Hello Hawk, I am just up very early for a while, contemplating and then deciding against making a trade.
On this, <<It's to our advantage to force the Chinese to restrain him.. even if that means permitting Japan to "go nuclear" (which would not thrill Bejing)>> ... we have come full circle or ellipsoid:
Message 18399762
January 3rd, 2003
On this, <<The demographic trend is obvious for all you choose to acknowlege it ... It's the "pig going through the python" in the middle east ... "clash of civilizations">>
I actually do acknowledge it, like here Message 16086949 (July 17th, 2001), like so <<<<I have no confusion in the current international financial, equity, political, military, technological, demographic and climatic conditions>> and this makes you particularly dangerous to yourself, because blips, bumps and butterflies taking off can be indicative of some nasty pending earthquake or storm coming our way, and not of the inconsequential proportions>> and like thus Message 15626709 (Apr 6, 2001).
On this <<there's a damn good reason that religions should be subservient to a social structure, rather than the other way around. Religions should battle for hearts and minds peacefully, not militarily. And the only way this can feasibly occur, IMO, is when a secular democratic government>>, Yes, ideally, but no, not likely, because much time had been wasted over the past 100 years, and now the ball on the incline is picking up downward momentum, and the Iraqi initiatives may just have given the developing trend that extra bit of ooomph.
... and ...
Message 16336760
September 12th, 2001
<<... The rule to be followed during crisis is simple: stop, think, decide, and then act ... Yes, an undeclared war is now announced, by parties as yet unknown, transforming all into fair, but not game, turning the whole world into what has been the deserts of Arabia, devoid of life, and with the world divided right down the middle, sadness against joy, rich against poor, mighty against wretched, one colored people against another, culture against civilization, a god against the god, promising endless night, just as some hoped for, others wished for, and a few promised with terrible acts of inhumanity ... I am still waiting for the world’s leaderships to explain to all the population, “what has to happen now” ... Should the answer be “kill, maim, and destroy”, then the world is as it was yesterday, and eons past ... Should, on the other hand, the answer be a new world order based on civilization, culture, peace, growth, choice, and respect for others, then the need for this thread is no more ... Through the connectedness of a complex of future events, of which yesterday’s tragedy is an event singularity, and out of the current chaos with the world at the edge of abyss, we have an opportunity for a better way ... the WTC event singularity was a clear irrefutable wrong ... if the WTC event complexity is in anyway related to the events in the Middle East, then right vs. wrong of the complexity cannot be assigned to any single party, and if it is assigned in arbitrary and one sided fashion, then the event complexity, fractal-scaled up, will turn the whole world into Lebanon, and this thread may chronicle events a long time into the future ... I therefore did not want to waste time assigning responsibility for the event complexity ... Killing the innocent is simply wrong. Unless we collectively act to stop it in the future, each in our own way, we are then responsible ... The world has been living with Israel, Palestine, Northern Ireland, Bosnia, Chechnya, Singkiang, Indonesia, etc. and now, New York.>>
There is a chance that the route now chosen and apparently with your concurrence, will not get us to the correct solution, and in fact may have introduced a few more independent and dependent variables into the existing set of simultaneous equations without having concurrently shown us new equations, leading to null for solution.
There is also a chance that events may work out as you seem to believe.
Chugs, Jay |
