RE: Bonesaw Wielding Gog and Magog
January 13, 2019 at 8:01 am
(This post was last modified: January 13, 2019 at 8:19 am by WinterHold.)
(January 12, 2019 at 4:03 pm)Brian37 Wrote: Yes we have brains, and humans don't always use them.
My point is human conflict is far older than Sunnis and Shiites and Jews and Christians.
I agree, we should share those resources. Maybe the real issue is that we have 62 uber billionaires worldwide from several nations, friend and foe alike, whom have the combined wealth of 3 billion of the rest of humanity.
Again, in my perfect world there would be no greed, no war. But as it stands now, between the closed states of Saudi Arabia, Iran and the west whose governments allow criticism of power, while we are not perfect, we have more opportunity to challenge our powers without using violence.
I don't just know you here. I have run into people on line from Iran too, people from Israel, whom feel like I do. That we are stuck, all of us, under powers whom forget that we are not a separate species.
There really are good people everywhere. But there is nothing good about forgetting we are not a separate species.
I don't want a war with Iran, or Saudi Arabia, and I have not always been happy with our military actions. But, the reality is that our planet is all connected and both friend and foe alike have nukes. Getting involved or staying out is not a cut and dry thing. I wish it were, but it isn't.
But please trust me regardless, I hate our right wing, I hate Trump and I hate Bibi.
And of course Native Americans were treated like shit because of religion, so were blacks and women, and gays too.
Religion in all its labels, is a horrible way to conduct political diplomacy, because nobody can agree as to which religion/sect should lead. You cant rid the world of it, but humans can do better to put a wall between religion and politics.
Atlass very serious question outside religion for you.
In theory if you could visit me, and stay with me in my house, do you think I would have you arrested or murdered? If the answer is "no" then that should tell you you cant think in terms of black and white. I hate that life is messy, and I hate that humans fight. But neither you or me have super powers to get a perfect world.
The world today is not evolving around "closed states VS open states": it is evolving around the super powers and their interest only.
The rest of the world is very marginal; usually it is "used" to satisfy the goals and interests of a sponsor superpower.
Take Saudi Arabia for example. Its sponsor is the USA, a very large chunk of the state's economy is invested in the sponsor's homeland, the sponsor's military has the right to act like a native army too. In the throne of this place there is a corrupted, not elected family that rules with a fist of steel, the ruling family is kept loyal by giving it the allowance to do whatever it wants with lots of the money. Any attempt to shake their throne is met with the sponsor's intervention. Any attempt to break free from the sponsor's circle of influence is met harshly and probably the politician who lead the break will be hanged; executed.
This equation, Brian, is what makes thousands of dictators safe and well.
There is no chance that the western governments don't know about the brutalities taking place in the prisons of their sponsored regimes. There is even official evidence that superpowers helped too in the torturing and killing of locals who refused this sad reality and wanted change.
(January 12, 2019 at 4:03 pm)Brian37 Wrote:
Atlass very serious question outside religion for you.
In theory if you could visit me, and stay with me in my house, do you think I would have you arrested or murdered? If the answer is "no" then that should tell you you cant think in terms of black and white. I hate that life is messy, and I hate that humans fight. But neither you or me have super powers to get a perfect world.
I knew you for a long time -since 2014; maybe??-, so I doubt that you will get me arrested, or tell an Arab embassy about my existence, in other words I can trust you
Black and white are mere skin colors and everybody know it; even racists. It's very ironic and sad that a human might be so desperate to believe in a label; it's so sad to find no label to defend but your own "skin-color". Tells you a lot about how backward a racist is. We have no superpower but even the tiniest thing can make a difference.
