applepowerpc said:
I'm not sure I believe that Hezbollah is launching all these rockets. There's a number of really odd things about that. How is some rag-tag organization hiding in buildings & caves capable of launching hundreds of rockets with >10-mile range? I don't buy that. Where do they hide them? How do they finance them? How do they smuggle them? The other thing is, the vast majority of Israelis killed are Israeli Arabs, in Israeli Arab communities. That strikes me as a bit fishy.
Anyway, I agree, these rockets give Israelis the pretext they need to invade Lebanon all right....
Well again it is hard to say. Groups that start one way can become another. Such organizations can be penetrated and manipulated . If you are a despot the first order of business is to form your own opposition. If I were such a person even in this forum I could have one ID at a library or at work and attack my ideas badly. I could become a Jewish racist if I wanted to discredit Jews or I could pose as a racist muslim. I could quote the Satanic bible etc... Satan is the father of lies and as such can result in great evil.
The important thing to know is who benefits and what do they want? Operant conditioning at times has a bit of a reward or punishment paradox. Sometimes the applied reward or punishment inceases or decreases behavior unexpectedly. The correct interpretation is that the assumptions of reward and punishment are wrong. This sometimes occurs when children are ignored or punished, they prefer any attention over nothing.
Those that think they can win a war will want one. Politicians often benefit from war. The Argentinian attack on the Falkland Islands is a classic example. The Franco-Prussian war that set the stage for the 20th century was Bismarck's tool to unify the German nation and draw the center of its power from Vienna to Berlin.
Its time to discard our worldly wisdom and accept Christ's wisdom of being peace makers.
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18] For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.
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19] For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.
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20] Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?
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21] For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.
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22] For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom:
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23] But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness;
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24] But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.
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25] Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.
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26] For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called:
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27] But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;