[Torn Signs]

Quote: (Originally Posted by whitebird)

When I was young, and the Vietnam war was taking place, I was looking for my first job.

I had a conversation with a young man that told me the armes plant in our area was hiring. He said they were looking for people who would work on an assembly line to make land mines.

He said the pay was great, and if I didn't consider it, and took a job a min. wage, I was stupid.

I looked at this young man, knowing there was knowledge within myself, that I would never be able to explain to him. His brain, compassion, and spiritual knowledge did not reach the level of my own.

To this day, there are people that are blown apart by those land mines planted during those horrible times.

If I had decided to take money for constructing those vile tools, I would have damaged my own spirit. That, I understood in my young years.

Recently, I watched on national TV, a young woman who was in the current war, video taping from a prison camp. She expressed to the people watching the video, that she hated it there, and only wanted to receive a college education, which was funded by the government. She did not want to be there anymore, and her hatred for the situation was growing.

Her price for doing what she was doing, was the price of an education.

Does she not then consider herself bought?

If anyone, or a country benefits, from the distruction, or the deaths of others, does this not mean you have sold your self for personal greed or profit?

Freedom has many faces, look to your soul to understand the depth of truth.

I'm glad that you have the choice that you made the choice to not make those land mines. There is something else you aught to know. Land mines have been used on the DMZ between North and South Korea for the last 50 years to prevent the North from reinvading the South. The Korean war has never ended, there simply has been a cease fire. The land mines are helping that cease fire stay in place. I don't want to argue with those who don't want to fight or to make weapons. As a free country we allow that. You were allowed that.
But here's another thought. By saying that your mind was ahead of that individual who made those mines you are implying that he/she was the stupid one. You are saying you are above them. That goes into your selfish greed compartment. Aren't you being selfish when you are stating that you are better than that individual? EVERYONE is a bit selfish. That's part of being human. And we are not selling are souls by getting profit from the Iraqi war because it was that certain individual who chose to join the military to get those college benefits in the same way. That was her selfishness to try and use something the government offers to find a high paying job in this now screwed up society. She may have sold her soul as you said, but it wasn't when she got over there. It was when she thought that using the military to get a lot of money would help her butt. Yes, she was bought. Bought by everyone else in society's views of what money and wealth offers.
I take it, and don't yell at me if I'm wrong, that you are a Christian for your "Though shalt not kill" quote. If you are then maybe you should also understand as a Christian that Jesus said that he will provide us with everything we need to survive. That includes money, food, shelter, etc. And yes her price for doing what she was doing was education. Again, society. Society needs everyone to be brainiacs to get that cash and to be someone. You can't blame the war for taking away her benefits. Perhaps who you can blame is yourself or everyone else who falls under the needles of Satan and doesn't realize what God offers us.
What Gods intentions are, can be mysterious if the Bible isn't read. But we are to support and love life. The War in Iraq has that. The casualties help bring the freedom for those civilians who are still alive in the country. You need examples for what the Iraq war has accomplished, here:
1. North Korea-Threatened against neighbors and threatening with nuclear weapons has now come to its senses and the peace table since we started the war in Iraq.
2. Libya- Decided to turn a new "leaf' and has given up its weapons of mass destruction, nuclear programs since the war began.
3. Just this past week, one of the terrorist masterminds behind 9/11 was captured in Britain. He attended terrorist training with Massowi (who's on trial here and was caught in Minneapolis while trying to learn to fly airplanes). He also went through terrorist training with Reid. Reid was captured w/ the shoe bombs on the aircraft.
4. The Packistanis and India are now making peace agreements.
5. The Packistanis have now joined us in the war on terror.
We are actually making great progress in the war and as far as I am concerned, God is making great progress in letting his prophecies be true. If peace and this One world Government comes due to everyone wanting a Utopia, the end times are near.
Enough said until next time. Remember I contradict myself. Peace out everyone,
Torn Signs.