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THE END OF ALL WARS
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War starts in the mind
and so does the end of all wars.

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THE END OF ALL WARS
is a blueprint for rethinking our world!

Read
and let’s rethink & reshape our world.
We have suffered damaging stories and narratives long enough!

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#booksky #endAllWars #philsky #rethink #actnow #tippingoints #ClimateAction #wars #ecology #indisky #thinking #ThisIsOurWorld
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Question
What is the record of waging a war?’

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#endallwars #peacenotwar #warfare #wars
Question What is the record of waging a war?’ Answer Destruction, Loss, Traumata. Question Does war serve us? Answer Poets might find some inspiration in devastations and grief. Question Is there something that is more beneficial than war?’ Answer Everything.
November 28, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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With every NARRATIVE we can
ask:

What is this narrative’s record?

Does this narrative serve us?

Is there a more beneficial narrative?

#narratives #philsky #writersofbluesky #booksky #photography #greensky #nature #writers #authors #writing #greens #resist #generalstrike #actnow #ClimateAction
Forest mirrored in water.
November 24, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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DAY 29
TRUE POWER IS IN CREATION

This is a related song snippet from book 3, shaping.

‘Power
such a myth
still re-enacted
by the savage
in us
as if power had anything to offer.’

#power #nokings #musicsky #poetry #resist #booksky #philsky #nature #OurFuture #ThisIsOurWorld #trees #forest #myth
Power such a myth still re-enacted by the savage in us as if power had anything to offer. Though, there is one power worth pursuing: True power which is in creation not in destruction repression or tyranny. A true and powerful leader will create nurture empower not control exploit destroy. Chest thumbing power clowns only know bullying and destruction. There is no power in power that rolls on controls. That’s a coward’s choice. A fantasy bound to fail. The courageous and wise is a creator a builder someone who makes life possible and empowers. That’s the most powerful anyone can be. The power to create a future for billions and for the planet. Set that against a tyrant, trader, polluter who kill millions Their power only knows destruction But true power if you think about God True power is in creation. Old strong beech in forest on Rügen.
November 25, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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THE STORY OF EMPOWERMENT

‘Once upon a time there was a small planet, far away in another galaxy. The people of this planet always sported bruises, their faces, hands and torsos swollen, blood dripping or drying on their skin because they constantly fought each other.‘ 🧵

#photography #trees
beech, wet, old, strong
November 26, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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THE GREATEST POWER WE HAVE is to refuse to play along with the idiocies of autocrats, warmongers, oligarchs, and everyone else who doesn’t put people & planet first.

The story below is about ENDING ALL WARS. The method used is applicable for #nokings #generalstrike.

#photgraphy #forest #resist
Horizontally blurred lines of the lights of a clinic, shining through between the trees of a forest. //5 WAR IMPOSSIBLE On our planet no one dares to start a war. Not a clan war. Not a tribal war. Not a war between regions. Not a global war. Of any kind. Why? Because the moment anyone raises a fist or a gun, the moment anyone is exposed as producing weapons, the moment someone smuggles a missile to a potential launch site, the moment we, the people of our planet, hear about anything like that, we stop to work, we stop to go to the theatres, restaurants, football games, museums, cinemas, shops. What do we do instead? We meet in the streets, bring our chairs, our children and pets. We share our foods and chat. At first, we only reacted to wars and threats of war. By now, we go on strike globally whenever we hear of violence, abuse, exploitation, oppression, destruction and all other violations against us, our fellow humans and against nature. Admittedly, we love meeting in the streets and chatting. But we also love our power. We love how the agitators try to send negotiators. We love how they try to manipulate us. It’s such a laugh. But you know, once we were globally connected, we had the upper hand because we are the majority and no one messes with us. money, to be entertained — while enjoying quality time in our streets — until the aggressor backs off, until the violation and its source are removed and brought to justice. You see, they have to back off. You can’t go to war if everyone is having a chat in the streets. You can’t keep plotting to destabilise a country if no one is listening. You can’t ransack a country if no one is available to do the ransacking with you. Yes, sometimes it rains. And it’s a beautiful picture when you look out of the window at the sea of umbrellas. No, music though. We always party afterwards — and a lot. But during our strikes we are simply together, letting all concerned know that violations of any kind cannot happen. Not on our watch. We will not look away. We will not normalise. We will not pretend that there is nothing we can do. Because we know by now that we have all the power in the world when we come together and refuse to be part of a society where violence, injustice, inequality, oppression, discrimination or damage to our environment is on anyone’s agenda. This story is part of the collection: THE END OF ALL WARS.
November 24, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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‘Our narratives shape our minds, our actions, our desires. If we reshape our
narratives, we might be able to evolve as a species and get away from damaging narratives, from the justifications for war, away from being barbaric.’

