Monday, September 18, 2017

War is demeaning as a species

Well said Seth!!!!!

I think it was Lazaris that said that peace is not the absence of war, but a state where the thought of war never even comes to mind.  Hopefully we get there!

“Women make a grave error when they try to prove their “equality” with men by showing that they can enter the armed forces, or go into combat as well as any man.  War always makes you less as a species than you could be.  Women have shown uncommon good sense in not going to war, and uncommon bad sense by sending their sons and lovers to war.  Again: To kill for the sake of peace only makes you better killers, both sides are fanatical to the extent that they are involved.  I am quite aware that often war seems to be your only practical course, because of the set of beliefs that are, relatively speaking, worldwide.  Until you change those beliefs, war will seem to have some practical value – a value which is highly deceptive, and quite false.”

(The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events, Session 854)

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