From part 2...what are some of the thoughts, finding, possible conclusions people have offered on the issues of war and peace? Unattributed to keep personality out of this discussion

*War is inevitable.  It is simply a way to diminish over-population either through natural genetic disposition and/or through manipulations of elite groups among the world's population.

*War is part of the human DNA script.  We, afterall, have canine teeth and the accompanying attack instincts are only to be expected and honored and steered to less brutal behaviors.

*As long as there are people who make armaments and profit from their use, there will be war to fill their coffers.  No workers, no armaments, no profits.

*War will someday be archaic, obsolete and a distant memory of our barbaric ancestral past.

*War is caused by everyone's childhood unresolved fears and resultant hatreds.  Heal the autonomic responses and progress will happen.

* Leaders would stop "giving wars" if people stopped "attending" them by saying NO by word and action.  Surely leaders would not go into harms way themselves!

*Hey, relax.  The Kali (quarrel) Yuga still has 427,000 years to go before the beginning of the Satya yuga (Age of Truth). Go meditate!

*If political/corporate/religious leaders (anybody who calls for wars, organizes them, and profits from them while sending other peoples' kids to fight, suffer and die in the wars they plan)... If  these folks and their own families were required, instead, to fight their own wars and be in harms way themselves...well, phenomenal human evolution could then occur, for certainly there would be other options, choices, ways and means of dealing with the human dilemmas of our age!

Dear reader, what are your insights, favorite fantasy &/or practical solutions to the questions of war and peace this Memorial Day 2005? How do we each choose war or peace within ourselves?

E Ho'omaluhia Me Ka Honua!   May Peace Prevail on Earth!   Aloha, a.s.