"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World
War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." - A. Einstein
On 8/27/2010 8:14 PM, Deane Kellison wrote:
while i think that mankind is as vicious, savage, and murderous as
ever. I can pray you are correct. but there is the genocide in
Africa. People in this country that say capital punishment is
sanctioned by the Bible -" an eye for a eye". Corporations that
knowingly cause death and disease, and lie about it. I will grant
that murderous events are not as well organized or named (WWII ), but
they are numerous. Also, all the history I have read is replete with
accounts of people stating that there will never be another WW. As a
matter of fact, that is why what we now call WWI, was originally
called 'the war' to end all wars.
Deane
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 22:50:12 -0700
> Subject: [Mind's Eye] Re: The Phenomenon ' I '
> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
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> "... On Aug 26, 4:59 pm, Deane Kellison <[email protected]>
> wrote: ..."
>
> > do you really believe the " The days of brute force are
subsiding even though it still occurs."
>
> Without a doubt. The 20th century was arguably the bloodiest and
> deadliest century in all human history. Conservative estimates that
> more than 400 million people died violently in that hundred years.
> For almost half that time we lived under the threat of nuclear
> annihilation. I think a massive movement for peace began sometime
> after WWII and had a surge in the sixties and seventies which subsided
> by the eighties. But it merely became quieter while moving on all
> fronts. By 1990 the Soviet Empire dissolved and the threat of nuclear
> double kill ended. We will no longer see world wars. They have been
> replaced by random terrorism. That is our biggest threat and likely
> will be for some time to come. There are always those disgruntled
> enough to resort to violence but it will be random and not all that
> successful thanks to the global spy apparatus.
>
> Today there are thousands of organizations and groups of people
> dedicated to peace, non-violence, open communication and other such
> endeavors that open lines of communication, the greatest of which is
> the Internet. I believe it is a simple fact of human history that the
> more communication we have the less brutal we become.
>
> There are educational, medical and social organizations spread around
> the world to begin to heal the wounds of our past. We are well on our
> way to establishing a world peace. The fact that we have a global
> economy virtually guarantees that. People love one thing more than
> violence, and that's wealth.
