Abandoned
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IMDB rating: 5.90 Plot: A film producer who was adopted as a baby and sent to America, returns to her native Russia and the family farm. Once there, strange things begin to happen including the disappearance of her guide, the manifestation of ghosts (including her own!) and the appearance of another man who has been drawn to the farm for the same reasons. |
Actors: Roden Karel,Ganev Valentin,Reig-Plaza Carlos,Arsov Kalin,Goshev Valentin,,
Is there any substantial evidence that we can achieve world peace?
"Ottoman Empire
In the Ottoman Empire a policy of judicial royal fratricide was introduced by Sultan Mehmet II. When a new Sultan ascended to the throne he would imprison all of his surviving brothers and kill them by strangulation with a silk cord as soon as he had produced his first male heir. The largest killing took place on the succession of Mehmed III when 19 of his brothers were killed and buried with their father. The aim was to prevent civil war. The practice was abandoned in the 17th century by Ahmed I, replaced by imprisonment in the Qafes. This practice is alleged to have sent several future Sultans mad."
- delegated on Wikipedia by a collection of brothers and sisters
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fratricide
Ahmed I only lived to be 27.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_I
But we have the technological advances to live much much longer 
So long as we disagree about who and what to believe there can be no peace.
thebigm57 | Feb 01, 2010
The world would be a living hell with global peace. It would mean the end of all striving, we would turn into sheep, or vegetables. Only through conflict and pain can we be fully human. All the best things in life come through hardship.
Mark | Feb 01, 2010
historical evidence points to the negative
vauxchic | Feb 01, 2010
We’ve actually come a quite a long way since then.
As more and more countries become democratic and economically involved with one another (ie dependent), the use for war diminishes.
Look at a globe. Where are the countries currently at war?
Mostly in Africa, among their neighbors, and in the Middle East.
And that little fleck of evil in North Korea.
The U.S. and China, and Russia are now allies (of sorts). That was not the case earlier in my lifetime.
We are getting there. It’s just a slow and painful process.
Mariel | Feb 01, 2010
By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh. Heb. 11:4.
Cain and Abel, the sons of Adam, differed widely in character. Abel had a spirit of loyalty to God; he saw justice and mercy in the Creator’s dealings with the fallen race, and gratefully accepted the hope of redemption. But Cain cherished feelings of rebellion, and murmured against God because of the curse pronounced upon the earth and upon the human race for Adam’s sin. He permitted his mind to run in the same channel that led to Satan’s fall–indulging the desire for self-exaltation and questioning the divine justice and authority.
These two brothers erected their altars alike, and each brought an offering. Abel presented a sacrifice from the flock, in accordance with the Lord’s directions. "And the Lord had respect unto Abel and to his offering." Fire flashed from heaven and consumed the sacrifice. But Cain, disregarding the Lord’s direct and explicit command, presented only an offering of fruit. There was no token from heaven to show that it was accepted.
Abel grasped the great principles of redemption. He saw himself a sinner, and he saw sin and its penalty, death, standing between his soul and communion with God. He brought the slain victim, the sacrificed life, thus acknowledging the claims of the law that had been transgressed. Through the shed blood he looked to the future sacrifice, Christ dying on the cross of Calvary; and trusting in the atonement that was there to be made, he had the witness that he was righteous, and his offering accepted.
Cain had the same opportunity of learning and accepting these truths as had Abel. He was not the victim of an arbitrary purpose. One brother was not elected to be accepted of God, and the other to be rejected. Abel chose faith and obedience; Cain, unbelief and rebellion. Here the whole matter rested.
svnthdysthsbbth | Feb 01, 2010
The only way to create world peace, I believe, is via what happened in the sci-fi film Equilibrium.
If you have not seen it essentially it involved a dictatorial government that enforced the people of Earth to take daily a drug that suppressed emotion. The theory was that if people were emotionless they could not desire to fight. Religion and rival political parties were banned too. What a nightmare.
I say fuck world peace. Fuck holding hand and loving everyone. Its not going to happen. Keep the killing and hate at a minimal level but realize people have been killing each other forever basically. Its how we live.
Ulfr Doom Occulta | Feb 01, 2010
When Jesus returns.
Joe P | Feb 01, 2010
I think so. If you look at the statistics we are becoming more peaceful. I know that sounds strange given that we are currently embroiled in 2 wars, as well as the gulf war, Vietnam, World War 1 and 2, the holocaust, the genocides in Kosovo, Rwanda, Darfur etc. but the 20th century was actually the most peaceful in history.
10,000 years ago the odds that a male (that includes male children there is no age cut off point) would die by violence at the hands of another male, was about 60%. That
