(07-17-2023, 10:20 PM)Ninurta Wrote: War is bad. It kills off perfectly healthy, fine young people, and tears all of their stuff all up.
But there is a class of folks who say "violence never solved anything". That class of folks are the ones least equipped to express violence. On the contrary, and to quote R.A. Heinlein, violence has solved a great many things. Just because those things may not be resolved in one's own favor does not mean they are less resolved.
People get worn out with fighting, and eventually give in to get along. They get tired of war after a while.
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War always serves the rich and powerful. It does not do much if anything for the poor, and the needy.
People spend more time caught up in their reactionary mind than they do in their hearts. We have a problem when people can tell you without hesitation, what they are willing to die for, but find it difficult to tell you what they would live for.
Life should be about living. What happened to, your live your life, and I'll live mine? I don't have to love you, I don't have to even like you to work with you. It is about getting the job done. e share the same planet, and we have a hell of a lot more in common than we have differences.
I am old and tired. I don't mess with anyone and I hope that nobody messes with me.
When you get to be my age, the thing that you are truly secure in knowing, is that your time is short, and every waking day is a miracle. So death is not feared. It has become a silent partner that is follows you like a shadow.
Living is a hot potato. Trying to hold on it to it can burn you.