Gary Childress wrote: ↑Wed Jun 18, 2025 5:17 pm
Age wrote: ↑Wed Jun 18, 2025 1:57 pm
Gary Childress wrote: ↑Wed Jun 18, 2025 3:47 am
To be honest, I have a difficult time "accepting" and "taking" responsibility for any war.
Okay, along with just about every other adult human being, in the days when this is being written. Which explains exactly why 'the wars' continued.
Gary Childress wrote: ↑Wed Jun 18, 2025 3:47 am
I'm not sure what that means or entails.
Okay, and while you remain not open you will not ask clarifying questions, and so will remain 'not sure'.
Gary Childress wrote: ↑Wed Jun 18, 2025 3:47 am
No one who makes any decisions in my country ever asks me if I think we ought to go to war or not.
Obviously.
If you give over all 'power' to others, then they will never ever ask you want you think, nor ask you what you want.
Gary Childress wrote: ↑Wed Jun 18, 2025 3:47 am
If they did, my answer would be an unequivocal "NO!".
Yet you elect 'them' to 'speak', for you.
Gary Childress wrote: ↑Wed Jun 18, 2025 3:47 am
I didn't vote for any of the Presidents who have started any wars.
Does that mean you voted for 'those' who never won 'the presidency'?
Gary Childress wrote: ↑Wed Jun 18, 2025 3:47 am
I think the only political leader I've ever voted for who won was Obama for one of his terms.
Okay.
Does 'this' make you feel somewhat 'not responsible'?
Gary Childress wrote: ↑Wed Jun 18, 2025 3:47 am
(I don't remember which one. It might have been his second term because of him ending the Iraq war at the end of his first). I mean, I could symbolically say to myself, "I accept responsibility for War XYZ" however, it would be an empty gesture because I honestly don't think I'm responsible for any war.
Okay.
If as an adult human being you do not feel 'responsible' for any way, then 'that' must you feel somewhat 'free' of any responsible at all, right?
If yes, then, in turn, you feel like there is nothing that you could, nor need to do, here, correct?
Gary Childress wrote: ↑Wed Jun 18, 2025 3:47 am
However, perhaps you can change my mind by showing me how I am in fact responsible for a war. Are you able to do that?
1. you do not have a mind', which could be changed.
2. I think you believe that you are not responsible for any of the wars, is this true?
If yes, then there is not a single thing in the whole Universe that could show you that, in fact, you are responsible. Along with every other adult human being.
It sounds like we are all doomed.
What, exactly, makes 'it' sound like 'we' are all doomed?
Who and/or is the 'we', exactly? And,
'Doomed' in relation to 'what', exactly?
It sounds like you believed 'we' are all going to live forever, but now 'we' are not.
Gary Childress wrote: ↑Wed Jun 18, 2025 5:17 pm
If there is a God, and God doesn't want these wars, then s/he/it could at least give us some way to stop or prevent them.
1. What the 'God' word is referring to, exactly, exists.
2. God could never be gendered. So, 'It' could never be a "he" nor a "she".
3. God has continually been giving you human beings 'the ways' to stop and prevent 'the wars', 'the pollution', and 'the abuse', which you adult human beings started, doing, and continue to create, and cause.
But, you adult human beings just do not want to look and listen to what God is showing and telling you. you much prefer to listen to your own made up assumptions and beliefs, and only see and hear what you want to see and hear, instead
Gary Childress wrote: ↑Wed Jun 18, 2025 5:17 pm
What kind of God creates a world that we humans can do nothing to change?
But, you adult human beings are absolutely free to do whatever you want to do. Therefore, you can do absolutely any thing at to change, for the better, or for the worse. Again, how 'the world' is, is exactly because of how 'you' are, and how 'you' want things to be.
Gary Childress wrote: ↑Wed Jun 18, 2025 5:17 pm
That all we can do is watch as the world goes up in smoke?
Why are you so closed and blind, here, "gary childress"?
Once more, for the Truly blind and deaf, 'the world' is, exactly, 'the way' it is because of you adult human beings. So, if 'the world' is going up in smoke, then this is because of you adult human beings, only.
Gary Childress wrote: ↑Wed Jun 18, 2025 5:17 pm
If there is a God, then God is the only one who can stop or prevent wars.
you could not come across as a less responsible adult human beings, 'gary childress".
Gary Childress wrote: ↑Wed Jun 18, 2025 5:17 pm
And God doesn't seem to be interested in such things, because God hasn't given any of us the ability to stop or prevent them and God doesn't seem to do anything to stop or prevent them.
If only you knew the actual Truth, here, "gary childress". If only you knew.
Gary Childress wrote: ↑Wed Jun 18, 2025 5:17 pm
So what can most of us humans do except die as victims?
Again, you speak as though you believed you were not going to 'die'.
Also, no matter in what way you 'died', you would see "yourself" as being 'the victim's anyway.
Gary Childress wrote: ↑Wed Jun 18, 2025 5:17 pm
But maybe there's no God at all.
How many times do you need to be told that God exists, but just not in 'the way' that you have been told and believed, before you will accept this irrefutable Truth?
Gary Childress wrote: ↑Wed Jun 18, 2025 5:17 pm
Maybe we really did just sprout up like fungus by happenstance on a giant rock in the middle of a solar system. In that case, we seem to also be just as doomed.
Again, to you 'we', and especially, 'you', are always 'doomed', and 'victims'.