Civilization - 1:3

Eternal Physical Life is the Only 'God' Man should recognize. The One True 'God' (Maker) of the Hydrogen Atom Universes, the Source Of Life (SOL), is the One God of religion that no was has ever seen, is the Source of the Electro-Magnetic Force (EMF), and is the Source of the Big Bang of Science. Life should be Served with Balanced Elements. Life was Colonized on Earth by our High Tech Ancestors (HTA) from space, from 10,000 BC to 5,000 BC; they are mistakenly called 'God', Higher 'Beings' and Man Gods and Angels. Our HTA reproduced the Original Pure-bred Colony of Adam and Eve, in a High Tech Womb, in the Garden of Eden on Day 6. On Day 7, 4,000 BC, the Colony was put in charge of the Colonization as Caretakers, and 'fell' from their Higher Nature/High Tech Birth, to their Lower Nature/Heterosexual Body Birth, lost their High Tech knowledge, became Fallen Angels, and had to go through the cycles of birth, death, and rebirth, because they lost their Eternal High Tech Physical Life. As the Noah/Atlantis civilization regained High Tech knowledge, they misused it and caused the Planetary Flood, about 2400 BC, by breaking the Ice-crystal Canopy around Earth, which was created around Earth when it was Colonized, along with our Ozone Canopy which we are breaking today. 'Fallen' Man began repopulating the Earth from the Mid-East where Noah landed, and the Society of Man began the same pattern of the Body Birth Society of Killing their Brothers/Sisters of Life, and the rise and fall of nations and civilizations.

A Fallen Civilization, can easily be seen, when all History is put together, and we can see how the people after the Noah/Atlantis Planetary Flood resumed their killing Ways, because of Body Birth, which divides Man. Without taking Care of the Planet, and the Life on it, Fallen Man causes division, disease, greed, hate, war and death. Since Jesus taught about the Eternal Physical Lifestyle of not Owning anything, being Asexual, and Sharing all 'things', his message has been changed into another religion that divides people, with righteousness, lust, selfishness, greed, and killing our Brothers/Sisters of Life. Today, in 1999, Man has reproduced 6 billion genetic dysfunctional people, and has made enough massive weapons of destruction to blow up many Planets like Earth. Our HTA inspired Jesus to understand this Higher Nature Lifestyle, to start Man to change the Fallen Nature Lifestyle and become Asexual. After Jesus went 'alive' with our HTA, Life went on as usual, and Jesus' teachings became another religion to Man Gods. Now we are facing the destruction of our Home Planet. Are we ready to understand the High Tech Asexual Physical Kingdom of God/HTA? The Only Way to have fulfillment is to have Selfhood in the High Tech Asexual Physical Kingdom of our HTA, with Eternal Physical Life in Pure-bred bodies. In the Heterosexual Kingdom, Selfhood is divided into many parts, and true happiness can not be attained in 'things', material success, or pleasure sex. As the song goes, 'looking for love in all the wrong places'. Eternal Physical Life, Balanced Atom Elements and Equal Sharing, gives the Love that passes all understanding.

Earth is a Spaceship with all the resources aboard, and should be shared with all the Passengers on Earth. Just as buying and selling for our daily needs is not done in a spaceship, so it should not be done on Spaceship Earth. Life should be Served with Balanced Elements, not worshiping Man Gods in pagan temples with praying hands. The Temple of the SOL is Life. How can a Planet that is Armed with enough nuclear bombs, to blow up many planets like Earth be considered a Love of God/Life, or, a Love of Brother/Sister, Planet? Christ/Asexual is Selfhood, Love, Peace, Balanced Elements and Eternal Physical Life. Anti-Christ/Heterosexual is Selfish, Hate, Killing and War, Unbalanced Elements, and Physical Death. There is an Eternal Physical Kingdom of God/Life on Planets and in Spaceships, that our HTA belong to and we are 'in their image'.

