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Complete peace is impossible since to have peace you need war like to have light you need darkness 1 can't live without the other it's sad but thats how it work.
See, I always question statements like this. Theoretically, say you have a single spherical container known as the universe, and inside of it there is no source of light whatsoever. Therefore the entire theoretical universe is immersed in complete darkness. Darkness does not need light to exist, in fact darkness is the ABSENCE of light. Darkness does not exist where light exists. To assume that darkness needs light to exist is faulty, because darkness itself is not created by light, but exists when light is not present.
We only view darkness conceptually in relation to light because of the relationship the two tend to share, if light is present then darkness does not exist, and if darkness is present then that means light must not be present. In actuality, darkness can exist without light, in fact the very definition of darkness is without light, and light itself is simply seen as "not-darkness". Darkness could have existed before the universe was created, before the first source of light even existed.
Similarly, peace and war does not require one another to exist. In a (theoretical) time before war, a time before humanity has advanced enough to create societies, the act of war did not exist. There were hunts for food, disputes between (neanderthals) people, but war itself did not actually exist. It was an era of peace, but only when society advanced enough to produce war, did war begin to exist and disturb peace.
Take for example, the animal kingdom. Do we say rabbits live in peace? Aside from the natural order of predation, rabbits exist in harmony with one another, they live in peace. Does war exist among rabbits? Are rabbits even capable of war? Let's take a better example, the lion. Lions naturally live in packs, and will hunt lesser beings. They are at the top of the food chain and lay out territories in which they exist and hunt. They can be said to be at peace, but if two different packs of lions decide to fight over territory or superiority, can we not asy that they are warring?
So what is the difference that exists between rabbit and lion? The difference is the advancement in behavior within the species. Rabbits tend to live quite randomly whereas lions form packs, and even claim territory. It is only because "packs" and "territory" exists that war can exist.
But i deter. Ultimately, peace can exist without war, and in fact before conflict is even possible, and before life even exists, the universe is at peace. War is only created and formed later (and arguably we conceptualize war and peace and defined them as such), but this does not mean that peace had never existed until then. Just because we have yet to conceptualize something does not mean it never existed in the first place, and just because we link two concepts together does not mean they cannot exist without one another. Darkness can exist without light, and in fact if light never existed, it would be conceptualize as "everything", and peace can exist without war, if war never existed then peace would be conceptualize as "the state of now" or the "state of living"
i like your point, "state of now", but isn't that just a compremise? for its exsistence to be eternal then simple eliminiton is cause, ever considered the fact that it is within our nature to seek greed. remember we don't live a communist sociaty we live in a capitalist one.
The theory of gaia states for things to live harmouniously we should adapt acordingly, we don't...amoung humans this theory is but an illusion. and since we refuse to die like a virus and seek greed? perhaps this peace may never exist?
oh and "light" is a source of energy, think of it this way, the existance of infinity to light can never be achived since dankness exist withing the universe already meaning there is always darkness even if light exists. Since the light is not infinite then we curently have darkness existing etenarly, you only see compremise within the space of a certain place and time.
peace was created for a way to escape war complete peace wouldnt be called peace it would be called utopia as for darkness is can't exist either without light because to have darkness you need light somehwre a completle darkness without light isn't darkness either it's nothingness or neant or whatever it's called in english .
Last edited by darkraiders at 9:51 am, Mar 17 2010