As I was getting ready to write today's blog my mind strayed to the concept of peace. I concluded that "Peace is not just the absence of conflict but the absence of enemies." Consider this for a moment.
We have spent a great deal of our resources in search of peace but that may not be the best way to achieve peace. The problem is that no one knows what peace really ought to look like. If we define peace as the absence of conflict then the only true representation of peace is death, and who needs peace when one is dead. So, instead of seeking a reality that we cannot truly identify it is to our advantage to eradicate the enemy consciousness that forces us to fight and kill each other.
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What will it cost us to give that consciousness up?
I know a ton of people committed to the idea that peace on earth will only come when God has destroyed his enemies.
(Here's where I think of the saying "The friend of my friend is my friend; the enemy of my friend is my enemy.")
We know that we can come to the point where this consciousness no longer occupies our minds. But we cannot get rid of it by deciding to give it up, no more than a cancer patient's stomach can stop cancerous lung cells from continuing to divide. As long as we are unable to reverse the mutation in the body's DNA the only recourse we have is to destroy the cells that have now become enemies of the rest of the body. Anyone who develops the technology to reverse such mutations will have discovered the cure for cancer and other autoimmune diseases.
If we believe that destruction of our brother/enemies is not the answer we must commit ourselves to discovering what is the species analog of DNA in an individual organism and then to find a way to repair the mutation that has caused us to now see our brothers as enemies. This is not as impossible a task as it is to change an individual's DNA, but it is not a simple walk in the park.
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