tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7217199.post1448510781872227857..comments2024-03-24T11:30:08.199-07:00Comments on Can you believe?: War crimesJohan Maurerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13771067774042071617noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7217199.post-12215001200819699342022-12-12T10:07:52.684-08:002022-12-12T10:07:52.684-08:00"If we can now succeed in reviving the mechan...<br />"If we can now succeed in reviving the mechanisms of global conscience, it may help to bring accountability to the crimes being committed against Ukraine, and then serve as a new and more powerful restraint on the rest of us as well."<br /><br />The promotion of, and faith in, the political mechanism of people through the power of the reflective nature, the agency of its institutions and the human agents of those institutions under the influence of thought-entities from the world of concepts to guide and rule human relations, is the source or cause of war, destruction, strife and conflict. It is being under the power and influence of the reflective nature that is the problem. A consciousness and conscience guided and informed through the reflective nature nurtures conflict, strife, death, and destruction.<br /><br />A living and real peace in human affairs and relationships will never be found through the mechanisms of the reflective nature. In drawing upon, and through faith in, the reflective nature by the use of thought-entities like "peace" (or any thought entity), the human agents of political, religious, educational, and economic institutions foster the opposite as they strive for a reflected or shadowy peace. The process of embracing the reflective nature and conjuring thought-entities from the world of concepts is the intellect fashioned and established in the reflective nature's dialectical paradigm which nurtures a cycle of fluctuation between artificial outwardly established peace and conflict. <br /><br />There is a different way found in the living and continous inshining presence of the Spirit of Jesus Christ and the resulting renewal of the intellect beyond the reflective nature and the cycle of the dialectical paradigm. This different way is through the working and motion of the continuous awareness of the immediate inshining presence of the spirit of Jesus Christ which is established in the consciousness and conscience of human being and renews the intellect by drawing it out of dependency upon the reflective nature to guide and rule human relations. The practical result of a renewed or born again intellect is the experience of direct, continuous and living inshining Presence itself in itself and ongoing awareness of the increase, decrease, or stasis of the intensity of the Spirit's presence in and during human activity, relations, or affairs. This living and continuous awareness of the Spirit's intensity in human affairs is humanity's deliverance from the reflective nature and the dialectical cycle which traps human beings in a process of conceptual conjuration and dependency upon the enchantment of thought-entities like "accountability" and "restraint." The conjuration of the reflective nature and its thought-entities in the conceptual world will only serve to encase human beings in a dialectical cycle which fosters conflict and strife. To transform human relations into this different way, the answer is in turning away from the reflective nature and toward the immediate and continuous (non-conceptual or unreflected or unmediated) awareness of the motion of the living presence of the Spirit of Jesus Christ itself in itself and the intellect's liberty from the reflective nature and the dialectical cycle of a reflected consciousness and conscience. kfsaylorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14180375154787300539noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7217199.post-30872082792530908242022-12-10T08:57:43.603-08:002022-12-10T08:57:43.603-08:00Nazi Germany committed heinous war crimes, and Rus...Nazi Germany committed heinous war crimes, and Russia is doing so today. So there is some satisfaction in seeing those who ordered or committed such crimes being tried for these offenses.<br /><br />Yet there are real concerns about this:<br /><br />1. War is by its very nature heinous, and so setting up clear distinctions between allowable war actions and unallowable war actions implies the falsehood that war can be non-criminal. For one thing, wars always seem to wind up victimizing those not involved in combat.<br /><br />2. It is always the powerful (the "winner" in a post-war case) that prosecutes the less powerful, raising the real question of whether the protection is more about exercising power than justice. In WWII, the Allies committed previous war crimes (some examples: Dresden fire bombing, Hiroshima, Nagasaki) and there were absolutely no prosecutions for these war crimes. In the post-WWII era, there is little doubt that the country which has committed the most war crimes is the USA, yet as the world's strongest power it never faces these consequences.<br /><br />In the current war in the Ukraine, there is little doubt that the Ukrainians have committed war crimes. Even pro-military, pro-imperialist media like The New York Times and the Washington Post have occasionally reported on them. The number of war crimes committed by the Russians may be far more than those committed by the Ukrainians, but if one mass shooter kills 40 and another 12, does that mean we don't prosecute the one who killed 12? Zelensky has said Ukraine is not bound by international law because it was attacked, but no international law contains such an exception. Bill Samuelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00752443575410023776noreply@blogger.com