June 20, 2025
On War
The Urantia Book tells us much the genesis of war and why it persists. It is also thoroighly explains why it must be abandon. It's wirht a good rview of Paper 70 and its first two sections on War.
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Well, we're together again and
thank you so much for tuning
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into the Urantia Radio Podcast.
My name is Jim Watkins.
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I've been reading the Urantia
book since 1982 when I was 19
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years old.
Before that I was a happy go
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lucky Christian and I was off on
my new life just getting into my
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career and reading the Urantia
book.
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And it took it with me
everywhere I went across the
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great country that I live in.
And so I like to share and talk
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about this revelation and we
will.
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And often times I don't like to
talk about current events for
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the simple reason that if I talk
about something that's happening
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today, the episode will be
around for years.
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And sometimes it won't make
sense if you're listening to me
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say 2 years from now and you're
hearing me talk about something
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that's come and gone.
But I think with the tensions
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that are rising in the Middle
East, everybody is rightfully
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nervous, worried about it
because it could be biblical.
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It could be of, you know,
prophecy.
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A lot of people holds a prophecy
and that these may be a
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dispensation of some kind.
But there's no doubt that Israel
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and Iran have been at this for a
long, long time.
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What makes this different,
obviously, is the nuclear
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element, the fact that Iran is
enriching uranium, and
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rightfully, because, you know,
there's just a little history,
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back when Libya was run by
Moammar Gaddafi, he had nuclear
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weapons and he agreed to give
them up.
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And then he got killed by
Americans to the lesson that the
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Ayatollah Khamenei is, well, we
got to have nuclear weapons,
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otherwise America will just take
over.
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And so that's led.
And also not to mention, I don't
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want to downplay this at all,
but Iran has been a sponsor of
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global terror for a long time.
They hold to a very extreme
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version of Islam and they are
hell bent on destroying Israel
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because they believe it is their
divine duty to do so.
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That at least is the culture of
the and the mindset of the
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people who run that country.
So it's tense right now and
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people are nervous about it
because it could disrupt
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everything if the United States
gets involved or too involved.
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The repercussions there talk to
people a lot who are concerned
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about terrorists that might be
sleeper cells.
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So it's it's put a lot of people
at ease.
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I myself have I'm I'm not
inoculated from this as much as
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I have faith in the most highs.
I also see the the perspective
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of war and I want to talk about
paper 70 in the Arantia book,
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just the one paper.
And even that I'm only going to
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read maybe two or three
paragraphs.
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And it takes us through the
timeline and helps us understand
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what the mechanism of war is all
about and, and how it's been a
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part of civilization for as long
as civilization has existed.
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And we're going to do that in
just a minute.
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So hang on.
And I've also got some good news
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to share with you about other
things that I've involved with
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it you might want to check out.
And we'll do all that in just a
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second.
So hang on, You're listening to
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the Rancho Radio podcast.
One of the things that happened
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recently.
Welcome back is that I was able
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to spend some time with my now
friend and his name is Santiago
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Neeland and he lives in Spain
and he does a new podcast and
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he's heavily involved in this
podcast.
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It's all about the Urantia book
and all about the Divine within.
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That's the name of the podcast.
And he caught up with me and we
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did an interview a couple of
days ago and he's in post
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production.
And so, you know, in a couple of
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weeks, go on YouTube and look up
the divine within and it might
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pop up and you'll see my name,
Jim Watkins.
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And we had a nice chat about a
lot of different things.
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And I, I think you'll enjoy it.
For those who may not be
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familiar, I want to give a quick
breakdown to how the Urantia
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book is structured and in sort
of my own thoughts on why the
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book is structured in the way
that it's structured.
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And to me, it, it, it's a
timeline.
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If you're moving from left to
right, it is a literal timeline
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of creation, moving from the
first original, first source and
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center and back to before time
as we would reckon it.
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And then you move to the right
and now you're moving towards
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the present day.
So the first part of the Urantia
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book and it's divided into 4
parts and the first part is all
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about God and paradise and the
Trinity and the relationship
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that the Trinity has to reality
as we know it, The Trinity being
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God the Father, God the Son and
God the Spirit.
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And then the second part of the
Urantia book, Part 2 really
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delves into the activities of
the local area of space that we
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live in, which is under the
domain of Jesus Christ.
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And that would be called
Nevadon.
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And before Jesus incarnated as a
as a son, as the Son of the
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Father, the highest
representative of the Father's
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nature that we could possibly
experience, he was known as
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Michael on, on Nebadon or
Michael.
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And Michael is often, or maybe
not, maybe there is an Archangel
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Michael, I don't know.
But the Archangel Michael is
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very much a part of Christology.
And the reason is that Michael
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is Michael of Nebadon.
That is his name.
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He is the highest order of
sonship in our universe.
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So when he says he who has seen
me has seen the father, he's
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being absolutely literal.
So Part 2 of the Urantia book is
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about his creation.
So now we're moving outward.
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And then we finally get to Part
3, which is a very exciting part
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of the Urantia book.
And it is called The History of
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Urantia.
And it goes from the beginning
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of our solar system and the
birth of our solar system
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actually, and it moves outward.
And it starts with paper 57.
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So now you're already 57 papers
into this book.
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And it finally gets to that
section where they talk about
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our early years, how life was
established.
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And then it gives a
chronological summary of how we
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went from marine life to the
early land life to the mammalian
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era of our world.
And then finally to the
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appearance of the dawn races of
early man pre man.
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And then it it it comes to the
point in paper 63 where it talks
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about the first human family and
what made them truly human.
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The story of Andon and Fonta and
and and let it be known that the
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Oranga book asserts that
evolution is not accidental or
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causational or repercussional.
It is intelligently controlled
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and guided.
We are not an experiment.
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We were planned.
