kardec,

Forgive me for using belief system specific terminology.

War is evil. I don't know if there is something more evil than war in physical existence, but it's up there. A war can never be any better than the lessor of two evils, if it's even that.

However, one can be either on the right side or the wrong side of a war.  A person defending against Hitler's agression would be on the right side. Rightous intent would be the determining factor here. Defending against aggression, saving lives, property and livelihood, and other instances where the use of deady force is reasonable and necessary, and all other means of prevention and/or defense have either not worked or are obviously not going to work. In other words, as a last resort after all other means have failed.

That was borrowed theology and my experience with Rules of Engagement in the US military.

We know that things happen for a reason, for the higher good and the good of ourselves as individuals, both at the macro and micro levels.  So whether a particular war or event in a war is evil or not is not something I can say with certaintly, even when appearances seem clear from the physical perspective.

At some point I hope Humankind will evolve to the point where suffering is no longer necessary for learning and evolution and the absence of Love will not prevail in any instance.

Bob

Spooky: Thanks.

"...Defending against aggression, saving lives, property and livelihood, and other instances where the use of deady force is reasonable and necessary, and all other means of prevention and/or defense have either not worked or are obviously not going to work..."

Bob,

I don’t know if you is neither American nor English but I‘ve to confess that when I read what you wrote above I saw a description of Iraqi people. So I guess the Good side in this case is that where people are in their country defending they livelihood.

I had to say that because my heart could never accept what USA made there. They were destroyed.

Sorry.

Kardec,

I didn't ask for your political opinion, nor was I inviting a political debate.  That was a corner you did not need to turn.

My nationality is not relevant, either.

You asked a question, I attempted to answer it.

People get 'destroyed' in war, that is one of the reasons it's evil. Example: when Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait, when he dropped nerve gas on the Kurds, and when he drained the swamps depended upon by the Marsh Arabs, and when terrorists put rat poison in their bombs so when they blow up the children they have targeted, those who don't die in the initial blast will bleed out and die before medical personnel can assist them (rat poison being an anti-coagulent). 

Both sides can be argued effectively as to whether the Americans, British, and other coalition forces should be over there. Personally, I am against that war, for my own reasons. But that doesn't mean I agree with you. I certainly don't agree with fallacious thinking, even my own.

Bob

FALLACIOUS = containing or based on false ideas


It's me?

Will I looked this post 625 times, so I guess there's not much doing. I'm sorry. The devil made me do it.


Just kidding, just kidding.

I have encountered some strange occurances in my dreams and an OBE:

In one OBE, a stray sexual thought sends me into a sewer like world that looks harmless enough, but with an escape a ladder leading upward with more skeletons in cages set up like a gauntlet making this horrible moaning laugher that tortured me until I performed (what I believe is) an emergency escape back to C1 (this happened automatically, thank god.)  This receives a high score on the intimidation factor.  I sense some subconscious problems being locked away like skeletons in a dungeon, you could say. (My poetic spin on what happened.)
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In another dream, I am fighting with a man who now seems harmless, but I was in "fight back mode" and could not think straight.  After running from him, I wander into some sort of hallway trap and this "Invisible Banshee" (BEST DESCRIPTION) comes screaming at me and slams into my being (my guess from the chakra vibrations I felt, stealing energy or violating my space. Perhaps a stray spirit looking for a good time with my Biological Machine?).
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Another dream that has ceased for now but seems to be a recurring one:

I am inside a darker than darkness room and a toxically negative presence (In a man from) is watching over me lying upon a cot or bed of some sort.  The man is unseen.

He reappears (assumingly) in another dream about an abandoned cabin at a summer camp where I, for half the time, am unaware that all my room mates are gone and I am alone in a "horrible" place. 

If this is what godlessness feels like, I am convinced to never forget how to love.

There is plenty, but these are my best ones that would make hollywood take me to their studios.   

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Same with my country using depleted uranium causing so many birth defects, etc. I wonder how many people really know about depleted uranium and what all the effects are from it.

Peace, Mairlyn

It is hard to resist asking what you might be doing abut this? in the spirit of Robin Hood/MacGregor/Pretty Boy Floyd, of course!

And to comment that as a part of our culture, we are the government! Democracy is a culture, not a government. The worst thing our government has done...I am reminded of Mr. Lincoln's words about fooling the people....those in government have figured out how to fool the people, and we let it happen. That is the worst thing that has happened. Now that sort of foolery is embedded in the culture. We get distracted from the real issues by other things.

I thought warfarin had to be ingested to be effective? Is it also effective when applied locally?

Is Judy Blaisdel one of the mediums Gary Schwarzt works with? I see he and a William Simon are coming out with a book on work with Allison DuBois.

Steve_Ed I always think dream experiences are things I could never think up in waking conciousness, so their fantastic (as in fantasy) nature is quite intriguing even if I don't know what it all means.

I was hoping the counter would come up on "666" for me but I got "777" instead.