Yes Thomas, since my reign on earth, I have instituted a much more peaceful environment. I have a long way to go, since I am constantly blocked by you ingrates turn after turn....
Ungrateful bastards!
enough dripping sarcasm to match your current indignation? I'm hoping so....
Sadly, sarcasm is the lowest form of wit, and my response was quite serious, but not indignant.
In short, to repeat, you're determining the measure, and discounting data, to ensure the answer you're looking for. It's 'bad science'.
What I said....what I'll repeat.... we are working in the right direction...the past half century has been per capita one of the least violent times for man on this planet....
I think you're working on too narrow a time frame, and limiting the date far too much, to make any useful determination.
And I for one am hoping it is a trend and as a population we can work to continue and improve on it....
I marched against war in the Middle East, Wil, and I hold that same view, but I do not leap to the preposterous position that everything's improving. You're losing the War in Afghanistan, and it will be a mess when you walk away ...
And since we can often judge by 'results' I am saying that these results are indicating a shift toward more enlightenment, more divine connection, rather than less...
Really? I don't see that at all. I think the shift is to do with economics and the fact that you can't win the war you're in.
Had you (the US) looked at history, you would have known that.
...that we are raising in consciousness and by that raise we are judging ourselves and others by a higher bar than we would have 1-2-3 or 1200 years ago....
How do you know, you ignore history.
I think we have, with regard to consciousness and spirituality, said nothing that was not said by the Greeks. Read Plato. Read Sapho. I think, generally, we know and understand less than Aristotle.
I think ancient man had more affinity with the stars than we do today, despite our Mars explorers and Hubble images. Most people today don't even look at the sky, and at night, they can't see it anyway.
I watch people on the train listening on headphone and tapping their computers ... they live in an imaginary world.
when burning cats for sport or whipping slaves, or raping women was the norm, and nobody batted an eye about it....
We're still doing it pal, don't kid yourself.
We here in the UK are absolutely horrified by the US penal system. It's slavery under a different name, but it's still, largely, black people working for white people, for nothing and in dreadful conditions. And the average expectancy of a black teenager in LA? A shorter life span than a black slave on the plantation ... so figure that in.
God bless
Thomas
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