is he thriving to throw me now?

[WalkerARCHITECTS]

Peace starts on the inside of each being and moves out into the world from there. Global peace is the natural consequence of empowering and sustaining the context in which inner peace can come to form over an extended period of time. Inner peace and global peace are a function of intention. Peace between two people flows from the same premise.

To some extent peace like happiness flows as a function of acceptance and tolerance. Truth, justice, diversity, rights, dignity, are all part of the reciprocal maintenance we each need in our lives. We need this between citizens and the state and between lovers and friends. It is not magic. Exploitation is the path of tyranny and is always paved with lies.

Love in the base equation is the simple desire to inflict good on another, we find at all the junctures of our lives. We find it between people with all manner of relationship. We find it in the nucleus of the family between parent and child and between friends and lovers, between strangers who meet by chance and between stakeholders in common causes. We seek it in the mist cloaked cliffs of our dreams and in the pragmatic decisions of daily events. Love is the common matrix, in the city, the small village or the bedroom. It empowers unity and collective effort. Love is the matrix essential to inner peace and the core capacity of global peace.

Lies destroy love. Lies destroy truth, justice, diversity, rights and dignity. Lies destroy opportunity, growth, & profit and lies destroy wealth in every other conceivable expression of human value. A lie is an error that can not be acted out in physical reality.

Love requires reciprocal maintenance. love requires faithful attention to the truth. To act upon our desire to do good to another, we need to first discover each others interests, true intentions and recognize where mutually exclusive interests exist. Love is often not reasonable, the relationship may have been forged against reason and may in the aggregate betray the truth. Such obstacles are not impervious to love.

Discover the discontinuities between your interests, discover the discontinuities between expectations, discover the lies embodied in the relationship and identify opportunities for mutual maintenance and sustainable harmony. Tell the truth, live in harmony with the truth, and give peace a chance. Love with peace is simply a higher standard of living than love without it.

[djswan]

That's all fine and dandy, but don't forget your just another rat in a cage. Easter Island, is a beautiful piece of human architecture.

[Ed Ziomek]

Walker... yours is a wonderful piece of loving, giving, understanding prose and poetry.

I may literally frame it.

But in my historic research which is purely non academic, non scientific, I sense there has been throughout history two kinds of human beings..

Givers and Takers.

It's like two different universes, two parallel sets of consciousness.

The Takers seek out the Givers and feast on their good will.

Not to limit myself in just these examples, but it's like you have the Zen/Bhuddist/Tao philosophies of understanding one's self, and the seeking out of knowledge, those are the Givers in my book.

On the other side of the coin, you might have the Aztecan-Chaldean blood-letting philosophies which preached the taking of human blood, even your own human blood, in an expression of "wellness" and completeness and "unity with their God". That philosophy still to this day seeks out the weak or the non believers, or the non conformers, to dominate. Those are the takers.

Each side believes in its own righteousness and godliness.

The question I have always had for my entire life, and answered myself on, revolves around... Do the Givers ever have to become the bloodletters? Did Christ ever take up the bull whip? Do the Bhuddists ever demonstrate and fight back?

By the way, the greatest moments of my pacified life came when myself, the love, peace, happiness-"everything is beautiful"-wimp-98-pound-weakling faced down the arrogant, loud-mouth, ever-threatening, inconsiderate, Bully! DJ... take notes on this.

At the same time, I thank God for the US Marine Corps, the Army, the Navy, and all our Armed Services personnel,for which I can't be th em, nor can they be me, it is that simple. God Bless them all.

Jack Nicholson... "You want me on that wall, you need me on that wall".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5j2F4VcBmeo

[Ed Ziomek]

I forgot to add....

From my amateur viewpoint, not being a historian or academic, it seems like the highest cultural advancement societies of the last 10,000 years, in arts, sciences, mathematics, architecture, astronomy, happened in organized cities/countries who had a strong military controlled by knowledge-based, and education-based communities. The presence of security allowed the growth of knowledge and hence, allowed the opportunity for prosperity of its citizenry.

I theorize this as the "Givers" controlling the "Takers".