repulsewarrior wrote:Lordo wrote:This reminds me of 1987 when I actually did my military service for 6 weeks in Cyprus and paid some money to be allowed to visit Cyprus and not be forced to do 2 years.
At the time the Iran-Iraq war was at its worst as over a million people died in that war. One evening the camp Imam decided to give us a lecture about god. So I asked him which side god was and his answer surprised me because he said both sides.
Make that what you will.
Lordo, did you kill anyone? Did you look forward to killing anyone? Did you see godless things and remain silent? These are the questions you must ask yourself, to find the answer to that one.
And who is God that we may serve him, is in the knowing that he may reward and he may forgive.
...your Imam spoke well, because it is, the Truth.
Any man that uses God to justify Hate is a charlatan.
...God is a compass, (the way) it does not swing this way or that for the hand that is holding it. Finding a path, and going off it, is the way of life isn't it? Intentions count; and God expects this accountability.
Have we evolved from the mythic hysteria of Authoritarian Leaders: Lest we Forget? Such enemies worth fighting fester like Disease and Hunger, and our Ignorance only helps them grow as we continue to fight each other.
...such as it is with "Scleroticis", choosing "sides" is not so easy. God is personal, between the notion and each everything; there is one choice actually, it is neither.
Nooooo RW. I never left the training camp. I fired a G3 15 times for practice and was given a training course where to shoot a soldier to kill him and where to stab him to do the same. We were all horrified that we were expected to do that. We thought it was a futile exercise to just get a piece of paper that said we completed our military service so we were free to visit our homeland.
