International World Peace Day - 9/21

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<p>The video is interesting and worth the couple minutes…</p>

<p>SEPTEMBER 21, 2007 IS INTERNATIONAL WORLD PEACE DAY AS DECLARED BY THE UNITED NATIONS IN SEPTEMBER OF 2001 AND FIRST CELEBRATED ON SEPTEMBER 21, 2002</p>

<p>Sept. 21 has officially been celebrated world wide for almost 5 years now as World Peace Day!</p>

<p>Please watch this short uplifting video to see what one person can do to help create World Peace.</p>

<p>May this message inspire you to find ways to apply peace in your world in some small or large way!</p>

<p>We can each do our unique part to create world peace by simply being peaceful. As Gandhi so beautifully put it, You must BE the change you wish to see in the world.</p>

<p>What we feel within our hearts and what we live and demonstrate by our action’s becomes our world and our reality!</p>

<p>Peace One Day</p>

<p>Video: A short video explaining Peace One Day. Click on link below or copy and paste onto your browser bar.</p>

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<p>Please share this video link with all you know so that more people may join in with the honoring and celebrating of World Peace Day! And so as more become informed so shall we live in a world of Peace each day of our lives.</p>

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<p>‘Peace through superior firepower.’</p>

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<p>EXACTLY: Superior Firepower is the means to world peace. Some may think that is a contradiction, but it isn’t. Too many people don’t understand that their perception of the world, peace, economics, family, values, etc… are not the same perception that all people share. It may be common for many people, but not all. Those who have spent time in places like the middle east, western Asia, or Southeast Asia; (Military or civilian activities); knows what I’m talking about.</p>

<p>A prime example is the middle east and the conflicts between the Arabs and the Jews. Golda Meir had the best response when someone asked her if there could ever be peace in the middle east. Her response was;</p>

<p>QUOTE: "We will have peace with the Arabs when they love their children more than they hate us”</p>

<p>That just about says it all. When you are willing to train your children, wives, etc… to carry bombs to blow up people and sacrafice themselves, then there is definitely a different perspective on peace, values, morals, life, love, etc…</p>

<p>If you can’t change a person’s perspective on killing just because of a person’s nationality, race, color, idiology, etc… then you must physically stop them through force. Just like as parents we have to sometimes discipline our children. Including spankings. Peace is a wonderful thing, but only if all parties are willing to try and achieve that goal. </p>

<p>Peace day is a nice feel good symbolic effort, but it only applies to nations that are willing to live by certain rules of engagement in war. Terrorists and faction groups unfortunately don’t live by these rules. Many don’t even recognize the Geneva Convention. Oh well. later… Mike…</p>

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<p>My contribution to peace day is this interview of Dhiyaa Al-Musawi.</p>

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<p>wpson2010,
I’ve read the interview and consider it entirely appropriate for International World Peace Day. His thoughts are beautiful and inspirational. So, the question remains, what is the genesis of radical Islam? Poverty, hopelessness…</p>

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<p>momoftwins,
Thank you. I shared the link with a handful of friends and family. Powerful.</p>

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<p>Wow, I like the Dhiyaa Al-Musawi interview! He makes some excellent points. My fear is that the fundamentalists have already dismissed him for being “too secular.”</p>

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<p>learning and understanding 3000 years of non-western history and how it applies to today. </p>

<p>Found the video of the interview of Dhiyaa Al-Musawi very thought provoking and inspirational. He is very wise in his thoughts. </p>

<p>momoftwins thanks for posting</p>

<p>Some of the other videos are on the Peace One Day web site are also very good.
<a href=“http://www.peaceoneday.org/home.aspx[/url]”>http://www.peaceoneday.org/home.aspx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>WPSON2010,</p>

<p>Thanks so much for posting the Dhiyaa Al-Musawi video. We just need a few million more people thinking this way. </p>

<p>Anyway, my reason for posting was to generate some interesting dialogue in the forum. Personally, I think most of these kinds of efforts are feel good and merely lip service. However, this young filmmaker had an intriguing idea and has moved forward with it in a very positive way. And he has some interesting results. I’d love to think it could be this simple, but don’t believe in Santa Claus anymore.</p>

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<p>Curious that the Muslims would choose their peace day to occur on Yom Kippur.</p>

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<p>I don’t think this was chosen by the Muslims, but by the United Nations. However, the irony did not escape me.</p>

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<p>Yom Kippur does not fall on the same day each year:
Yom Kippur:
Date 10th day of Tishrei
2006 date sunset, October 1 – sunset, October 2
2007 date sunset, September 21 – sunset, September 22
2008 date sunset, October 8 – sunset, October 9</p>

<p>Where as World Peace day is a “stationary” celebration on September 21st of each year since 2002. It just happens that they coincide this year.</p>

