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RosieG

What exactly have we learned from war that has changed us? Despite predictable words/appropriate somberness nothing changes. WHY?

Bottom line? Humans LOVE war and find ways to defend them and create situations for them. Making/selling War stuff makes lotsa people lotsa money. They don't give a rat's a** what they have to do to make more of the stuff. Humans LOVE blood and gore and death and carnage and maiming. They keep track of such things. I suppose the more of "the enemy" you kill the prouder your country should be. Right? Numbers. All the deaths are simply numbers except to those who know some who died. To the rest of us? Numbers. Cold and removed and faceless/nameless. We give medals for extreme bravery. We give medals for all kinds of righteous reasons. Why don't we just figure out how in the he** to stop making the reasons for giving medals OBSOLETE? Of course that means making less money. The US budget for military spending is huge. What would happen if human beings finally became humane and just stopped killing one another? I know. Pipedream right?

Posted - May 30, 2017
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  • 22891
    i wish they didnt have wars around at all
      May 30, 2017 2:24 PM MDT
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  • 1326
    Isaiah 2:4 "he will render judgment among the nations and set matters straight respecting many peoples. They will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning shears. Nation will not lift up sword against nation, nor will they learn war anymore." One day soon this prophecy will come true. Only God has the power to fulfill this prophecy.
      June 8, 2017 11:54 PM MDT
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  • 113301
    "One day soon...".  How long is soon Autumn? Thank you for your thoughtful reply m'dear and Happy Friday! :)
      June 9, 2017 4:20 AM MDT
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  • 2657
    Hi RosieG and Autumnleaves. 
    (Matthew 24:3) While he was sitting on the Mount of Olives, the disciples approached him privately, saying: “Tell us, when will these things be, and what will be the sign of your presence and of the conclusion of the system of things?”
    (Matthew 24:7, 8) “For nation will rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be food shortages and earthquakes in one place after another. 8 All these things are a beginning of pangs of distress.
    (Matthew 24:14) And this good news of the Kingdom will be preached in all the inhabited earth for a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come.
    (Matthew 24:32) “Now learn this illustration from the fig tree: Just as soon as its young branch grows tender and sprouts its leaves, you know that summer is near.
    (Matthew 24:36-39) “Concerning that day and hour nobody knows, neither the angels of the heavens nor the Son, but only the Father. 37 For just as the days of Noah were, so the presence of the Son of man will be. 38 For as they were in those days before the Flood, eating and drinking, men marrying and women being given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, 39 and they took no note until the Flood came and swept them all away, so the presence of the Son of man will be.
      June 13, 2017 4:22 AM MDT
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  • 113301
    Thank you for your very thoughtful and informative reply and Happy Tuesday tex! :)
      June 13, 2017 4:33 AM MDT
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  • 2657
    You're welcome. The scriptures in this video may be of interest. He quotes and sites them so you can look them up in your Bible or if you don't have time, you can just listen.
    https://tv.jw.org/#en/mediaitems/LatestVideos/pub-jwb_201706_9_VIDEO
    Morality in the Last Days (2 Tim. 3:13)

      June 13, 2017 5:07 AM MDT
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