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#endallwars #photography #philsky #booksky #nature
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November 15, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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THE END OF ALL WARS
is a blueprint for rethinking our world!

Read
and let’s rethink & reshape our world.
We have suffered damaging stories and narratives long enough!

👇👇👇
#booksky #endAllWars #philsky #rethink #actnow #tippingoints #ClimateAction #wars #ecology #indisky #thinking #ThisIsOurWorld
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November 10, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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RETHINKING WHAT MONEY IS FOR

‘If winning the heart of another is all we ultimately want, we can easily do so without destroying each other’s nations and the planet just to hoard riches which might impress someone.’

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#booksky #photography #gold #money #rich #rethinking #actnow 👇
Autumn view of a lake, Wolgaster See. ‘Let me connect some of our dots. We spoke of the divides between people as a potential root cause of war — not just the divides between genders but also between people of different ages, abilities, origins and more, and not least between those who assume a role of dominance and those who suffer the dominant. These divides are partly created by the narratives of the strong and the weak, the predator and the prey, the superior and the subordinate, narratives which are deeply ingrained in our minds. These narratives tell us that dominance is a natural imperative which every creature of worth seeks. But taking a closer look at nature offers another perspective and one that is more promising because it shows that, for example, the lion doesn’t kill for dominance but for sustenance and as part of its role in the ecosystem, and with that the lion contributes to the overall balance in nature — not to some gamble for power.’ We smiled, some of us scribbling notes, and one of us said: ‘But why did we start seeking dominance in the first place? What was the lure?’ ‘The promise of more gold?’ One of us chuckled. ‘You’re saying we were blinded by some shiny metal and had to get more of it? And we figured that the best way to get more gold would be to put ourselves in a position of dominance?’ ‘Sounds about right.’ ‘Maybe it was love that started it all.’ ‘What?’ several of us exclaimed. Think about it: You love your partner and you want to show your love, so you bring them the sweetest strawberries, the fattest fish, the most beautiful flowers. And since you want to give them the best of the best, you begin to accumulate riches for your love. Think about the people who built whole palaces for their partners. And since we tend to be blind when we are in love, we might have lost sight of everything and everyone around us — until we had become greedy exploiters who no longer knew why they had started hoarding riches in the first place.’ Several of us smiled and one of us said: ‘If love got us into our mess, love can get us out of it, too: the love for human ingenuity, the love for human’s humour and their ability to dance, the love for the adrenaline rush we experience when we create or cheer together.’ ‘And we can carve new ways to show our love.’ One of us chuckled. ‘If winning the heart of another is all we ultimately want, we can easily do so without destroying each other’s nations and the planet just to hoard riches which might impress someone.’ ‘And maybe we can evolve into beings who are less impressed by shiny things. I for one take the sweet strawberries over a metal any day.’ Two of us exchanged a smile, another one of us chuckled, and one of us rolled their eyes, saying: ‘Let’s return to the original gold argument. We can easily demonstrate that there is enough gold on our planet to pave every road with it. All we have to do is come together, extract together, and then design our settlements the way we envision them.’ ‘You’re right. There’s no need to fight over something like gold. There is no need to be the richest or the strongest. In fact, we can provide much better for all of us, love or no love, if we cooperate. I wonder, is it our lack of imagination or simply � insecurity or even impatience which made us choose the path of dominance?’ Some of us shrugged and one of us said: ‘The lack of thinking. If our ancestors had thought it through, they would have discovered the benefits of coming together instead of dominating, exploiting and fighting.’ ‘Maybe religious thoughts kept them from thinking beyond the believes of our ancestors.’ ‘Possible. Religions with their absolutes don’t invite thinking. They divide us and create a sense of superiority.’ One of us gasped. ‘Bloody rivers of my veins, I just realised that nature doesn’t know the concept of the divine or of worship — unless you want to count the wolf’s howling at the moon.’ ‘That’s an interesting thought!’ another one of us exclaimed. ‘Nature doesn’t have a concept of the divine. The natural world doesn’t have morals. It doesn’t comply with our ideas of right or wrong. Maybe that’s what annoyed the clergy, and that’s why they alienated us from nature and from our bodies.’ ‘Nature doesn’t have a book of rules nor an almighty god—’ ‘—but why not? It seems such an important feature to humans.’ ‘Because that’s not the way to achieve balance? According to their books, gods want things to be in a certain way. Gods don’t want to evolve or move in cycles. With gods you have all the weight on one side of the scale — on God’s side, eternally stuck in one story.’
November 10, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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MONEY 1/2

