WAR AND PEACE?
By
Bob Rollins
Peace? What would that be like? I guess that on an individual level, we all can, at some time in our life, experience peace, VERY BRIEFLY.
But, world peace? It isn't going to happen unless we wipe out the human race! There has never been, in the history of man, a moment of true peace.
I only need to site one example. How many times after a Football game, or Soccer game or any other major sporting event takes place do you see or hear of RIOTS, MURDERS, BURNING OF HOMES, CARS AND ANYTHING ELSE THAT THESE RIDICULOUS FANS TAKE INTO THEIR HEAD TO DESTROY!
If you can't even have a simple game in peace, how do you expect to have world peace?
I have seen two good friends who have played a card game, got into a fight and one got a gun and shot the other to death. Then cried and could not explain why! She was drunk, but that wouldn't cause that, would it?
How many reasons are there to start a war?
Think about it. What kind of EGO must someone have to think that He or She should be the RULER over millions of people? I do mean RULER! Forget PRESIDENT OR PRIME MINISTER OR EMPEROR, OR WHATEVER! RULER is how these people see themselves and don't you think otherwise! If one of the RULERS should do something that upsets the other, you've got a war! If one has something the other wants, there you go! And if one knows he or she has an Army that can't be defeated, how BRAVE does that make him or her? What kind of person is able to force thousands of men and women to go out and DIE for his personal agenda, like, well let's say, OIL, or Land that he or she wants to control. And, you can elect (if it weren't the ELECTORAL COLLEGE that did the Electing) someone else to try to stop this, but they will have their own agenda too. So you wind up in a new war!
Remember, "POWER CORRUPTS AND ABSOLUTE POWER CORRUPTS ABSOLUTELY"and this never changes. IF you are intelligent, one look at ancient history of RULERS would teach you this!
(Origin
This arose as a quotation by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, first Baron Acton (1834–1902). The historian and moralist, who was otherwise known simply as Lord Acton, expressed this opinion in a letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton in 1887:
"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men."
Another English politician with no shortage of names - William Pitt, the Elder, The Earl of Chatham and British Prime Minister from 1766 to 1778, is sometimes wrongly attributed as the source. He did say something similar, in a speech to the UK House of Lords in 1770:
"Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it"
And, as we have seen, having a large body of representatives won't have a lot of control over a really forceful RULER! Furthermore, these "Representatives" often have an agenda of their own and they also have "POWER" having it's effect on them too!
Copyright © Gary Martin, 1996 - 2008)
Remember, even the BIBLE is not a book of PEACE, much as all of you would like to believe!
What is it in the 10 Commandments?
Thou Shalt Not Kill
And no sooner were these words, supposedly written by GOD himself, carved in stone, GOD orders Joshua to WIPE OUT A CITY, Man, Woman and INNOCENT Child, just so they could occupy this place? With all the immense land available to the Israelites, GOD wants to WIPE OUT A CITY THAT WAS STANDING THERE FOR OVER 9,000 YEARS before Joshua was born! This was a City that was older then than the total age of the Jewish Religion to date! Yes, most archaeologists don't believe this tale actually took place, but the fact that the Hebrews thought this was such a great story of the FINE WORKS OF THE HEBREWS, they would use it in their TORAH, says something about the "PEACEFUL" nature of the race.
Where is the PEACE in this? This book (the Bible) is Chock Full of wars fought in the Name Of GOD over places that no one needed or under any other circumstances would want.
And you want or expect to have Peace???? NEVER!
OF COURSE, THIS IS JUST MY OPINION, AND YOU KNOW ABOUT THEM!
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