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.

OBVIOUSLY FIT TO BE TIED

The following piece sums up the case against Islam. Of course there will be a multitude of others who refuse the obvious and choose to look the other way as danger approaches. It's always been that way. History is abundantly clear about that.

ISN'T IT PATHETIC that the only modernization islam permits is what others invent and develop, with a strong emphasis on weaponry and bombs. They don't hesitate to use the modern conveniences invented, developed, and produced in the West, from automobiles and airplanes, to air conditioners and dishwashers.

They send their best and brightest to be educated in our universities, come to the West to receive the finest medical care, and depend on the rest of the world for virtually all of life's necessities, including food.

We give them billions of dollars every year to improve their miserable wastelands but they continue to decline in every way as their religious fanaticism deepens and spreads. They buy our planes, bombs, and weapons to use against us in the jihad while living in a time warp where women are inferior, evil creatures owned by males, and little girls are raped, murdered, and promptly forgotten.

They believe they are superior beings because they believe in a sick, evil, archaic ideology they call religion and demand that the entire world submit to their Allah, or else.

There were no vehicles or tanks in Muhammad's time, no guns or bombs, but when it comes to warfare, they justify using modern technology made available by their evil enemy, the West. Why didn't allah grant them the means to create these marvelous tools of war, since they are the "best of people" and we are despicable filth? In their twisted minds, they always find ways to justify the use of kuffar technology but when it comes to joining the modern, civilized world by abandoning the archaic, asinine, repressive edicts of their prophet, Islam forbids it.

We are fools to sell them weapons, planes, computers, and we are idiots to allow them access to our schools and universities. But the most reckless, foolish, and dangerous blunder ever made by Western "leaders" was to allow these treacherous savages to invade our countries, build their temples of hate, and become citizens of our countries. The myriad of mistakes of the last thirty years vis-a-vis Islam and muslims are nothing short of suicidal.

—SusanP