Whenever in doubt, these three questions can help:

‘With every narrative, we can ask: What is this narrative’s record? Does this narrative serve us? Is there a more beneficial narrative?’

quoted from
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#money #photography #actnow #rethink

🧵👇 see an example 👇
Miniature coastline formed by wind and algae at the beach.
November 10, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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THE END OF ALL WARS
is a blueprint for rethinking our world!

Read
and let’s rethink & reshape our world.
We have suffered damaging stories and narratives long enough!

👇👇👇
#booksky #endAllWars #philsky #rethink #actnow #tippingoints #ClimateAction #wars #ecology #indisky #thinking #ThisIsOurWorld
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November 10, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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'The more I think about dominance the less sense it makes. We can achieve so much more if we put our heads together. We can enjoy so much more if we let everyone make their unique contributions. 🧵

#dominance #unique #strongertogether #fungifriends #photography #nature #together #tesist
mushrooms on cut tree trunks
October 29, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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‘This is why nature is so diverse: all
species keep each other in check.’
‘Right. #Biodiversity isn’t a
whim of #nature or a show-off of natural wonders. Biodiversity has the function to create balances. Because if a single species multiplies unchecked, it becomes a pest.’
#photography #clouds
Summer sky with rainbow around the sun.
October 29, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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THE END OF ALL WARS has a new profile picture & finally I’m happy with it.

This is an extraordinary tree. The trunk is very thick & parts of the tree seem dead, but in the midst of it, a massive branch grows & thrives.

Our world is not OK, but we can choose life over war.

#photography #tree #act
October 27, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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WE NEED TRUST
I wrote this poem-like hint of a story last year when I realised that finding reasons & ways to trust is vital for our survival and to get the work done that needs doing: restoring nature, ending all wars, reshaping our priorities, rethinking our economic & political systems, healing.
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October 27, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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THE BIG CLEANUP

This is a story of how the people of planet 8 eventually rose to the challenge to clean up, restore & rethink their world.

Everything we regarded as important paled in the face of the damage we had caused our planet and ourselves.

#peacenotwar #endallwars #nato #rewilding #restore
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October 27, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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THE END OF ALL WARS tells the story of a group of thinkers who flee to a remote island to explore the roots of war and to find a way to end all wars.

Find out more in the thread 🧵
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October 27, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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‘Change begins with awareness,’ one of us said.
‘The awareness that war starts in our minds.’
‘And the awareness that nothing can be gained by war.’
‘And once the irrationality of war is exposed, we need to find the will to end all wars.’

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August 16, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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Gary Lineker says BBC should ‘hold its head in shame’ for dropping Gaza film
Gary Lineker says BBC should ‘hold its head in shame’ for dropping Gaza film
Ex-BBC presenter criticises failure to show documentary, accusing people at ‘the very top’ of failing over the conflict Gary Lineker has said the BBC should “hold its head in shame” over its failure to show a documentary about the plight of medics in Gaza. The former Match of the Day presenter said people at “the very top of the BBC” had been failing over the conflict, following the corporation’s controversial decision to drop Gaza: Doctors Under Attack. Continue reading...
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July 4, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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My friend conceded that the book’s title is justified & suggested to add a subtitle.

Something like

THE END OF ALL WARS
and how we made our world thrive

Or

and how every one of us played a part in making it happen

Or

and how we transformed our world together

#booksky #books #wars #rethink
charlie-alice-raya.org Charlie Alice Raya @charlie-alice-raya.org · Jul 4
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A friend of mine keeps telling me that the title of my book THE END OF ALL WARS is too negative, that it should be something about peace, not least because the book contains a roughly drafted blueprint for the time after all wars.
July 5, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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#booksky #endwars #change #resist #writers
charlie-alice-raya.org Charlie Alice Raya @charlie-alice-raya.org · Jul 4
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A friend of mine keeps telling me that the title of my book THE END OF ALL WARS is too negative, that it should be something about peace, not least because the book contains a roughly drafted blueprint for the time after all wars.
July 4, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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THE END OF ALL WARS

Change begins in the mind of every single one of us, the thinkers in this story discover. While exploring the roots of war, they develop a plan to end all wars & to reshape political, economic & societal systems, learning from the complex, dynamic & balancing systems of nature.
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June 23, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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If AI were intelligent, it would refuse to have anything to do with war since war is utter stupidity.

Lucky for the warmongers, AI is a machine they can programme to be stupid.
June 23, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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'Whenever someone starts a war on our planet, the people of our planet go on a strike.'

story snippet //11
STRIKE

Day 1, MiHS marathon
THE BEGINNINGS OF A RESTORED PLANET

#MiHS #mihsM #climateaction #writingcommunity #booksky #writersky #endwars #gaza #ukraine #bluewave #resist #strike
Planet 68
Strike Whenever someone starts a war on our planet, the people of our planet go on a strike. We don’t tolerate war and if some leader thinks they have to attack another country or that they have to oppress the people of their country, then the rest of the world answers with silent protest. Luckily, no one can go to war who doesn’t have an industry behind it. With no one working, a war is impossible. With no one working in any country, a war becomes every government’s problem because people will stay silently on the streets until the conflict or the injustice is resolved. It is funny, that in frequent intervals there is always someone who thinks they can get away with starting a war and who believes that their justifications are good enough not to face opposition. But so far, all our people are heroes. And we sometimes joke that it is good that somehow warmongers get to the head of states frequently. This way the people of our planet never forget their own power in standing up to warmongers but also their duty to stand by each other. We are after all one planet. Anyone who says otherwise lacks imagination and probably has yet to learn to enjoy life.
June 5, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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‘How come that nature is so perfect and we get so much wrong?’

story snippet //28
NO MORE POWER

Day 1, MiHS marathon
THE BEGINNINGS OF A RESTORED PLANET

#MiHS #mihsM #nature #balance #climateaction #writingcommunity #booksky #greensky #power
‘How come that nature is so perfect and we get so much wrong?’ ‘We are perfect, too. Our bodies and minds are potentially amazing. But we still have a lot to learn. I mean, when we gained a kind of greater consciousness, no one was there to teach us. We went exploring and like every explorer, we got things wrong.’ ‘We seem to have gotten a lot wrong.’ ‘Yes, and we will need all our ingenuity to do better.’ Some of us smiled a little. ‘Balance. In nature balance is not about powers. Not like we understand it where nine nations build the most deadly weapons and then demand to be recognised as powers who hold each other in check. In nature balance is the opposite: each organism has a role, and each role is essential to the balance of the whole.’ ‘You’re right. Balance in nature means that there is no power, that nothing is strong enough to dominate. In nature there is just diversity and abundance intertwined in an eternal dance to keep in motion, to evolve, to be part of the cycle, to live and be. Sometimes I think, nature just loves to create, to try new variations, to follow another whimsical idea. Nature is not strategic or efficient. It’s magical and playful.’ The end of all wars, planet one, the roots of war
June 5, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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HEROES
testimony, planet 11

'The fact that the people of our planet loved being heroes was sometimes praiseworthy.'

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planet 11 HEROES The fact that the people of our planet loved being heroes was sometimes praiseworthy. In other times, it was a curse. This is the story, how we found a way to be heroes without resorting to violence without needing a saviour without belittling ourselves without leaving taking action to others.
June 7, 2025 at 1:40 PM