Arcesious Posted January 29, 2008 Posted January 29, 2008 Will we ever achieve world peace, happiness of all mankind, all problems solved, etc, etc? I doubt it myself... lookignt hough all these threads and watcing CNN it just seems like the world keeps gettign worse and worse... Your thoughts? Ideas on how to unite/fix the world?
RobQel-Droma Posted January 29, 2008 Posted January 29, 2008 Its impossible, I think. Simply the fact that humans are fallible and corruptible reduces all possibility of it ever happening. And, as a side point, I don't think that the world has really changed much - people have been acting the same way for thousands of years.
Totenkopf Posted January 29, 2008 Posted January 29, 2008 We will all achieve peace one day.............the peace of the grave. I concur that the only thing that truly sets up apart from our ancestors is our level of technology. We're basically as dumb as they were, but with bigger guns. ce le vie.
RobQel-Droma Posted January 29, 2008 Posted January 29, 2008 ^Lol. Now we no longer attack with battering rams, we just hit them with nukes....
Tommycat Posted January 29, 2008 Posted January 29, 2008 Nope, we will never achieve world peace, we'll just figure out more efficient ways of waging wars.
Corinthian Posted January 29, 2008 Posted January 29, 2008 Sure, I think one day we'll achieve world peace. That day is usually referred to as Doomsday or the Armageddon.
Web Rider Posted January 29, 2008 Posted January 29, 2008 With the destrution of the earth and all it's life, yes. otherwise, no.
John Galt Posted January 29, 2008 Posted January 29, 2008 Other than the potential unifying of humanity against and outside threat(and that's not really peace anyway), the only lasting peace we'll have will be the silence after all the atom bombs go off. There are simply too many reasons for people to kill each other, whether they be cultural, religious, or otherwise, people WILL keep killing each other. If you're narrowly defining World Peace as the lack of wars, I think that could only happen in two specific scenarios: a totalitarian one-world state, or a complete lack of government and the onset of anarcho-capitalism.
Arcesious Posted January 29, 2008 Author Posted January 29, 2008 no one has any ideas as to how to do this without killign all mankind... guess i'll have to make an idea... What if all the sperate sects of humanity seperated and went to different worlds and left eahc other aloen after we had advnaced enough technology? woudl isolation between the different sects of us work?
Tommycat Posted January 29, 2008 Posted January 29, 2008 Sorry John, Even Anarchistic societies would have warlords. AnarchoCapitalists would have warring corporations(Shadowrun?). Arcesious: Pretty much the only way to keep wars from happening would be to give each person his own planet, and no way to reach or attack the other planets. Then we might still have wars of words haha
Rev7 Posted January 29, 2008 Posted January 29, 2008 Unfortunately, I don't think that there can be world peace, mainly because it is in our nature to...fight, sin, wage war, sometimes kill, own, destroy, ect, ect. IMO, the only time that we (as a world) will come into peace is when Jesus Christ returns.
Ray Jones Posted January 29, 2008 Posted January 29, 2008 World peace, prrffft. What's with those other species fighting over territories and stuff? It's in the nature of almost every species to fight over these things. It's an important strategy for surviving. And if at all, then it's the humans who would be able to overcome this. Not some ants or primates. What if all the sperate sects of humanity seperated and went to different worlds and left eahc other aloen after we had advnaced enough technology? woudl isolation between the different sects of us work?Nope. However, what would work is to take those people and force their own stuff and what they do down their own throats, so hard and so long until they start laughing. Then continue because they are laughing. And when they laughed so hard that every last bit of ignorance and aggression run out of their behinds, sew it close, so it won't come back.
mur'phon Posted January 29, 2008 Posted January 29, 2008 And if at all, then it's the humans who would be able to overcome this. Not some ants or primates. Seems it's too late for that, the bonobo chimps apears to have found a way: have sex not war
Pho3nix Posted January 29, 2008 Posted January 29, 2008 Will we ever achieve world peace, happiness of all mankind, all problems solved, etc, etc? No. It's in our nature to destroy ourselves. Racism, poverty and war will exist as long as Homo Sapiens breathes on this planet. World peace will happen when the human race is dead.
Web Rider Posted January 29, 2008 Posted January 29, 2008 What if all the seperate sects of humanity separated and went to different worlds and left each other alone after we had advanced enough technology? would isolation between the different sects of us work? No, because separation breeds differences, differences create problems in understanding, lack of understanding makes people scared, scared people kill each other. I suppose a solution like the Borg would work. One where we have no individualism.
Balderdash Posted January 29, 2008 Posted January 29, 2008 The only way our race will ever be pacified is if we willingly use artificial means to deny our own ability to think freely. And that really wouldn't be a good thing.
El Sitherino Posted January 30, 2008 Posted January 30, 2008 World peace can be reached by only two means. 1. The destruction of mankind. 2. Greed is eventually wiped out of our emotional bank in the human mind. Either way, the factor of greed and power is removed allowing for the likelihood of death, destruction, and otherwise general chaos to be a thing of the past.
Totenkopf Posted January 30, 2008 Posted January 30, 2008 Well, don't forget some of the other 6 (lust,anger,vanity, jealousy..), Sithy.
Darth InSidious Posted January 30, 2008 Posted January 30, 2008 I try not to predict the future, but I'd guess that a world peace treaty wouldn't last the time the ink took to dry. That doesn't mean we shouldn't try, though.
PoiuyWired Posted January 30, 2008 Posted January 30, 2008 ACtually Peace is a minset. So technicakky there is peace even as we drop bombs and send pieces of sharp metal thru some unfortunate folks, and vice versa. Ok, other than that. Just say NO to World peace. It is just silly.
Jae Onasi Posted January 30, 2008 Posted January 30, 2008 We can't even decide if Fluffy the Wonderpet should live or be put out of our misery. I have no hope for world peace given the nature of humanity.
mimartin Posted January 30, 2008 Posted January 30, 2008 I would like to believe that humans will continue to evolve and one day in the distant future world peace could become a reality. Maybe that is just the overly optimistic side of me coming out, but I do hope that it would be possible without the complete annihilation of mankind. Although the only way I can see it happening now is like John Galt wrote from an outside influence like an alien attack or a catastrophic natural disaster that forced us to work together for mutual survival. The only reason it would be possible is to have an abundance of natural resources (land, energy, food) to eliminate greed (as pointed out by El Sitherino) and the only way I see that possible is by some type of disaster that devastated the population. Hey, anything is possible I’m sure ancient man would be surprised to see how well the inhabitants of a nation can get along compared to tribes battling it out for supremacy. Of course, in parts of the world it would still look extremely familiar to him.
Totenkopf Posted January 30, 2008 Posted January 30, 2008 Actually, I think that would only work for a time. Eventually people would revert to their fractious ways. 5000+ years of recorded history is proof. Short of genetic or technological manipulation of whole populations, I don't much see any change in human nature for millenia to come.
Ctrl Alt Del Posted January 31, 2008 Posted January 31, 2008 Let the machines control the world while we feed their batteries inside cryo tubes with our perfect, false and virtual lives each... Or just wait for Morpheus.
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