by jam 40 Replies latest watchtower bible
Who are we fooling, as long as we humans exist there
will never be peace even under God's rule.
I think GOD realize he have created a mess and said screw this
and have left us on our own.
Each day there is another crisis, what's next...
There is no solution to bring harmony among mankind, hell
God had a mess in heaven.
It's very depressing to wake up each day and face this world
that GOD created (supposedly).
Sorry to be so negative about our future, our future
is in the toilet.
Here's a book to help you feel better, "The Better Angels of our Nature" by Steven Pinker. Remember that peace stories are boring so they rarely make headlines.
The good news on poverty from Bono.
We no longer brutalize criminals as we did during the dark ages.
jgnat: Thanks. Woke up in a bad mood this morning..
Do you drink coffee?
I'm unfailingly annoying in the morning. I wake up chirping like a bird. If you want to catch me at my worst, you have to wake me up at midnight (which my teenage children used to do, to discuss the stunning dramas of their lives).
ditto what jgnat said about Pinker's book.
I am very optimistic for the future of mankind.
jgnat: Don't drink coffee (anxiety problems), maybe I was
in a bad mood because the wife didn't give me my kiss when
she left early to baby sit the grandkids.LOL
But seriously the world is not in great shape....Yes we
have come a long way but have so far to go...The crisis in
Iraq (people trapped on mountain) WTH, genocide...
I don't know about god(s).
The Lessons of History, they concluded: "In the last 3,421 years of recorded history only 268 have seen no war" (p. 81).
That amounts to nearly 13 years of war for every year without war.
War is defined as an active conflict that has claimed more than 1,000 lives.
Of the past 3,400 years, humans have been entirely at peace for 268 of them, or just 8 percent of recorded history.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace#Plural_peaces
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Hundred_and_Thirty_Five_Years'_War
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/06/books/chapters/0713-1st-hedges.html
We are living in the most peaceful, least violent, most equitable, tolerant and prosperous time in all of human history.
If that sounds insane read Pinker's book.
Defeat of the Guinea Worm
Village Health Care Workers, first adopted in India and now found throughout Africa and other underserved areas of the world.