"People In Quandaries", 1946. By Wendell Johnson. "I have spent much of the past ten years in other people's quandaries, being company to misery, holding the damp, trembling hand of frustration. It has seemed necessary to conclude that these quandaries, these personal maladjustments, are not strictly private affairs. They not only appear to involve individual frailties and confusions, but also, and more impressibly, they signify a set of conditions peculiar to our general culture. Such maladjustments intimate, as it were, that civilization is more or less allergic to itself. Beneath their fascinating individualities one may discern a provocative similarity among unhappy and inefficient people. The mosaic of misery is not altogether haphazard. In the contemplation of this fact one acquires a sense of the pervasive social forces influencing human behavior. - It is neither an index to human nature nor an accident of chance that most, if not all, so-called maladjusted persons in our society may be viewed as frustrated and distraught idealists. Distraught because they are frustrated, and frustrated because they are idealists, they are a living testimony of the price we pay for the traditions we cherish, and for the aspirations which those traditions encourage, together with the restrictions which they end to enforce. -

" until we 'can' believe that we have achieved "success", we continue to assume that we have not achieved it - we continue experience "failure". Under such circumstances we feel frustrated and, eventually, distraught. - In spite of all the prizes he captures, "success" eludes him! - It is the 'one' thing that they seek; it is the 'one' thing that eludes them. Not gaining the 'one' thing, not gaining "success", they are not comforted, they are rather dismayed, by the many things - they are dismayed by their very successes'. - If we are to appreciate the tremendous human importance of this basic pattern, we must go for a moment to the man who, for the most part, established it as 'the' pattern upon which our traditional culture has been based. That man lived 2300 years ago in Greece. His name was Aristotle. So influential were his works that our civilization has come to be referred to as Aristotelian. - we share the orientation that has been for so long a time characteristic of our culture; each new generation absorbs it from the last, and quite unconsciously transmits it to the next. - These laws are in the final analysis, what we speak of when we speak of 'common' sense. That is to say, they are, and they have long been, commonly accepted. Most of us, however, are as unconscious of Aristotle's laws, as such, as he formulated them and as they have been expounded by teachers of logic ever since, as were the ancient men whose actual conduct and language the laws were intended to describe. But once stated, the sound as "right" to us as doubtless they did to the ancient Greeks. -

" when Aristotle formulated his laws he made it possible for men to become not only more highly conscious, but also more effectively critical, of their behavior and their language. But men made the tragic error of mistaking the laws of Aristotle for laws of 'nature', to be consciously employed but not revised. They accepted them as Truth in an absolute, that-is-that, A-is-A, sense. Consequently, if they were Truth, modifications or contraries of them were non-Truth. Thus, they were perpetuated, and they were used wittingly and unwittingly to build a system of doctrine and an elaborate social structure. - when one strives long enough for a highly valued ideal that appears also to be persistently unattainable, one feels not only thwarted but also, at last, demoralized. - This tendency of maladjusted persons to set unrealistically high standards for themselves appears as a necessary consequence of their Aristotelian orientation. - It is this urge to aim high, to out-snob the snobs, that is appealed to - and stimulated advertiser generally, and by Hollywood producers, popular magazine writers, etc. All of which means that this reaching for the moon is not a unique characteristic of the maladjusted individual; it represents rather, a characteristic of our society, and the maladjusted person simply reflects it. And it is one of the influences of his semantic environment that contributes definitely to his difficulties. -

" the structure of this society has been and continues to be determined significantly by the structure of the language which we so unconsciously acquire and so unreflectively employ. Simply by using that language and by living in terms of the basic orientation which it represents and fosters, we tend to cultivate the idealism and so to suffer the frustration and demoralization which are so conspicuous in the lives of people in quandaries. - Whatever else we may say of our time, we must, if we do not deceive ourselves, recognize that this is an age of intensive and candid questioning. As we come to appreciate the degree to which an older generation did not know the answers, we come to understand more and more clearly the importance of knowing the questions - the importance of designing techniques of inquiry by means of which a greater wisdom might be distilled from experience. It is in its deliberate and systematic concern with the techniques of inquiry that one may most readily find the distinguishing features of general semantics and the degree of promise which it holds for the emancipation of the future from the misfortunes of the past, in our own lives individually and in that cooperative adventure that men call civilization. -