And it's important to make that
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distinction because while it
promotes the idea of evolution,
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it doesn't take away from the
creatorship intelligent design
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foundation of which we base our
belief in God.
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So God has his divine hand
interceding and, and, and I know
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that's hard for people.
Oh, well, why would he be doing
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that?
Until you understand the true
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nature and the size and scope
and the depth of deity, it
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becomes easier to understand
when you understand that it's
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not just him.
He has all kinds of divine
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attributes.
He has seven levels of distinct
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reality that He has the founder
of and sponsor of, and we are in
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just one perspective of that.
We are.
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We are at the tail end.
We're at the very bottom of that
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intelligent design.
And the part that makes us
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created in His image is that His
actual spirit fragment resides
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in our minds.
That is how we are connected to
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Him.
This is why we can pray to Him,
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why we can worship, why we
commune.
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So for people who say that
religion is completely
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evolutionary, they would be
wrong.
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There is a divine hand.
There isn't divine.
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There is divine and, and guess
what?
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You're part of it.
Whether you agree with it or
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not, you are a part of that
plan.
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And so in the paper of, of, of
the history of Urantia, it, it
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takes us through the early
stages of the human family.
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Then it addresses the different
sort of offspring of the
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evolutionary races of color.
There was there were variants
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introduced about 1/2 a million
years ago and human beings
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evolved to a slightly higher
level.
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Then it talks about the over
control of evolution and then at
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that point it it it goes to
about 500,000 years ago and what
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has has has happened since.
So now we're in paper 67, for
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example, or 66, and we talk
about the era right after the
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appearance of the colored races.
Then they get into the dawn of
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civilization where these various
tribes that started to appear
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and populate the earth, the
early period of of how we
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invented things, our cultural
traits, why we worship, what did
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we worship?
It takes us through a whole
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period so that we better
understand our early beginnings,
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much of it lost, by the way, and
yet to be discovered by
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archaeology.
And then they start to address
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to us about primitive human
institutions.
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And for example, when you think
about the different
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institutions, the dawn of
industry, the specialization,
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specialization of Labor, the
beginnings of trade between the
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tribes, the beginnings of
capital, where you have people
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who have wealth because they
produce.
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And then it talks about fire and
fire in relation to
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civilization, which is
interesting.
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You should read that sometime.
It's Paper 69, section 6.
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Then it talks about the
utilization of animals.
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And if you think about these are
all just slices.
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These are evolutionary
gradations of development
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towards a more progressive
society, which is what we have
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today.
It also addresses slavery in
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early civilization.
And then it talks about private
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property.
And that was really the
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beginning of a, of more enduring
of a type of civilization.
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But I want to talk to you about
Paper 70 as it relates to today
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because in this section we find
2 chapters. 1 is called the
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genesis of war and the social
value of war.
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And so I'll read to you and I
haven't read this probably in a
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few months.
I read it from time to time just
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to get a, a, you know, a brush
up.
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And it sets the stage on why,
why we maybe it'll answer for
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you and, and me why we're at
this stage.
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So let's begin and you can read
along if you want to.
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Paper 70, the evolution of a
human government.
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We're only going to do 33
papers.
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No sooner had man partially
solve the problem of making a
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living than he was confronted
with the task of regulating
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human contacts.
The development of industry
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demanded law, order and social
adjustment.
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Private property necessitated
government.
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On an evolutionary world,
antagonisms are natural.
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Peace is secured only by some
sort of social regulative
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system.
Social regulation is inseparable
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from social organization.
Associations implies some
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controlling authority and
government compels the
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coordination of the antagonisms
of the tribes, clans, families
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and individuals.
Government is an unconscious
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development.
It evolves by trial and error.
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It does not.
It does have survival value.
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Therefore, it becomes
traditional anarchy, augmented
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misery.
Therefore, government,
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comparative law and order slowly
emerged or is emerging.
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The coercive demands of the
struggle for existence literally
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drove the human race along
progressive roads to
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civilization.
So because we desire law and
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order or because we like to be
safe, we created law and order,
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we created government.
We we put power in people's
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hands to regulate so that the
the what is it?
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The lesser angels of our nature
don't dominate.
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Because if you have a Society of
savages and they never civilize,
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then you have no society.
It, it, it is a perpetually in
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disarray.
And mankind, because of
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intelligence demanded something
more.
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That's what that first paragraph
is saying, the genesis of war.
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This is section one from the
same paper. 70 War is the
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natural state and heritage of
evolving man.
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Peace in the Social Yardstick
Peace is the social yardstick
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measuring civilizations
Advancement Before the Before
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the partial socialization of the
advancing races, man was
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exceedingly individualistic,
extremely suspicious, and
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unbelievably quarrelsome.
Violence is the law of nature,
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hostility the automatic reaction
of the children of nature, while
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war is but the same activities
carried on collectively.
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And whenever and wherever the
fabric of civilization becomes
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stressed by the complications of
society's advancement, there is
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always an immediate and ruinous
reversion to these early methods
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of violent adjustment, of the
irritations of human
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interassociation.
War is an animalistic reaction
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to misunderstandings and
irritations.
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Peace attends upon the civilized
solution of all problems and
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difficulties.
The Sangak or colored races,
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together with the later
deteriorated Adamites and
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Nodites, were all belligerent.
The Andonites.
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These are first Andon and Font
of the first human family were
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early taught the Golden Rule,
and even today their Eskimo
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descendants live very much by
that code.
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Custom is strong among them and
they are fairly free free from
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violent antagonisms.
Interesting note about the
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Eskimos, or what we call today
the Inuit.
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And on taught his children to
settle disputes by beating a
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tree with a stick, meanwhile
cursing the tree.
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The one whose stick broke first
was the the winner, the victor.
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The later Andonites used to
settle disputes by holding a
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public show at which the
disputants made fun and
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ridiculed each other, while the
audience decided the winner by
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its applause.
