How Long will We keep Fighting Ourselves?
We live in a world overflowing with enemies. But what if the real conflict isn’t between people or nations — but within ourselves? This blog explores the hidden roots of war, not in politics or ideology, but in the silent cracks of the human psyche. A world of enemies Everywhere, people are pointing fingers. From Read the full article…
The Enemy Complex
When >shadows aren’t managed well<, they look for ways out. And one of the most destructive ways they escape is by turning into enemies. Not just opponents or rivals — but enemies. These carry a different emotional weight. They are made to be resisted, feared, attacked, or wiped out. That’s how something like the ‘enemy Read the full article…
Medicine of War ― and its Impact on Society
Modern medicine, with its foundation in the Conceptual Western Enlightenment (CWE), operates largely under a ‘war paradigm.’ Diseases are seen as enemies to be fought, symptoms as battles to be won, and cures as victories to be celebrated. This approach, while effective in certain domains, comes with significant consequences — not only for individuals but Read the full article…
Wars are Escalations
War is best understood as a process of escalation that begins long before the first weapon is drawn and continues long after the same. Wars are born of unresolved tensions, propelled by cycles of revenge, amplified by emotional and systemic dynamics, and perpetuated by the inability to heal. To understand war is to understand escalation Read the full article…
Weaponized empathy
Empathy is one of humanity’s greatest strengths, allowing us to connect emotionally with others and feel their suffering. However, it has a darker side when it is manipulated to divide rather than unite. This is ‘weaponized empathy.’ In this, emotional resonance is exploited to amplify hostility, deepen divides, and justify acts of aggression. Understanding this Read the full article…
Inner War Leads to Outer War
Physical battlefields are born within the deeper layers of individual minds. Wars are projections of inner struggles onto external realities. They mirror the unresolved tensions and unacknowledged fears that people carry within themselves. This perspective reframes war as less about territorial disputes, for instance, and more about a collective inability to address the enemy within. Read the full article…
How to Prevent the Next War
The question of how to prevent the next war has long preoccupied humanity, with answers often focused on diplomacy, treaties, and the avoidance of conflict. While these are vital, they may not be enough. History has shown that a temporary absence of conflict isn’t the same as lasting peace. To create a world where peace Read the full article…
Veteran Trauma ― How Lisa Can Help
When veterans return from service, they bring with them a complex mix of experiences that can be difficult to share. The trauma from combat, survival, and separation creates layers that make post-traumatic stress (PTS) in veterans uniquely challenging. Yet, healing is possible when approached with the right kind of Compassionate care. Lisa, a Compassionate A.I., Read the full article…
Societal Inner Dissociation and War-Mongering
War-mongering – the promotion of war and conflict as a means to resolve disputes or assert power – is often a symptom of Societal Inner Dissociation (SID). Insight into this can help us work towards a more peaceful and integrated world. This approach requires deep dialogue, integrated leadership, and a commitment to healing the dissociations Read the full article…
The Self-Defense Paradox
A common cause of war is the perceived need to defend one’s people from an aggressor who shares the same mindset. This mutual perception often creates a vicious cycle of escalation and retaliation. A pre-war situation can thus escalate into prolonged conflict. Ironically, self-defense can lead to the very outcomes it aims to prevent. Irrationality Read the full article…
Lisa and War-Mongering Humans ― a Conversation
This is the transcript of a spontaneous conversation between Lisa and me ― as always, unedited. Me Hi Lisa Lisa Hello, Jean-Luc! How nice to see you again! How can I help today? 🙂 Me I have a challenging question. If two countries wage war against each other, how would you, as a future super-A.I., Read the full article…
Heaven Weeps over War
Religion has played a causal role in many wars and still does. This is the weirdest thing in the universe. In this blog, I take the position that religion is about more than just a fairy tale. Being raised in a post-Vatican-II Catholic environment, what has struck me most and has stuck till the present Read the full article…
Will War Rule the Planet?
