Faith: Difficult but Necessary?

[Harbal]

"Peace" is a noble goal...but if it's really noble, does it not deserve some possible strategy for achievement? Or are we going to be content with wishing upon a star, and never bother to consider how the thing might actually be reached?

If that's where we stop, just how much do we actually care about peace?

What is your strategy for achieving peace? Assuming that you care about it.

I'm interested in Gary's. He's the one who started this ball rolling. Maybe his will be better than anything I could come up with. Let's find out.

I'll put my cards on the table right now; I don't have a strategy for peace.

[Flannel Jesus]

I'll put my cards on the table right now; I don't have a strategy for peace.

I have one but I doubt people would like it:

The complete destruction of all life on earth.

[Immanuel Can]

I'll put my cards on the table right now; I don't have a strategy for peace.

I have one but I doubt people would like it:

The complete destruction of all life on earth.

You'd make a great Islamist, then... They think that peace could be achieved by killing all opponents.

But that's more "pacification" than peace...it's a quietness born of death and destruction, rather than of tranquility and harmony. It's probably not what we're really looking for...

[Flannel Jesus]

I'll put my cards on the table right now; I don't have a strategy for peace.

I have one but I doubt people would like it:

The complete destruction of all life on earth.

You'd make a great Islamist, then... They think that peace could be achieved by killing all opponents.

But that's more "pacification" than peace...it's a quietness born of death and destruction, rather than of tranquility and harmony. It's probably not what we're really looking for...

Gotta throw the ol' monkeys paw in occasionally, so people remember to be careful what they wish for.

[Immanuel Can]

I have one but I doubt people would like it:

The complete destruction of all life on earth.

You'd make a great Islamist, then... They think that peace could be achieved by killing all opponents.

But that's more "pacification" than peace...it's a quietness born of death and destruction, rather than of tranquility and harmony. It's probably not what we're really looking for...

Gotta throw the ol' monkeys paw in occasionally, so people remember to be careful what they wish for.

Ah, yes..."The Monkey's Paw." I remember it well.

[Gary Childress]

"Peace" is a noble goal...but if it's really noble, does it not deserve some possible strategy for achievement? Or are we going to be content with wishing upon a star, and never bother to consider how the thing might actually be reached?

If that's where we stop, just how much do we actually care about peace?

What is your strategy for achieving peace? Assuming that you care about it.

I'm interested in Gary's. He's the one who started this ball rolling. Maybe his will be better than anything I could come up with. Let's find out.

I posted what I think will bring peace. You replied to it but left out that half.

which means not sending armies beyond sovereign borders, and not stationing troops beyond sovereign borders (except in UN delegated peace keeping functions). And unfortunately, the US has been the #1 violator of that requirement. So it would require some degree of regime change in the US in our case.

[Immanuel Can]

What is your strategy for achieving peace? Assuming that you care about it.

I'm interested in Gary's. He's the one who started this ball rolling. Maybe his will be better than anything I could come up with. Let's find out.

I posted what I think will bring peace. You replied to it but left out that half.

You didn't say how any of that was going to happen. You just said you wanted...

...not sending armies beyond sovereign borders, and not stationing troops beyond sovereign borders (except in UN delegated peace keeping functions).

...and...

...some degree of regime change in the US in our case.

So you think the UN is going to remain, and will somehow become effective and moral, but that Biden has to go?

So many questions...how is all this going to be made possible?

[Harbal]

So you think the UN is going to remain, and will somehow become effective and moral, but that Biden has to go?

Hmm, I just can't imagine where all this is going.

[Immanuel Can]

So you think the UN is going to remain, and will somehow become effective and moral, but that Biden has to go?

Hmm, I just can't imagine where all this is going.

I can't figure it.

[Harbal]

So you think the UN is going to remain, and will somehow become effective and moral, but that Biden has to go?

Hmm, I just can't imagine where all this is going.

I can't figure it.

I don't want to steal your line, but we'll see.

[Immanuel Can]

Hmm, I just can't imagine where all this is going.

I can't figure it.

I don't want to steal your line, but we'll see.

Oh, I see...you're itching for me to bring the "G" word into the conversation, and then you get to say, "You see? He's obsessed!"

The problem is that nothing was going that direction until you just pushed it there. Ironic, that. Almost obsessive...

[Harbal]

I can't figure it.

I don't want to steal your line, but we'll see.

Oh, I see...you're itching for me to bring the "G" word into the conversation, and then you get to say, "You see? He's obsessed!"

The problem is that nothing was going that direction until you just pushed it there. Ironic, that. Almost obsessive...

Actually, it's the "T" word that I was expecting.

[Immanuel Can]

I don't want to steal your line, but we'll see.

Oh, I see...you're itching for me to bring the "G" word into the conversation, and then you get to say, "You see? He's obsessed!"

The problem is that nothing was going that direction until you just pushed it there. Ironic, that. Almost obsessive...

Actually, it's the "T" word that I was expecting.

I'm not American. I don't have a "T - word."

[Harbal]

Oh, I see...you're itching for me to bring the "G" word into the conversation, and then you get to say, "You see? He's obsessed!"

The problem is that nothing was going that direction until you just pushed it there. Ironic, that. Almost obsessive...

Actually, it's the "T" word that I was expecting.

I'm not American. I don't have a "T - word."

Me neither; aren't we lucky?

[Age]

I'll put my cards on the table right now; I don't have a strategy for peace.

I have one but I doubt people would like it:

The complete destruction of all life on earth.

You'd make a great Islamist, then... They think that peace could be achieved by killing all opponents.

Here is another example of where the word 'killing' is being completely and utterly misinterpreted.

But that's more "pacification" than peace...it's a quietness born of death and destruction, rather than of tranquility and harmony. It's probably not what we're really looking for...