But there could be no such
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phenomena as war until society
had evolved sufficiently far to
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actually experience periods of
peace and to sanction warlike
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practices.
The very concept of war implies
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some degree of organization.
With the emergence of social
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groupings, individual
irritations began to be
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submerged in the group feelings,
and this promoted inter tribal
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tranquility, but at the expense
of inter tribal peace.
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Peace was thus first enjoyed by
the in Group or tribe who always
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disliked and hated the out group
foreigners.
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Early man regarded it as a
virtue to shed alien blood, but
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even this did not work at first.
When the early chiefs would try
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to iron out misunderstandings,
they often found it necessary at
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least once a year to permit the
tribe stone fights.
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The clan would divide up into
two gangs or groups and engage
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in an all day battle.
And this for no other reason
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than just the fun of it.
They really enjoyed fighting.
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Human beings really enjoy the
fight.
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This is why I say that the
sports like football or hockey,
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basketball, they've, they've we
in the West to harness our
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energy soccer so that
professional sports takes the
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place of war because we like
doing this kind of thing.
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Warfare persists because man is
human, evolved from an animal,
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and all animals are bellicose.
Among the early causes of war
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were hunger, women's scarcity,
vanity, slaves.
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Revenge was the motive for war
when one tribe believed that a
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neighboring tribe had caused the
death of a fellow tribesman.
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That still goes on today.
Mourning was continued until the
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head was brought home.
The war for vengeance was in
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good standing right on down to
comparatively modern times.
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Another reason for war
recreation.
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War was looked upon as
recreation by the young men of
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these early times.
If no good and sufficient
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pretext for war arose when peace
became oppressive, neighboring
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tribes were accustomed to go out
in semi friendly combat, to
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engage in a foray as a holiday,
or to enjoy a sham battle.
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Religion #7 The desire to make
converts to the cult.
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The primitive religions all
sanctioned war.
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Only in recent times has
religion begun to frown upon
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war.
The early priesthoods were
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unfortunately usually allied
with the military power.
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One of the great peace moves of
the ages has been the attempt to
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separate church and state.
Always these olden tribes made
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war at the bidding of their
gods, at the behest of their
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chiefs or medicine men.
The Hebrews believed in such a
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God of battles and the
narratives of their raid on the
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Midianites is a typical recital
of the atrocities cruelty of the
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ancient tribal wars.
This assault, with its slaughter
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of all the males and the later
killings of all male children
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and all women were not virgins,
would have done honor to the
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morays of a tribal Chieftain of
200,000 years ago.
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And all this was executed in the
name of the Lord God of Israel.
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This is a narrative of the
evolution of society, the
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natural outworking of the
problems of the races, man
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working out his own destiny on
earth.
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Such atrocities are not
instigated by deity.
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Notwithstanding the tendency of
man to place the responsibility
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on his gods, military mercy has
been slow in coming to mankind.
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Even when a woman Deborah, ruled
the Hebrews, the same wholesale
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cruelty persisted.
Her general in his victory over
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the Gentiles.
Cause quote all the hosts to
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fall upon the sword, and there
was not one left in quote.
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Very early in the history of the
race, poisoned weapons were
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used.
All sorts of mutilations were
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practiced.
Saul did not hesitate to require
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100 Philistine foreskins as the
dowry.
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David would should pay for his
daughter Michael.
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Early wars were fought between
tribes as a whole, but in later
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times when 2 individuals and
different tribes had a dispute,
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instead of both tribes fighting,
the two disputants engaged in a
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duel.
It also became a custom for two
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armies to stake all on the
outcome of a contest between a
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representative chosen from each
side, as in the instance of
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David and Goliath.
The first refinements of war was
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the taking of prisoners.
Next women were exempted from
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hostilities and then came the
recognition of non combatants.
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Military casts and standing
armies soon developed to keep
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pace with the increasing
complexity of combat.
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Such warriors were early
prohibited from associating with
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women, and women long ago ceased
to fight, though they have
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always fed and nursed the
soldiers and urged them on to
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battle.
The practice of declaring war
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represented great progress.
Such declarations of intention
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to fight betoken the arrival of
a sense of fairness, and this
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was followed by the gradual
development of the rulers of
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civilized warfare.
Very early it became the custom
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not to fight near religious
sites, and still later not to
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fight on certain holy days.
Next came the general
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recognition of the right of
asylum.
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Political fugitives received
protection.
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Thus did warfare gradually
evolve from the primitive
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manhunt to the somewhat more
orderly systems of the latter
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day civilized nations.
But only slowly does the social
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attitude of amity displace that
of anonymity.
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So let us take a moment, take a
collective breath, and we'll
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continue on with the next
section of this engaging paper
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on the social value of war.
All right, so now we want to
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read on to the section of this
book where it talks about the
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social value of war.
Now, in past ages of fierce war
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would institute social changes
and facilitate the adoption of
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new ideas such as would not have
occurred naturally in 10,000
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years.
The terrible price paid for
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these certain war advantages was
that society was temporarily
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thrown back into savagery.
Civilized reason had to
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abdicate.
War is strong medicine, very
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costly and most dangerous.
While often curative of certain
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social disorders, it sometimes
kills the patient, destroys the
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society.
The constant necessity for
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National Defense creates many
new and advanced social
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adjustments.
Society today enjoys the benefit
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of a long list of useful
innovations which were at first
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holy military, and even is
indebted to war for the dance,
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one of the early forms of which
was a military drill.
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War has had a social value to
past civilizations because it #1
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impose discipline and enforced
cooperation #2 put a premium on
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fortitude and courage #3
fostered and solidified
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nationalism, destroyed weak and
unfit peoples, dissolve the
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illusion of primitive equality
and selective, stratified
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society.
And war has had certain
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evolutionary and selective
value, but like slavery, it must
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sometime be abandoned as
civilization slowly advances.
