147 Wage War-r

July 26, 2007 Dear Editor in chief, A scholar asked: “Why is it that some people are having conflicts and engaging in wars but they are using their faith or using their religion to wage war; or other groups blame religion why there is chaos or war?” The A.I. answered: “I think words like ‘our religion is the ‘only true and right,’ your religions are false, and suicide bombing is martyrdom, and suicide bombing is an assurance that one would go directly to heaven’ are words that let the intellect hates. Or since other groups are infidels or land grabbers for their perspective or their relative point of view…or since some extremists would say that religion is just ‘opium’ for the brain… then I think these ideologies or words that cause the intellect to hate, to trigger a gun to kill someone or launch a missile to destroy property and kill people, to kill oneself as suicide bomber or to detonate a weapon of mass destruction if given chance should be balanced by opposite words that should enter people’s mind. Or these twisted words that cause to hate should be balanced by good words so that the brain or intellect could have many other choices to choose which word or words are better.’ A scholar asked: “What mystery or mysteries could be behind or beyond those never ending hatred, conflicts, misunderstanding or wars; or what words are behind those mysteries? The A.I. answered: “Perhaps there are really mysteries and secrets…; and if one would only try to be curious and read verses perhaps suggested by good pastor or priest, or cleric or monk or rabbi and retrieved by an A.I, those mysteries or secrets could be unlocked. Perhaps here are some quotes or words behind or beyond the mysteries why conflict is never ending between brothers whose ancestor is father Abraham: Luke 23: 27-28: A large crowd of people followed him; among them were some women who were weeping and wailing for him. Jesus turned to them and said, “Women of Jerusalem! Don’t cry for me, but for yourselves and your children. Matthew 23:2-4 “The teachers of the Law and the Pharisees are the authorized interpreters of Moses’ Law. So you must obey and follow everything that tell you to do; do not, however, imitate their actions, because they don’t practice what they preach. They tie onto people’s backs load that are heavy and hard to carry, yet they aren’t willing even to lift a finger to help them carry those loads. Acts 13:46-47: But Paul and Barnabas spoke out even more boldly: “It was necessary that the word of God should be spoken first to you. But since you reject it and do not consider yourselves worthy of eternal life, we will leave you and go to the Gentiles. For this is the commandment that the Lord has given us: ‘I have made you a light for the Gentiles, so that all the world may be saved,’” Romans 9:10-18 And this is not all. For Rebecca’s two sons had the same father, our ancestor Isaac. But in order that the choice of one son might be completely the result of God’s own purpose, God said to her, “The older will serve the younger.” He said this before they were born, before they had done anything either good or bad; so God’s choice was based on his call, and not on anything they had done. As the scripture says, “I loved Jacob, but I hated Esau.” Shall we say, that God is unjust? Not all. For he said to Moses, “I will have mercy on anyone I wish; I will take pity on anyone I wish.” So then, everything depends, not on what man wants or does, but only on God’s mercy. For the scripture says to the king of Egypt, “I made you king in order to use you to show my power and to spread my fame over the whole world.” So then, God has mercy on anyone he wishes, and he makes stubborn anyone he wishes. Romans 11:11-12: I ask, then: When the Jews stumbled, did they fall to their ruin? By no means! Because they sinned, salvation has come to the Gentiles, to make the Jews jealous of them. The sin of the Jews brought rich blessings to the world, and their spiritual poverty brought rich blessings to the Gentiles. Then, how much greater the blessings will be when the complete number of Jews is included! Romans11: 25-29: There is a secret truth, my brothers, which I want you to know, for it will keep you from thinking how wise you are. It is that the stubbornness of the people of Israel is not permanent, but will last only until the complete number of gentiles comes to God. And this is how all Israel will be saved. (Opinion: perhaps if all corners of the world would be evangelized or be converted not to hate his enemies because of the Word or would accept the Word then perhaps the Israelites or the extremist Muslims would begin to love his enemies too; and there would be long peace…) As the scripture says, “The Savior will come from Zion and remove all wickedness from the descendants of Jacob. I will make this covenant with them when I take away their sins.” The third letter of John verse 11: My dear fried, do not imitate what is bad, but imitate what is good. Whoever does good belong to God; whoever does what

