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The Rocky Interactive Horror Show Game, released in 1999
Released for: PC (Microsoft Windows)
Point-and-click; Puzzle; Adventure
Fantasy, Science fiction, Horror
aliens, adult, multiple protagonists, based on - movie, musical, based on - book, sexual content, countdown timer, sex change, lgbtq+From the Internet Games Database
https://www.igdb.com/games/the-rocky-interactive-h…#games #adventures #pointnclick #adventuregames #old #history #retrocomputing #retrogaming #retro #image #screenshots #1990s #90s #aliens #adult #multipleprotagonists #basedonmovie #musical #basedonbook #sexualcontent #countdowntimer #sexchange #lgbtqplus #win #fantasy #sciencefiction #horror
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The Rocky Interactive Horror Show Game, released in 1999
Released for: PC (Microsoft Windows)
Point-and-click; Puzzle; Adventure
Fantasy, Science fiction, Horror
aliens, adult, multiple protagonists, based on - movie, musical, based on - book, sexual content, countdown timer, sex change, lgbtq+From the Internet Games Database
https://www.igdb.com/games/the-rocky-interactive-h…#games #adventures #pointnclick #adventuregames #old #history #retrocomputing #retrogaming #retro #image #screenshots #1990s #90s #aliens #adult #multipleprotagonists #basedonmovie #musical #basedonbook #sexualcontent #countdowntimer #sexchange #lgbtqplus #win #fantasy #sciencefiction #horror
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The Rocky Interactive Horror Show Game, released in 1999
Released for: PC (Microsoft Windows)
Point-and-click; Puzzle; Adventure
Fantasy, Science fiction, Horror
aliens, adult, multiple protagonists, based on - movie, musical, based on - book, sexual content, countdown timer, sex change, lgbtq+From the Internet Games Database
https://www.igdb.com/games/the-rocky-interactive-h…#games #adventures #pointnclick #adventuregames #old #history #retrocomputing #retrogaming #retro #image #screenshots #1990s #90s #aliens #adult #multipleprotagonists #basedonmovie #musical #basedonbook #sexualcontent #countdowntimer #sexchange #lgbtqplus #win #fantasy #sciencefiction #horror
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The Rocky Interactive Horror Show Game, released in 1999
Released for: PC (Microsoft Windows)
Point-and-click; Puzzle; Adventure
Fantasy, Science fiction, Horror
aliens, adult, multiple protagonists, based on - movie, musical, based on - book, sexual content, countdown timer, sex change, lgbtq+From the Internet Games Database
https://www.igdb.com/games/the-rocky-interactive-h…#games #adventures #pointnclick #adventuregames #old #history #retrocomputing #retrogaming #retro #image #screenshots #1990s #90s #aliens #adult #multipleprotagonists #basedonmovie #musical #basedonbook #sexualcontent #countdowntimer #sexchange #lgbtqplus #win #fantasy #sciencefiction #horror
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The Rocky Interactive Horror Show Game, released in 1999
Released for: PC (Microsoft Windows)
Point-and-click; Puzzle; Adventure
Fantasy, Science fiction, Horror
aliens, adult, multiple protagonists, based on - movie, musical, based on - book, sexual content, countdown timer, sex change, lgbtq+From the Internet Games Database
https://www.igdb.com/games/the-rocky-interactive-h…#games #adventures #pointnclick #adventuregames #old #history #retrocomputing #retrogaming #retro #image #screenshots #1990s #90s #aliens #adult #multipleprotagonists #basedonmovie #musical #basedonbook #sexualcontent #countdowntimer #sexchange #lgbtqplus #win #fantasy #sciencefiction #horror
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The First Floating Nuclear Power Station
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://hackaday.com/2026/09/21/the-first-floating-nuclear-power-station/
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The First Floating Nuclear Power Station
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://hackaday.com/2026/09/21/the-first-floating-nuclear-power-station/
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The First Floating Nuclear Power Station
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://hackaday.com/2026/09/21/the-first-floating-nuclear-power-station/
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The New York coach-maker's magazine (New York City, New York)
From Digital Collections of New York Public Library
http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/7c713bc0-…#NewYork #NewYorkCity #NYC #NYPL #US #USA #history #image #photo #photos #photography
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The New York coach-maker's magazine (New York City, New York)
From Digital Collections of New York Public Library
http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/7c713bc0-…#NewYork #NewYorkCity #NYC #NYPL #US #USA #history #image #photo #photos #photography
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The New York coach-maker's magazine (New York City, New York)
From Digital Collections of New York Public Library
http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/7c713bc0-…#NewYork #NewYorkCity #NYC #NYPL #US #USA #history #image #photo #photos #photography
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The New York coach-maker's magazine (New York City, New York)
From Digital Collections of New York Public Library
http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/7c713bc0-…#NewYork #NewYorkCity #NYC #NYPL #US #USA #history #image #photo #photos #photography
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CHAPT. Dry or thirsty.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
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#books #literature #dictionaries #history #society #language #slang @histodons -
CHAPT. Dry or thirsty.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
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#books #literature #dictionaries #history #society #language #slang @histodons -
CHAPT. Dry or thirsty.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
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#books #literature #dictionaries #history #society #language #slang @histodons -
CHAPT. Dry or thirsty.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
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#books #literature #dictionaries #history #society #language #slang @histodons -
CHAPT. Dry or thirsty.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
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#books #literature #dictionaries #history #society #language #slang @histodons -
International Day of Peace: Nice Idea. Now What?
