VALLEY OF DECISION

"Why do the heathen rage and the people imagine a vain thing?"

These things are only to be expected in the life cycle of an empire. The forces striving to bring about World Government are responsible for this. Empires expand and seek to incorporate differing peoples, tribes, states and nations within their growing boundaries. Private religion is no problem in a world with no borders. All empires must have an official policy or mechanism to provide stability.

There is a rush towards the "end of history". Any thought that endangers peace and stability must be removed by the controlling interests of power or the ruling elite, if you will. The transformational period that we are witnessing and living in will continue in earnest for probably another 15 years.

This time will be fraught with increasing crisis, chaos, conflict, and creative destruction. It is the desire of powerfull men and kings of the earth to bring their order out of the chaos of the old order. The only thing to be done is to remain true to the first and greatest commandment and the second which is like unto it. Your enemy wants to divide and cause hatred so he can step in to control. Be angry and sin not.

—Woodpecker, CO

As my engineering teacher said, engineering is a quiet profession. He told us that the styrofoam containers McDonalds used to put their quarter pounders in did less damage than the new cardboardy ones. He also said there were more single car accidents involving little cars, than big ones (comfort problem?). If earth was that fragile, it would not have been able to support life. I would suggest to anyone with about an hour to tune into Michael Crichton's complexity theory lecture on his website. He does an excellent job of walking through the failure of us humans to understand and accept the complexity of our busy, active planet. If nothing else, look at the usgs website on earth quake stats. Here is just one that will surpise a lot of people:

Alaska is the most earthquake-prone state and one of the most seismically active regions in the world. Alaska experiences a magnitude 7 earthquake almost every year, and a magnitude 8 or greater earthquake on average every 14 years. The number of hurricanes, earthquakes, tornadoes, lighting strikes, etc. that happen on our planet mean it is continually changing and very active. We only hear about the ones that are huge, or effect our own lives.

—Beckett, DE

Crichton's complexity theory is a valuable read for anyone still confused by FA Hayek's defense of capitalism against statism.