Has mans' great intellect, his superior rationalizing wisdom brought us any closer to a peaceful world?

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Answer 1

No but it might if the smartest people had more of a say.

For example - is Bush a good example of the potential of the human intellect?

Answer 2

Intellect and wisdom are two different things. Through SCIENCE there have been amazing advances - life expectancy is much longer than it was 200 years ago. Quality of life is better for many people now than it would have been 200 years ago. Of course, there is also the capability to do far more damage using far less people now. In the past to kill millions you needed an army of hundreds of thousands of people - now millions can be killed with a few missiles.

On balance, man's intellect has made the earth better for people. But I don't see us as much more peaceful because of it. We need some wisdom to help with that.

Answer 3

i think this question over simplifies things, turning the blame on humanity.. first off, not all men have great intellect.. and certainly only a few possess wisdom.. and secondly man isn't a single entity.. its made up of millions of free willed beings living uneven lives..

but anyway, i'd like to think MAN has indeed come closer to a peaceful world.. can't say much for Iraq and some other places but hey, this ain't heaven

Answer 4

--WITH ALL the knowledge that humans now have , you would think that we would use that quickly available Internet accessibility to a peacefully better world, BUT is that the case?

--IN THE INCIDENT of the tower of Babel , what apparently was the motivation for the human race to work together in unity , WAS IT FOR A NOBLE REASON? Please note:

(Genesis 11:4-6) “. . .They now said: “Come on! Let us build ourselves a city and also a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a celebrated name FOR OURSELVES (MY CAPS), for fear we may be scattered over all the surface of the earth.”.....
***(If you note , making a name for themselves was far from any noble reason, but for the same "me first" attitude that exists in our world today!--that has led to attrocities unimaginable)

....5 And Jehovah proceeded to go down to see the city and the tower that the sons of men had built. 6 After that Jehovah said: “Look! They are one people and there is one language for them all, and this is what they start to do. Why, now there is nothing that they may have in mind to do that will be unattainable for them.”

--SHOULD WE THINK that the "unattainable" would have an unselfish, kind, benevolent outcome or might it have led to something like the following statistics in its own way:

“Every hour of every day, the world spends more than $100 million on soldiers, weapons, and ammunition.”—VITAL SIGNS 2005, WORLDWATCH INSTITUTE.

*** re chap. 16 p. 94 Four Horsemen at the Gallop! ***
“Granted to Take Peace Away From the Earth”
-- Where is technology leading? The Globe and Mail, Toronto, Canada, January 22, 1987, reported the following from a speech by Ivan L. Head, president of the International Development Research Centre:
-- “It is reliably estimated that one out of every four scientists and technologists in the world engaged in research and development is working on weapons. . . . At 1986 rates, the expenditure is more than $1.5-million a minute. . . . Are we all more secure as a result of this kind of technological emphasis? The nuclear arsenals possessed by the superpowers contain the explosive force of all the munitions expended by all the combatants in all of the Second World War—times 6,000. Six thousand Second World Wars. Since 1945, there have been less than seven weeks when the world has been free of military activity. There have been more than 150 wars of an international or a civil nature, which are estimated to have claimed 19.3 million lives, most of them as the result of the efficient new technologies that have emerged in this era of the United Nations.”

---“Apocalypse is today not merely a biblical depiction but it has become a very real possibility,” warned UN Secretary-General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar in his inaugural speech. “Never before in human experience have we been placed on the narrow edge between catastrophe and survival.” What was he referring to? It was to nuclear confrontation arising from an intensification of the present arms race. Reinforcing his warning to the United Nations, he stated that “some 500,000 scientists all over the world are DEVOTING THEIR KNOWLEDGE (my caps) to the search for weaponry more sophisticated and more deadly"

Answer 5

Well, that's debatable on so many levels but we do have less slavery, more democracy, women's rights, minority rights, a justice system that isn't based on a single ruler's whims.

We also have erradicated some diseases, controlled others, found medicines and cures and developed antibiotics for things that used to kill hundreds and thousands at a time, built hospitals and mental treatment facilities, etc.

All this AND MORE has been accomplished because mankind didn't accept the status quo, that optimistic, talented, skilled and visionary "intellectuals" worked for a better world for the human race, despite the agendas of the evil and the rotten amongst us.

Answer 6

Any closer - yes.
Humans no longer gather in tribes and attack others for women and spoils. Whole continents are peaceful - today: All the Americas, Australia, Europe. That's almost half the planet. (Of course I do not have hard figures, so please do not ask. This is just a general knowledge of human activity.)

Answer 7

No I dont' believe so at all. We are addicted to thinking.....peace does not come from thinking but from emptying the mind from thoughts and just BEing....To have peace in the external world, inner peace must come first.

Answer 8

Well....there are people like Ghandhi and Mother Theresa and MLK and Dalai Lama around, but at the same time We've got Stalin and saddam and Hitler so....

I don't think the world or the universe in general was meant to be peaceful....there is a delicate equilibrium in the universe that must be maintained in order for life to continue to exist. Without strife, complacency would rule, and people would become stagnant...so our hopes for a peaceful WORLD are misdirected IMO. Peace comes from within, not without.

Answer 9

Well...we may be a little closer than we once were...I'd consider this a much more peaceful society than the ones in say, the bible, or even the wild west.

Answer 10

Dear friend,
No, the world during the last century is far less peacefull than it ever was.The majority have abandoned believe in God in favor of an unproven and rather doubtfull theory of evolution.We need the prince of peace 'Jesus Christ'