** 21-May-2019 War and evil
FishbellykanakaDude wrote:
> Hah HA...! I have LURED you into asking these "intriguing"
> questions...!!
> ..now to astound my tantalized prey...
> Evil requires an "innocent" on which to "unnecessarily" inflict
> itself.
> <insert profound pause here>
> So,.. find me an "evil" inflicting itself on an "innocent" in such
> a way as to be "unnecessary" in the cases of earthquakes,
> rainstorms and sunshine, and we've found us some evils.
> "Evils" are simply things from which to learn compassion and "how
> not to arrange things so as to promote evil inasmuch as that is
> possible".
JCP wrote:
> People can be evil; nature can not.
> How can a storm be evil? It's the behavior of man which can be
> categorized in those terms.
> The Chinese communists are notoriously stupid, so I figure they
> will continue overplaying their hand until they are all dead.
> Taiwan and Japan are true democracies; they deserve to exist and
> most importantly, be protected against the unmitigated thuggery of
> the Chinese communists. If we let those countries be destroyed, we
> will be next. And what of American principles? We are supposed to
> stand for something.
From the point of view of generational theory, here's the issue that I
keep returning to:
The fact that earthquakes occur regularly cannot be a coincidence.
There must be a core reason, having to do with the structure
of tectonic plates, or whatever.
Some people claim that God causes earthquakes to punish cities that
have been sinful. Voltaire responded, referring to the devastating
earthquake in Lisbon in 1755:
Voltaire wrote:
> Would you say, seeing this heap of victims,
> That God is avenged, that their death is payment for their crimes?
> What crimes, what bad things have been committed by these children,
> Lying on the breasts of their mothers, flattened and bloody?
> Lisbon is a city no longer. Did it have more vices
> Than London, than Paris, given to doubtful delights?
The point is that if God created the earth, then God is evil for
creating a world where earthquakes randomly kill people.
The fact that massive wars have occurred in every region on every
continent in every century for millennia cannot be a coincidence.
There must be a core reason.
Wars do have a purpose -- one and only one purpose. The purpose is
genocide -- to kill off enough people so that the survivors have
enough to eat.
The food supply (and the supply of other resources) grows at
a predictably constant exponential growth rate, with the
exception of a temporary blip. When there's a lot of food around,
women's hormones cause them to want more children, so the population
starts growing at an exponential growth rate faster than the
growth rate of the food supply. So the population has to grow
at exactly the same predictable exponential growth rate as
the food supply.
Here's a graph of China's population over a 2000 year period:
The exponential growth line appears as a straight line because
of the logarithmic scale.
As this graph shows, every time the Chinese tried to grow their
population above the fixed exponential growth line, it fell again, to
below the same line. The major reasons for population falls are war,
disease and famine -- and earthquakes -- with war the most common
reason.
If God created the world, then he created a world where disease,
famine and earthquakes occur through no human fault. (If famine
occurs through human intention, it would be in the context of war.)
So if God created the world, then he created a world where wars,
particularly genocidal generational crisis wars, MUST occur, just like
earthquakes. If you want to blame humans for wars, then you should
blame women for wars, because women give in to their hormones and have
children.
Therefore, if God created the world then: If earthquakes are evil,
then it's God that is evil. If wars and genocide are evil, then it's
God that is evil. Humans are just doing what God has forced them to
do.
