In Christian mythologies man is said to have lost that eternal peace that God bestowed to him. This myth states that when man ate the forbidden fruit in the garden of Eden he lost all that made him a holy person and God punished him: He lost the peace, he was send to suffer, he has to toil to make use of the natural resources that god created.
In today’s world, man does not meet the comfort that the world provides, they may be some troubles between individual persons, when one fails to achieve his/her heartily desires. And there is that peace that involves the whole community: people have several differences and feelings towards each other, hatred and animosity has ruled all over the world. There are religious, natural resources, political, racial, social, tribal, economical, and regional differences. All these differences have caused today’s man troubles.
In Africa for example, fight for natural resources and religious differences have caused luck of peace in many countries. The religious differences between northern and Southern Sudan has led to the death of millions of people and thousands has been displaced.
The mining and export of diamond has contributed to the internal conflict in the democratic republic of Congo. It has caused a lot of fights and even today the country has never realized peace: people are being shot death every day and many women and men are being raped.
Young men looking for diamonds in River Congo.
Even though statistics has shown that a third of world’s population are at peace, am glad to be among them.
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It's an interesting observation that in many mythologies from around the world, mankind is viewed as having lost its place in the natural order of things. I suppose that it didn't take long for conscious beings with the use of tools to begin seeing themselves as separate from the rest of the world. The angst stemming from feeling so out of place persists to this day and undoubtedly lends itself at least partially to some of the strife in the world today.
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