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Olden wars promoted travel and
cultural intercourse.
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These ends are now better served
by modern methods of transport
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and communication.
Olden wars strengthen the
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nation's, but modern struggles
disrupt civilized culture.
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Ancient warfare resulted in the
decimation of inferior peoples.
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The net result of modern
conflict is the selective
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destruction of the best human
stocks.
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And I take that if you think
about the number of people that
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died in World War One and World
War Two, you begin to realize
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how many human beings were wiped
off the face of the earth in
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such a short amount of time.
Where?
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And even onward through the 20th
century and communism in China,
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hundreds of millions of people,
or at least 100 million people,
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have been killed off that that's
sobering.
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Early wars promoted organization
and efficiency, but these have
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now become the aims of modern
industry.
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During past ages, war was a
social ferment which pushed
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civilization forward.
This result is now better
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attained by ambition and
invention.
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Ancient warfare supported the
concept of a God of battles, but
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modern man has been told that
God is love.
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War has served many valuable
purposes in the past.
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It has been an indispensable
scaffolding in the building of
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civilization, but it is rapidly
becoming culturally bankrupt,
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incapable of producing dividends
of social gain in any way
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commensurate with the terrible
losses attendant upon its
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invocation.
At one time physicians believed
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in bloodletting as a cure for
many diseases, but they have
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since discovered better remedies
for most of these disorders, and
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so must the international
bloodletting of war certainly
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give place to the discovery of
better methods for curing the
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ills of nations.
The nations of Urantia have
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already entered upon the
gigantic struggle between
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nationalistic militarism and
industrialism, and in many ways
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this conflict is analogous to
the age long struggle between
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the herder hunter and the
farmer.
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But if industrialism is to
triumph over militarism, it must
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avoid the dangers which beset
it.
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The perils of budding industry
on Urantia are #1 The strong
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drift towards materialism.
Spiritual blindness #2 The
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worship of wealth, power, value
distortion 3 The vices of
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luxury.
Cultural immaturity #4 The
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increasing dangers of indolence.
Service insensitivity #5 The
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growth of undesirable racial
softness.
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Biological deterioration, and
number six, the threat of
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standardized industrial slavery.
Personality stagnation, labor is
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ennobling, but drudgery is be
numbing.
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Now I'll I'll just put this out
there that those six points very
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much reflect many of the
problems and the social ills
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that we have.
I interviewed A historian not
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long ago on another program, a
gentleman by the name of Anton
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Chaikin.
Chaikin, That's right.
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And he has done extensive
reporting on the history of war.
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And he claims that today's war
are driven by industrialists,
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bankers, people who have a
vested interest and they don't
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really give a damn about moral
or human rights.
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They're in it for, they're in it
to win it.
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And so and they've become more
secular in their outlook and
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they tend to think along
globalist lines, like we can
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control humanity under our
terms.
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And so look at the the perils of
budding industry.
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Budding industry is what we have
now.
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We have corporatocracies, we
have mega companies that that
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have such an influence on our
day-to-day life.
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And the perils of these kinds of
organizations are in fact, the
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strong drift towards
materialism, spiritual
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blindness, the worship of
wealth, power and value
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distortion.
These billion dollar companies
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America made, produced, I read
100 No 1000 new millionaires in
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the year 2025.
All right.
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Not that there's anything wrong
with being a millionaire, mind
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you, but the but it tends to, I
mean, when you want to talk
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about the worship of wealth,
power, and then of course, the
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vices of luxury and cultural
immaturity.
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So these are just telltale signs
of what's driving war today is
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not the same as what drove it in
the past.
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All right, let me continue on.
Militarism is autocratic and
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cruel savage.
It promotes social organization
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among the conquerors but
disintegrates the vanquished.
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Industrialism is more civilized,
and it should be carried on so
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as to promote initiative and to
encourage individualism.
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Society in every way should
should foster originality.
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Do not make the mistake of
glorifying war.
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Rather discern it for what it is
done for society, so that you
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may the more accurately
visualize what its substitutes
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must provide in order to
continue the advancement of
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civilization.
And if such adequate substitutes
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are not provided, then you may
be sure that war will long
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continue.
Man will never accept peace as a
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normal mode of living until he
has been thoroughly and
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repeatedly convinced that peace
is best for his material
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welfare, and until society has
wisely provided peaceful
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substitutes for the
gratification of that inherent
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tendency.
Periodically to let loose a
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collective Dr. designed to
liberate those ever accumulating
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emotions and energies belonging
to the self preservation
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reactions of the human species.
But even in passing, war should
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be honored as the school of
experience which compelled a
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race of arrogant individualists
to submit themselves to highly
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concentrated authority.
A chief executive old fashioned
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war did select the innately
great men for leadership, but
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modern war no longer does this.
To discover leaders, society
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must now turn to the conquests
of peace, industry, science and
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social achievement.
That concludes that Section 2 of
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Paper 70 and those two chapters,
I think are much needed in
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contemplation these days.
There's a lot to be learned for
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the revelators on this one, and
I would remind you that the
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author of this particular paper
is none other than a Melchizedek
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of Nebadon and Melchizedeks and
the family of things should be
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considered older brothers, just
like Melchizedek taught Abraham
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monotheism during the times of
of his reign.
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And Abraham founded, went on and
founded the Hebrew religion in
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which Moses exemplified and
carried down to the modern day.
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So the same nature of being that
instructed Abraham and spawned
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the many great religious leaders
of of the subsequent ages is of
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the same order, the order of
Melchizedek, who wrote this
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paper that I just presented to
you.
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So our time has come.
We'll have more episodes.
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I'll look forward to our next
get together.
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In the meantime, be safe and be
of good faith and be of good
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cheer.
Thanks again for joining me and
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please share these podcasts with
fellow truth seekers.
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We're growing.