"Change has been suspect and has been resisted throughout the history of the race. It has been customary for fathers to pass on to their sons the creeds and customs which their own fathers had passed on the them. Ancestors have been worshiped and the Old Man has been honored from time immemorial. Education has been chiefly a matter of compelling the child to conform to the ways of his elders. The student has been taught answers, not questions. At least, when questions have been taught, the answers have been given in the back of the book. In the main, knowledge has been given the student, but not a method for adding to it or revising it - except the method of authority, of going to the book, of asking the Old Man. The chief aim of education has been to make of the child another Old Man, to pour the new wines of possibility into the old bottles of tradition. - The great scientific advances since Galileo, and particularly during the last fifty years, have made more and more obvious the process character of reality. - Aristotle and Euclid and Newton and the other Old Men of the school books have been challenged, to their loss, by modern mathematicians and scientists, by Einstein and Korzybski and Russell and the other new-day students of change and process. -

"It will be the aim of education to make the child different from the Old Man out of recognition of the fact that he is different and that he must live in a world that is "different all the time". - Our purpose is rather to focus attention upon the traditional tendency to adopt general rules, beliefs, creeds, theories, without thoroughly questioning their validity, and to retain them long after they have been shown to be meaningless, false, or at least questionable. On the whole, once we have adopted a belief, we give particular attention to cases that seem to support it, we distort other cases in order to make them seem to support it, and we ignore or belittle other cases. We feel deeply that somehow it is a sign of weakness to "change our minds". - Man's astonishing capacity for struggling against the inevitable is one of his most inspiring, but tragic, qualities. But again it must be emphasized that in this struggle, in this shaking of fists in the face of change, men do not exhibit "human nature"; rather, they do the bidding of the Old Man, they behave as they have been taught, they merely carry on an old tradition. - What was this strange new thing which Galileo gave to mankind? It was what we have come to call, so glibly, by the name 'science'. It was a point of view, a general method, a rather intangible sort of thing, which most men even today do not yet understand.

"The feel its effects, certainly; they use its products, they live in new and strange semantic environments which it has created; but to most persons science is essentially a vague mystery, and to many it is still a word that arouses distrust. Galileo is still remembered as a heretic! Science, the policy of subjecting The Word to the test of experience and of revising it accordingly, no matter how old The Word may be or who defends it, this certainly is new in the world. - As this 'scientific' culture emerges, it comes into conflict with our traditional institutions, beliefs, and habits. Out of this conflict and out of certain features of our traditional modes of behavior, many of our personal and social problems arise. The attempt to maintain old views and customs would appear more hazardous than the effort to understand and to take advantage of the powerful forces moving us in new directions. Through an understanding of these forces, through an understanding of science as a basic orientation to life, we may hope to gain a greater sense of security and of achievement now and for the future. - "The fundamental thesis of this book is simply that science, clearly understood, can be used from moment in everyday life, and that it provides a sound basis for warmly human and efficient living". This sounds fantastic, if it does, only because of the ways in which we define science. -

"Within our own day (1946), perhaps, and quite probably within the lifetime of our own children, this scientific culture will become relatively dominant. - Between nations and groups of nations, within nations, and 'within individuals' in every quarter of the globe there is going on a tremendous and turbulent conflict. New ideals, new beliefs, new methods and ways of life are challenging old ideals and beliefs, old methods and ways of life. The old is prescientific and authoritarian; the new is scientific. - Ventriloquizing has occupied and still occupies a major place in the bag of tricks by which we strive to solve our problems, individually and as societies. It is the trick whereby we speak, to ourselves or to those whom we seek to control, 'as if' we were speaking with the voice of the Old Man. It is the trick whereby Authority, the authority of age and precedence, is exercised in the molding of the young and in social control generally. The great ventriloquizers who have shaped and who continue to shape our destinies are the Judge, the Priest, the Teacher, and the Parent. They speak as if with the voices of The Law, The Almighty, The Wise, and The Good. They represent the great cornerstones of the structure of our culture: the State, the Church, The School, and the Home. Together they amplify what we harken to solemnly as the voice of the Old Man.

