"All I'm saying is, a little support would be nice."
Posted on 06/11/2007 4:57:26 AM PDT by Clive
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cavemen died.
I think there was a “third arrowman.” Did they check the grassy knoll?
"Whatsoever therefore is consequent to a time of war, where every man is enemy to every man, the same consequent to the time wherein men live without other security than what their own strength and their own invention shall furnish them withal. In such condition there is no place for industry, because the fruit thereof is uncertain: and consequently no culture of the earth; no navigation, nor use of the commodities that may be imported by sea; no commodious building; no instruments of moving and removing such things as require much force; no knowledge of the face of the earth; no account of time; no arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear, and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short."
From "The Leviathan", Chap XIII,
The 60’s hippies and present-day eco-nuts want us to return to the days of the idyllic, pastoral times of Otzi, which obviously NEVER EXISTED...........
Pecaeful cavemen ping!........
Interesting. Thanks for posting.
"All I'm saying is, a little support would be nice."
Robert E. Howard, please call the office!
I wonder if murdered Afghan teachers, and bombs thrown into girls schools and hospitals would qualify?
Italian cavemen and Austrian cavemen fighting even then?
The supreme beauty of Todd Beamer is that he was an average person--like you and me--lost in the crowd until one unexpected moment on September 11, 2001.
The wise also know that human nature has not changed since prehisoric times and will not change.
The best way for each of us to deal with the potential for evil is to recognize it withing ourselves and decide in advance that we will not succumb to it.
Mother Teresa said that she decided to go to Calcutta when she looked inside herself and saw a Hitler lurking there.
The other best way is to recognize the potential for evil in our fellow humans and deal with it in advance. It is here that the unwise fail horribly and endanger all of us. They romanticize human nature and the "good intentions" of themselves and others and consequently cloud thinking and judgment. Delusion is always dangerous. In fact, the most dangerous thing in the world is denial.
Clarity and ruthless honesty are the best defense against the "good intentions" that pave the Road to Hell.
The more the unwise--and they are countless--romanticize human nature and lead the world astray with their sentimental wishful thinking, the more the wise must insist on clarity and ruthless truth.
Exactly. This is the kind of romanticized, sentimentalized wishful thinking that is dangerous.
Look around. Nature is beautiful. It is also an endless bloodbath.
"He was in such an excellent state of preservation that he was at first thought to be a victim of the First World War..."
xenophiles said:
"Well, for all we know, he was."
I doubt that. He only died about 5300 years ago. Warfare, including genocidel warfare, has been extant long before then.
A trite expression from an undergraduate geopolitics course:
"Warfare is man's natural condition. Peace is a condition to be inferred from the fact that there have been intervals between wars."
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