By Cliff Potts, Editor-in-Chief, WPS News
BAYBAY CITY, LEYTE, PHILIPPINES — September 21, 2026 — 22:00 PHT
Every September 21, the world observes the United Nations International Day of Peace.
And every September 21, there is an obvious question worth asking:
Does any of this actually do anything?
That isn’t an argument against peace. Peace is a wonderful idea. Most people would probably prefer that nobody bomb their neighborhood, shoot their children, sink their fishing boats, invade their country, or send them off to die because two governments have decided they can no longer tolerate one another.
That part is easy.
The harder question is whether declaring an International Day of Peace changes anything—or whether we’re participating in another annual exercise in institutional warm-and-fuzziness.
One Day Without Killing Each Other
The United Nations established the International Day of Peace in 1981. In 2001, the General Assembly went considerably further, permanently establishing September 21 as a day of global ceasefire and nonviolence and inviting nations and people engaged in conflict to stop fighting for the day (United Nations, 2001).
Think about that proposition for a moment.
One day.
Twenty-four hours.
Humanity has not exactly demonstrated an impressive ability to manage even that.
The United Nations cannot simply order the world’s armies, militias, insurgencies, governments, terrorists, revolutionaries, and assorted heavily armed lunatics to knock it off until tomorrow morning. The UN operates through member states, international law, diplomacy, peacekeeping and cooperation. Its authority has very real limits.
So yes, skepticism is justified.
But skepticism doesn’t necessarily make the idea worthless.
The Warm-and-Fuzzy Problem
This year’s theme is “Invest in Peace: For Everyone, Everywhere, Every Day.” The UN says peace means more than the absence of war; it includes safety, dignity, opportunity and cooperation. It also emphasizes people working within communities to bridge divisions and prevent violence (United Nations Peacekeeping, 2026).
That’s admirable.
It also sounds exactly like something designed by an international committee to look good on a poster.
The danger with commemorations like International Day of Peace is that symbolism becomes a substitute for action. Governments can talk about peace while purchasing weapons. Political leaders can praise dialogue while demonizing opponents. Countries can endorse international law when it protects their interests and suddenly discover creative interpretations of it when it doesn’t.
Ring the peace bell. Issue the statement. Take the photograph.
Then everybody gets back to business tomorrow.
If that’s all International Day of Peace amounts to, then critics are right. It’s political theater.
Except There Is Something Underneath It
There is another possibility.
Maybe the value isn’t that September 21 produces peace.
Maybe its value is that September 21 forces us to define what we’re supposedly trying to achieve.
Peace isn’t everybody agreeing.
It isn’t surrender. It isn’t weakness. It isn’t pretending injustice doesn’t exist. And it certainly isn’t allowing stronger nations or stronger people to do whatever they want while everybody else politely keeps quiet.
Peace is building institutions capable of resolving disputes without somebody eventually reaching for a weapon.
That’s harder than putting a dove on a poster.
It requires functioning courts, credible diplomacy, trustworthy institutions, economic opportunity, human rights and governments willing to accept that sometimes they don’t get everything they want.
The United Nations itself is imperfect because the countries composing it are imperfect. It can be bureaucratic, political, frustrating and sometimes spectacularly ineffective.
But here’s the uncomfortable part.
What exactly is the alternative?