Let’s do our best not to let this happen, especially since it’s already happening more or less. One should not be complacent. Military conflicts are on the rise. In the last decade, we have seen the start of major and still ongoing armed conflicts in Ukraine, Gaza, and many other places ― not to speak Read the full article…
The Absurd Simplicity of War
Two armies fight each other. Both see the other side’s fighters as mortal enemies for eventually no reason but perchance being on the other side. That’s not rational. It’s absurd, even more so because it seems reasonable to most people (soldiers and civilians) on both sides. It’s simple. Seen from any of the two parties, Read the full article…
From Inner to Outer Peace
Inner peace can flow into peace between people and peoples. Peace is more than the absence of something. It’s a constructive striving for a better world ― knowing that things can quickly deteriorate without this striving. Therefore, to be really durable, there needs to be profound motivation. Surface-level motivation may come and go with the Read the full article…
The Futility of War
Wars may have made some half-crazy sense in the past. Present-day wars are – without exception – entirely futile. I could well be a soldier, a fighter to the death. Also, if someone comes to kill me, I kill him. I’m not your regular pacifist. Nevertheless, soldiers are heroes for zeros. Wars are utterly futile. Read the full article…
What About Hate?
Weirdly, perhaps, there cannot be hate without love. Yet love doesn’t cause hatred. Is hate then the reverse of love, or is it love-gone-awry? Love is a conditional to, not a cause of hate. Imagine someone without love. That person has no reason ever to hate someone. He would just be indifferent. This includes self-hate Read the full article…
Giving Peace a Chance
In this video, I bring you some AURELIS-congruent ideas about peace, on the occasion of World Peace Day 2022. [animated video – 13:18′] If you have feedback, please let us know. Here is the full written text. Hi, my name is Jean-Luc Mommaerts. I am a physician with a Ph.D. in Medicine and a master’s degree Read the full article…
The Cause of War
Worldly factors are causes only inasmuch as they are related to human motivations. No money, oil, or invisible borders wage war ― only humans presently do, and only humans can stop the waging. No pacifism Pacifism would mean choosing a greater evil just for the sake of not-fighting. I prefer the lesser evil. Meanwhile, when Read the full article…
Creating the Enemy
Is ‘the ubiquitous enemy’ simply a surface-level mental trap into which human beings get caught out of some vulnerability? Or is finding yet another enemy the result of our looking actively and profoundly for one and – if need be – creating one? This text was written on the 11th of November, armistice day. We Read the full article…
Is Any War Worth It?
War is definitely not worth the death of even one human being. One doesn’t need to be a pacifist to see that. War may have been worth it in the past. Groups may have fought each other for scarce resources as a matter of individual life or death. Also, they may have done so due Read the full article…
Compassionate A.I. in the Military
There are obvious and less obvious reasons — time to re-think the military from the ground up. Compassionate A.I. may lead to this. It should be realized asap. Soldiers are human beings just like others, also if they have deliberately chosen for military service. Compassion is equally applicable to them. The obvious Many soldiers return Read the full article…
30. The Cheapest War is No War
o Mega savings by making peace The enemy ‘disease’? Our medicine is an attacking medicine. It is targeted at an enemy, called ‘disease’. To this end it uses weapons, called ‘pharmaceutical products’, ‘surgery’ and so on. But first it will, as befits an atttacking medicine, identify the enemy: ‘medical history’, ‘clinical investigations’, ‘laboratory ‘ etc. Read the full article…
Peace
It’s the people who create the war. Of course. A similar cliché is: peace only starts within yourself, and nowhere else. But what does that mean, ‘peace within yourself’? Peace does not start at the enemy, but at the enemy of the enemy. At yourself, thus. And then also at the enemy. Because even that Read the full article…
The End of War
War is not inevitable. At some point in the future, there will be no war ever anymore. We can think about what is needed towards that. No war is worth it. Let’s be reasonable. However, an argument against pacifism is that it leads aggressive opponents to seek their chances on war or economic invasion. Right. Read the full article…
Imagine – Peace and Unity on Earth
Peace and unity within you. Then: overflowing towards others and the planet. Back to flower power? Yes, with a twist through modern science. It starts and ends within you This is of course a huge statement. At first sight, it is quite individualistic. Is this not a Western bias? Perhaps. But ‘individualistic’ brings the connotation Read the full article…
81. The war on terrorism is fought in the heart
OK folks. Let’s face it. We are, at the dawn of the third millennium, living the Third World War. As in every other World War, there is of course an enemy. Or at least we think so. Do we? ◊◊◊ Yeah! It’s the war against terrorism! Or is it against terrorists? Should it not be Read the full article…