We've done so well.
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We're approaching 200,000 people
who have heard these podcasts
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and I'd like to see that number
grow and I appreciate you
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stopping by.
Until next time, be of good
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cheer.
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Well, we're together again and
thank you so much for tuning
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into the Urantia Radio Podcast.
My name is Jim Watkins.
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I've been reading the Urantia
book since 1982 when I was 19
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years old.
Before that I was a happy go
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lucky Christian and I was off on
my new life just getting into my
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career and reading the Urantia
book.
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And it took it with me
everywhere I went across the
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great country that I live in.
And so I like to share and talk
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about this revelation and we
will.
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And often times I don't like to
talk about current events for
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the simple reason that if I talk
about something that's happening
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today, the episode will be
around for years.
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And sometimes it won't make
sense if you're listening to me
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say 2 years from now and you're
hearing me talk about something
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that's come and gone.
But I think with the tensions
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that are rising in the Middle
East, everybody is rightfully
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nervous, worried about it
because it could be biblical.
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It could be of, you know,
prophecy.
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A lot of people holds a prophecy
and that these may be a
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dispensation of some kind.
But there's no doubt that Israel
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and Iran have been at this for a
long, long time.
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What makes this different,
obviously, is the nuclear
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element, the fact that Iran is
enriching uranium, and
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rightfully, because, you know,
there's just a little history,
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back when Libya was run by
Moammar Gaddafi, he had nuclear
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weapons and he agreed to give
them up.
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And then he got killed by
Americans to the lesson that the
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Ayatollah Khamenei is, well, we
got to have nuclear weapons,
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otherwise America will just take
over.
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And so that's led.
And also not to mention, I don't
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want to downplay this at all,
but Iran has been a sponsor of
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global terror for a long time.
They hold to a very extreme
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version of Islam and they are
hell bent on destroying Israel
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because they believe it is their
divine duty to do so.
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That at least is the culture of
the and the mindset of the
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people who run that country.
So it's tense right now and
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people are nervous about it
because it could disrupt
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everything if the United States
gets involved or too involved.
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The repercussions there talk to
people a lot who are concerned
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about terrorists that might be
sleeper cells.
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So it's it's put a lot of people
at ease.
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I myself have I'm I'm not
inoculated from this as much as
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I have faith in the most highs.
I also see the the perspective
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of war and I want to talk about
paper 70 in the Arantia book,
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just the one paper.
And even that I'm only going to
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read maybe two or three
paragraphs.
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And it takes us through the
timeline and helps us understand
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what the mechanism of war is all
about and, and how it's been a
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part of civilization for as long
as civilization has existed.
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And we're going to do that in
just a minute.
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So hang on.
And I've also got some good news
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to share with you about other
things that I've involved with
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it you might want to check out.
And we'll do all that in just a
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second.
So hang on, You're listening to
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the Rancho Radio podcast.
One of the things that happened
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recently.
Welcome back is that I was able
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to spend some time with my now
friend and his name is Santiago
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Neeland and he lives in Spain
and he does a new podcast and
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he's heavily involved in this
podcast.
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It's all about the Urantia book
and all about the Divine within.
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That's the name of the podcast.
And he caught up with me and we
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did an interview a couple of
days ago and he's in post
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production.
And so, you know, in a couple of
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weeks, go on YouTube and look up
the divine within and it might
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pop up and you'll see my name,
Jim Watkins.
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And we had a nice chat about a
lot of different things.
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And I, I think you'll enjoy it.
For those who may not be
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familiar, I want to give a quick
breakdown to how the Urantia
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book is structured and in sort
of my own thoughts on why the
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book is structured in the way
that it's structured.
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And to me, it, it, it's a
timeline.
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If you're moving from left to
right, it is a literal timeline
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of creation, moving from the
first original, first source and
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center and back to before time
as we would reckon it.
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And then you move to the right
and now you're moving towards
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the present day.
So the first part of the Urantia
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book and it's divided into 4
parts and the first part is all
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about God and paradise and the
Trinity and the relationship
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that the Trinity has to reality
as we know it, The Trinity being
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God the Father, God the Son and
God the Spirit.
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And then the second part of the
Urantia book, Part 2 really
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delves into the activities of
the local area of space that we
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live in, which is under the
domain of Jesus Christ.
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And that would be called
Nevadon.
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And before Jesus incarnated as a
as a son, as the Son of the
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Father, the highest
representative of the Father's
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nature that we could possibly
experience, he was known as
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Michael on, on Nebadon or
Michael.
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And Michael is often, or maybe
not, maybe there is an Archangel
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Michael, I don't know.
But the Archangel Michael is
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very much a part of Christology.
And the reason is that Michael
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is Michael of Nebadon.
That is his name.
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He is the highest order of
sonship in our universe.
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So when he says he who has seen
me has seen the father, he's
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being absolutely literal.
So Part 2 of the Urantia book is
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about his creation.
So now we're moving outward.
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And then we finally get to Part
3, which is a very exciting part
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of the Urantia book.
And it is called The History of
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Urantia.
And it goes from the beginning
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of our solar system and the
birth of our solar system
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actually, and it moves outward.
And it starts with paper 57.
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So now you're already 57 papers
into this book.
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And it finally gets to that
section where they talk about
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our early years, how life was
established.
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And then it gives a
chronological summary of how we
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went from marine life to the
early land life to the mammalian
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era of our world.
And then finally to the
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appearance of the dawn races of
early man pre man.
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And then it it it comes to the
point in paper 63 where it talks
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about the first human family and
what made them truly human.
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The story of Andon and Fonta and
and and let it be known that the
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Oranga book asserts that
evolution is not accidental or
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causational or repercussional.
It is intelligently controlled
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and guided.
We are not an experiment.
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We were planned.