A world without a place where 193 governments can at least sit in the same room and argue is not obviously an improvement.
So Commemorate the Damn Day
Not because the United Nations declared it.
Not because somebody designed a hashtag.
And not because we’re supposed to spend twenty-four hours feeling good about ourselves.
Commemorate International Day of Peace because human beings have spent thousands of years demonstrating just how easy war is.
Peace is the difficult part.
If September 21 accomplishes nothing more than reminding us that peace is something humanity has to deliberately construct, defend and repair, then maybe the day earns its square on the calendar.
Just don’t confuse commemorating peace with actually creating it.
Those are two very different things.
Sources
United Nations. (2001). International Day of Peace: Resolution adopted by the General Assembly (A/RES/55/282). United Nations Digital Library.
United Nations. (2026). International Day of Peace: 2026 messages.
United Nations Peacekeeping. (2026, September 21). International Day of Peace 2026: Invest in Peace—For Everyone, Everywhere, Every Day.
#Diplomacy #globalConflict #God #History #InternationalDayOfPeace #InternationalRelations #israel #news #peace #Politics #UnitedNations #WPSNews -
International Day of Peace: Nice Idea. Now What?
By Cliff Potts, Editor-in-Chief, WPS News
BAYBAY CITY, LEYTE, PHILIPPINES — September 21, 2026 — 22:00 PHT
Every September 21, the world observes the United Nations International Day of Peace.
And every September 21, there is an obvious question worth asking:
Does any of this actually do anything?
That isn’t an argument against peace. Peace is a wonderful idea. Most people would probably prefer that nobody bomb their neighborhood, shoot their children, sink their fishing boats, invade their country, or send them off to die because two governments have decided they can no longer tolerate one another.
That part is easy.
The harder question is whether declaring an International Day of Peace changes anything—or whether we’re participating in another annual exercise in institutional warm-and-fuzziness.
One Day Without Killing Each Other
The United Nations established the International Day of Peace in 1981. In 2001, the General Assembly went considerably further, permanently establishing September 21 as a day of global ceasefire and nonviolence and inviting nations and people engaged in conflict to stop fighting for the day (United Nations, 2001).
Think about that proposition for a moment.
One day.
Twenty-four hours.
Humanity has not exactly demonstrated an impressive ability to manage even that.
The United Nations cannot simply order the world’s armies, militias, insurgencies, governments, terrorists, revolutionaries, and assorted heavily armed lunatics to knock it off until tomorrow morning. The UN operates through member states, international law, diplomacy, peacekeeping and cooperation. Its authority has very real limits.
So yes, skepticism is justified.
But skepticism doesn’t necessarily make the idea worthless.
The Warm-and-Fuzzy Problem
This year’s theme is “Invest in Peace: For Everyone, Everywhere, Every Day.” The UN says peace means more than the absence of war; it includes safety, dignity, opportunity and cooperation. It also emphasizes people working within communities to bridge divisions and prevent violence (United Nations Peacekeeping, 2026).
That’s admirable.
It also sounds exactly like something designed by an international committee to look good on a poster.
The danger with commemorations like International Day of Peace is that symbolism becomes a substitute for action. Governments can talk about peace while purchasing weapons. Political leaders can praise dialogue while demonizing opponents. Countries can endorse international law when it protects their interests and suddenly discover creative interpretations of it when it doesn’t.
Ring the peace bell. Issue the statement. Take the photograph.
Then everybody gets back to business tomorrow.
If that’s all International Day of Peace amounts to, then critics are right. It’s political theater.
Except There Is Something Underneath It
There is another possibility.
Maybe the value isn’t that September 21 produces peace.
Maybe its value is that September 21 forces us to define what we’re supposedly trying to achieve.
Peace isn’t everybody agreeing.
It isn’t surrender. It isn’t weakness. It isn’t pretending injustice doesn’t exist. And it certainly isn’t allowing stronger nations or stronger people to do whatever they want while everybody else politely keeps quiet.
Peace is building institutions capable of resolving disputes without somebody eventually reaching for a weapon.
That’s harder than putting a dove on a poster.
It requires functioning courts, credible diplomacy, trustworthy institutions, economic opportunity, human rights and governments willing to accept that sometimes they don’t get everything they want.
The United Nations itself is imperfect because the countries composing it are imperfect. It can be bureaucratic, political, frustrating and sometimes spectacularly ineffective.
But here’s the uncomfortable part.
What exactly is the alternative?
