What The World Needs Now (your input requested):

[Ripley]

(props to Burt Bacharach, damn, that was 44 years ago)

1. Is for people to reject violence and end wars.

You?

[Morning Dew]

1. The planet could maybe use this

http://www.vhemt.org/

[Ripley]

5. Interesting

But damn. I was hoping the first response would be more positive.

[Morning Dew]

7. It was outside the spirit of your thread. Sorry.

It is an interesting concept. Population reduction could save the planet.

[vadawg]

8. you go first, ill follow in a few decades :)

[Morning Dew]

9. :) - I hope to be here a while. I haven't added any extras to the population though.

[vadawg]

11. well i got to admit to adding to the population, and my family is probuably responsible for a lot of

the overcrowding big families and that.

[Ripley]

13. Well the depop theory kills threads.

And I really was trying to get a positive one going.

[Morning Dew]

15. Again, my apologies.

[DJ13]

2. A global renouncement of excess greed

[Ripley]

6. Hmmmm

"excess greed" sounds redundant but Hell Yeah.

[DJ13]

19. Cant entirely remove greed without eliminating capitalism

Since that wont happen at least an understanding that a recognized measure of attained wealth is more than sufficient for people to live the rest of their lives.

It wouldnt take much, just a commitment by the world to cease paying the top capitalists a thousand years worth of minimum wage pay in a single year.

[Ripley]

21. Good Answer.

We should stop funding their lifestyles.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

3. Universal single payer health care

for everyone. Everywhere..................

[vadawg]

4. 24/7 of the hoff and shatner, peace would ensue

oh am me as supreme emperor :)

[Ripley]

10. What's your point, dude?

Sounds serious.

[vadawg]

12. we will always have a ruler of some sort, so it may as well be me

look on the bright side as long as you let me move my palace every few weeks and i dont have to dress much then im pretty much an easy supreme leader, kinda like Stalin with a hobby..

[Ripley]

16. Not this time.

Wow, way to derail conversation.

[vadawg]

17. you will you know once im supreme ruler or you will go to bed without cake..

[flvegan]

14. Global embracement of nonviolence.

For starters, at least. Maybe a bit of universal enlightenment, realizing that everyone else is just as important as you are. Guess that would be an abandonment of ego or the self.

Yeah, that sounds nice.

[Ripley]

18. Yes!

Excellent, flvegan. Thanks.

[omega minimo]

34. You first.

Be the change you want to see in the world. :thumbsup:

[Ripley]

20. Is cleaner power.

Answering my self. sheesh.

[Ripley]

24. No one?

Sad.

[lunatica]

22. For leaders to go to war themselves armed with floaty puffs of feathers

The last man standing wins, declares victory and then goes home.

[Ripley]

23. Dogs of War BUT DAMMIT

All I am asking for in this thread is for real hope. Options. Serious thoughts that do not entail mass death.

Can we fix this thing or what?

[lunatica]

25. OK. so the last man standing gets layd.

with the Hawaiian lays. Everybody cheers, rescucitates the down man and he gets layd too

Are you happy now?!

[Ripley]

27. So. It's THIS BAD.

Why bother?

[lunatica]

31. What do you have against getting layd?

[Nikki Stone1]

26. Wall Street thieves behind bars

ASAP

[Ripley]

28. Yes.

And all the rest...

[Nikki Stone1]

29. Hey, I'll take what I can get.

:)

[dbt]

30. Howza Bout

The end of Corporate Personhood? How come them things have rights but no responsibilities?

:hi:

[Bluerthanblue]

32. true compassion- not just the label, but the emotion/action-

it's better than love, it's the embodiment of love.

:grouphug:

[Trillo]

33. I've learned, at least somewhat, not to desire things.

It simply seems a method to experience more disappointment.

That said, I'd love to see a world that no longer uses MONEY.

It's my belief that Money is a unit of warfare. Get too many small warfare units too close together (such as in one bank account), and watch out. Money is Darwinism abstracted, it is the hunter versus the hunted, both at the same time.

In short, money mostly breeds unhappiness and misery.

[omega minimo]

35. Business out of government, money out of elections, transparency

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=385&topic_id=367074&mesg_id=367074