And it's important to make that
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distinction because while it
promotes the idea of evolution,
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it doesn't take away from the
creatorship intelligent design
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foundation of which we base our
belief in God.
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So God has his divine hand
interceding and, and, and I know
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that's hard for people.
Oh, well, why would he be doing
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that?
Until you understand the true
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nature and the size and scope
and the depth of deity, it
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becomes easier to understand
when you understand that it's
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not just him.
He has all kinds of divine
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attributes.
He has seven levels of distinct
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reality that He has the founder
of and sponsor of, and we are in
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just one perspective of that.
We are.
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We are at the tail end.
We're at the very bottom of that
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intelligent design.
And the part that makes us
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created in His image is that His
actual spirit fragment resides
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in our minds.
That is how we are connected to
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Him.
This is why we can pray to Him,
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why we can worship, why we
commune.
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So for people who say that
religion is completely
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evolutionary, they would be
wrong.
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There is a divine hand.
There isn't divine.
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There is divine and, and guess
what?
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You're part of it.
Whether you agree with it or
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not, you are a part of that
plan.
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And so in the paper of, of, of
the history of Urantia, it, it
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takes us through the early
stages of the human family.
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Then it addresses the different
sort of offspring of the
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evolutionary races of color.
There was there were variants
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introduced about 1/2 a million
years ago and human beings
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evolved to a slightly higher
level.
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Then it talks about the over
control of evolution and then at
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that point it it it goes to
about 500,000 years ago and what
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has has has happened since.
So now we're in paper 67, for
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example, or 66, and we talk
about the era right after the
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appearance of the colored races.
Then they get into the dawn of
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civilization where these various
tribes that started to appear
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and populate the earth, the
early period of of how we
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invented things, our cultural
traits, why we worship, what did
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we worship?
It takes us through a whole
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period so that we better
understand our early beginnings,
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much of it lost, by the way, and
yet to be discovered by
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archaeology.
And then they start to address
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to us about primitive human
institutions.
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And for example, when you think
about the different
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institutions, the dawn of
industry, the specialization,
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specialization of Labor, the
beginnings of trade between the
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tribes, the beginnings of
capital, where you have people
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who have wealth because they
produce.
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And then it talks about fire and
fire in relation to
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civilization, which is
interesting.
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You should read that sometime.
It's Paper 69, section 6.
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Then it talks about the
utilization of animals.
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And if you think about these are
all just slices.
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These are evolutionary
gradations of development
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towards a more progressive
society, which is what we have
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today.
It also addresses slavery in
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early civilization.
And then it talks about private
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property.
And that was really the
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beginning of a, of more enduring
of a type of civilization.
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But I want to talk to you about
Paper 70 as it relates to today
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because in this section we find
2 chapters. 1 is called the
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genesis of war and the social
value of war.
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And so I'll read to you and I
haven't read this probably in a
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few months.
I read it from time to time just
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to get a, a, you know, a brush
up.
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And it sets the stage on why,
why we maybe it'll answer for
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you and, and me why we're at
this stage.
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So let's begin and you can read
along if you want to.
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Paper 70, the evolution of a
human government.
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We're only going to do 33
papers.
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No sooner had man partially
solve the problem of making a
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living than he was confronted
with the task of regulating
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human contacts.
The development of industry
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demanded law, order and social
adjustment.
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Private property necessitated
government.
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On an evolutionary world,
antagonisms are natural.
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Peace is secured only by some
sort of social regulative
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system.
Social regulation is inseparable
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from social organization.
Associations implies some
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controlling authority and
government compels the
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coordination of the antagonisms
of the tribes, clans, families
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and individuals.
Government is an unconscious
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development.
It evolves by trial and error.
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It does not.
It does have survival value.
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Therefore, it becomes
traditional anarchy, augmented
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misery.
Therefore, government,
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comparative law and order slowly
emerged or is emerging.
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The coercive demands of the
struggle for existence literally
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drove the human race along
progressive roads to
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civilization.
So because we desire law and
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order or because we like to be
safe, we created law and order,
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we created government.
We we put power in people's
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hands to regulate so that the
the what is it?
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The lesser angels of our nature
don't dominate.
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Because if you have a Society of
savages and they never civilize,
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then you have no society.
It, it, it is a perpetually in
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disarray.
And mankind, because of
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intelligence demanded something
more.
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That's what that first paragraph
is saying, the genesis of war.
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This is section one from the
same paper. 70 War is the
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natural state and heritage of
evolving man.
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Peace in the Social Yardstick
Peace is the social yardstick
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measuring civilizations
Advancement Before the Before
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the partial socialization of the
advancing races, man was
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exceedingly individualistic,
extremely suspicious, and
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unbelievably quarrelsome.
Violence is the law of nature,
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hostility the automatic reaction
of the children of nature, while
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war is but the same activities
carried on collectively.
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And whenever and wherever the
fabric of civilization becomes
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stressed by the complications of
society's advancement, there is
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always an immediate and ruinous
reversion to these early methods
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of violent adjustment, of the
irritations of human
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interassociation.
War is an animalistic reaction
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to misunderstandings and
irritations.
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Peace attends upon the civilized
solution of all problems and
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difficulties.
The Sangak or colored races,
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together with the later
deteriorated Adamites and
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Nodites, were all belligerent.
The Andonites.
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These are first Andon and Font
of the first human family were
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early taught the Golden Rule,
and even today their Eskimo
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descendants live very much by
that code.
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Custom is strong among them and
they are fairly free free from
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violent antagonisms.
Interesting note about the
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Eskimos, or what we call today
the Inuit.
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And on taught his children to
settle disputes by beating a
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tree with a stick, meanwhile
cursing the tree.
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The one whose stick broke first
was the the winner, the victor.
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The later Andonites used to
settle disputes by holding a
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public show at which the
disputants made fun and
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ridiculed each other, while the
audience decided the winner by
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its applause.