A world without a place where 193 governments can at least sit in the same room and argue is not obviously an improvement.
So Commemorate the Damn Day
Not because the United Nations declared it.
Not because somebody designed a hashtag.
And not because we’re supposed to spend twenty-four hours feeling good about ourselves.
Commemorate International Day of Peace because human beings have spent thousands of years demonstrating just how easy war is.
Peace is the difficult part.
If September 21 accomplishes nothing more than reminding us that peace is something humanity has to deliberately construct, defend and repair, then maybe the day earns its square on the calendar.
Just don’t confuse commemorating peace with actually creating it.
Those are two very different things.
Sources
United Nations. (2001). International Day of Peace: Resolution adopted by the General Assembly (A/RES/55/282). United Nations Digital Library.
United Nations. (2026). International Day of Peace: 2026 messages.
United Nations Peacekeeping. (2026, September 21). International Day of Peace 2026: Invest in Peace—For Everyone, Everywhere, Every Day.
#Diplomacy #globalConflict #God #History #InternationalDayOfPeace #InternationalRelations #israel #news #peace #Politics #UnitedNations #WPSNews -
International Day of Peace: Nice Idea. Now What?
By Cliff Potts, Editor-in-Chief, WPS News
BAYBAY CITY, LEYTE, PHILIPPINES — September 21, 2026 — 22:00 PHT
Every September 21, the world observes the United Nations International Day of Peace.
And every September 21, there is an obvious question worth asking:
Does any of this actually do anything?
That isn’t an argument against peace. Peace is a wonderful idea. Most people would probably prefer that nobody bomb their neighborhood, shoot their children, sink their fishing boats, invade their country, or send them off to die because two governments have decided they can no longer tolerate one another.
That part is easy.
The harder question is whether declaring an International Day of Peace changes anything—or whether we’re participating in another annual exercise in institutional warm-and-fuzziness.
One Day Without Killing Each Other
The United Nations established the International Day of Peace in 1981. In 2001, the General Assembly went considerably further, permanently establishing September 21 as a day of global ceasefire and nonviolence and inviting nations and people engaged in conflict to stop fighting for the day (United Nations, 2001).
Think about that proposition for a moment.
One day.
Twenty-four hours.
Humanity has not exactly demonstrated an impressive ability to manage even that.
The United Nations cannot simply order the world’s armies, militias, insurgencies, governments, terrorists, revolutionaries, and assorted heavily armed lunatics to knock it off until tomorrow morning. The UN operates through member states, international law, diplomacy, peacekeeping and cooperation. Its authority has very real limits.
So yes, skepticism is justified.
But skepticism doesn’t necessarily make the idea worthless.
The Warm-and-Fuzzy Problem
This year’s theme is “Invest in Peace: For Everyone, Everywhere, Every Day.” The UN says peace means more than the absence of war; it includes safety, dignity, opportunity and cooperation. It also emphasizes people working within communities to bridge divisions and prevent violence (United Nations Peacekeeping, 2026).
That’s admirable.
It also sounds exactly like something designed by an international committee to look good on a poster.
The danger with commemorations like International Day of Peace is that symbolism becomes a substitute for action. Governments can talk about peace while purchasing weapons. Political leaders can praise dialogue while demonizing opponents. Countries can endorse international law when it protects their interests and suddenly discover creative interpretations of it when it doesn’t.
Ring the peace bell. Issue the statement. Take the photograph.
Then everybody gets back to business tomorrow.
If that’s all International Day of Peace amounts to, then critics are right. It’s political theater.
Except There Is Something Underneath It
There is another possibility.
Maybe the value isn’t that September 21 produces peace.
Maybe its value is that September 21 forces us to define what we’re supposedly trying to achieve.
Peace isn’t everybody agreeing.
It isn’t surrender. It isn’t weakness. It isn’t pretending injustice doesn’t exist. And it certainly isn’t allowing stronger nations or stronger people to do whatever they want while everybody else politely keeps quiet.
Peace is building institutions capable of resolving disputes without somebody eventually reaching for a weapon.
That’s harder than putting a dove on a poster.
It requires functioning courts, credible diplomacy, trustworthy institutions, economic opportunity, human rights and governments willing to accept that sometimes they don’t get everything they want.
The United Nations itself is imperfect because the countries composing it are imperfect. It can be bureaucratic, political, frustrating and sometimes spectacularly ineffective.
But here’s the uncomfortable part.
