Post by **Accountable** » Sat May 20, 2006 6:46 pm

I've seen pity mistaken for compassion many times. It's what keeps our poor in poverty.

OpenMind · Post by **OpenMind** » Sat May 20, 2006 7:24 pm

Accountable wrote: I've seen pity mistaken for compassion many times. It's what keeps our poor in poverty.

Pity is indeed a poor relation to compassion. However, it is a natural step towards acquiring a compassionate nature. As with all things in life, we acquire our best qualities in stages.

On the other hand, acts undertaken to protect people from the truth of life work against the progress of personal development.

Accountable · Post by **Accountable** » Sun May 21, 2006 3:55 am

Diuretic wrote: Why is that? It's an interesting idea, not sure if I agree but it's interesting.
I'm sure you've heard the old saying "Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he'll eat for a lifetime." People of means think they are helping poor people by giving them handouts, we call it welfare in the US.

Giving without expecting something in return makes us feel good. We do it because we can. It's very helpful to people to find themselves in trouble. It's good to be charitable, so we give to charities. When we make it official government policy, it loses the charitable edge and becomes simply a handout. Some recipients easily figure out that it is easier and monetarily more profitable to remain in their needy state, than to strive to work their way out of it. Other recipients would gladly try, but lack not the skills (for it requires virtually none) but the confidence to make their own way. Why? Simple flawed logic.

Charity and welfare help people who can't help themselves; therefore, if a man qualifies for welfare, he can't help himself. As long as the help is available, the message is that he is helpless, needy. After enough time, he loses hope. Children often see their parents as the parents see themselves. Hopeless parents raise hopeless kids. A hopeless culture is born out of the best of intent.

Now look at it from the view of the 'giver'. Good parents raise their good children to help others in their time of need. It feels good to help. For some, the giving comes from compassion. It feels good because they are giving them a hand up - a little help from the heart to get them back on their feet. There's a condition and limit to the giving, because the help is peer to peer. The recipients are to use the help to climb out of their poverty and become productive again.

For others - many more, I believe - the help comes more out of pity than compassion. They give because they believe the needy are simply unable to survive any other way. They give without condition or limit, because they believe the recipients can't help being in poverty and can't get themselves out. The help is superior to inferior.

Sorry, I see this is getting long so I'll stop here. I hope it shows the difference between compassion and pity.

Accountable · Post by **Accountable** » Sun May 21, 2006 4:34 am

Diuretic wrote: Accountable - I'm glad I asked. That was eloquent and, may I say, illuminating.

I'm going to print that out and keep it.:yh_blush I hope I never get used to such compliments.

shelleybelle73 · Post by **shelleybelle73** » Thu Jun 08, 2006 5:34 am

What does that tell you about the basic foundation of human nature?

That we suck as human beings considerably :wah: