GUEST - Your position is as easy to understand as the proposition that one plus one equals two. It's obvious. Now consider adding to it a degree of willingness to understand less obvious and tactile viewpoints of reality...and consider that to visualize peace is one aspect of achieving it and to take outward actions toward realizing it is another, and that both of those means aid and abet the process...and perhaps you will become...

more peaceful.

The outer man (whom you see) is motivated by the inner Self (whom you probably do not see).

To openly despise those who speak of and honor the inner self will not help matters one bit. How do you know that they are not also taking the outward actions which you regard as the ONLY way to peace?

"New Agers" are not necessarily, as you seem to suggest, helpless people incapable of taking a useful part in the world. In fact, the term "New Ager" is similar to the term "tree-hugger" and is usually used by poorly informed people to denigrate someone else with whom they have am imagined philosophical disagreement, but about whom they know very little. If you got to know them under more practical circumstances, you might like them much better than you think. When was the last time you grew your own food, harvested it, and prepared it? That's empowerment. What will you do if the restaurants and groceries shut their doors? (As might happen in certain extreme situations of calamity...)

Now I may be assuming things about you, cos I don't know you. Likewise, you may be assuming things about others too.

Try having a little tolerance before telling people you barely know at all to "shut the fuck up", just because they don't appear to meet your demanding standards of perfection.

How do you think wars start anyway? Or dictatorships? With that basic attitude.

- LH