But there could be no such
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phenomena as war until society
had evolved sufficiently far to
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actually experience periods of
peace and to sanction warlike
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practices.
The very concept of war implies
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some degree of organization.
With the emergence of social
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groupings, individual
irritations began to be
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submerged in the group feelings,
and this promoted inter tribal
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tranquility, but at the expense
of inter tribal peace.
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Peace was thus first enjoyed by
the in Group or tribe who always
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disliked and hated the out group
foreigners.
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Early man regarded it as a
virtue to shed alien blood, but
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even this did not work at first.
When the early chiefs would try
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to iron out misunderstandings,
they often found it necessary at
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least once a year to permit the
tribe stone fights.
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The clan would divide up into
two gangs or groups and engage
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in an all day battle.
And this for no other reason
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than just the fun of it.
They really enjoyed fighting.
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Human beings really enjoy the
fight.
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This is why I say that the
sports like football or hockey,
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basketball, they've, they've we
in the West to harness our
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energy soccer so that
professional sports takes the
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place of war because we like
doing this kind of thing.
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Warfare persists because man is
human, evolved from an animal,
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and all animals are bellicose.
Among the early causes of war
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were hunger, women's scarcity,
vanity, slaves.
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Revenge was the motive for war
when one tribe believed that a
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neighboring tribe had caused the
death of a fellow tribesman.
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That still goes on today.
Mourning was continued until the
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head was brought home.
The war for vengeance was in
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good standing right on down to
comparatively modern times.
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Another reason for war
recreation.
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War was looked upon as
recreation by the young men of
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these early times.
If no good and sufficient
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pretext for war arose when peace
became oppressive, neighboring
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tribes were accustomed to go out
in semi friendly combat, to
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engage in a foray as a holiday,
or to enjoy a sham battle.
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Religion #7 The desire to make
converts to the cult.
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The primitive religions all
sanctioned war.
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Only in recent times has
religion begun to frown upon
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war.
The early priesthoods were
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unfortunately usually allied
with the military power.
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One of the great peace moves of
the ages has been the attempt to
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separate church and state.
Always these olden tribes made
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war at the bidding of their
gods, at the behest of their
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chiefs or medicine men.
The Hebrews believed in such a
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God of battles and the
narratives of their raid on the
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Midianites is a typical recital
of the atrocities cruelty of the
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ancient tribal wars.
This assault, with its slaughter
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of all the males and the later
killings of all male children
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and all women were not virgins,
would have done honor to the
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morays of a tribal Chieftain of
200,000 years ago.
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And all this was executed in the
name of the Lord God of Israel.
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This is a narrative of the
evolution of society, the
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natural outworking of the
problems of the races, man
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working out his own destiny on
earth.
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Such atrocities are not
instigated by deity.
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Notwithstanding the tendency of
man to place the responsibility
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on his gods, military mercy has
been slow in coming to mankind.
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Even when a woman Deborah, ruled
the Hebrews, the same wholesale
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cruelty persisted.
Her general in his victory over
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the Gentiles.
Cause quote all the hosts to
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fall upon the sword, and there
was not one left in quote.
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Very early in the history of the
race, poisoned weapons were
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used.
All sorts of mutilations were
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practiced.
Saul did not hesitate to require
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100 Philistine foreskins as the
dowry.
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David would should pay for his
daughter Michael.
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Early wars were fought between
tribes as a whole, but in later
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times when 2 individuals and
different tribes had a dispute,
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instead of both tribes fighting,
the two disputants engaged in a
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duel.
It also became a custom for two
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armies to stake all on the
outcome of a contest between a
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representative chosen from each
side, as in the instance of
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David and Goliath.
The first refinements of war was
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the taking of prisoners.
Next women were exempted from
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hostilities and then came the
recognition of non combatants.
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Military casts and standing
armies soon developed to keep
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pace with the increasing
complexity of combat.
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Such warriors were early
prohibited from associating with
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women, and women long ago ceased
to fight, though they have
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always fed and nursed the
soldiers and urged them on to
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battle.
The practice of declaring war
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represented great progress.
Such declarations of intention
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to fight betoken the arrival of
a sense of fairness, and this
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was followed by the gradual
development of the rulers of
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civilized warfare.
Very early it became the custom
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not to fight near religious
sites, and still later not to
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fight on certain holy days.
Next came the general
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recognition of the right of
asylum.
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Political fugitives received
protection.
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Thus did warfare gradually
evolve from the primitive
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manhunt to the somewhat more
orderly systems of the latter
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day civilized nations.
But only slowly does the social
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attitude of amity displace that
of anonymity.
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So let us take a moment, take a
collective breath, and we'll
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continue on with the next
section of this engaging paper
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on the social value of war.
All right, so now we want to
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read on to the section of this
book where it talks about the
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social value of war.
Now, in past ages of fierce war
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would institute social changes
and facilitate the adoption of
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new ideas such as would not have
occurred naturally in 10,000
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years.
The terrible price paid for
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these certain war advantages was
that society was temporarily
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thrown back into savagery.
Civilized reason had to
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abdicate.
War is strong medicine, very
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costly and most dangerous.
While often curative of certain
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social disorders, it sometimes
kills the patient, destroys the
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society.
The constant necessity for
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National Defense creates many
new and advanced social
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adjustments.
Society today enjoys the benefit
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of a long list of useful
innovations which were at first
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holy military, and even is
indebted to war for the dance,
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one of the early forms of which
was a military drill.
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War has had a social value to
past civilizations because it #1
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impose discipline and enforced
cooperation #2 put a premium on
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fortitude and courage #3
fostered and solidified
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nationalism, destroyed weak and
unfit peoples, dissolve the
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illusion of primitive equality
and selective, stratified
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society.
And war has had certain
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evolutionary and selective
value, but like slavery, it must
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sometime be abandoned as
civilization slowly advances.
