A combat-unit commander told non-commissioned officers at a briefing Monday that the Iran war is part of God’s plan and that Pres. Donald Trump was “anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon and mark his return to Earth,” according to a complaint by a non-commissioned officer.
From Saturday morning through Monday night, more than 110 similar complaints about commanders in every branch of the military had been logged by the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF).
The complaints came from more than 40 different units spread across at least 30 military installations, the MRFF told me Monday night.
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Strongly disagree. Don’t lose hope.
I doubt people are going to change, short of becoming cyborgs or genetically engineered or something. Things already have, though.
Hope is precisely what landed us in this mess. Reason, pragmatism, and being willing to compromise on ideals is what will get us out, but guess what humans have never shown the capability nor the desire to do as a species throughout literally all of documented human civilization? All we do is escalate, it’s all we’ve ever done, and it has only one possible way of ending. We burned down the first society the moment we made up organized religion, that has been the template ever since. Society is global now, destroying it this time around isn’t something that even the atmosphere will survive.
Not trying to get too much into semantics here, but yes, if you only hope and choose not to act, nothing will be improved. Conversely-ish, hope is needed for many to act. Being without hope will lead many to loudly announce that nothing can be made better, in addition to not acting. Again, we may only be disagreeing on definitions here.
I disagree based on human history, although I admit that our conflicts are much more well documented than our ability to work together.
Do you not think that people have worked together to prevent conflict and bring about a better world? Also, do you not think that we’ve ever worked to improve things, or are you saying that our ability to create conflict is louder than our ability to work against conflict?
Most importantly, what do you believe you’re doing, through your existence? I doubt that you’re going around trying to create conflict in your environment, but: are you?
As long as the planet isn’t absolutely destroyed, I assume the destruction of our species wouldn’t cause the ecosystem to fail entirely. Who knows, though.
Here’s the thing, we are going to destroy the actual planet. Not in that, “tHe pLAnEt WILl bE FInE!” Dumbass semantics shit, we have enough nukes to glass the surface, boil the oveans, and melt the atmosphere that is paired with a literal instinct to use them. The environment required to have an environment won’t exist.
Sure, we’ve “improved” things, and there has been “progress”, but literally all of it came at the cost of decimated societies and genocides for any non western white cultures, and for what boils down to nothing more than convenience that is only allowed to exist because it directly supports and maintains the structure that is a capitalist war machine that is fueled by hate and orphans. Not to mention the amount of species we’ve wiped from this planet with no notice nor regard simply with our basic existence and viral consumption as an unstoppable biomass, let alone those we killed on purpose.
Oh, yeah, I forgot to apply the concept that I’m at the center of all of this. Forgot that I can single handedly fight all of this, like the main character in some short sighted fantasy storybook. Fuck off with this self-centered, woo woo, narcissistically detached, masturbatory nonsense. Pull your dick out of your mouth.
You wrap it ip perfectly there at the end, though with a “Who knows, though?” We do. You don’t, that doesn’t equate to some objective truth. You are literally saying “ignorance is bliss, everything will be great for everyone and everything, tralalalala!” as you ignore blatant realities. You just spent like six paragraphs explaining the joys of being a detached, oblivious, deliberate moron.
Grow the fuck up.