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Technology has always found its greatest consumer in a nation's war and defense efforts. Since the last attempts at a "Star Wars" defense system, has technology changed considerably enough to make the latest Missile Defense initiatives more successful? Can such an application of science be successful? Is a militarized space inevitable, necessary or impossible?

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rshow55 - 04:14pm Dec 11, 2002 EST (# 6493 of 6506)
Can we do a better job of finding truth? YES. Click "rshow55" for some things Lchic and I have done and worked for on this thread.

May be God indeed lost any hope with his "experiment" on this Planet?

I've been worried about that. But I was a lot more worried before I got a chance to talk to almarst on this board 1999-2000 rshow55 5/4/02 9:39am

. . . though maybe I should be getting more worried. Because the "tests" before us now look so easy to pass.

If we flunk them, and God gets tired of the show, he'll have a point.

Working to annotate Commondata's trenchant comments.

rshow55 - 04:18pm Dec 11, 2002 EST (# 6494 of 6506)
Can we do a better job of finding truth? YES. Click "rshow55" for some things Lchic and I have done and worked for on this thread.

almarst2002 12/11/02 4:13pm . . . yes.

We need to get away from circumstances where the logic of extermination makes sense.

Sometimes, these days, it still does.

250,000 people die every day in the world. You have to have some perspective.

I'd also say this. If a homogeneous nation state actually says - "we are in a fight to the death with you" . . there may be times where the only reasonable thing is to oblige them.

We need to find better solutions.

Without asking human beings, as animals, to be better than they are.

That ought not to be beyond the wit of man.

almarst2002 - 04:24pm Dec 11, 2002 EST (# 6495 of 6506)

"If a homogeneous nation state actually says "

Are you calling the dosen "choosen" man at the rule of the single "choosen" superpower a homogeneous nation state?

To mee it seems rather similar to the declaration of the Pop predicting the fate of all non-believers during a time of an inquisition.

almarst2002 - 04:26pm Dec 11, 2002 EST (# 6496 of 6506)

"250,000 people die every day in the world"

I see. And the 400+bn military spread all over the Glob is designed to save them.

rshow55 - 04:37pm Dec 11, 2002 EST (# 6497 of 6506)
Can we do a better job of finding truth? YES. Click "rshow55" for some things Lchic and I have done and worked for on this thread.

almarst , most of the time, I'm on your side. I think the US military-industrial complex is bloated.

I also think that things have to come under rational, decent control step by step.

I do not share all your indignation.

There are things that people are going to be willing to fight about - even fight to the death about - and that's not going to change, nor should it.

We have to live in a world where the animal realities are as they are.

There are ideas and territories that people are willing to defend - and have to be.

The world can be a lot better than it is, without changing that.

And if every follower or sympathizer with Osama Bin Laden died tomorrow, some might mourn (I probably wouldn't) - and you might be aghast -- but it would not be the end of the world.

almarst2002 - 04:50pm Dec 11, 2002 EST (# 6498 of 6506)

rshow55 12/11/02 4:37pm

Osama is a symptom. You won't cure the desese by removing the symptom.

And I also recognise the logic of the Western medicine leaning toward surgery.

Have you ever heard about Holistic approach? Do you realy understand the reasons behind events?

The power breeds the ignorance and the feeling it can and should rule. Even have God-given right to do so. While forgeting the lesson it gives by doing that.

I am not a follower or beliver of BL. But if you start an open fire in a middle of a house, don't blame the wood or the wind for the cosequences.

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