(October 26, 2023 at 2:46 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: WW3 is on hold.

We apologise for the inconvenience.



Damn it, Mike!!

Hurry up and get on with it!    Nuclear winter and billions of casualties don’t cause themselves!     If you can’t exterminate mankind, at least give them a genetic bottleneck they won’t forget!

(October 26, 2023 at 5:33 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:

(October 26, 2023 at 3:53 am)Deesse23 Wrote: Its irresponsible (and completely laughable) to whip up hysteria about an upcoming World War. There are people who may be susceptible, people who already frightened, who have personal problems, etc.
What we dont need is someone like Winter who acts irresponsibly, without concern for those who might lose their sleep over the hysteria cause by him.

Other than that, in the future maybe productive discussions will be possible on this board, over controversial issues, like the near/middle east, without having a signal to noise ratio of <1. Big thumbs up from my side..

Precisely. There’s no problem discussing the possibility of another world war, but to call EVERY FUCKING CONFLICT the harbinger of a new planetary conflagration is just plain stupid (which is right in Winter’s wheelhouse).

Boru

From "Demon" by John Varley:

By Day Sixteen the news anchors were trotting out historians who spent their time debating whether the current unpleasantness should be called World War III, IV, V, the Fourth Nuclear War, or the First Interplanetary War...


The next day, Sixth Avenue was vaporized.

Still not as funny as the giant chicken.

This is a 1937 Painting by Pablo Picasso (Guernica).



 
If I am correct it used to be in the WWII part of our History book. I think the deaths and violent elements of the picture represent Spain during the Spanish Civil War. And the ghostly figures which symbols, and animals, and lamps etc. represent the conflicting populist ideologies of the Era. Like the Entire picture is a representation of the European Psyche in that Era. With the Ghosts of Communism, Fascism, Nationalism, Imperialism, Conservatism, progressisivism etc. all in conflict with one another resulting in death and destruction for everyone.
 
There is a copy of this picture in the Security Council of the UN Building in New-York.
 
Today, the world is once again turning into this Guernica. Meaning: Populism is once again on the rise. Ghosts of some ideologies are once again rising and possessing many of us. Each one of these populist interpretation are offering a solution to the problems while all they do in reality is to contribute to our collective madness. And the Result is a return to a 1914-1917 War in Ukraine or the insoluble madness we see in Israel.
 
In spiritual terms, the outer is nothing but a reflection of the inner. So this is the inner-reality right now. Let’s try to solve that

Would Picasso have been famous if he'd had a good pair of glasses?

- In cases Mr. Charlie Chaplin would have probably needed a pair of glasses of the same type. Here is the ending scene of the 1940 movie called: “The Dictator” 

"In cases..."

(November 5, 2023 at 2:42 pm)Leonardo17 Wrote: - In cases Mr. Charlie Chaplin would have probably needed a pair of glasses of the same type. Here is the ending scene of the 1940 movie called: “The Dictator” 

Chaplin later said he could never made that film if he had known about the horrors of the extermination camps.

Boru

(November 5, 2023 at 3:33 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:

(November 5, 2023 at 2:42 pm)Leonardo17 Wrote: - In cases Mr. Charlie Chaplin would have probably needed a pair of glasses of the same type. Here is the ending scene of the 1940 movie called: “The Dictator” 

Chaplin later said he could never made that film if he had known about the horrors of the extermination camps.

Boru

Go to 43:00 of the movie: I think everything was very well known about concentration camps