Until we can do away with money and religion we will never see world peace

We have been in a war every decade of my 70 years, and that is just the US. Everything in human history points to the fact that multiple conflicts are going to be the norm on this planet for the foreseeable future.

How about world Commerce? If you and I are buying and selling fairly, then war is a disincentive for us.

There was an episode of the X Files where Mulder gets 3 wishes from a genie and he asks for world peace. Everyone in the world disappears. He has to use another wish to get everyone back.

It depends on what is meant by peace. Individuals can be at peace, that's a personal decision, not based on externals but acceptance of oneself or circumstances. Can nations/cultures/ideologies be at peace? Probably not. As individuals make up these groupings, therein lies the paradox

While I do not believe for one moment world peace will be achieved in my lifetime, I do however think humanity will carry on for centuries to come yet. The will to survive is still strong in many.

No, sorry to say...I don't. We're such a tribal species that we've always fought others and it's getting worse as we're so overpopulated that we keep bumping into one another. Religion...language...territory....all those things will continue to drive us apart.

World piece is a great goal to strive for, but people should also realize that it is a goal that never will be reached because of the nature of men. Maybe, yes, maybe when people would be able to leave their animal-nature behind, and only judge with reason, it is possible. But it's science fiction and fact is far, far away.

Not if they end the beauty pageants. Those contestants are the only ones that ever called for world peace As you probably know, the majority of the world's wars are based in and caused by religion. Since we know religion is never going away, there will never be world peace. I'd settle for the Detroit Tigers in another World Series.

Um No.
Humans are doomed...
I just hope we all die in time to save the elephants and whales...

Recently a German federal court upheld a conviction of a driver who had adorned his bumper bar with a sticker Soldiers are killers. It didn't even say Fuck the armies

For far too long the military have been as untouchable as the religious folks.

I lost faith in the concept because there is no circuit breaker in sight. Any economy is primarily a war tool. Wars are inbuilt into the concept of nation states. War starts at any garden gate. Because we know about the unfairness of owning, we are permanently scared of loss and thus prepared to allow the sate authorities to exercise its privilege of the monopoly of violence. Though behind the scenes international mercenary corporations have always been involved. The entertainment industry does its utmost to maintain the postion of the myth of an honorable warrior class.

I can hardly make peace in my own life...no, neither am I optimistic!

Never.
We've been at war constantly since before I was in the military. Add more people, less food and soon, a lot less water....
Throw in crazies in political power and a religiously radicalized military....
Hell, the party's just starting.

I wish i could brother... as long as we have those nut jobs that beleive their going to get 10 virgins for all the killings they do....

Nope - Humans are not peaceful by nature - sad as it may be it takes a lot of teaching to make a peaceful warrior. Fighting is bred into our genes, even if we can be educated, that doesn't preclude our ability to choose otherwise for those who have a stronger fight than flight response. Like it or not, so many of us are omnivores that I am not optimistic about peace just as a matter of physiology. But who knows - stranger things may yet come to pass...?

Not completely but if there were no religion that would be a great start!