Reefer Madness?

[M Holmes]

vzenv14m writes:

> I work with an international peace force, (I know, it sounds like an
> oxymoron), but a woman in the group wont the Nobel Peace Prize along with
> Carter.  It's a great group of people trying to spread awareness of global
> injustice and teach strategies of nonviolent intervention in  conflict,

I was at a "world peace seminar" at Glasters (it was dry in there). One
of the participants had been a close assistant of the Dalai Lama. The
"facilitator" had an aim of trying to get us to see that we don't all
understand the same thing by the term "world peace". He opined that we
had to understand what we wanted before we could work out how to get
there. 

There was a bit of a pause when I offered a more interesting question:
"How are you going to keep it if you get it?" and my suggested answer of
arm everyone and have them carry the guns. 

I'd say tha facilitator dude understood what I was getting at and one
other guy's mind just balked when he began to grasp the point.  The
Dalai Lama woman agreed that there might be bad people who might want to
destroy world peace but that there wouldn't be if only babies got enough
hugs.  At this point my brain rebelled: the cliches, they walk amongst
us. 

On the plus side, beteen her and me, we pretty much had the possible
range of views well covered.

FoFP