War is not some mystical force. If people fighting it want to stop it...

[originalpckelly]

it will be over.

This is not some uncontrollable disease, it is something completely in the control of humanity.

There are billions of things in this world which we cannot control, which can also kill people, but here we are blowing each other up.

[originalpckelly]

1. The truth is so sad sometimes.

:cry:

[Ilsa]

2. But, but, my mother-in-law wants revenge...

She's still upset about that navy seal who was killed on that flight by terrorists 20 years ago.

My husband is trying to explain to her that the concept of revenge is part of what propagates war and more violence. But she isn't getting it.

[braddy]

4. Navy SEAL

Robert Stethem was a navy diver, not a SEAL.

[Ilsa]

8. Thanks, my husband said SEAL.

[Jara sang]

3. Wars are fought over money and resources, period.

[Sinti]

5. The people who kill and die for it rarely to never own any part of

those resources. If they're lucky they can work to use some of what the master own. Just Say NO! *&#@ no I won't kill or be killed so you can enrich yourselves - of course, then they would be imprisoned or murdered by their own government so...

[Just Me]

6. I try to whittle things down to my humble existence.

If you tried to take or oppress it,...I'd rebel. But, my neighbors may "pay the piper" to maintain their humble existence.

:shrug: Depending upon the "powers that be", my neighbors may retain some sense of peace while I would be destroyed.

Kinda' sucks how that game works, HUH!

[dweller]

7. swords into plowshares

lay down the guns of war, and plant for peace .

pretty simple i must say.
dp