posted July 27, 2013 08:50 PM            

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But those were different times. In this modern age, it would be a very diffcult feat for the US to crumble, so I respectfully disagree. Now, whether or not we are ostracized by the rest of the world is another matter.

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I'm not saying it will crumble tomorrow, it will takes decades if not centuries but notice, every powerful nation/empire/kingdom in the human history reached the top only to collapse years later.

You can't be the top dog forever. The wheel of time goes on plus it's a known fact that humans by nature never learn from the past. The same mistakes keep getting repeated since the dawn of humanity to this very day.

Also,I can't find it in my heart to forgive a country/nation which was built upon the dead bones and souls of an entire race of Native Americans. What they did was an unforgivable crime against humanity, plain and simple.

Karma exits and what the European colonists did to the Natives will be done to them one day too. It's no surprise to me that Americans always seem to find artful ways to "evade" that very black spot in their history.

They used to go on and on about the crimes the Soviet Union committed during WWII and how evil Communism is but they turn a blissfully blind eye to the horrifying fact that they massacred an entire race for a piece of dirt that was actually the Natives' to begin with.

posted August 11, 2013 05:43 PM              

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If another country was to rule the world after the preventable fall of the USA, it would be China.. no doubt about it.

I also believe that Abrahamic religions ( Christianity, Judaism and Islam ) will fade away with time and spiritual systems of belief will rise in its stead.. mostly Buddhism which I believe to be the best religion ever made.

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http://uselesstree.typepad.com/useless_tree/2009/11/the-men-who-stare-at-tao.html

The Men Who Stare at Tao

Went to see the movie, "The Men Who Stare at Goats/Saturn." It is a satire, a goof, on the psychological operations - psy-ops - used by the US military; and in that satire is a critique of those methods, especially as they have been utilized in Iraq. The movie shies away from developing the critique directly, it remains largely in the realm of humor. Not earth-shattering or ground-breaking, but I think the NYT review captures it fairly well: "...this likable, lightweight, absurdist comedy".

Psy-ops is made to look stupid and ineffective in its origins: the movie portrays a group of Vietnam War era US military men latching on to hippie-like, proto-New Age ideas to reverse the thinking about war. How to turn weakness into strength so that war can ultimately be prevented. And, yes, Lao Tzu is mentioned at one point (if I am remembering correctly, when the Ewan McGregor character is reading the "New Earth Army" handbook, Lao Tzu is mentioned as one of its inspirations).

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pillar
Column or pillar in architecture and structural engineering is a structural element that transmits, through compression, the weight of the structure above to other structural elements below, in other words a column is a compression member.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pillage
Looting, also referred to as sacking, plundering, despoiling, despoliation, and pillaging, is the indiscriminate taking of goods by force as part of a military or political victory, or during a catastrophe, such as war, natural disaster, or rioting.

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posted August 13, 2013 01:29 PM              

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posted August 19, 2013 01:59 PM            

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Karma exits and what the European colonists did to the Natives will be done to them one day too. It's no surprise to me that Americans always seem to find artful ways to "evade" that very black spot in their history.

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It's already been done. The European tribes brought the gods of materialism to the native tribes. And now those same gods have turned and destroyed our culture.

Also, karma doesn't exist in a vacuum. The Romans raped and pillaged the Germanic and Celtic tribes of Europe long before those same tribes laid waste to the native American. More importantly, karma imo is not a force of punishment. Very often, new age proponents will criticize the Abrahamic religions for their worship of a supposedly vengeful, angry god hellbent on retribution. Yet, they are often the first to throw the "karma's gonna get ya" card on the table. Where is the difference between a vengeful God and vengeful karma?

posted August 19, 2013 02:15 PM            

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I also believe that Abrahamic religions ( Christianity, Judaism and Islam ) will fade away with time and spiritual systems of belief will rise in its stead.. mostly Buddhism which I believe to be the best religion ever made.

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Islam isn't a spiritual system of belief?

I have a great respect and affection for Buddhism. It is understandably appealing to the modern westerner. That said, I've found that Buddhism has its 'issues' as do all the all other systems. In practice, there is a Buddhist zen center a few streets away from my home. Lovely community of monks, nuns, practitioners. My son has started Dharma classes with them. But with humans, come issues and it's no different there. The grass is always greener...

posted August 21, 2013 10:24 PM            

Yes the US will probably fade away, as does every empire when it refuses to realize the perils of overextension. Whether it will disappear, who knows? "There will always be an England" is also only true till it's not!

There was a Russian "prophet/channel" many thought Cayce referred to, by the name of Peter Duonov, who many thought was the subject of those readings, but he died decades ago.

posted May 09, 2019 05:31 PM            

Of course it is but as we know, it is as easily bastardized as Christianity.