Thanks, guys, for the 'good thread compliments' and all of your contributions. What can I say? I just love these kinds of topics


@Yunus
The most I think we can hope is for the masses to attain sufficient understanding of each other to remove most of the fears and doubts that separate us.
O yes, I think that's indeed the best we can hope for, at least, but when I include Andres' words-
Maybe peace is impossible, since it's not human and therefore maybe not even a desirable state...
-I, cynical as I am, think that it, indeed, would not happen and that we humans are not designed to achieve peace. Think of the scale involved, finding ways, methods, to actually get this understanding and removal of doubts, fears and other negative emotions. A total overhaul of humanity: it would cause many new problems, but maybe I'm thinking about a too big thing here. There might be ways.


Way I view humans generally, is that they are animals with those basic instincts and emotions we've been talking about. But I think humans are worse than animals. Not only do we/they still possess these tribal/animal/beast-like traits in some form more or less, we have more intelligence than our wild pets we put into zoos. And it is intelligence, creativity, resourcefulness, etc., wherewith we even take our destructive evil natures to greater heights.

Our intelligence, combined with, and even influenced by, those emotions and instincts, seriously threaten the world and peace (on all levels) more than ever.

The fact that man hath ideas aplenty makes us sophisticated and brutal creatures. And if humans are not to be at peace, if we are naturally designed, like animals, to constantly be in conflict (and an occasional ceasefire), then it's truly a most undesirable race.... the human race. So many great abilities, and what do we do? We fuel our most basic evil desires, thoughts, and the likes.