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Originally posted by FraternitasSaturni
reply to post by InnerPeace2012
And... this isnt the 60s anymore... we dont go out and whack people we dont like in public anymore... I dont know if you have noticed but that trend has died out.
Arab news is saying about hospital roads being closed and Damascus diving into chaos
Army is Winning, just Turkish generated rumours to demoralise the military. The opposition is falling apart somewhat. But the conflict is likely to spill over to a regional war.
Anonymous source
Recorded over midnight, hence the date stamp 24/25 March
Jerusalem, Israel --- March 24, 2013 … Russian media sources have confirmed that Syria President Bashar Assad was shot by an Iranian bodyguard Saturday night. "The lone assassination pumped several bullets at point blank range into Assad," said the source. "Assad was rushed to Al-Shami Hospital in Damascus in critical condition. He died on the operating table from heart failure resulting from massive blood loss."
The Israeli analyst said that several events have taken place in the last 24 hours including the Syrian army shooting at an Israeli border patrol unit. It is believed that this action was coordinated by Assad loyalists who stood outside the dead President's hospital room to deflect the global media from the assassination and to pull Israel into a war with the Syrian army. The leader of the Western-backed Syrian opposition coalition announced he was resigning.
Originally posted by beezzer
Can I ask a simple question to all the wise and learned folks on ATS?
If this is true, would the violence escalate or de-escalate?
Originally posted by merkins
reply to post by newpopeislast
Interesting post and I agree with much of it, but I think there will be a transitional period when there is a one world religion alongside a one world government. I think you are being too optimistic in resigning religion to history. I also think we'll (meaning the general population) be manipuated into moving away from worshipping money as an asparation in itself, but it will remain important as a survial mechanism.
I also feel that unless they've built up the green movement sufficiently enough to take off as a global one world religion in its own right, the position will be a global Islamic based religion with as many restrictions to life and liberty as they can dream up. I hope you are right that religion is coming to an end to be replaced with common sense, but I fear you are wrong.
I think we'll still need religion to bind us and influence our behaviours even after we have started colonies on other heavenly bodies. As Quigley described in 'Tragedy and Hope' offshoots and colonies tend to rebel and eventually eclipse the empires they spring from. So any extra ties to bind people from disparate regions such as a kind of religious solidarity through a shared faith, will continue to be employed until there is no longer any need for them. I don't think that the green movement is anywhere near ready for the role of religion yet, and I hope it never becomes so because the potential for oppression and abuse in that regard probably eclipses all the wrong ever done in the name of religion.
edit on 24-3-2013 by merkins because: (no reason given)