What exactly is the alternative?
A world without a place where 193 governments can at least sit in the same room and argue is not obviously an improvement.
So Commemorate the Damn Day
Not because the United Nations declared it.
Not because somebody designed a hashtag.
And not because we’re supposed to spend twenty-four hours feeling good about ourselves.
Commemorate International Day of Peace because human beings have spent thousands of years demonstrating just how easy war is.
Peace is the difficult part.
If September 21 accomplishes nothing more than reminding us that peace is something humanity has to deliberately construct, defend and repair, then maybe the day earns its square on the calendar.
Just don’t confuse commemorating peace with actually creating it.
Those are two very different things.
Sources
United Nations. (2001). International Day of Peace: Resolution adopted by the General Assembly (A/RES/55/282). United Nations Digital Library.
United Nations. (2026). International Day of Peace: 2026 messages.
United Nations Peacekeeping. (2026, September 21). International Day of Peace 2026: Invest in Peace—For Everyone, Everywhere, Every Day.
#Diplomacy #globalConflict #God #History #InternationalDayOfPeace #InternationalRelations #israel #news #peace #Politics #UnitedNations #WPSNews -
International Day of Peace: Nice Idea. Now What?
By Cliff Potts, Editor-in-Chief, WPS News
BAYBAY CITY, LEYTE, PHILIPPINES — September 21, 2026 — 22:00 PHT
Every September 21, the world observes the United Nations International Day of Peace.
And every September 21, there is an obvious question worth asking:
Does any of this actually do anything?
That isn’t an argument against peace. Peace is a wonderful idea. Most people would probably prefer that nobody bomb their neighborhood, shoot their children, sink their fishing boats, invade their country, or send them off to die because two governments have decided they can no longer tolerate one another.
That part is easy.
The harder question is whether declaring an International Day of Peace changes anything—or whether we’re participating in another annual exercise in institutional warm-and-fuzziness.
One Day Without Killing Each Other
The United Nations established the International Day of Peace in 1981. In 2001, the General Assembly went considerably further, permanently establishing September 21 as a day of global ceasefire and nonviolence and inviting nations and people engaged in conflict to stop fighting for the day (United Nations, 2001).
Think about that proposition for a moment.
One day.
Twenty-four hours.
Humanity has not exactly demonstrated an impressive ability to manage even that.
The United Nations cannot simply order the world’s armies, militias, insurgencies, governments, terrorists, revolutionaries, and assorted heavily armed lunatics to knock it off until tomorrow morning. The UN operates through member states, international law, diplomacy, peacekeeping and cooperation. Its authority has very real limits.
So yes, skepticism is justified.
But skepticism doesn’t necessarily make the idea worthless.
The Warm-and-Fuzzy Problem
This year’s theme is “Invest in Peace: For Everyone, Everywhere, Every Day.” The UN says peace means more than the absence of war; it includes safety, dignity, opportunity and cooperation. It also emphasizes people working within communities to bridge divisions and prevent violence (United Nations Peacekeeping, 2026).
That’s admirable.
It also sounds exactly like something designed by an international committee to look good on a poster.
The danger with commemorations like International Day of Peace is that symbolism becomes a substitute for action. Governments can talk about peace while purchasing weapons. Political leaders can praise dialogue while demonizing opponents. Countries can endorse international law when it protects their interests and suddenly discover creative interpretations of it when it doesn’t.
Ring the peace bell. Issue the statement. Take the photograph.
Then everybody gets back to business tomorrow.
If that’s all International Day of Peace amounts to, then critics are right. It’s political theater.
Except There Is Something Underneath It
There is another possibility.
Maybe the value isn’t that September 21 produces peace.
Maybe its value is that September 21 forces us to define what we’re supposedly trying to achieve.
Peace isn’t everybody agreeing.
It isn’t surrender. It isn’t weakness. It isn’t pretending injustice doesn’t exist. And it certainly isn’t allowing stronger nations or stronger people to do whatever they want while everybody else politely keeps quiet.
Peace is building institutions capable of resolving disputes without somebody eventually reaching for a weapon.
That’s harder than putting a dove on a poster.
It requires functioning courts, credible diplomacy, trustworthy institutions, economic opportunity, human rights and governments willing to accept that sometimes they don’t get everything they want.
The United Nations itself is imperfect because the countries composing it are imperfect. It can be bureaucratic, political, frustrating and sometimes spectacularly ineffective.