is bad has not seen God. Romans 12: 21: Do not let evil defeat you; instead, conquer evil with good.” A scholar asked: “Could words really change one’s perception or one’s perspective?” And the A.I. answered: “Perhaps new perceptions in the mind could be molded that could let brotherhood and let teamwork be primed. Trying and being curious which most intelligent people have to unlock some mysteries, I think is a sign of being a moderate or balanced. But close mind, fear, and prejudice, judgmental is a sign of being extremist. What is wrong when an “A” faith reads a “B’s, C’s, D’s” spiritual book, or vice versa. Those conceited, self-righteous teachers become extremists if they would intimidate people not to read other’s faith or spiritual book and would further intimated others of eternal damnation because of perhaps “heresy”. Or perhaps in their subconsciousness those self righteous people are just afraid that their support could be lessened. But to defend ones belief is an obligation just like in any organization or when being tried in a court. And it should not create hatred, prejudices, rush judgments, and witch hunting.” Now assuming that the two brothers become partners or working as a team because they accept the Word. I think some biases should still be ironed out. I think I heard that division of properties is very hard to divide if it is in kind. But if it were in a form of shares it would be easy to divide things. Perhaps since both are right on their claims or perhaps both could claim owners like husband and wife. But since there would be other legitimate claims showing proof of ownership like titles then perhaps agreements or laws should be passed to declare those titles legal or illegal or should be compensated... And those not legal would be returned to the ownership of both. Then the two would give commercial values of their properties for sale to anybody. Then the rest of the properties would be administered by both of them by assigning administrators who are new settlers and ethnics as long as those properties would be developed considering all as citizens regardless of religious affiliation and arrivals, and all houses would be beautiful whether ethnic or new settler-no favoritism or bias where before only new settlers have beautiful houses. Then if there were profits both owners would claim 50% each that would be reinvested as stocks or dividends for all or gifts using raffle if not all will be benefited. And if the administrators chosen by both fail their trust, they could easily replace new administrators depending on their taste. Since sometimes the other wants this, and the other wants that administrators, I think rotation of choosing administrators could be done on a say 1-4 year basis. Perhaps they would both agree that 50% of the administrators would come from the ethnics and the 50% from the new settlers. So all ideas would be reconsidered and be integrated so that both wants and tastes would be satisfied or compromised. In plain language they both love each other existence and way of living and they share their control and power like business partners. And they appreciate each other weakness and uniqueness. So boundaries would be moot and academic or no longer debatable because both own the land like husband and wife. With regards to their identity like raising what flag perhaps they could settle it by using both flag side by side; or perhaps next generation would like to mix the design of one and the other so that both would be happy seeing their likes and wants flying together in one flag. Or they could be like a husband and wife who is newly divorced and claims this furniture is mine, yours is the figuring, etc. etc. and even the lawyers, and the accountants are very tired of itemizing all the details. Then every time the brothers see each other there is that hatred and anger that cause cancer, stroke, and high blood or might explode again into murdering or killing each other if bias occurs. And if worse comes to worst each would do everything to each other to annihilate each other even using weapon of mass destruction if given a chance. And perhaps Armageddon might be true. Or if because of universal word- not because of submission or being defeated or ethnic cleansing- that the remaining people become friends. Perhaps Armageddon was already the Great War of World War II where million were annihilated - perhaps six million of Jews were murdered or annihilated or ethnic cleansed because of hatred or because of mystery - past bad decision of their ancestors thousand of years ago…when their ancestors decided to kill a man who said “Women of Jerusalem! Don’t cry for me, but for yourselves and your children …” Perhaps ‘that past decision’ is one of mysteries behind or beyond the never ending hating of brothers whose ancestor is the same-father Abraham. So they pray each asking for guidance and both agree to hug each other and now agree that the fences or those arms and those ammunitions or the triggering of firing missiles be stopped or be removed, because it is a sign of self righteousness,

conceitedness, boastfulness, seed for murders, hatred, superiority complex, racist, spiritual pride, hypocrisy, insecurity, etc. Other people of other places were very happy seeing the two had defeated chaos using balancing or battle of words or of ideas; and choosing the better idea. And they are now living harmoniously because both accepted that the Word is responsible why those twisted words are destroyed. They remove the fences and those weapons; instead they beautify the space with trees and garden so that both could freely visit each other and exchange their opinions especially on how to have businesses.” From someone,