Name One Goddamned War

[mnaz]

Name one goddamned war
that hasn't murdered divine energy.

Name one goddamned war
that hasn't robbed the you of you.

Name one goddamned war to end all the rest
that hasn't resulted in at least three others.

Name that one goddamned war,
and you may yet command me.

[stilltrucking]

sometimes
sometimes
sometimes I think
there has only been
there has only ever been
there has only been one war
an eternal war
that has never stopped

and we pick one three or four year period
or hundred year period
take it out of context
and say
that was a good war
a just war

We say war broke out but in reality it is peace that breaks out for a while

PATTY: Well, what else happened in history today, Hugh?
HUGH:... in 1889, the Peace of Humus broke out, ending the Hundred Years War against the Cows.

http://www.donutage.org/posts/2004/10/m ... ndars.html

thank you for writing
sorry for the ramble

[joel]

i wanna sing a protest
song with a big bang
big band
brass band background
so it's loud enough
to drown out the nation
to drown out the nations
to drown out the nationalism
to drown out the us vs u
US versus You
but there's no leader
none for the war
none for the band
and i'm not willing
or willingly able
or able itself--
but i am ashamed
and maybe a little shame
is the best i can
offer
right now.

[mnaz]

dead paradigms, ragged ghosts
cracked earth in ripped flags,
comatose.

teach the children well.
teach them to kill the sun for a song.
teach them to be brave soldiers
in the radioactive army of god,
in every season of blind fire...


oh my.... I so desperately try to oversimplify matters of
war and peace...

what was I thinking?.... should get rid of it before Toten sees it...

[Artguy]

boom

[eugeneherman]

Boom Boom Boom Boom, gonna shoot you right down! 'John Lee Hooker'

[mnaz]

fireworks over the bay, as the children ooh...

It's genetic, or inherited, they try to tell me.

[mtmynd]

it's been 3 days now and i still can't "name one goddamned war to end all the rest." is there such a thing as perpetual motives..?

[joel]

Name one goddamned war

i've been thinkgin about it. listen to the rhetoric: God doesn't seem to damn war when we talk. there is no such thing as a goddamned war when we talk. we invoke the divine energy to bless our wars. in fact, the way we talk about our nation, soldiers (peace be upon them), causes...we seem to believe the divine energy really likes war. God bless this aspect. God bless that aspect.

i think my new prayer might be: God, please actually go ahead and damn the war. God damn war. Amen.

[Totenkopf]

Chicks dig soldiers. And Gott planned it that way. Like He planned nuclear weapons, with "Jeeee-sussss loves You!" decals on 'em, next to Old glory and some scribbling in various semitic languages. Shit happens for a reason, man.

[eugeneherman]

Well mein freund, shit happens cuz dey be a cause fer it to happen! The REASON can be a leetle bit tuff to ascribe, lessin' you are in on some grand scheme of things. You sound like a man of faith, in some master plan!

[hester_prynne]

Yes oh please yes God, do damn the war.
Damn war to hell dear God, I invoke thee!

Fighten a war to get some oil,
God do damn, do damn
Money and greed I beg you foil,
oh God do damn the wars.

Gonna pray all day!
Gonna pray all night!
Bet my money on a God do damn,
Damn all the wars away.

Great Prayer Joel! Very inspiring!

Mnaz, I really dig this....
H

[Totenkopf]

Actually, Eu, Mein Freund, that was a bit of what is known as "satire", based on, shall we say, the absurdity of the traditional theological view which holds that a Creator exists who is both omnipotent and just.

While we agree the US military is an imperialist force, it is one of many. The Russians have as many nukes as we do and recently developed a ICBM (the Birch tree, ah believe) which could take out various sections of downtown SF in a matter of minutes..............The chinese infantry outnumbers us at least 3 to 1. All part of the wonder of JHVH.

(Hey Hes).