But here’s the uncomfortable part.
What exactly is the alternative?
A world without a place where 193 governments can at least sit in the same room and argue is not obviously an improvement.
So Commemorate the Damn Day
Not because the United Nations declared it.
Not because somebody designed a hashtag.
And not because we’re supposed to spend twenty-four hours feeling good about ourselves.
Commemorate International Day of Peace because human beings have spent thousands of years demonstrating just how easy war is.
Peace is the difficult part.
If September 21 accomplishes nothing more than reminding us that peace is something humanity has to deliberately construct, defend and repair, then maybe the day earns its square on the calendar.
Just don’t confuse commemorating peace with actually creating it.
Those are two very different things.
Sources
United Nations. (2001). International Day of Peace: Resolution adopted by the General Assembly (A/RES/55/282). United Nations Digital Library.
United Nations. (2026). International Day of Peace: 2026 messages.
United Nations Peacekeeping. (2026, September 21). International Day of Peace 2026: Invest in Peace—For Everyone, Everywhere, Every Day.
#Diplomacy #globalConflict #God #History #InternationalDayOfPeace #InternationalRelations #israel #news #peace #Politics #UnitedNations #WPSNews -
International Day of Peace: Nice Idea. Now What?
By Cliff Potts, Editor-in-Chief, WPS News
BAYBAY CITY, LEYTE, PHILIPPINES — September 21, 2026 — 22:00 PHT
Every September 21, the world observes the United Nations International Day of Peace.
And every September 21, there is an obvious question worth asking:
Does any of this actually do anything?
That isn’t an argument against peace. Peace is a wonderful idea. Most people would probably prefer that nobody bomb their neighborhood, shoot their children, sink their fishing boats, invade their country, or send them off to die because two governments have decided they can no longer tolerate one another.
That part is easy.
The harder question is whether declaring an International Day of Peace changes anything—or whether we’re participating in another annual exercise in institutional warm-and-fuzziness.
One Day Without Killing Each Other
The United Nations established the International Day of Peace in 1981. In 2001, the General Assembly went considerably further, permanently establishing September 21 as a day of global ceasefire and nonviolence and inviting nations and people engaged in conflict to stop fighting for the day (United Nations, 2001).
Think about that proposition for a moment.
One day.
Twenty-four hours.
Humanity has not exactly demonstrated an impressive ability to manage even that.
The United Nations cannot simply order the world’s armies, militias, insurgencies, governments, terrorists, revolutionaries, and assorted heavily armed lunatics to knock it off until tomorrow morning. The UN operates through member states, international law, diplomacy, peacekeeping and cooperation. Its authority has very real limits.
So yes, skepticism is justified.
But skepticism doesn’t necessarily make the idea worthless.
The Warm-and-Fuzzy Problem
This year’s theme is “Invest in Peace: For Everyone, Everywhere, Every Day.” The UN says peace means more than the absence of war; it includes safety, dignity, opportunity and cooperation. It also emphasizes people working within communities to bridge divisions and prevent violence (United Nations Peacekeeping, 2026).
That’s admirable.
It also sounds exactly like something designed by an international committee to look good on a poster.
The danger with commemorations like International Day of Peace is that symbolism becomes a substitute for action. Governments can talk about peace while purchasing weapons. Political leaders can praise dialogue while demonizing opponents. Countries can endorse international law when it protects their interests and suddenly discover creative interpretations of it when it doesn’t.
Ring the peace bell. Issue the statement. Take the photograph.
Then everybody gets back to business tomorrow.
If that’s all International Day of Peace amounts to, then critics are right. It’s political theater.
Except There Is Something Underneath It
There is another possibility.
Maybe the value isn’t that September 21 produces peace.
Maybe its value is that September 21 forces us to define what we’re supposedly trying to achieve.
Peace isn’t everybody agreeing.
It isn’t surrender. It isn’t weakness. It isn’t pretending injustice doesn’t exist. And it certainly isn’t allowing stronger nations or stronger people to do whatever they want while everybody else politely keeps quiet.
Peace is building institutions capable of resolving disputes without somebody eventually reaching for a weapon.
That’s harder than putting a dove on a poster.
It requires functioning courts, credible diplomacy, trustworthy institutions, economic opportunity, human rights and governments willing to accept that sometimes they don’t get everything they want.
The United Nations itself is imperfect because the countries composing it are imperfect. It can be bureaucratic, political, frustrating and sometimes spectacularly ineffective.
