tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5846567313402731847.post8640430715765596929..comments2024-01-08T12:37:24.482-08:00Comments on Living Armstrongism: Reading Mideast Strife—Will It Lead To Armageddon? by Garner Ted Armstrong (1998)Redfox712http://www.blogger.com/profile/17734930967002040931noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5846567313402731847.post-40563318344822675612017-07-01T23:39:47.510-07:002017-07-01T23:39:47.510-07:00He's dead Byker. Perhaps Elon Musk will usher ...He's dead Byker. Perhaps Elon Musk will usher in the millenial bliss through mankinds population of the universe and control of (hu)mankinds vices through technology through its singular development.<br /><br />I have never shared my opinion on HWA on the blogs. However I admit to having elaborated on the opinions of the pre civil war Lebanese government or the US ambassador to Syria on the AC digs in Mari et all.<br /><br />I admire that work more than its current inhabitants who will be driven out soon to establish a new order in the middle east. (not arab countries as you advised) Since there are Armenians, yezidi, kurds, assyrians etc etc and many more persusaions in that area.<br /><br />I describe the different political cultural factions in the former church. While you may choose to assess it as a monolith where people like gta just wielded different opinions. <br /><br />In reality the story of wcg is the story of the ascend of the worldwide american empire. Benign, excelling in soft power and diplomacy, now retiring into isolationism and schisms, with already 2 states threatening to seccede and wcg in 700 of course.<br /><br />Et pluribus unum. (as gta seems to have proposed to saddat)<br /><br />A microcosm of things to be through the modern span of control made possible by the advances of technology.<br /><br />Nck<br /><br />nckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14580008070423402328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5846567313402731847.post-30491339273840504472017-07-01T17:52:05.956-07:002017-07-01T17:52:05.956-07:00I'm so happy for you, nck! Do you look forwar...I'm so happy for you, nck! Do you look forward to hobnobbing with HWA during the Millennium? It sounds like you've got a collossal admiration thingie going on for him there and he'd probably really get off on a conversation with someone who shares his own opinions of his work!<br /><br />BBByker Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15602697337552385535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5846567313402731847.post-25258878976296940842017-07-01T13:07:42.628-07:002017-07-01T13:07:42.628-07:00HWA hobknobbed with the Saudi kimg even before GTA...HWA hobknobbed with the Saudi kimg even before GTA had finished school and AC was established. GTA failed to grasp the mission playing the all time midwestern common american part of the shakesperean play as commentator without a stake.<br /><br /><br />Ncknckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14580008070423402328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5846567313402731847.post-12139607392744236732017-07-01T13:01:43.615-07:002017-07-01T13:01:43.615-07:00Except that HWA was part of the Wilsonian globalis...Except that HWA was part of the Wilsonian globalist movement. An activw agent for the UN. Sponsor of hundreds of post wwII cross diplomatic dinners.<br /><br />In an age where a establishing a phone call to Egypt would take 20 minutes.<br /><br />Superficial part of the church call HWA a critic of the UN, while outside they called him a star for diplomats to navigate on. (not of topic since this remark was made by the goverment of lebanon)<br /><br />Ncknckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14580008070423402328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5846567313402731847.post-24934982782097330242017-07-01T11:26:59.342-07:002017-07-01T11:26:59.342-07:00GTA's article, and what we have then seen actu...GTA's article, and what we have then seen actually unfold in the past 19 years, perfectly illustrate what can happen when ones perceptions, world view, and thoughts about the future are dogma-driven, as opposed to the more scientific approach of following an evidentiary trail. <br /><br />Decades ago, visionaries realized that with the growth of the world population, the need for sustainable resources, and the often hostile ideological differences playing out throughout the world, humanity had progressed to the point where the affairs of planet earth required a global approach to management. A balanced global approach to business, commerce, and management of resources is largely what has kept us from experiencing a third world war. (Much to the chagrin of Armstrongites) Wouldn't it be ironic if a president from HWA/WCG's approved political party ended up turning the entire world against the USA by seceding from the globalist, mutually cooperative approach, to return to pursuing national interests, thus setting off trade wars, boycotts, and zero back-up and support in times of trouble? Globalism works very well, until the globalist majority has suddenly become the adversary!<br /><br />One can easily see how this could happen! When we read the opinions of Mark Armstrong and others, they are repugnant to most of us. Imagine a president espousing similar views and attempting to enforce them on the rest of the world! The world might have the patience to wait out one term of such policies, but if they began to appear to have any permanence, and the support of the majority of American citizens, there would eventually be severe reaction.<br /><br />BBByker Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15602697337552385535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5846567313402731847.post-1086823599185905332017-06-30T22:46:13.959-07:002017-06-30T22:46:13.959-07:00Wow man. What a hobby you have! I have travelled t...Wow man. What a hobby you have! I have travelled the entire (former) Ottoman empire including "Turkestan". Saw hundreds of Arab christian children visiting Nazareth. Followed the Armenian death trail up to Deir es Zor. Learned about the partition of the Ottoman districts in "christian" lebanon, jewish palestine (coast) and the islamic kingdom of Iraq and the Syrian territories. Saw most of the crusader castled from kerak to cerac des chevalliers.<br /><br />I consider you a fellow traveller although we might politically not always see eye to eye.<br /><br />Btw it struck me that perhaps the Tsarists establishing "the pale" might have also contributed to this feeling of nationhood.<br /><br />The rich "integrated" jews of vienna hated to be associated with the refugees from the pale crowding the streets of Vienna spreading discomfort among the locals not unlike the syrian diaspora of today.<br /><br />I hear comforting news that hundreds of thousands of syrians in turkey are returning to syria. Not so much from europe yet. I hope they are not too comfortable yet, to built their nation back to former prosperity like the jews did for israel.<br /><br />Ncknckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14580008070423402328noreply@blogger.com