john lennon said......?

Question

"If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set. then there'd be peace."
i think that that is thrue....if everyone wanted peace we would have it but obviously thats far from the case.
i find it so baffaling that in the year 2007 we call ourselves civilized human beings and the only way we can solve major issues is to kill people. yes war is neccesary because it is all we know but that doesnt make it right. yes im a liberal and yes im what you would call a hippie, im also a 16 year old girl so feel free to judge me but know matter what political party you support, war=death and i think we need to find a way to change our ways of problem solving. if we can go to the moon we can sure as hell find peace on earth. anyone agree?

Answer 1

John Lennon (whom I greatly admire) was being flippant for the media when he said that. Would that it were that simple. There will never be "Peace on Earth" because we're lacking in "good will towards men." Greed is the prime motivation . We don't want "enough". We always want "more" and if someone else has something we want , we want that too.

Answer 2

Well said. I'm a conservative and been around for a little while longer than you have, but I do like what you said.

Unfortunately it is not as easy as you or even I think it should be. It's more than everyone wanting peace. Most people don't want war. But to get to peace we must first overcome the differences and accept each other for who we are. THAT'S the real war.

Answer 3

I wish I could agree with you but achieving a state of peace on earth is getting harder and harder. For many reasons. One reason I believe that it is because of the population explosion. Too many people and ideals and goals becoming further and further from the same. For example, (if you are a 16 year old girl you can relate to this) in a small group of friends when a decision needs to be made which will affect the entire group it is relatively easy to come to an agreement. I say relatively because it can be hard sometimes. It can be something as small as where should we hang out this weekend or what movie should we see. Now gather the whole high school class together and see what happens. An agreement will be reached if it is necessary, maybe by the process of voting. What happens to the ones who voted other than the winning decision? Will they all be able to abandon their hopes or beliefs since the common group deemed that their way was incorrect? Put yourself in this situation. How many times will you let your beliefs be sacrificed before you can not take it anymore and have to do something. Not necessarily wage a war on them but how can you make it so your life is how you want? You cannot argue let them be. Because there is still societies who practice rituals of sacrifice. Where is the let them be for the victim? Its an extreme example I know..So if everyone wants peace that is good but at what cost to the self? If "peace" could be achieved through the oblilteration of my ideals and beliefs I could not bear it. Hypothetically speaking say the world leaders gathered together and decided that religion has caused far too many wars. Say somehow they got the world to vote that the right to practice your religion, since it lies at the base of many (not all) wars, is no longer acceptable because it has led to too much. If a religious person who has put full stock in the bible for example believes that, "there is no way to my father but through me" (jesus' saying) and "if one is ashamed of me than I will be ashamed of them in the face of my father", do they swallow the vote and risk damnation by their set of beliefs?? I am not an overly religious person, merely someone who likes to debate some! So I could make many more points but Y!A will cut me off soon on my space available for answering. I also have a little insight into war, and I am not talking down to you, if you feel I am accept my apologies, I have served in two and I am in one right now. I am a soldier many many miles from my home. War is atrocious and the costs are immeasurable. Now for the flip, within the last two weeks I have personally seen children who have never ever been to school have a school built for them and open allowing them a chance at an education. Which is imperative if one ever hopes to see world peace. Unless you wish to hold peace by domination over the uneducated. I have also seen innocents destroyed by the anger of one person...how do you stop that? If we had a way to know who would do this and we eliminated them would it be any more "right"? But even they know how to fight. And politicians most dont know their azzzzzes from a whole in the ground. Funny I have not seen one candidate come visit the ground I am occupying. Yet they have the answers?? Good luck to you you seem to be inquisitive enough to learn some things and maybe make a small difference and sometimes that little difference means the world. Finally war can bring death, but I have seen lives saved because there was a war. I have, I gain nothing by lying to you. (Also, a number of minorities left in work camps in Germany were saved from the ovens by countries invading due to war. If those guards hadn't fled those ovens would not have stopped, for them war=life) I do not argue for war, I only try to see the big picture and pick out the good amidst the bad. I hope you will do the same.

Answer 4

I wish we could and that we would find peace on earth. It's my christmas wish as an adult. I don't get all this political stuff and I don't like war, though I believe it HAS to happen. People can't just come over here and blow us either and we do nothing. I do wish we could find peace...
"Why can't we be friends...???:"/// I don't know who sings it... I just tho't it right now.

Answer 5

Yes i agree we do need to find other ways then war but while Governments and Business put money before people it will not happen Also remember that Jesus fortold all of this 2timothy 3;1-7

Answer 6

You seem to forget that Power and Money are what rules the world. Peace doesn't pay as well!

Answer 7

Verry Good!

Answer 8

We can have whatever we want. (with very very few exceptions)

Just 'Imagine' if more people actually wanted peace...

Answer 9

unfortunately there is no money in peace