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To: Iam1ru1-2
As much as I want them gone, I can not realistically see how any plan, no matter how meticulous, brilliantly thought, implemented it may be is not going to run afoul of the Pandora's Box aka the "Law of unintended consequences".

Law of Unintended Consequences
(also called the "law of unforeseen consequences") states that any purposeful action will produce some unintended consequences. A classic example is a bypass — a road built to relieve traffic congestion on a congested road — that attracts new development and with it more traffic, resulting in two congested streets instead of one.

This maxim is not a scientific law; it is more in line with Murphy's law as a warning against the hubristic belief that humans can fully control the world around them. Stated in other words, each cause has more than one effect, and these effects will invariably include at least one unforeseen side effect. The unintended side effect can potentially be more significant than any of the intended effects.

Wikipedia:Law of Unintended Consequences

6 posted on 08/01/2009 9:14:31 PM PDT by lbryce (Obama Notwithstanding, America's Best Days Are Yet To Be .)
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To: lbryce
"these effects will invariably include at least one unforeseen side effect. The unintended side effect can potentially be more significant than any of the intended effects."

This was predicted in the Old and New Testament, and it records that the "side effect" will be that Russia, along with the Islamic and Arab nations, will attack Israel, BUT God will make His Name Known to ALL Mankind by supernaturally defeated all these armies, and bring to rubble all their armies, and parts of their nations. It will take Israel 7 years to bury the dead and clean the mess that was created because they will all be destroyed by God Almighty on "The mountains of Israel" and buried east of Jerusalem in a place that will be calle "Hamon Gog".

8 posted on 08/06/2009 6:21:00 PM PDT by Iam1ru1-2 (They draw near to me with their lips, but their heart is far from me - Jesus)
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