if pope Francis can truly about to bring change to an old patriarchal (and also capitalistic) institution that has become nothing more than a mere “cultural curiosity”.
Because: The catholic (and other) churches that do exist right now, were NEVER what Jesus envisioned when he said “on this rock (you, peter) I will build my church”)
create a church only for men that molest children because they are forbidden to molest women
charge all your members tax so you can build gigantic buildings and do some philanthropy here and there (but never ever provide any “real” service to them, no wifi, no free coffee and do not care about their mental well being, because this would mean a lot of effort (cost money)
the climate construction site
have you EVER seen a church that has solar panels on the roof?
no? (on TV once, in Mexico, hey there is actually ONE, why is this not the norm?)
Why does “THE CHURCH” (!!!) not harvest the powers that come from the heavens above!
Why does it not care about long term survivability of mankind on this planet?
the mental construction site
Especially during crisis such as Corona and war, people WOULD have need a church that actually takes care of them and their mental troubles.
If families can not get along – another construction site where a true church could work for the better on this planet.
But in 30 years have not seen a bit of it.
The signs are years old and surely they must have read them: 2019: “the most reliable time series curated by the Institute for Health Metrics Evaluation (IHME) appears to show that in 2017:
just under 300 million people worldwide suffered from anxiety,
about 160 million from major depressive disorder
another 100 million from the milder form of depression known as dysthymia.”
What part in that will the churches around this planet play a role?
Or are churches – in fact – just another “company ltd.”, that exists only because of their centuries old privileges, put down in century old contracts that generate “sufficient” income streams, that are taxed offshore (meaning: not at all).
Hurray!
the catholic church surely needs a restart
this restart was centuries ago the protestant church.
Please Mr US-Biden, of course Putin’s Russia’s aggression need to be countered with one hand, but in the other hand make an offer, a “new deal” that allows a dangerous “cornered” Putin a positive way out of the situation.
What are the reasons that Putin’s Russia AND Biden’s US want to escalate the Ukraine situation?
If some BigOil corruptionists aka “investors”, think, they can take over Russia’s gas fields as they did with Lybia, forget about it.
Russia is a nuclear armed country
the end of fossil fuels is near anyway (basically becoming worthless)
long version:
Yes of course some anti Russian hardliners in Washington would like to see a Russia in chaos.
But even without foreign intervention, Russia will have to evolve beyond a Zarist-Stalinist system anyway.
This is where Putin’s feeling of importance is more important to him, than Russia.
Otherwise Putin would make room for the Russian monarchy to evolve.
Putin has a problem: He is more a Stalin than a Lenin.
Means:
A power addict
does not care much about ideologies like communism (“everyone being equal, owning equal” concepts)
thinks that “rule by fear” (Stalin’s terror) works
does not care much about economics (unless it helps to gain power)
does not care much about his own citizens
just as the British is nostalgic about the lost “Empire” and it’s colonies
“Russian leader often evokes Ivan Ilyin, a philosopher who praised Mussolini and Hitler”
‘He seems to be echoing Ilyin – who wrote that in the case of Ukraine’s independence from Russia, the smaller neighbour “will become a source of civil and international wars for centuries”.’ (aljazeera.com)
Mr Putin if you read this: why believe this book?
the situation is simple:
The Soviet Union was an interesting experiment of socialism, that, after Lenin’s death got turned into full-blown-terror-dicatorship by your idol: Josef Stalin (nobody liked it, nobody).
if Russia HAD an new, innovative way of economics, you would not have to resort to violence (which makes look Russia like a primitive culture from the middle-ages, that sees no other way but war and violence (which means killing innocent civilians) in order to achieve it’s goals)
Not a single German thinks about invading nowadays-Poland for nostalgic reasons (to get back Danzig) or nowadays-Czech-Republic (to get back Bohemia).
Which translates into:
“low yield Hiroshima”
Putin says, he is allowed to do, whatever the US does/has done in the past
invade other countries with phony reasons (but Ukraine has no oil, so what are the resources there? (some say “humans resources” because Russia as many other countries have declining population…)
While the US heroically won World War 2, it also reached it’s moral peak with the end of WW2 and declined steady afterwards into plutocracy/oligarchy.
while the historic “fuck ups” of post-WW2-US are well known and documented, the question is:
does EVERY other country need to repeat the past mistakes of another country in order to learn the lesson?
if yes: this will kill a lot of people, millions and billions and in the worst case all of mankind.
So the problem with “fuck ups” is, that after a certain point, the capacity of this planet to withstand more “fuck ups” is limited and becomes “too expensive” in the sense of “End of all mankind” kind of too expensive (be it a nuclear war fuck up or climate change fuck up).
Is there a need to breed their own home-grown terrorists in order to control the masses with fear from terror?
Or as Mr Bregman puts it: Most people are pretty decent, but It needs massive amounts of effort for evil to happen.
Here again: Rule by fear may work for some time but it won’t work forever.
By completely ignoring Lenin’s concepts, Putin’s Russia basically has no innovative alternative model of state and economy to offer the “colonies” it would like to rule.
So Putin resorts to the only way of ruling he knows: Terror and violence.
In the worst case, the only thing Putin and his club of hardliners will achieve in Ukraine is hatered.
Ukranians never forgot the murders of:
The Nazis: “Until the fall of the Soviet Union, it was believed that about 900,000 Jews were murdered as part of the Holocaust in Ukraine” (Wiki)
The Soviets: Stalin’s famine called Holodomor has killed an estimate of 2 to 3 million Ukranians (Wiki)
JFK Mankind must put an end to war – before war puts an end to mankind
“War – huh – what is it good for?” (absolutely nothing)
So the “cold” war is back? Why actually?
Jacque Fresco: “Even war is Corrupt”
Because some sick strategists considered it a great way to boost the US economy?
“President Joe Biden warned Russian President Vladimir Putin the United States is ready to defend NATO territory as Putin continues to escalate the war in Ukraine.”
‘“America’s fully prepared with our NATO allies to defend every single inch of NATO territory. Every single inch,” Biden said. “So, Mr. Putin, don’t misunderstand what I’m saying. Every inch.”’
Corruption: “the abuse of entrusted power for private gain” (transparency.org).
Plutocracy/Oligarchy:
“a government or state in which the wealthy class rules” (source).
“a government in which a small group exercises control especially for corrupt and selfish purposes” (source)
“Throughout history, oligarchies have often been tyrannical, relying on public obedience or oppression to exist. Aristotle pioneered the use of the term as meaning rule by the rich,[4] for which another term commonly used today is plutocracy. (Wiki)
Kleptocracy: “a society whose leaders make themselves rich and powerful by stealing from the rest of the people” (source)
Corporatocracy: “a society or system that is governed or controlled by corporations” (en.oxforddictionaries.com).