"It was against this grave and booming voice that Galileo raised his persistent and disturbing cry. It was as though, in Galileo, humanity struggled with new vigor against the stifling forces of tradition. And the rise of the state in certain parts of the world in our own day serves to remind us that it was in the same period, since Galileo, the period in which the individual found new and powerful methods of self-assertion in the techniques of science - it was in this same period that the individual found, also, new and powerful methods of self-assertion in the techniques of democracy. In a general sense, there has been going on a great cultural change in which the individual has gradually gained a measure of independence from the Old Man - a revolution in which, as it were, the wooden dummy has mutinied and now willfully distorts and suppresses the voice of the ventriloquist. Some men have learned, for example, that the voice of the Clergyman's does not come from beyond the North Star but from the Clergyman's own throat. It is no doubt, in many cases the voice of a kindly man from whose words a degree of wisdom may be distilled. Some men have learned, too, that the voice of the Judge belongs to the Judge, that what he speaks of as The Law is, at bottom, the voices of other judges not altogether unlike himself and mostly long since deceased.

"And although we have not all kept pace with George Bernard Shaw, who once declared that any child who believes what his teachers tell him is an ass, we have for the most part learned to wonder at the Teacher who, for $3000, instructs his students, as if with the voice of Wisdom, how to make $50,000. Nor is it to be overlooked that in these latter years the Parent has tended to become less the patriarch and more the companion, awkward, perhaps, but yet becomingly humble. In brief, some men, increasing numbers of them, have seen the trick in ventriloquizing. For them, the voice of the Old Man has come to sound for all the world like the voice of Mr. Fosdick, of Felix Frankfurter, of Robert Hutchins, and of just plain Dad. It is getting to be a bad day for oracles. Of the ventriloquizers, of the voice of the Old Man, the children of science ask, without awe, "What do you mean?" and "How do you know?" And when the ventriloquizers roar their answers, as if with the voice of the Old Man, the children of science reply with unnerving calm, "Let's see". The children of science are from Missouri. - an American political speaker presents ethical proof of his views by declaring them to be the views of Washington and Lincoln and the very essence of sound American policy. He speaks, thus, as if with the voice of the Founding Fathers and of Great American Statesmanship. As the advocates of Aristotelian ethical proof contend, it works. Indeed, it does.

"In a prescientific society ventriloquizing is an amazingly successful language technique. An effective speaker is able to make the illusion stick for most listeners, to create the impression that his own voice is actually the voice of another whom the listeners accept as Authority. - By observing the differences and predicting the changes in the world about us and in ourselves we learn, as well as we can, how to form a picture of a mechanism that will account for what we can observe. By forming such pictures and by revising them as our predictions prove false and our new observations disclose our old mistakes, we achieve increasingly an understanding of the facts with which we must daily contend. What this amounts to is that the significance of a fact lies chiefly in the theory by which we seek to explain it, for the theory by which we seek to explain it determines the use we will make of it. - The essential forms of our language were devised by ancient men who were remarkably unfamiliar with present-day knowledge. - The ancient men probably constructed the kind of language they did simply because they took for granted that just such a language was needed in order to give a true account of reality. So far as they could see, it was true that reality consisted of things with attributes. -

"They were like a potter who bows down before the idol he has made with his own hands, forgetful that he himself has fashioned it. Even today we continue to revere the semantic apparitions molded in the contours of our verbal forms. - What is fundamental is that scientific language deals directly or ultimately with differences, changes, and relationships. In general, it tends, therefore, to correspond in structure, more closely than does our "common" or prescientific language, with the structure of reality -. The peculiar thing about "super-natural" is that, by definition, it refers to something beyond, or "above", or outside nature. It refers to something that is independent of anything "natural". It differs in this respect from 'electron', for example, the definition of which is rigorously dependent upon observable data and has been gradually revised in accordance with such data. - What is important at all times is a consciousness of abstracting, an awareness and understanding of the fact that a symbol is not the same as what it symbolizes, that the verbal and non-verbal levels are to be kept distinct and coordinated. The price we pay for the lack of such awareness of our abstracting processes, and for the consequent lack of predictability, is to be counted in terms of shock, confusion, and maladjustment in our personal lives and in our social organizations.

