http://gaia.tribe.net/thread/7ec96a2e-339c-4794-bc7c-531d0373e880?format=rss Tribe.net. Local Connections http://gaia.tribe.net/thread/7ec96a2e-339c-4794-bc7c-531d0373e880#a0b9f952-aff9-4288-b7db-71a6e91695fd i think the best we can do is to have FAITH in the humanity of all those involved. if they do decide to fight though... at least now they have an equal opponent and not such an easy target. Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:51:34 GMT http://gaia.tribe.net/thread/7ec96a2e-339c-4794-bc7c-531d0373e880#a0b9f952-aff9-4288-b7db-71a6e91695fd Takeshi 2009-06-30T18:51:34Z http://gaia.tribe.net/thread/7ec96a2e-339c-4794-bc7c-531d0373e880#dbb50f5e-6a07-4851-8fbf-722048cf592f I can imagine that the new machine consciousness will not kill us all but save us - just in time, too. that's why I say, "wait for the machines" - the less we do, the better. I mean, if we're imagining and everything Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:08:03 GMT http://gaia.tribe.net/thread/7ec96a2e-339c-4794-bc7c-531d0373e880#dbb50f5e-6a07-4851-8fbf-722048cf592f D 2009-06-30T13:08:03Z http://gaia.tribe.net/thread/7ec96a2e-339c-4794-bc7c-531d0373e880#64e45ab6-f369-467d-ac02-ab8a36c9f0d1 American troops are leaving Iraq. I offer no judgements here. I'm just aware, that as loving and progressive as protesting war is... when we left the southeast asian region we had totally destabalized in the sixties, roughtly three million civilians died in the insanity of the Khemer Rouge. I have long believed that we, Americans, hold a deep responsibility for this. I find it difficult to believe a similar situation isn't about to happen now. When the Eurpoean colonials left africa, africa went nuts. basically, when modern politicians create borders that ignore old rivalries... and become the power structure... and then leave a vacumn, there is a long history of what happens next... ethnic rivalries get much more pronounced, as the devestation of the people's demands expression, and they take it out on each other. Is this about to happen again? What can we do? What can we THINK, here, that can imagine a different scenario? Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:23:38 GMT http://gaia.tribe.net/thread/7ec96a2e-339c-4794-bc7c-531d0373e880#64e45ab6-f369-467d-ac02-ab8a36c9f0d1 Daniel Kaiya 2009-06-30T12:23:38Z