This picture unnerves me...
It is however, the unseen reality that lives underneath our visible, external reality... one that can bubble up any time, any where.
Let us think about this when we sit down to meditate about realistic disarmament for our nations...
A safer world (in our times) is not a world without weapons but a world with lesser fear of them. (Fear of weapons generate more weapons, while ignorance of them encourages more war.)
Therefore, disarmament - nuclear disarmament above all - is (ultimately) a Justice issue (as opposed to political) and one that is planetary in scope.
(Peace and Disarmament)
PEACE
is directly related to disarmament
only to the degree that the spirit of War is banished
from the souls of our nations (in plural form).
Disarmament leads to strength
but only to the degree that peace is understood
and accepted by the many, and therefore, by the all.
Disarmament by itself,
without a vision of a clear destiny
is - of itself - unsure.
(Defense and disarmament
are not opposed but are [qualitatively] consonant
to each other.
Therefore,
a disarmament that is unsure
is also consequently an action that is unsafe.)
It only seems to lead us to weakness,
and this weakness is a symptom of a sickness
that no nation wants but - in truth -
all nations need.
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It is however, the unseen reality that lives underneath our visible, external reality... one that can bubble up any time, any where.
Let us think about this when we sit down to meditate about realistic disarmament for our nations...
A safer world (in our times) is not a world without weapons but a world with lesser fear of them. (Fear of weapons generate more weapons, while ignorance of them encourages more war.)
Therefore, disarmament - nuclear disarmament above all - is (ultimately) a Justice issue (as opposed to political) and one that is planetary in scope.
(Peace and Disarmament)
PEACE
is directly related to disarmament
only to the degree that the spirit of War is banished
from the souls of our nations (in plural form).
Disarmament leads to strength
but only to the degree that peace is understood
and accepted by the many, and therefore, by the all.
Disarmament by itself,
without a vision of a clear destiny
is - of itself - unsure.
(Defense and disarmament
are not opposed but are [qualitatively] consonant
to each other.
Therefore,
a disarmament that is unsure
is also consequently an action that is unsafe.)
It only seems to lead us to weakness,
and this weakness is a symptom of a sickness
that no nation wants but - in truth -
all nations need.
---<--@