h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Maluhia, ya'll -

I threatened to do this in another thread somewhere, but until I find that one again, here's this:

A listing of the word "peace" as spoken around the world is now at

http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/A641792

We *are* all one.

-77

And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars; see that you are not frightened, for those things must take place, but that is not the end.
Matthew 24:6 (New International version of Bible)

7Peace7, I've already referenced you in the Willem Love Collective.

Shagbark, if you're not in already, you will be soon!

x x Fenny (hoping for Zero Intolerance and peace)

Eric Bourden from his "Declares War" Album circa 1969

WAR huh yeah!
What is it good for?
Absolutely nothin!
say it again ya'll

It ain't nothin' but a life-taker!
Benifits only the under-taker!
WAR!

Rocket
I've got that old deja-vu feeling

Talking about song lyrics try this one from Tin Soldier
"So the valley cries in Anger
mount your horses, draw your swords.
and they kill the mountain people
sure they'd won their just rewards.
Now they stand upon the mountasin
stained with red
move the stone and look beneath it
'PEACE ON EARTH'
wasall it said.
chorus:
Go ahead and hate your neighbor
Go ahead and kill your friend
Do it in the name of heaven
You can justify it in the end
Won't be any trumpets blowin'
Come the judgement day.
O'er the bloody mourning' ashes
one tin soldier rides away"

Shagbark - I saw 'Billy Jack' like, eight times... never could get used to the idea of wearing cowboy boots without socks, though...

Allow me to muck this one up (feel free to correct me - I haven't time to check it)

'I feel a great disturbance in the Force.' - obi-Wan Kenobi

Ohh, can't anybody see,
We've got a war to fight here
Never found our way,
Regardless of what they say.
Roads - Portishead

The third peculiarity of aerial warfare was that it was at once enormously destructive and entirely indecisive. - H G Wells

"Life is mostly froth and bubble;
Two things stand like stone:
Kindness in another's trouble,
Courage in one's own."

Adam Lindsay Gordon (1833-1870)

"Speak softly and carry a big stick"-Theodore Roosevelt

"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feelings which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight: nothing he cares about more than his own personal safety: is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions and blood of better men than himself."

- John Stuart Mill

And while we're at it:

You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone. - Johnny Carson

"To destroy an offender cannot benefit society so much as to redeem him."  - L.
Frank Baum's "The Flying Girl" 1911

(still and always on my 'Oz' kick...)

-77

Well your daddy well he died in the Falklands,
fighting for another man's cause,
and your brother he was killed in the last...

...gonna fight, fight and die, in another country's war,
gonna die for a religion, he don't believe in at all,
gonna die in a place, he should never be at all.
["Another Man's War" - Levellers].

While I don't agree with those words on all the conflicts the UK and US have gotten into, they certainly apply to Afghanistan. Truth be told, the pacifists have always had the best songs. It's just a shame the warmongers have the most money.

But they never have anything with a good brass section. The miltiary has some pretty good marches.

Two Bit Trigger Pumping Moron
Those who refuse to support and defend the state have no right to claim the protection of that state. - Robert Heinlein

Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just.

Thomas Jefferson

David Letterman on President Bush throwing out the first pitch at the World Series:
"The White House said it was a strike. The Taliban said it missed and killed several innocent civilians."

"American Airlines now flies direct to your office"
-anon

I kinda wonder if some of these last posts don't really belong over at "so long and thanks for all the laughing"

On a more serious note:
"We cannot dedicate, we cannot, consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men who died here- they have dedicated it far beyond our poor power to add or detract."
Abraham Lincoln(gettysburg address)