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Episode One : Out of Eden (Part 1 of 6) Jared Diamond's journey of discovery began on the island of Papua New Guinea. There, in 1974, a local named Yali asked Diamond a deceptively simple question: ...
A real-estate view of history's winners and losers
THE CONQUISTADORS WERE convinced that God was on their side, and the bloody evidence backed them up. What else but divine favor could explain how 168 Spaniards under Francisco Pizarro could, in 1582, massacre an army of 80,000 Incas? Over the years historians trying to come up with a better explanation have suggested that either the intellectual superiority of Europeans over Native Americans or differences in world outlook led one civilization to invent swords and steel shields and the other to progress no further than clubs and quilted armor. But a new book offering what the eminent historian William McNeill calls 'a radically new vision' argues that neither God nor IQs determined history's winners and losers. In Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
The bible(GOD) gives instruction on how to conquer and many scriptures on this subject:Intolerance in the Biblehttp://www.skepticsannotatedbible.com/int/long.htmlBring
Isaiah 4343:3-4)God makes Egypt, Ethiopia, and Seba pay for Israel's sins. He says that he likes Israel better than any other country so he's willing to sacrifice other countries for the Israel's sake.
43:3 For I am the LORD thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour: I gave Egypt for thy ransom, Ethiopia and Seba for thee.
Deuteronomy 20:10-11 (The Message)10-15 When you come up against a city to attack it, call out, 'Peace?' If they answer, 'Yes, peace!' and open the city to you, then everyone found there will be conscripted as forced laborers and work for you. But if they don't settle for peace and insist on war, then go ahead and attack. God, your God, will give them to you. Kill all the men with your swords. But don't kill the women and children and animals. Everything inside the town you can take as plunder for you to use and eat—God, your God, gives it to you. This is the way you deal with the distant towns, the towns that don't belong to the nations at hand.
Jiddu Krishnamurti - A man who believes in God can never find God
Question: Is belief in God necessary or helpful?Jiddu Krishnamurti : As I said, belief in any form is a hindrance. A man who believes in God can never find God. If you are open to reality, there can be no belief in reality. If you are open to the unknown, there can be no belief in it. After all, belief is a form of self-protection, and only a petty mind can believe in God. Look at the belief of the aviators during the war who said God was their companion as they were dropping bombs!
So you believe in God when you kill, when you are exploiting people. You worship God and go on ruthlessly extorting money, supporting the army - yet you say you believe in mercy, compassion, kindliness. Obviously, such belief is a hindrance to the understanding of reality. All belief in any form is a hindrance, including your belief in God. Your belief is a hindrance to the discovery of the real because it is based on an idea or patterned after a tradition.
The natives of Papua New Guinea use this word to refer to any modern manmade possession.'Why you white men have so much cargo and we New Guineans have so little?' (answering this question is the premise of Jared Diamond's book Guns, Germs and Steel)
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THE CONQUISTADORS WERE convinced that God was on their side, and the bloody evidence backed them up. What else but divine favor could explain how 168 Spaniards under Francisco Pizarro could, in 1582, massacre an army of 80,000 Incas? Over the years historians trying to come up with a better explanation have suggested that either the intellectual superiority of Europeans over Native Americans or differences in world outlook led one civilization to invent swords and steel shields and the other to progress no further than clubs and quilted armor. But a new book offering what the eminent historian William McNeill calls 'a radically new vision' argues that neither God nor IQs determined history's winners and losers. In Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
The bible(GOD) gives instruction on how to conquer and many scriptures on this subject:Intolerance in the Biblehttp://www.skepticsannotat
Isaiah 4343:3-4)God makes Egypt, Ethiopia, and Seba pay for Israel's sins. He says that he likes Israel better than any other country so he's willing to sacrifice other countries for the Israel's sake.
43:3 For I am the LORD thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour: I gave Egypt for thy ransom, Ethiopia and Seba for thee.
Deuteronomy 20:10-11 (The Message)10-15 When you come up against a city to attack it, call out, 'Peace?' If they answer, 'Yes, peace!' and open the city to you, then everyone found there will be conscripted as forced laborers and work for you. But if they don't settle for peace and insist on war, then go ahead and attack. God, your God, will give them to you. Kill all the men with your swords. But don't kill the women and children and animals. Everything inside the town you can take as plunder for you to use and eat—God, your God, gives it to you. This is the way you deal with the distant towns, the towns that don't belong to the nations at hand.
Jiddu Krishnamurti - A man who believes in God can never find God
Question: Is belief in God necessary or helpful?Jiddu Krishnamurti : As I said, belief in any form is a hindrance. A man who believes in God can never find God. If you are open to reality, there can be no belief in reality. If you are open to the unknown, there can be no belief in it. After all, belief is a form of self-protection, and only a petty mind can believe in God. Look at the belief of the aviators during the war who said God was their companion as they were dropping bombs!
So you believe in God when you kill, when you are exploiting people. You worship God and go on ruthlessly extorting money, supporting the army - yet you say you believe in mercy, compassion, kindliness. Obviously, such belief is a hindrance to the understanding of reality. All belief in any form is a hindrance, including your belief in God. Your belief is a hindrance to the discovery of the real because it is based on an idea or patterned after a tradition.
The natives of Papua New Guinea use this word to refer to any modern manmade possession.'Why you white men have so much cargo and we New Guineans have so little?' (answering this question is the premise of Jared Diamond's book Guns, Germs and Steel)
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