But here’s the uncomfortable part.
What exactly is the alternative?
A world without a place where 193 governments can at least sit in the same room and argue is not obviously an improvement.
So Commemorate the Damn Day
Not because the United Nations declared it.
Not because somebody designed a hashtag.
And not because we’re supposed to spend twenty-four hours feeling good about ourselves.
Commemorate International Day of Peace because human beings have spent thousands of years demonstrating just how easy war is.
Peace is the difficult part.
If September 21 accomplishes nothing more than reminding us that peace is something humanity has to deliberately construct, defend and repair, then maybe the day earns its square on the calendar.
Just don’t confuse commemorating peace with actually creating it.
Those are two very different things.
Sources
United Nations. (2001). International Day of Peace: Resolution adopted by the General Assembly (A/RES/55/282). United Nations Digital Library.
United Nations. (2026). International Day of Peace: 2026 messages.
United Nations Peacekeeping. (2026, September 21). International Day of Peace 2026: Invest in Peace—For Everyone, Everywhere, Every Day.
#Diplomacy #globalConflict #God #History #InternationalDayOfPeace #InternationalRelations #israel #news #peace #Politics #UnitedNations #WPSNews -
Antediluvian Freemasonry refers to the tradition in some jurisdictions that Freemasonry existed prior to the Flood.
References to Noah, the Ark and the rigid principles of Biblical, pre-historical times can be found in references to morals and personal standards linked to some Masonic rituals in use today
#Freemasonry #Freimaurerei #Masonry #2B1ASK1 #History #Literature #Religion
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Antediluvian Freemasonry refers to the tradition in some jurisdictions that Freemasonry existed prior to the Flood.
References to Noah, the Ark and the rigid principles of Biblical, pre-historical times can be found in references to morals and personal standards linked to some Masonic rituals in use today
#Freemasonry #Freimaurerei #Masonry #2B1ASK1 #History #Literature #Religion
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Antediluvian Freemasonry refers to the tradition in some jurisdictions that Freemasonry existed prior to the Flood.
References to Noah, the Ark and the rigid principles of Biblical, pre-historical times can be found in references to morals and personal standards linked to some Masonic rituals in use today
#Freemasonry #Freimaurerei #Masonry #2B1ASK1 #History #Literature #Religion
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Antediluvian Freemasonry refers to the tradition in some jurisdictions that Freemasonry existed prior to the Flood.
References to Noah, the Ark and the rigid principles of Biblical, pre-historical times can be found in references to morals and personal standards linked to some Masonic rituals in use today
#Freemasonry #Freimaurerei #Masonry #2B1ASK1 #History #Literature #Religion
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Antediluvian Freemasonry refers to the tradition in some jurisdictions that Freemasonry existed prior to the Flood.
References to Noah, the Ark and the rigid principles of Biblical, pre-historical times can be found in references to morals and personal standards linked to some Masonic rituals in use today
#Freemasonry #Freimaurerei #Masonry #2B1ASK1 #History #Literature #Religion
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What A Beautiful Noise
Join George Krupinski, in a program that offers a unique listening experience as we delve into the deeper meaning behind popular songs and unpack the lyricist's message to uncover the raw emotions and life experiences that inspired them...Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/what-a-beautiful-noise/
#AusPods #Podcasts #Podcasting #Australia #Music #Commentary #History
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BLOG ALERT! I have published a new blog: We Didn’t Start the Fire: 1964-1969. You can read it for free at https://somegeektoldme.com/2026/09/21/we-didnt-start-the-fire-1964-1969/ #Music #History
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BLOG ALERT! I have published a new blog: We Didn’t Start the Fire: 1964-1969. You can read it for free at https://somegeektoldme.com/2026/09/21/we-didnt-start-the-fire-1964-1969/ #Music #History
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BLOG ALERT! I have published a new blog: We Didn’t Start the Fire: 1964-1969. You can read it for free at https://somegeektoldme.com/2026/09/21/we-didnt-start-the-fire-1964-1969/ #Music #History
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BLOG ALERT! I have published a new blog: We Didn’t Start the Fire: 1964-1969. You can read it for free at https://somegeektoldme.com/2026/09/21/we-didnt-start-the-fire-1964-1969/ #Music #History
