(10-14-2015, 02:06 PM)earth_spirit Wrote:(10-13-2015, 09:08 PM)Aion Wrote: War is the defining identity of the human race because the human race wars with themselves, with their own identity.
That is presumably because all peoples who prepared for Peace have been wiped out by those who prepared for War.
It is easy to get in to such a victim mentality but I don't think it is just such a matter as 'peaceful' people merely being disrupted from their peace. Nor do I think peace is always 'good', sometimes it's stagnant and complacent. I think often people simply equate peace with a lack of struggle or a lack of difficulty, when I think that more often than not peace is really a way that people try to justify inaction or to refute ideas which, to them, are rambunctious.
War and Peace are not opposites actually, although many would say they are. I see it that the opposite of war is not peace, it is leisure. The opposite of peace is passion.
You might say that in peace there is more leisure, and in war there is more passion. However, I see war and peace as being two sides of the same coin. Peace means the war is internalized, it becomes a matter of what is within.
This war does not cease until you pass in to Sixth Density. It is the microcosm of the war between polarities internalized.
It is funny as you seem to insult the warrior. There was a time when the only way for a people to be at peace in their home was for those dedicated to protection to be oriented towards war. I don't just mean against humans either, nature is full of war. The very fight for survival is war on its most base level. Without warriors the human race would have been wiped out by predators thousands of years ago.
I continue this now, protecting where I may against predators. That is my war.
Consider that I am viewing Peace/Passion as a spectrum with those as extremes and I view War/Leisure as a spectrum with those as the extremes. One is a spectrum of feeling, the other is one of doing.