"The price we pay is to be measured in terms of the social policies and personal beliefs that lead us over and over again into grief and waste. All too often we fiercely defend the very policies and personal beliefs that serve to create our difficulties. We defend, and even revere, institutions and customs that make for conflict. We do not like to have our attitudes criticized, even become sentimental about our maps, as it were, even when they lead us over and over again into blind alleys. We can hardly overestimate the importance of this grave and pervasive result of a lack of consciousness of abstracting, this reluctance to change our maps - our beliefs, theories, policies, etc. Only insofar as we are conscious of abstracting, conscious of the levels of abstraction and of the relations among these levels, does it even occur to us that there is any point in "changing the map" when difficulties are encountered. - These last strongholds of the Old Man re those which we discuss in hushed and restrained tones, or not at all, under the general headings of sex, religion, finance, and social controls as they operate in government and in the codes of caste, class, status, etc. It is no accident that the problems encountered in "mental" hospitals are so largely concerned with sex, morality, religious confusions, money, and those human relationships involving superiority and inferiority - the governing and the governed, the "censors" and the repressed, the whole matter of social control.

"It is with regard to just such problems that we have not learned to be effectively scientific. It is with regard to the words that symbolize experience in these areas that we have maintained our most consistent taboos. If we were to teach the multiplication table the way we teach matters of "sex", the world would be filled with an interminable dispute as to what six times five might be. Scarcely anyone would be willing to venture an opinion on the matter in mixed company. The result of all this word-shyness, this essential identification of ink marks and sound waves with the actual experiences they are assumed to stand for, is that most of us are more or less "feebleminded" and maladjusted so far as "sex" is concerned. The attitude of many new mothers is not too remotely remindful of the pussycat, described in a short story by Stella Benson, who turned to look upon its new litter of kittens with an expression that seemed to say, "Gee whiligers! Look what's happened!" The extent of our verbal subterfuges in this general connection can be gauged roughly by the fact that some nursery-school teachers found by actual count that they had to learn approximately forty different polite expressions which children used to say that they wanted to go to the toilet! The flouncing gyrations that we go through in trying to skirt around certain four-letter Anglo-Saxon words, and even some technical anatomical terms, is one of the semantic wonders of the world. Only a professor of "philosophy" could believe that no one acts as though the word were the object! -

"The language of people in quandaries constitutes in large measure the very stuff their quandaries are made of. It may be said that the science of human behavior is now at a stage comparable to that period in medical history before physicians had learned about bacteria and antiseptic methods. We have not yet learned very much about "verbal bacteria" and we have yet to accept generally such methods as are available for sterilizing our semantic swabs and scalpels, so to speak. We insist upon a kind of freedom of speech that is far more dangerous than the public drinking cup and the old family bath towel could ever have been. The names we call one another and the evaluations we make of them lead all too often to consequences that can be gauged only in the tragic units of fear and hate, of poverty and crime, of racial and class discrimination, and the other unlovely items in the long catalogue of human misdirection. - A civilization of science is by no means an impossibility; it is probably closer at hand than we suspect. And a civilization of science depends upon a scientific attitude toward language - a consciousness of abstracting, the semantic counterpart of Lister's antiseptics and Pasteur's antitoxins. With a scientific attitude toward language, toward symbolisms of whatever kind, we stand to gain a fifth freedom, making other freedoms possible - we stand to gain freedom from confusion. -

" most of us feel vaguely but intensely that there is something about our language that is to be cherished, fondly preserved, and passed on carefully to our children. Most parents, with hardly a flicker of reflection, see to it that their children are told over and over again the same fairy tales and nursery rhymes which they themselves learned by heart when they were young. The heritage of our literature - of Shakespeare, Mother Goose, the Bible, Dante, Shelley, Tennyson, Longfellow, etc. - is jealously preserved. The question as to whether the heritage of our literature should or should not be preserved is practically never raised by most people, and when it is raised for them it is commonly resented and dismissed with profound disdain. - From a 'statistical' point of view, we regard the average as normal. - In a 'medical' sense, you are normal if you are not sick, generally speaking. - 'Socially', whatever is approved by enough people, or by sufficiently influential people, is normal. - In a 'legal' sense, the permissible or the not forbidden is normal. - If the normal is defined statistically, any maladjustments that lie within the average range will go untreated and nothing more than average behavior will be encouraged. Essentially the same remarks apply to policies based on social, medical, or legal definitions of the normal. After all, not to be disapproved, not to be sick, and not to be put in jail are rather negative goals, from which rather than toward which one might intelligently work. -

