What is peace? serious question

[MoseyWalker]

What does it mean to you?

(I'll be posting this in GD also, and expect nothing)

[Broken_Hero]

1. to me

"lack of stress" is my short short short answer. Lack of worry, lack of contention, frustration, blood shed...but in all, Lack of Stress...maybe there is a better word, or phrase for it...

[MoseyWalker]

2. thanks for the answer

but I had to take it back. Too much anger.

[Floogeldy]

3. Maybe you would be better off if . . .

. . . you didn't hate the OU Sooners so much!

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Embrace the PEACE!!!!!!!

[MoseyWalker]

5. I'm alright with'em!

I just wish they were alright with themselves!

[Haole Girl]

4. Peace is:

The opposite of war

Tranquility

Calmness

Gentle spirits

Goodness

A safe place

[MoseyWalker]

6. A safe place

I love those words

A safe place

[crim son]

7. Elusive.

Peace is elusive. But we know it when it's there.

[Fredda Weinberg]

8. It means tolerance to me

I don't have to like something or someone, but peace means I suppress my natural inclination to destroy or defeat it. Peace isn't a normal phenomenon; it's a predatory world where life depends on ending it for others so peace means applying a philosophical perspective. Not all philosophies are peaceful, but we can support those that are. See my sig line for my inspiration.

[johnnie]

9. Peace is

A gentleness of life that each of us can appreciate. A touch of a baby's tiny fingers on your cheek. It is a smile from a stranger in kind after yours when you pass each other on the street. Peace is a comfort of being around friends you have known "forever" while you laugh at the stupid things you have done. Peace is stepping outside on a spring morning and smelling the dew on the fresh grass beneath your feet.

Peace is you and me (meaning anyone)having lunch together with nowhere else to go.
Peace is laying back on your favorite chair eating homemade chicken soup.
Peace is finishing paying bills and seeing you still have a few bucks left to blow on beer.
Peace is a memory as a child, as you were dreaming of being a grown-up and not knowing what was in store, but cereal still tasted good.

The best peace of all is getting a call from a friend or family member just to ask you how you're doing.

[NNadir]

10. For me, it is the feeling that justice prevails.

This definition includes social peace and of course it excludes all wars because wars are never just.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

11. My dear MoseyWalker........

Martin Luther King said:

True peace is not merely the absence of tension, it is the presence of justice.

I also liked very much what johnnie had to say.......

:grouphug:

[Whoa_Nelly]

12. A woman I've always admired once said...

"I do not want the peace that passeth understanding, I want the understanding that brings peace."
-- Helen Keller