Dear God,
I want to ask you something about 'Greed ' and 'Passion'.
Every major religion teaches us about 'understandings', 'compassion', 'loving kindness', 'sacrifices to others', and 'selflessness'. It is very clear to everybody that those virtues are very good for the peace and the progressions of mankind. Yes, greed will destroy us, and similarly, the passion' of some people, like emperors, can cause us such great misery and sadness. That is where I start to get confused. If greed and passion are absolutely bad virtues, and the dark sides of the human nature, then why were they planted in the very core of us in the first place?
And world history has shed a different light on them when we studied it. For most of the human progressions were stemmed clearly from the 'greed of emperors' or 'the people'. Many great inventions were designed for, and related specifically for, 'war purposes'.
One very remarkable example was the 'Mongol Empire ' of the thirteenth century. Historians have called it 'a cultural clearing house' between East and West (Asia and Europe). During their time, those historians said, 'The world became 'the World', for their domain was from Korea to Central Europe, and it was they who, by their brutal forces undertook the flow of 'Afro-Eurasian trade' and were a catalyst for the exchanging of ideas from East to West (paper making, algebra, guns.. etc), and from West to East (Plato, Aristotle etc.), and indirectly, ''The Renaissance''. Unless there had been that empire spanning from Korea to Hungary in the 13th century, there would not have been 'The World' as we know it today.
There was no element of 'good things' in their intentions for setting out to war in the first place. Although they were no different from the other peoples of their time, their whole business plan was to 'conquer and loot' or 'exact tribute'. And there were mass exterminations of the local people. On top of those actions, there was also, 'biological warfare', for there were those who used 'The Black Death ' as their weapon for terrifying countries. But, as the end result, 'the world became, 'The World' and ''The Renaissance''... Lol!
And perhaps, in lesser scales than that evil empire, there were many more great human progressions as a result of wars in history. The more we dig deeper into history, the more we would see that same pattern, so as far as I can discern, I think that before you (God) give us the silver linings, it seems that you always throw dark clouds to us. But why? Can't you do it all in silver? And here again, would all that silver make us more happy and stronger?
Ah yes...only you would know.
Phoe Wa
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