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A new blog to contain answers to prompts

Since my old blog "Everyday Canvas "  became overfilled, here's a new one. This new blog item will continue answering prompts, the same as the old one.


Cool water cascading to low ground
To spread good will and hope all around.

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March 2, 2026 at 1:25pm
March 2, 2026 at 1:25pm
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Prompt:
If you could stop one invention from being invented, what would it be?

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At first, as an answer, I thought of wars, immediately, but my thinking, then, became really complicated. To scale it down, I thought of the invention of metal weapons like swords, or later, gunpowder, and then, all the way to atomic bomb and modern warfare.

The thing is, wars didn't begin with a single invention. So let's go back to the time of the swords. Before swords, people used sharpened sticks. Before guns, they used bows. Before bows, they used stones.

If gunpowder could be erased, cannons and firearms would also be erased. Yet, people would still fight with other tools, even with their bodies, slapping and kicking one another. Long before advanced weapons existed, tribes fought over territory, resources, pride, fear, and power, didn't they?

So, to me, this suggests that a deeper invention to end wars and fighting is more than weapons. It has to be the ideas people get hooked on. Such ideas might be:
*The idea of exclusive ownership of land and other goods
*The concept of nations and states
*The “us versus them” stance so many of us take all the time.

On the other hand, some inventions have always offered hope, at least at first. Inventions like the international laws, diplomacy, global trade, and instant communication especially in our day. I was going to add technology to good inventions but technology can go two ways by both fueling and restraining wars and conflicts.

Now, that I've chewed the fat on this idea, my finger pointing, now, isn't directed at tools or even inventions but to human nature. This would take me all the way back to Cain, to a territory where I'd be really wary to step in.

So just maybe, to get rid of wars, we must learn to get rid of hatred and jealousy, and replace them with true empathy and love for one another.




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