Not all wars are fought with guns and ammunition. All wars, however, are fought with thoughts and words, whether written or spoken. We are at war in our hearts long before we express it with arms. The place to abolish wars, then, is in our hearts. The politicians and soldiers only materialize the wars that already exist in their and our hearts. WHAT SHAME! As a child cannot play with fire without being burned, so a nation cannot play at war without becoming involved and hurt. Fighting, perhaps, is residual in our genes from prehistoric days when it was sometimes necessary simply to survive. Is man then actually lower than the animals? Has there been so little evolution? Are humans still like children playing with fire? NAPOLEON BONAPARTE, a warlord, stated, If they want peace, nations should avoid the pinpricks that preceed cannon shots. If man will ever realize his actual unity, his universal brotherhood, in the Soul of God, he can live his dream of peace. When man truly realizes and experiences the hunger and thirst of his neighbour, the oppression and slavery of his neighbour, the privation of his neighbour, whether he lives next door or somewhere in the world, he will then demand correction for his neighbour as for himself. The inborn Soul of God in each of us must fight to survive. It must fight to be free to live life. So long as there is a huge potential charge between two opposite polarities, there is bound to be wars, UNNECESSARY wars! Another great soldier, GENERAL GEORGE MARSHALL said, Wars are bred by poverty and oppression. Continued peace is possible only in a relatively free and prosperous world. Let us do things that will make way for peace in this country! O NIGERIA, WITH ALL YOUR FAULTS, I STILL LOVE YOU, MY COUNTRY.
Posted on: Fri, 07 Mar 2014 13:27:31 +0000
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