"Eternal Feud " 48" x 72"  Detail Oil on Canvas  by John WorldPeace A partial interpretation from the artist's perspective The center of the painting is a triangle with a circle in the middle. The triangle is divided into three equal parts which are colored green, purple and orange (secondary colors) The purple represents Christianity, the green Islam and the orange Judiasm. The triangle represents God.  The center circle represents the Infinite Potential or the all encompassing indefinable totality of God and the three separate parts of the triangle represent the anthropomorphic aspects of the eternal God to which each of the religions of the West identify and worship. The men at the lower part of the painting each have green shields which identify them as Muslims. In the middle of the painting, the orange shields are the Jews and the purple shields are the Christians. There are only four orange shields because there are only about twenty million Jews compared to two billion Christians and one billion Muslims. The religious soldiers are marching on the coffins of the dead Christians, Jews and Muslims who have been killed in holy wars for the last two thousand years. The red surrounding the coffins and the red surrounding the triangle represents the blood of the various religionist who have been killed in religious wars. In the center of the painting, surrounding the triangle are human eggs and human sperm. These eggs and sperm represent the unborn children of the religionist who will be born in the blood of holy war and will potentially die in the holy war. Surrounding the circle of soldiers of the three Gods is a black circle which represents oil. It is the oil in the Middle East which continues to fuel the holy war that exists there. The black oil goes up and surrounds the buildings in the city at the upper left of the painting. This represents the fact that oil has greatly helped build western civilization and is still the foundation upon which it depends. In the upper right hand corner, is the symbol of WorldPeace. It is a red hand which represents mankind and a green and blue yin-yang symbol which represents the ever changing earth. To the left of the WorldPeace symbol are five figures which represent the races of man, red, yellow, black, white and brown who oppose WorldPeace. The men have no shields because they do not have to defend themselves from WorldPeace. All they have to do is to make sure it remains isolated and does not infect all of humanity. John WorldPeace 14 WAR (from The Book of Peace by John WorldPeace at http://www.johnworldpeace.com) War is, in reality, one human being murdering another human being. War is generally defined as armed conflict between nations, but it is individual human beings who do the actual murdering and the dying. War is one man murdering one woman, one woman murdering one man, one man murdering one man, one woman murdering one woman, one child murdering one adult, one adult murdering one child. War is one human being murdering another human being. Whatever the stated causes of war, the truth is that it is nothing more than the sacrifice of our children. It is our children who we allow to be murdered in war and their families must then live with an inconsolable sorrow. How can this be acceptable to anyone? War is the result of frustrations in a society that comes to believe that there is no other solution to a particular social problem. No nation goes to war with clean hands. No nation murders on the battlefield with justification. Powerful nations murder because they think they can get away with it. They may impose their will on the survivors, but they simultaneously sow the seeds of future wars. The thought that murder is a solution to social disagreements is tragically laughable. How can we delude ourselves into believing that if a person lives next door to us, he has the same rights as we do, but if he lives in a foreign land, his life has no value? Is human value, in truth, based upon the physical location of one's home? We are all God's children and we are each at one with each other. The murder of anyone sends irrevocable and intolerable vibrations throughout the world. The legacy of violence is always more violence and the legacy of war is always more war. We are at one with God and at one with each other and we can never justify the murder of any human being. Words like justice or God's will can never justify the great tragedy of humanity murdering itself. As members of a World Society, we must embrace the great moral condemnation of murder as the legacy of war. There is no victory in war without murder and there can never be victory of any kind with murder. Inner peace comes in the knowing that when we all accept each and every human being as our neighbor, not only will we refuse to murder anyone, we will never have to concern ourselves that our life's blood, our children, will be murdered by anyone else.