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Olden wars promoted travel and
cultural intercourse.
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These ends are now better served
by modern methods of transport
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and communication.
Olden wars strengthen the
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nation's, but modern struggles
disrupt civilized culture.
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Ancient warfare resulted in the
decimation of inferior peoples.
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The net result of modern
conflict is the selective
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destruction of the best human
stocks.
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And I take that if you think
about the number of people that
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died in World War One and World
War Two, you begin to realize
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how many human beings were wiped
off the face of the earth in
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such a short amount of time.
Where?
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And even onward through the 20th
century and communism in China,
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hundreds of millions of people,
or at least 100 million people,
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have been killed off that that's
sobering.
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Early wars promoted organization
and efficiency, but these have
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now become the aims of modern
industry.
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During past ages, war was a
social ferment which pushed
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civilization forward.
This result is now better
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attained by ambition and
invention.
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Ancient warfare supported the
concept of a God of battles, but
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modern man has been told that
God is love.
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War has served many valuable
purposes in the past.
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It has been an indispensable
scaffolding in the building of
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civilization, but it is rapidly
becoming culturally bankrupt,
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incapable of producing dividends
of social gain in any way
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commensurate with the terrible
losses attendant upon its
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invocation.
At one time physicians believed
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in bloodletting as a cure for
many diseases, but they have
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since discovered better remedies
for most of these disorders, and
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so must the international
bloodletting of war certainly
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give place to the discovery of
better methods for curing the
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ills of nations.
The nations of Urantia have
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already entered upon the
gigantic struggle between
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nationalistic militarism and
industrialism, and in many ways
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this conflict is analogous to
the age long struggle between
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the herder hunter and the
farmer.
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But if industrialism is to
triumph over militarism, it must
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avoid the dangers which beset
it.
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The perils of budding industry
on Urantia are #1 The strong
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drift towards materialism.
Spiritual blindness #2 The
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worship of wealth, power, value
distortion 3 The vices of
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luxury.
Cultural immaturity #4 The
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increasing dangers of indolence.
Service insensitivity #5 The
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growth of undesirable racial
softness.
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Biological deterioration, and
number six, the threat of
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standardized industrial slavery.
Personality stagnation, labor is
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ennobling, but drudgery is be
numbing.
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Now I'll I'll just put this out
there that those six points very
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much reflect many of the
problems and the social ills
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that we have.
I interviewed A historian not
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long ago on another program, a
gentleman by the name of Anton
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Chaikin.
Chaikin, That's right.
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And he has done extensive
reporting on the history of war.
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And he claims that today's war
are driven by industrialists,
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bankers, people who have a
vested interest and they don't
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really give a damn about moral
or human rights.
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They're in it for, they're in it
to win it.
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And so and they've become more
secular in their outlook and
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they tend to think along
globalist lines, like we can
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control humanity under our
terms.
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And so look at the the perils of
budding industry.
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Budding industry is what we have
now.
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We have corporatocracies, we
have mega companies that that
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have such an influence on our
day-to-day life.
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And the perils of these kinds of
organizations are in fact, the
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strong drift towards
materialism, spiritual
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blindness, the worship of
wealth, power and value
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distortion.
These billion dollar companies
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America made, produced, I read
100 No 1000 new millionaires in
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the year 2025.
All right.
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Not that there's anything wrong
with being a millionaire, mind
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you, but the but it tends to, I
mean, when you want to talk
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about the worship of wealth,
power, and then of course, the
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vices of luxury and cultural
immaturity.
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So these are just telltale signs
of what's driving war today is
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not the same as what drove it in
the past.
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All right, let me continue on.
Militarism is autocratic and
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cruel savage.
It promotes social organization
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among the conquerors but
disintegrates the vanquished.
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Industrialism is more civilized,
and it should be carried on so
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as to promote initiative and to
encourage individualism.
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Society in every way should
should foster originality.
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Do not make the mistake of
glorifying war.
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Rather discern it for what it is
done for society, so that you
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may the more accurately
visualize what its substitutes
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must provide in order to
continue the advancement of
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civilization.
And if such adequate substitutes
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are not provided, then you may
be sure that war will long
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continue.
Man will never accept peace as a
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normal mode of living until he
has been thoroughly and
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repeatedly convinced that peace
is best for his material
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welfare, and until society has
wisely provided peaceful
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substitutes for the
gratification of that inherent
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tendency.
Periodically to let loose a
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collective Dr. designed to
liberate those ever accumulating
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emotions and energies belonging
to the self preservation
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reactions of the human species.
But even in passing, war should
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be honored as the school of
experience which compelled a
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race of arrogant individualists
to submit themselves to highly
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concentrated authority.
A chief executive old fashioned
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war did select the innately
great men for leadership, but
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modern war no longer does this.
To discover leaders, society
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must now turn to the conquests
of peace, industry, science and
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social achievement.
That concludes that Section 2 of
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Paper 70 and those two chapters,
I think are much needed in
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contemplation these days.
There's a lot to be learned for
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the revelators on this one, and
I would remind you that the
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author of this particular paper
is none other than a Melchizedek
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of Nebadon and Melchizedeks and
the family of things should be
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considered older brothers, just
like Melchizedek taught Abraham
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monotheism during the times of
of his reign.
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And Abraham founded, went on and
founded the Hebrew religion in
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which Moses exemplified and
carried down to the modern day.
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So the same nature of being that
instructed Abraham and spawned
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the many great religious leaders
of of the subsequent ages is of
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the same order, the order of
Melchizedek, who wrote this
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paper that I just presented to
you.
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So our time has come.
We'll have more episodes.
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I'll look forward to our next
get together.
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In the meantime, be safe and be
of good faith and be of good
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cheer.
Thanks again for joining me and
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We're approaching 200,000 people
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Until next time, be of good
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cheer.
