How to End War
January 26, 2012
After the last post, I got to thinking. My anger at war is getting too much. So here’s a different approach.
If you make a funny face you'll feel better
The Power of Numbers(Oh goody, says Dan)
It’s not so hard, really, to end war. You just have to make that your goal, every day. Get rid of hate and rage; make it your goal to push for love and peace. War is an act of hate. If all of us get rid of our own hate, how can war start? Every day ask yourself what you can do to get rid of any hate or rage and do something that shows your love. You will feel the peace. Others will notice, too. It will catch on. Then one will become many. I need to try this. The other way isn’t working. (So, where’s the numbers? asks Dan. They’re coming.)
Examples of How Love can End Hate:
I’ll bet when your kids won’t do their homework you get angry. So get in there and help. It shows how much you love them, and all those angry arguments will not happen. They will love you for it.
Maybe you hate it that your mother is dying of cancer. Take her places she loves; play games; hug her. Hating the cancer won’t take it away, but loving her more will take away her fear of dying alone.
Are you pissed the bank is going to foreclose on your house? Sit in the rooms you love and talk to the house, tell it how much you will miss it, and what great times you had. Talk to the banker. Ask her how you can help her to make the transition easier for both of you. It’s likely she will fight to keep your home.
You’ve got PTSD from the Iraq War and hate the thought of war? You, most of all, must embrace what has happened to you, realize it was not your fault, that what you feel is natural, but can be turned off. Remember the comraderie of your service, and talk with the men and women you served with, making plans to celebrate peace, and plan for a future of peace. You are our best envoys of peace.
The Economic Cost of Hate: (Finally, numbers! But their not even primes, says Dan.)
Wars have cost the USA over $1.2 trillion since 2001.
If you saved $1 every second (that’s $31.536 million per year-Hello, Mitt Romney), how many years would it take to pay off $1.2 trillion? 38,051 years (Dan studied that number for a microsecond. Why couldn’t it have been 38053–that’s a great prime!)
However, if 100 million people paid $100 per day, it would take 120 days to pay off $1.2 trillion. The power of numbers works. Hence taxes.
Hate Can Destroy Humanity, Tomorrow
Could hate at sometime cancel out all the love and destroy the world? All it takes is one super hateful person with a few nuclear bombs, a very bad virus or bacteria, or the right wind and poison gas. How about spiders with nanobacteria that eat oil? Surely you jest.
What You Can Do
Show a neighbor how to make love and peace destroy their hate. If everyone does it in the world–7 billion people now–that’s a lot of numbers. Now we’re talking. (Dan beats his fist. Could you at least make it 7 billion and 1–that’s a prime! Yeah, I’m sure we’re there now.)
Bring it to the attention of Congress and the President. Ask them to make a law that compels them to debate ending any war we are in, not once a year, or once a month, but every day we are at war.
Is it possible?
I don’t know if I can do it every day. This peace, love stuff may be too much. What about you. Could you at least start? Would you email your Congressman and the President about passing this law? Is this possible? What do you think?
Dan (Dan’s War) would say, My grandson is worth it. I say the same.
Have a cookie. It will help.
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Hating anything takes an incredible amount of energy, and since energy can neither be created nor destroyed, this energy is transmitted “out” there, manifesting itself in other destructive ways, including war.
One way to help is to start with ourselves. Simply stop, take a breath and keep your awareness there, on your breath. There is nothing there, but simple life, which is love expressed within. Imagine the collective sigh if 7 billion and 1 of us did this at the same moment. All war, hate, etc. would stop for just that one moment. That might just enough to get everyone to think about their next moment.
Fingers crossed, listening to my next breath…I am hopeful.
Thanks Dean. Appreciate the comments.
LOVE this, sorry I just got your email tonight, it got mixed up in my gmail stuff somehow. But you didn’t need me anyway. Love this post!