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High Sierra Buck Donating Member (137 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-11-04 09:12 AM
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The Human Hell, Demons of War, and the Evolution of Aggression
The pages of history, those monuments to humankind’s brief rule over the planet, are replete with violence, death and destruction. Indeed, it can be argued successfully that war, genocide, ethnic cleansing and human violence against each other have defined humanity’s tumultuous existence on Earth.

PART ONE OF TWO: The Human Hell and the Demons of War: Think Never Again? Try Again and Again.
By Manuel Valenzuela



We are inseparable from death and destruction, suffering and violence, having become creatures addicted to the malice inherent in human evil. Turning the pages of the little we know of our own past, one thing becomes quite apparent: Throughout time, in all corners of the world, mankind has lived side by side with war, destruction and death.

What is it about the human condition that espouses in us a propensity to grossly annihilate ourselves, inflicting horrendous misery onto our kind and never learning from the devastation unleashed by us unto us?

A lot lot more......... http://www.axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/article_7476.shtml

The grand lie we live of our god-like divinity has for centuries clashed with the great truth of our animal-like reality. Except we are too delusional to see beyond the mirage of greatness we espouse onto our fragile egos. The great fallacy of our omnipotence is corrosively leading to the impotence of our continued existence.



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