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BLOG ALERT! I have published a new blog: We Didn’t Start the Fire: 1964-1969. You can read it for free at https://somegeektoldme.com/2026/09/21/we-didnt-start-the-fire-1964-1969/ #Music #History
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Eindhoven in transitie: van Campina zuivelfabriek naar Caai! Lees er meer over:
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Eindhoven in transitie: van Campina zuivelfabriek naar Caai! Lees er meer over:
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Eindhoven in transitie: van Campina zuivelfabriek naar Caai! Lees er meer over:
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Eindhoven in transitie: van Campina naar Caai! Inmiddels zijn er al bewoners ingetrokken! links het terrein in 2011, midden: de fabriek is inmiddels verlaten, rechts de Caai in aanbouw 2024. Lees er meer over:
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Eindhoven in transitie: van Campina naar Caai! Inmiddels zijn er al bewoners ingetrokken! links het terrein in 2011, midden: de fabriek is inmiddels verlaten, rechts de Caai in aanbouw 2024. Lees er meer over:
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Eindhoven in transitie: van Campina naar Caai! Inmiddels zijn er al bewoners ingetrokken! links het terrein in 2011, midden: de fabriek is inmiddels verlaten, rechts de Caai in aanbouw 2024. Lees er meer over:
https://www.bpd.nl/ons-werk/regio-zuid/de-caai-eindhoven/
historische foto's met Zuivelinrichting Campina op Eindhoven in Beeld: https://eindhoveninbeeld.com/photolist_nivo3.php?nivo3_gr1=DMV%20Campina
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Eindhoven in transitie: van Campina naar Caai! Inmiddels zijn er al bewoners ingetrokken! links het terrein in 2011, midden: de fabriek is inmiddels verlaten, rechts de Caai in aanbouw 2024. Lees er meer over:
https://www.bpd.nl/ons-werk/regio-zuid/de-caai-eindhoven/
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https://www.bpd.nl/ons-werk/regio-zuid/de-caai-eindhoven/
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Teenagent, released in 1994
Released for: Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, DOS, Amiga
Point-and-click; Puzzle; Adventure
Comedy, Mystery
spy, detective, parody, military, robots, abandonware, time manipulation, graphic adventure, espionage, freeware, camera, mud, dog, singing, swimming, hide and seek, chef, darkness, single-player only, young protagonist, underwater gameplay, bribery, plot twist, teenager, agents, kidnapping, escaping imprisonment, secret identity, point of no return, hidden room, unrequited love, bartender, male protagonist, gog preservation program, scummvm compatibleFrom the Internet Games Database
https://www.igdb.com/games/teenagent#games #adventures #pointnclick #adventuregames #old #history #retrocomputing #retrogaming #retro #image #screenshots #1990s #90s #spy #detective #parody #military #robots #abandonware #timemanipulation #graphicadventure #espionage #freeware #camera #mud #dog #singing #swimming #hideandseek #chef #darkness #singleplayeronly #youngprotagonist #underwatergameplay #bribery #plottwist #teenager #agents #kidnapping #escapingimprisonment #secretidentity #pointofnoreturn #hiddenroom #unrequitedlove #bartender #maleprotagonist #gogpreservationprogram #scummvmcompatible #linux #win #mac #dos #amiga #comedy #mystery
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Teenagent, released in 1994
Released for: Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, DOS, Amiga
Point-and-click; Puzzle; Adventure
Comedy, Mystery
spy, detective, parody, military, robots, abandonware, time manipulation, graphic adventure, espionage, freeware, camera, mud, dog, singing, swimming, hide and seek, chef, darkness, single-player only, young protagonist, underwater gameplay, bribery, plot twist, teenager, agents, kidnapping, escaping imprisonment, secret identity, point of no return, hidden room, unrequited love, bartender, male protagonist, gog preservation program, scummvm compatibleFrom the Internet Games Database
https://www.igdb.com/games/teenagent#games #adventures #pointnclick #adventuregames #old #history #retrocomputing #retrogaming #retro #image #screenshots #1990s #90s #spy #detective #parody #military #robots #abandonware #timemanipulation #graphicadventure #espionage #freeware #camera #mud #dog #singing #swimming #hideandseek #chef #darkness #singleplayeronly #youngprotagonist #underwatergameplay #bribery #plottwist #teenager #agents #kidnapping #escapingimprisonment #secretidentity #pointofnoreturn #hiddenroom #unrequitedlove #bartender #maleprotagonist #gogpreservationprogram #scummvmcompatible #linux #win #mac #dos #amiga #comedy #mystery