i think peace on earth is inevitable, just like war on earth was inevitable, but how it is achieved... i think it would be simultaneously dubious and pure. one camp of dubious people with peaceful intentions, and peace would get a bad name, like jesus has got a bad rap these days, because it has been spun until the begining phrase and the end phrase are both wrapped up deep inside, and of course the wrapping paper on the outside is crazy ass tv christians and hell and heaven and tithes and you know the rest. i guess that what i mean is that there will be people who get it, a lot of people who dont, and among those who get it, some will be dubious, and some wont.what i mean to say is that peace on earth wont be nirvana, it will simply be a period on earth when war is unprofitable. or, rather, peace is much more profitable. and yeah, drugs and technology would really help.
of course, there are always people who are peaceful, whether it is trendy or not. and there are people who are beligerent, even if evveryone thinks they are an asshole and they cant even get laid. beligerent is as beligerent does, vice versa.
as for a nirvana/valhalla/heaven/what-have-you on earth, in which everyone gets it, or there is no longer anything to 'get' or lack, i guess that would be a quantum leap (if i am using the word correctly) and it could happen at anytime for any reason or for no reason and i dont think this is a god matter at all, i think this is a matter matter, if it is possible, then it is essentially alive and playing by its own rules, its own free will, it has to want to leap, and then do it. what ever i mean by it, or what ever i mean by we. i dont think any terms i can apply to what ever it is i am trying to say would apply to such a novel experience. but i can throw some potential bullshit at you! basically, the other day, i figured out what born again means, it is not a baptism, it is not a promise to the preacher, it is not even a promise to the self, it is not a promise at all. it is not a commitment to any matter. born again is a state in which it is impossible to make action outside the... flow? the realm of love, love being the interconnectivity of anything and everything and nothing as well. which is impossible to ignore, which means that to achieve it, the impossible, hateful living, would feel amazing and 'right' like finishing a marathon or something, perhaps that is why we persist in this tasty lifestyle of earth instead of the tasty lifestyle of heaven. really, i think that the problem is that they are both equally tasty. heaven on earth is not any better than this at all, except that one is not required to learn suffering. i think, if we as humans had not learned suffering, we would not do it everyday. and that is why 'born again' is the term, because children do not want to suffer. babies crying can be translated as "this is wack! my stomach hurts! what is going on?" as people grow up, as they get further from their child state, they get better at suffering. yay them, right? a world full of children would be no better than a world of sufferers and young suffering apprentices, i guess because humans are good at suffering. maybe we forget we are good at not suffering too. we forget how to cry, express, expel, we start to absorb. obviously, this creates an imbalance. maybe this is the need for high volume rock and roll, expel a lot at once, maybe this is why it sounds like crucifixtion, it is so much suffering leaving the body at once...born again, starting a new child state, sort of, basically doing lovely things. basically, not breaking the golden rule. love is leaving the house. anyone can love inanimate walls, because their story is relatively simple to grasp, and one can imagine their purpose is to serve them, shield them, keep them safe, it is thus, easy to love one's own walls, but love... capital L LOVE is what is outside. what does this tree mean to me? what does this pizza delivery guy mean to me? they mean everything to me, and without them, i would not be, and without me, they would not be.
to live in hate, is to take measured calculated steps to ignore or forget this, on purpose, no excuses. to not see oneself in any thing and everything is ignorant.
hateful living, ignorance is not 'bad' it is a skill. it can be elevated to an art. it can be applauded, if one is so inclined. maybe a lovely person would applaud someone's effort to elevate any aspect of themself to art. for one elevating themself, who is a part of me, is them elevating me. or at least a part of me. lastly, the difference between love and almost love is the difference between knowledge and understanding.
knowledge is a fact, is written, is common, is solid. understanding is more like a commitment to study, like a surfer does not own a wave, they own a board on which to enjoy a wave. maybe knowledge is the board and love is the wave. of course a wave happens only once, and its nature is hardly predictable, but we can study waves as a whole, but to predict the nature of one wave rising out of the ocean, the time of its lifespan, its height, etc... would be silly. to predict that waves will probably be happening off the coast of hawaii today would be less silly than that there will be good surfing in the ohio river today, etc...
a lovely person is surfing... right now, always! a lovely person does not want to surf, "like maybe later, after work, but not too late, american idol comes on at 9". a lovely person is wet wet wet, in the water, if you shake their hand, you will have a wet hand. one must make the effort to stay dry, wipe off one's hand.
the surfboard is the self. waves are dangerous, water is dangerous, currents, undercurrents are dangerous. we are not fish or sea turtles or gulls, we are humans, anyone able to read this i mean. thus, we are not able to be as close to the ocean. we have a self, a board as a tool for study. thus, perhaps we are suffering already, without doing it to ourselves. like someone at work with pictures of their children on their desk. while we are alive like this, like surfers and not ocean beings, we are sacrificing our child-person or whatever it is, we are away from our place in the love organism so that we may do work. and apparently, this work is to study love.
and what will we find? and how long will we need to look?
...these bodies are our labcoats and these minds are our surfboards...
when my friend david died, i told myself he was going to look at the map (which is a different lengthy tome of its own), but maybe a better analogy is that he was clocking out and going home for the day.

to tie this up in a nice package, maybe world peace could be like when i worked at wild oats and it was bought by whole foods. everyone was offered a new job, or a severance package. (i took the job but quit soon after.) perhaps, one day we will all be relieved of our duty to study love and offered a new job. perhaps, like my move from one grocery store to another, it will be a similar job.
OOH!! perhaps we are all actually studying HATE! and we will be done soon and asked to study love! ok. but it will be a lot like this, some will elect to do something new. work for their parents company or something...

peace dawgs