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the god conflict

The only thing one could say to your beautiful upheaval is that, the world has known countless instances where unfortunately violence has been the cure.

We can look closely at WWII Germany, whose victims were largely Jewish, but also included homosexuals and other dissidents. We can look at the American Civil War, which was waged for a variety of reasons but whose final goal was the elimination of cattle slavery.

We can see Western militariam as a whole as an act of women's liberation.

One is unable to see this world as it is without aggressive means to produce change we needed.it has been a slow process, but the world has come, largely, to see it our way, especially on the front of women's liberation–simply can't see it as occuring any other way.

One believes that we are nearing your strategy, and our hopelessness must ultimately include it, because this force and violence cannot proceed into the distant future. Obviously, peace is the last and final and holy destination.

Thanks for your reply, it hit very deeply.

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we are getting dumber

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Thank you for the reply. With all due respect to our elder, one would argue this doesn't entirely have to do with education, as such.

Americans have long been socialized to be 'doers' of things, not thinkers. So while our European counterparts in the West were still critically thinking, we were building skyscrapers and dune buggies. It's a difference in kind, not in degree.

However, we literally couldn't build a skyscraper anymore without immigrants from other, less coddled cultures. We have fallen into a trap of 'safety-ism'. A Buddhist concept of 'do no harm' (ahimsa) denuded of its cultural significance.

If one adds this cultural dimension stripped of raw 'doer' mentality to the incumbent anti-intellectual nature of our culture, we are left not only with unthinking people, but gutless people as well.

The idea is that this strange combination is infantilizing the humans within its grip, and stripping them of their moral and experiential character—character producing morality based on experience.

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people are like fish

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Each of your friends will have six friends, and each of them will have six friends, etc.

Or maybe you're in a cult, which is interesting.

That web, or branching out, forms a psychic linking, which creates a much larger group than you're aware that you're involved with.

Just being involved in a clique doesn't mean that clique isn't part of a broader ideological set, which is likely involved in a much larger group mind, in which you involuntarily participate.

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the Koran defends women much more than the Bible, in terms of law

This is not a defense of Islam. It is a statement about literature.

In the category of wisdom, you basically have two camps. One says repression leads to stronger outcomes. The other says liberation does so.

It really doesn't have anything to do with literature. This culture or that culture can say, here is our guiding light.

But the literature of Islam, directly connected to Koranic teaching, seems, from a medieval perspective, to favor women. That's why it's so ironic.

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we are getting dumber

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One thinks you have a whole system now that tell people their primary contribution is to take pictures of themselves.

In all the technological advances one has seen, the primary change-over was social media. It's a 'me' world, not a 'we' world.

But one hopes and prays that it is a blip on the screen. People will realize their mobiles are destroying society, and put them down.

We didn't build this world, we inherited it. We woke up in a world totally designed for our welfare. And we take it for granted.

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obscure destiny

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Beloved, that was a great response. Let us dwell on it for a moment. As siblings.

Please keep trying to capture the truth.

One just speaks to the rooster on the other side of the fence, there is no special knowledge here that cannot be found elsewhere.

Your thought expresses humility, which is a rare quality. The original theory was that 'seemingness' does not equal actual reality.

If you actually possess that knowledge, which you express ... accuracy over content ... then we are not far apart.

Much love to my siblings. We are all one. We are trying to work it out. Believe we will succeed, though the flow is infinite.

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Predictive History: Geo-Strategy #8: The Iran Trap

Please give examples of satellite technology during Antiquity ... Will accept oracle's, magical devices we can no longer make sense of, and supernatural mental powers...

Regardless, Athens and Sparta were similar cultures, ethnographically. A better analogy would be Brittish Empire vs. American Colonies... Reconquista resulting in Ferdinand and Isabella overthrowing the Iberian Islamic Caliphate, or Andalus.

Due to virtual geological isolation, the likely downfall for the US oligarchy would be a sharp and violent civil war. They could afford to lose a variety of foreign adventures, in our highly technological world, without actually falling.

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people are like fish

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That's clever.

Never went to university, so one is much less intelligent than you, thanks for taking the time to point that out.

There is a change coming that will force us to realize our individual potential. But first we must realize we were in Pisces, the fish period of humanity.

As we move into a new age, and the world challenges that accompany that transition, we will be forced to progress as a species.

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why is Iran an outlier?

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You can't blame a single group of thinkers. They think this way, but they are adaptable.

Look, the CIA is a serious set of people who cannot be trifled with. But they are adaptable, as are any group of humans.

We change the woeld by insisting that humans must be free. But also, free from. Free from truly nefarious actors who only want control.

Maybe CIA people are against that. Maybe that's why they do what they do.

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Should Ukraine... just keep going?

The only way to beat/conquer the Russian identity is to exhaust it. History has not found a way of doing this. As yet.

Russians who go abroad and/or spend a lot of time among people in the West come to see a different way; one which they often and ultimately embrace, only to never return to their home country.

But we all know that 'travel' is not a cure for identity crisis. People travel and often learn nothing. Even those in the West.

The thing that brought the Russian culture to overthrow the Czarist rule was not a magical political theory that was absolutely amazing, but cruel oppression and ignorant government institutions for years on end, as they watched a burgeoning elite embrace and benefit from European values. Revolution often finds merely convenient means and theories, as an escape route.

If we assume the Czarist impulse which bled into the Soviet system will never be satiated in its hunger for expansion, all we can do is what one's older, wiser brother does to its enraged younger brother: put your hand on his forehead, extend your arm, and let him swing away.

Otherwise you have to beat him to a pulp. But usually younger brothers don't have nuclear arsenals.

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Why do people hate my opinion so much?

It's not about criminals. More native born people in this country are criminals by far. Do you want to deported them as well?

It was always about deterrent. Fine. We let all these people in. But we have our own problems that we must address first.

And it is sad that so many people were affected. But the previous administration threw out all of the rules and let countless people flood in while neglecting their own population so rich people could get richer.

Now it must end. The deterrence was quite effective. And deporting was never as important as enforcing border laws.

Do we have a country or not? If thry can enforce their laws on me, why not them?

Obviously because rich people need maids and low-wage workers.

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𝑲𝒊𝒏𝒈'𝒔 𝑻𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔 𝒐𝒏 𝑵𝒊𝒆𝒕𝒛𝒔𝒄𝒉𝒆, 𝑮𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒉𝒊, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑭𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒂𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒂𝒍 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑳𝒊𝒃𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒍 𝑰𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒕𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝑪𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒕𝒚

White man. Slept next to a biracial black-asian man for 12 years. Diverse group of friends. Enjoyed both soul food, and food from Seoul.

Wealth stratification remains the main problem. Use of identity politics and DEI and race-guilt is a method employed by the elites to divide us.

Keep digging into the past, and utilizing emotional manipulation to further the cause of the true dividers and one will discover the dystopia unimaginable even to MLK.