Caladan
Agnostic Pantheist
It maintained order and discipline in various and remote parts of the Roman empire.
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Why there will NEVER be world peace...
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MathewJames
mj
Now I am trying to remember how the Roman embire fell. I personally see China taking over the Romans position, eventually speaking of course. I know we have bigger guns and their GNP is nothing compared to ours, but at the rate things are changing it will not be long before the dragon starts wagging its tail.
ninerbuff
godless wonder
China is well on it's way to being the holder of cards in a game of poker where we're holding a pair of deuces and they have a Ace/King. First comes the flop and that will be in a few more years. I'm betting it's a high card.
Kilgore Trout
Misanthropic Humanist
Any pair is a statistical favorite over Ace-King.
ninerbuff
godless wonder
Yes statistically.............but I wouldn't bet on the pair we're holding.
Kilgore Trout
Misanthropic Humanist
You wouldn't bet correct odds on a statistical favorite?
I hope you don't play poker.
PolyHedral
Superabacus Mystic
Caladan
Agnostic Pantheist
Some scholars have pointed Christianity combined with Barbarian invasions to be some of the chief reasons to the decline and eventual fall of the Roman empire.
Ah. have you any shred of historicity?
The Romans are no more. they have ceased to be centuries and centuries ago. if anything, some people claim China would take the part of the US. and they would meet many other economical analysts that would point them why it is not the case.
Kilgore Trout
Misanthropic Humanist
Maybe we should give Estonia a shot after that.
MathewJames
mj
MathewJames
mj
peace and love to you Traveler
ninerbuff
godless wonder
I do, but again betting on a pair of deuces? I could see calling the big blind, but from there it would depend on the flop.
arthra
Baha'i
Interesting thread..
For myself looking back over my life.. I was born during WWII..
My Dad told me he was originally opposed to war and signed the Oxford Oath..
Oxford Oath - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
But after Pearl Harbor my father served in the Pacific..later he was in occupied Japan a year or so.. About four years later he was active in the Korean War.. Then a lapse of time and Vietnam started .. I was dead set against that war and demonstrated against it. Later Berlin Wall collapsed and Soviet Union with it.
I was almost sent to Lebanon under Eisenhower but that never developed.
Anyway.. As I see it we have a much stronger world body the UN than the old League of Nations.. We also have the International Court of Arbitration ..and we have better world communications due to the satellites and the internet.
I think world peace is more likely today than anytime earlier in my lifetime and I'm happy about it..that means my sons will not be drafted and my grandson's will live in peace!
For myself looking back over my life.. I was born during WWII..
My Dad told me he was originally opposed to war and signed the Oxford Oath..
Oxford Oath - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
But after Pearl Harbor my father served in the Pacific..later he was in occupied Japan a year or so.. About four years later he was active in the Korean War.. Then a lapse of time and Vietnam started .. I was dead set against that war and demonstrated against it. Later Berlin Wall collapsed and Soviet Union with it.
I was almost sent to Lebanon under Eisenhower but that never developed.
Anyway.. As I see it we have a much stronger world body the UN than the old League of Nations.. We also have the International Court of Arbitration ..and we have better world communications due to the satellites and the internet.
I think world peace is more likely today than anytime earlier in my lifetime and I'm happy about it..that means my sons will not be drafted and my grandson's will live in peace!
sandandfoam
Veteran Member
Hi Violet,
Nice to disagree with you for a change
We don't accept reality we generate it. Possibility is whatever we make it.
We can make peace a reality. I believe we must. Life is too precious to passively accept the shattering of lives, the grief, the bitterness and the misery that are hand in hand with the abscence of peace.
Martin McGuinness and Ian Paisley became friends. Proof anything is possible.
blackout
Violet.
Unfortunately the dethroning of tyrants and rulers,
is not a peaceful business.
If people lived hundreds of years,
maybe.
Maybe they would, as a majority,
live long enough
to finally get sick enough of the BS en mass,
to finally just up and stop participating in it.
Surely though, there would be backlash.
is not a peaceful business.
If people lived hundreds of years,
maybe.
Maybe they would, as a majority,
live long enough
to finally get sick enough of the BS en mass,
to finally just up and stop participating in it.
Surely though, there would be backlash.
sandandfoam
Veteran Member
Unfortunately the dethroning of tyrants and rulers,
is not a peaceful business.
If people lived hundreds of years,
maybe.
Maybe they would, as a majority,
live long enough
to finally get sick enough of the BS en mass,
to finally just up and stop participating in it.
Surely though, there would be backlash.
What about Ghandi and Badshah Khan?
One can fight without violence.
Regarding a possible backlash the best way to fight fire is with non-violence.
blackout
Violet.
Honey,
Everyone in this world
will never be in a state of non strife with one another
all at the same time.
Young men will fight.
Old men will die.
Some will want leaders.
Some will not.
Some will want money.
Some will not.
Some will trust others.
Some will not.
Some will want societal structure, and rules.
Some will want wide open spaces... to be who they are in freedom.
Best you can do is be/live peacefilled within your own Self,
and hopefully live amongst others who have attained the same.
Then just try and stay out of everyone else's way.