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How To Achieve World Peace

This document provides suggestions for achieving world peace in 3 or less sentences: 1) World peace can only be achieved if individuals are willing to change themselves first by controlling selfish motives and pride, propagating benevolence, and standardizing morale and principles. 2) For lasting peace, people must learn from mistakes of the past and prioritize justice, morality, and faith in God over accumulating wealth and power at the expense of others. 3) True peace is only possible when humanity recognizes that rational thinking must serve a common, moral purpose rather than casuistry or impulses that disregard the rights of others.

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How To Achieve World Peace

This document provides suggestions for achieving world peace in 3 or less sentences: 1) World peace can only be achieved if individuals are willing to change themselves first by controlling selfish motives and pride, propagating benevolence, and standardizing morale and principles. 2) For lasting peace, people must learn from mistakes of the past and prioritize justice, morality, and faith in God over accumulating wealth and power at the expense of others. 3) True peace is only possible when humanity recognizes that rational thinking must serve a common, moral purpose rather than casuistry or impulses that disregard the rights of others.

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HOW TO ACHIEVE WORLD PEACE

By  Ma. Caselle


Legaspi
Cebu City
 
Atomic bombs, nuclear weapons, graft and corruption, crimes, famine,
thirst, blood... name it, the world has it. Nations against nations, state against
Church, government against the armed forces, military versus the fascists,
innocent civilians in between. The guns rattled, the deafening sounds filled the air,
then silence...

Is there still a way out?

In an instant, our lives are threatened with uncertainty, our children facing
bleak future. Everything seems dark ahead, everything is vague. But still,
everybody gropes for soothing words to say, everybody hopes. Yet, what is there
to hope for? But then, HOPE- we must not let this go out of our hands, out of our
grasps, out of our lives completely. It is not a question of our differences, not even
of our mistakes, but rather, of our principles that we can finally resolve and come
up, hopefully, with a most taken-for-granted word - PEACE.
 
Yes, peace. There is nothing so queer about this, nothing so elusive. But
only, this is the most abused word, its meaning drowned with the successive
bang-bang of guns. Our sense have become numb, our consciousness refusing to
believe its existence. We often regard peace with its negatively-charged
counterparts-war, friction, contention. Yet, we never progressed. We never dare
unbosom our blunder, we never even care to make it our overriding concern to
propagate peace and rouse the underlying benevolence deep within our hearts.
Can we not, even just for once, secede form out mistakes, learn from our past,
and come out spiritually unctioned?
 
Let's face it. Our principles are as rotten as our faith in God. We may not be
aware of this but it is an established fact that more often than not, our tendency
is to seek refuge in worldly splendour, unaware that we are only putting a limit to
our chance of finding serenity. We are in a labyrinth of moral darkness, lost and
searching, and unless we work for our escape, we will be trapped forever. How
many of those people up there have sold their principles, on one way or another,
just to be where they illogically think they belong? How many of them have
preferred to get into demagoguery just to win power, accumulate wealth, and get
in towed to the most influential part of the society? And how many of us have
ever thought of peace as the most basal requirement for us to ever find
happiness? And yet, you might ask how.
 
There are not much rules to follow in achieving world peace. The
fundamental step to this must come from every person who still believes that
peace can exist, and is willing to give it a chance. Basically, there have to be
some changes, changes that have to take place within us first. With this, we have
to involve our heart, our soul, our psyche. We can't be forever maudlin our
peccadillos. We have to be cruel to ourselves sometimes in order to be kind to the
entire humanity. Remember, to propagate peace, there has to be a contamination
process.
 
Next, it must be considered that for as long as pride and prejudice exist,
peace shall never be within our reach. People will always try to have for
themselves the best of everything - power, influence, money - at whatever cost,
and stepping the rights of others in the process. They will try to outdo one
another, and then come out as the "morally restrained" heroes. Yet, no one will
ever know that going to the top means rejecting the principles that are parallel to
the law of God and to the law of people.
 
We have, indeed, an animal instinct in us to disregard peace, deflate our
principles, and go on with the things that are arbitrary to our impulses. Yes,
everything is up to us. Everything must come from us, and we are held
responsible for whatever future that awaits us. It is time to wake up now. We just
could not let ourselves be swayed into something horribly inevitable. We have
been in this maze since time immemorial, and we shall always be in this delirium,
unless we learn abnegate our own personal, yet selfish motives. Man lifts man up,
man drags man down.
 
Indeed, man is a rational being, but he ceases to be one the moment
casuistry steps in. we are living in a life wherein facts are much stranger than
fiction. But then, we live in no dreamland. There is that grim reality that we have
to deal with. We are given the g' of logic to think and reason out correctly but we
are also given the prerogative to use this in such a way that it s II serve a
common purpose or a morally-accepted ideology.

Life is a game, they say. These things are just the basic and the
elementary steps to the achievement of world peace. The underlying tone to these
things still ums for our faith in God, to save us from a crisis of our own making. If
we have failed ourselves, God never will. Indeed, the achievement of peace is just
a matter of standardization of our morale and principles, of our faith in ourselves,
in others, and in Him, and of the unfolding of justice for the entire humanity. Saint
Thomas Aquinas once said, "Pax opus Justitia." Peace is the product of justice.

          Is there still a way out?

 
No one can ever tell, nobody can ever be sure. But one thing is certain -
man will never know the essence of peace, not unless he knows the real meaning
of death.

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