<p>SEPTEMBER 21, 2007 IS INTERNATIONAL WORLD PEACE DAY AS DECLARED BY THE UNITED NATIONS IN SEPTEMBER OF 2001 AND FIRST CELEBRATED ON SEPTEMBER 21, 2002</p>

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<p>“Superior Firepower is the means to world peace”</p>

<p>wow.</p>

<p>Superior firepower is a deterrent only during times of peace and also only if those wielding the power have a certain level of competence. Otherwise it is the biggest threat to world peace if those that wield it are not kept in check. Unfortunately it also perpetrates the notion of those that “have” vs those that “have not”. People who think differently will never be convinced otherwise by either force or threat. They will simply find other means to resist. Most wars and other conflicts have been fought because one side either felt superior to the other, or inferior and threatened. Mankind has a lot of growing up to do. It is still easier to kill than to find a way to co-exist.</p>

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<p>Some would argue that the US military force, especially with bombing Japan, has brought many conflicts to a quicker end and brought about peace faster than any negotiations did.</p>

<p>Maybe it’s because I’ve lived in too many countries. Personally, I believe that as long as there are people that believe their mission in life is to die for and kill those who don’t believe in their ideology, that force is the best motivator of peace. As long as there are people who believe that they have the right to force others to believe and adopt their way of life, the an equal or greater force to deter or stop them from forcing their way is still the best option. Later… Mike…</p>

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<p>Is that not exactly what the west i.e. US is doing in the middle east? People for thousands of years who have never lived anything other than a tribal existence and now we tell them their way of life should be"western" </p>

<p>Well said SHOGUN “It is still easier to kill than to find a way to co-exist.” Goes for both sides of this conflict.</p>

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<p>Obviously we must defend ourselves. We live in a world with realities that must be addressed in the here and now. The key however, is not to simply be satisfied with being the “best”, or the “strongest”, or the most “right,” but to first understand that the world isn’t really “better” unless we eventually do foster a worldwide mindset aimed at solving problems rather than making it so easy to just try to “erase them”. Preserving the status quo always leads to change whenever one side has the bigger gun. Sometimes that change leads to unintended consequences. Nuclear bombs don’t carry much weight when your enemy doesnt live within or defend a specific border. Today in the War on Terror, the best defense we have is the people that the terrorists live among. Unfortunately those same people can just as easily become our enemies as well if all they see is the big stick and “superior firepower”. The reality is that the majority of the people of the Middle East just want to survive and live their lives. We can either help them do it or reap the whirlwind…
We all need to do our part by staying engaged in the discussion and exercising our duty to vote so that we staff our elected leadership positions with the most competent people we can, regardless of political party or some single “hot button” topic.</p>

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<p>Amen, shogun!</p>

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<p>Quote: Is that not exactly what the west i.e. US is doing in the middle east?</p>

<p>If that’s what you think we are doing in the middle east; forcing them to believe and adopt our way of life; then that is your right to believe.</p>

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<p>In the end, its not our perception of reality in the Middle East that counts, it’s theirs. Their perception is what they act upon. We need to do a much better job of understanding what they are all about as well as come to the realization that Middle Easterners are a diverse people that have a complex relationship among the different ethnic and religious factions. Once we do that, and then craft our a strategy and efforts around that understanding, we may begin to see some progress.</p>

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<p>Well, I haven’t been to a country yet that is more diverse in it’s people. religion, cultures, etc… than the United States. Yet, we don’t have politically motivated groups out there trying to kill people because they are jewish or christian or Asian. We don’t have parents teaching their kids how to strap explosives on themselves to purposely give their life to kill others. And the parents are proud of this. We are not a perfect nation, but we are definitely better than most. A good example is this forum. (College Confidential). The thousands upon thousands who come to the USA to go to school and the millions more each year trying to come to this country.</p>

<p>No, sorry, but I don’t buy it. Basic killing is wrong. Killing in an offensive manner is wrong. I don’t believe that we have to learn to understand better or consider another countries ideology until they take the first step by stopping their killing of others based on characteristics that they don’t like. Sorry, but I know too well some of these countries. When they allow others to live peacefully, then we can cooperate with them to make their lives and countries better. Until they do that, I am all for using force to retaliate their aggressiveness. </p>

<p>No, if you want the United States to be more understanding of these other countries and cultures, then I demand that they become more understanding and accepting of out culture. It’s bad enough that we are breaking down our own society by promoting excessive tolerance of individuality and cultural differences among our own people; instead of teaching and preaching nationalism and concentrating on our COMMONALITIES instead of our DIFFERENCES. (We ARE ALL AMERICANS. Not some Hyphenated American). Now you propose that we do the same thing to hostile nations. Yet, they aren’t required to reciprocate and learn to accept our society. Nope, That’s not what I spent 21 years in the military for. But I did spend 21 years in the military so you could have the right to express your position. And FWIW, NO, I don’t believe in “Political Correctness”. It’s just another tool to meant to divide our people. Later… Mike…</p>