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MrGordon

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25/10/17

13:54

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Originally posted by darkroom ↑

I know this, it's a kind of mantra of yours.
Humans don't change.
Was, is and will be.
No evidence for any kind of social or spiritual advancement.

It's a fundamental belief of yours, but I think that's not a just look at humankind as an overall body down the ages. Sure there is 24/7 NEWS of endless atrocities, but statistically we have never been more peaceful. There has never been less war and the bottom of society has never been more considered. Still a staggeringly long way to go but not too shabby for 6 to 10,000 years of cooperative coexistence. In that time we invented and continually improved law. We invented various forms of governance. We found ways to support the sick, impoverished and have even in most civilised countries, found ways to establish equality of the sexes.

Somewhere along the line you obviously became a bit jaded with humans.
I'm not suggesting we have made vast improvements but we have progressed and continue to do so, it will be a long, slow, brutal haul out of the animal nature to the human nature and we have barely begun the process. I'm not suggesting a God intervention, either.

If Mr Gs scenario has no chance of happening then mine's not looking too good.

I see the way my daughter and her university collective have integrated. At her 21st there were gays, Muslims, Christians, Buddhists and at least a dozen different nations represented and they are tight. The fact that different peoples are being broken up and scattered all over the world indicates that change is unavoidable. It may start out as very negative but eventually we will tire of the misery and bloodshed.

What is seen as the end of the world I see as the friction and push-back against change. It's old orders of religion, nationhood, politics resisting the irresistible. The juggernaut is rolling and I doubt anything will stop it now.

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Sure there is 24/7 NEWS of endless atrocities, but statistically we have never been more peaceful.
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A 2007 global study reported that in 2003 there were an estimated 42 million induced abortions worldwide.
If you were to add in the number of men and medical staff that nodded in approval it is horrendous. And yet I don't even remember it being reported, let alone disturbing the peace. Dream on!

(Ezekiel 13:10) All of this is because they have led my people astray by saying, “There is peace!” when there is no peace. When a flimsy partition wall is built, they are plastering it with whitewash.’
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