Here's something that me smile. {Courtesy of Guardian.co.uk}


UN? Who needs it

For once, the twittering about 'world peace' emanating from last week's Miss Universe competition is rather poignant. According to Miss Germany (Natalie Ackermann), Miss Israel (Anastacia Entin) got on very well with Miss Lebanon (Gabrielle Bou Rached). 'They are best friends,' she said. 'I think the perpetrators of the current Middle Eastern crisis could learn a few lessons.' The two did not, however, pose for photographs together, for fear of repercussions when they returned home.

* Too bad they didn't pose for pictures, I wish they had the gumption to do that.

Does this mean the secret to world peace lies in petroleum jelly and push-up bras?

hey...if that's what it takes

...bring on the swimsuits

Hi there, Beauty queens are judged for their beauty and also what's between their ears. They are regarded as ambassadors of their respective countries, so I thought they missed a golden opportunity here to speak in favor of World Peace, as the nobody will. Oh well, life goes on.

It seems to me that they were ok being friends behind the scenes, but as you say the repercussions would have been too hard for them publicly.
As I recall in a lot of the pageants in the US, when asked what they wished for, the typical response was "World Peace." Perhaps it was all just lip service. It is said one person can make a difference. But as you stated earlier badgirlnuts they need gumption to do it.

I joke but the whole story just serves to illustrate how out of hand the politics can get.

One person can certainly make a difference, especially if he or she is in the public eye, but I don’t believe that “world peace,” as it were, could ever be achieved. Even if you were to completely take politics and conflicting ideologies out of the equation, I still don’t believe that you’d be any closer to world peace. Humans are like any animal that competes to survive, only instead of making do with what we have, we wish for that which could make us better, more capable, more attractive, and more powerful. We want that competitive advantage and while some people are content to dream, others feel hard done by. I don’t know where the sense of entitlement comes from, but I do know that anytime emotions come into play there’s the potential for things to get messy.

But what do I know *shrug*

very well put

Hi S.S and Loon, Thanx for your understanding posts. I fully realize that whatever the girls said wouldn't have amounted to jack. I mean after all they are just beauty queens and we know how the media looks upon them. But just maybe it would've got the ball rolling in that direction. World Peace?! But I guess it is too much to ask for or expect.

P.S I don't know what happened to my post immediately after my 2nd post thanking you both for your witty comments, it seems to have just vanished, strange.

World stability might be a better, though a no less daunting, goal.

It reminds me of a crack I heard once when people were talking about all the conflicts in the world. Someone said: "There's been so many beauty pageants and still we don't have world peace.

Loon said:

While I agree each person can make a difference, I think it needs both political and personal change to make a more peaceful world. Also I have a more optimistic view of human nature. Yes there's those that are highly comptetitive, and there's those who dedicate their lives unselfishly to helping others; there's political system based on competitiveness that brings people up to be competitive, and there are systems based on doing what's best for the community as a whole with children being brought up with those values. Some of the conflicts in the world are between these two sorts of values..... tho of course a large number of people and some societies have a mixture of both kinds of values.

And of course wanting world peace is also a political position, so I don't think politics can ever be taken out of the equation.... or out of life generally.

I agree completely that you can’t remove politics or any of the social components from the equation. I was thinking of a hypothetical model within the context of a purely biological definition of competition; that is to say, where competition exists because of limited space, resources, and mates.

Humans are social creatures; unfortunately we also have the capability for higher thought which makes the way we interact is exceedingly complex. It’s inescapable that there is going to be a need for organization. But how we organize ourselves is dependent on what our needs are in terms of physical survival, spiritual health, and emotional health. As I see it that’s why you get different cultures, religions and values that inevitably conflict, because not every person has the same requirements.


I don’t know if making sense or just mud puddles. Psychology and political science are not my forte so my perspective is rather skewed.