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What else are they supposed to do? The other side has better weapons. Sad that humanity is still entralled to degenerate tribalism at the dawn of the 21st cen
by homme 18y ago
What else are they supposed to do? The other side has better weapons.
Sad that humanity is still entralled to degenerate tribalism at the dawn of the 21st century. I wonder if those delusional Bronze and Iron age cult leaders had any idea of the damage they would be inflicting centuries hence.
Laughing in their graves: "Oh, come on, you didn't get it? We thought you could see we were bullshitting!"
- yters 18y agoYour comment looks like an observation, but it includes an implicit interpretation of the events. It is a clever technique, but harmful to the pursuit of transparent discussion.
- kajecounterhack 18y agoWhat else are they supposed to do? The other side has better weapons. So they use civilians to defend themselves and to attack with their tricky weapons. But there are only weapons because there is a war. And there is only a war because people hate each other. They could start by not hating each other...and trying to talk it out. But with both sides demanding preconditions, it won't work out. Ever. Alas, peace in the middle east is not to be had.
- ars 18y agoWhat else are they supposed to do? The other side has better weapons. What they should do is give up - they lost. And then they should work to get the best situation possible for their people. Instead they are trying to keep their cause alive, and who cares about the casualties. They lost and everyone knows it - but they refuse to allow themself to admit it, and so they kill their own people. Sad that humanity is still entralled to degenerate tribalism at the dawn of the 21st century What makes you think the 21st century is anything special? Humans haven't changed in the slightest since those "delusional Bronze and Iron age cult leaders". (That comment doesn't even make any sense since the bronze age was before, or at the very edge of, recorded history, but whatever.) I checked some of your other comments, and they seemed normal - this one isn't. Are you just a troll trying to provoke responses?
- homme 18y agoNo, but I can see how it could be interpreted as such. Just tired of seeing people killing and being killed for what I feel are absurd reasons. (That comment doesn't even make any sense since the bronze age was before, or at the very edge of, recorded history, but whatever.)* FYI, The bronze age in the M.E. is commonly held to have occurred between 3300-1200 BCE, directly overlapping the time period of Moses, who is said to have authored the Pentateuch. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronze_age http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronze_age http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses
- ars 18y agoThat range 3300-1200 is for everywhere. In that part of the world the bronze age was over. The bible talks about worked iron, and it's known it was over for Egypt and the Levant as well. The palestinians didn't exist then, when they did come along it was over for them as well.
- gravitycop 18y agoIt is known that there was iron use at the time, but it is apparently referred-to as "iron use in the Bronze Age". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_age#Iron_use_in_the_Bronze_Age http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_age#Iron_use_in_the_Bronze...
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