Call me naive or ignorant, but here is(are) my question(s) [View All]

[The Straight Story]

Why do we have wars? I mean, ok, someone is attacking you so you defend, I mean I get that whole thing ok.

But the people fighting the wars, the grunts and so forth if you will (and I certainly mean them no disrespect with that term, apology if it is taken as such) - why are they out there fighting for people who won't go and fight themselves - but will decide if there is to be a fight or not.

And I don't mean just Americans. Japan, China, Iran, europe, and where ever such things occur. It seems the few work to control the many based on a crisis (or more than one, or fake ones).

Fear becomes the motivator. The avg person is sold an enemy like a product and I think perhaps in these times that fear is bolstered perhaps by other things to help it along.

As an example - let's take peak oil and how I could see the next major war and the apocalypse (not forming an opinion on it here, but since it is a frequent topic it came to mind first).

We got the whole ME thing going on now with the terrorism threats, 9/11 and so on. Next the right fears the chinese. Now we throw in peak oil. Chinese want the oil, we need to control it so we can have it. Next thing ya know oil is in super short supply (maybe some nuke goes off and contaminates it, or the ME folks promise it to chinese who have more money, etc and so on).

With me so far? Ok - now here is where it gets even better. The men on horses marching to war, from Revelation (9:16-18). Been pegged as the chinese due to the big size of the army. Most people nowadays seem to forget the horses they were riding on. Not enough oil fixes that.

So what could we wind up with? The chinese marching down to take the oil, on horses. Ok, a little detail in the whole mess - but it makes one wonder how many other things could be spelled out so deeply (and something deep like this which is imprinted on the minds of many from church - which I am not knocking church, I am a christian myself and been to my fair share of churches).

* gets his war (and he is not the only one). We ramp up oil going bust, the dollar crashing, the terrorists and communists are coming, and so on and so forth.

While this is but one scenario - it makes me wonder in the history of war how many came down to this in the end. A bunch of salesmen out peddling their fears to motivate people to do things so they don't have to - and so that they themselves live to benefit off the sacrifice you made.

Some wars need to be for survival, If no one came to a war, would anyone hear the sounds of it?

(and sorry if this all seemed sloppy, was a on a conference call and chat with work folks while attempting to write it).