First, as those who know f my postings from way back,know i despise Saddam and wish he was done with in 1991.
I also feel that we could have in some way taken him out over the past 12 years but we didn't because i feel for some reason that was never the top priority.
Regards chain of events in the Iraqi matter singularly, it is ourselves, the U.S., that by providing chemical and biological weapons technology and training during the 1980s to Saddam Hussein and his regime, we, did, in fact, contribute importantly to his rising to a fierce despot going into 1991.
Go back to the chain of events that pawned the disastrous Iranian Fundamentalist repressive revolution, it was again, because we had sustained and poured our power to keep the Despotic Shah of Iran in power.
The U.S. has consistently been a marvel at hiding its' underlying guilt in much that has gone wrong, in a world that has gone wrong.
We have now gone full circle and are destroying the beast we once feed and encouraged.
And in doing so, in doing so in a arrogant brutishness, and calling upon G-d just like the other fanatics call Allah
we have brought the whole concept of G-d into the gutter, the sewer of world events.
You say you believe in prophecy, my variance is that the All-Transcendant Supreme be NOT of this world, but forsees our folly, our madness and perceives the future results of it.
That is to say, prophecy fulfilled is NOT by way of the hand the G-d/G-ddess(my G-d is both feminine/masculine and yes, even genders and personas we can't conceive--so far beyond just human it stretches beyond all understanding)--no, not by the guiding hand of G-d, but, instead prophecy fulfilled is the correct perception of where humankind itself will lead itself.
The chain of events i myself sense happening now are probably having certain common ground with yours but i place the responsibility for this bad ending, this dead ending historia totally on the shoulders of humankind, and most specifically the dreadful direction set up by the herds idols, their false gods.
Don't follow leaders rule number one. But humankind does, the herd has a hopeless addiction to leaders of the packs and THEIR flags.
And i could go on and on -- but hey Arnold Toynbee ALREADY as written the immense work on this, volumes of genius, of scholarship he put on paper.
And in the concluding of the last volume he gives the only hope but he does so not to make this a as requirement that this hope be one's personal belief in it in a manner of being a part, a member of ANY specific religion.
Excellence of character and greatness of soul is a reality in a portion of all peoples and all religions.
G-d has revealed Itself in many ways, be it through the wise utterances of Black Elk or Aurobindo or Boehme or the present Dahlai Lama and on and on.
That Toynbee points to the one you believe is also deeply wise enough to know the belief is not a requirement nor is the belief a guarantee.
In the the end it all comes down to what is written on a persons heart.
One must take the responsibility for who they are, imho.
I rest my keyboard.Max |