"The population of this planet is an incredible mixture of practically all the cultural strains that have ever existed, ranging all the ways from certain tribes that anthropologists refer to as Stone Age people up to such groups as the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Within one and the same individual, not infrequently one can discover beliefs and attitudes characteristic of almost every discernible period of our recorded history. There is probably not a single living human being who orientation to life is exclusively scientific in the modern sense. There are indeed many New Yorkers and Londoners of our own day who are fundamentally less modern than was Aristotle, or Homer, or Archimedes. Few of us certainly have yet caught up with Galileo or Francis Bacon. A scientific approach to personal problems is, then, by all means new and, by ordinary standards, even revolutionary. - We have managed to apply scientific techniques to our material environments and to our industrial facilities with Aladdin-like effects, but we have managed to do this without getting ourselves caught in the wonder-working rollers of those same scientific techniques. As Lewis Mumford has so sharply put it, man himself does not mirror the perfection of his instruments. The reason would appear to be simple; man has shied away from turning upon himself the very methods by which he has perfected his instruments. -

" In no other fact is our predicament as a world culture more starkly dramatized than in the frenzy with which we employ science to manufacture weapons with which to preserve - not to eliminate but actually to preserve - the prescientific customs and institutions to which science is so inevitably opposed. We wage war fervently in order to defend, so we proclaim the very culture that is warlike in its deeply cherished traditions. We staunchly preserve and persistently nourish our nationalistic and other group loyalties in ways that serve to disunite the peoples of the earth. An we use the 'techniques' of science to achieve these ends which are inimical to the time-binding implications and practical possibilities of the general 'method' of science. We are working at cross-purposes with impressive vigor. Not only does the left hand not know what the right is doing; it is undoing it. - The scientific method that has raised communication from the level of the jungle drum and the town crier to the pinnacle of modern radio has in itself done no least iota of harm. It has been the failure to apply that same method to improve the semantic reactions of those who use modern radio that has intensified the waste and misfortune which those reactions involve. The scientific method that has produced atomic bombs is in no sense responsible for the tragedy in their wake.

"The tragedy of atomic bombs is due to the fact that we have not used the method of science for changing the ways which men have so long employed to settle the disputes. It is simply that with atomic bombs those traditional and cherished customs are far more deadly than they were with muzzle-loaders. We have erred not in refining the scientific method, but in failing to use it on us who use it. - Even before August 6, 1945, these considerations were of basic importance. Since that unforgettable day, when we arrived with bewildering suddenness in the Atomic Age, they have become urgent to the point of sheer desperation. The race against destruction has now become a sprint. Prejudices and other semantic blockages that gum up the communication process will evidently have to be dissolved if the great majority of us are to escape the fleeting and thoroughly unrewarding experience of sudden death. In the past when words failed, men resorted to communication by means of hot steel, but most of us never got in the way of it. The next time words fail, millions of us will die, having discovered a second or two beforehand, if at all, how extremely advantageous it would have been had we learned how to talk to other people and how to listen to them. -

"There is clearly nothing destructive about the scientific method, as such. What is destructive is a prescientific way of living in the atomic world produced by science. It takes people who are scientific in dealing with the personal and social problems created or intensified by scientific achievements to survive in such a world. And these problems are in no small part those of language structure, of semantic reaction, or communication. Whenever the stakes are precious, works must not fail us any more. The same scientific method by which we have made our means of destruction so utterly effective must be used to make our communication, and so our social organization, correspondingly efficient. - Uranium hangs heavy over our heads so long as we strive to preserve beliefs, loyalties, and institutions that disunite us - so long as we cherish the old superstitions, prides, and prejudices with which we have muddled through to the crumbling edge of blinding disintegration. - if we continue to change the conditions under which we live, while maintaining attitudes, beliefs, customs, and human relationships adapted to other conditions which no longer exist, we may with reason expect increasing maladjustment and eventual catastrophe. -

"Atomic power promises abundance as readily as desolation - but only on the condition, of course, that we welcome the abundance. It provides the effective basis for a world state as readily as it provides the means for nationalistic groups to fight each other to the death - but only provided we not decline the opportunity to create a world state. It contains the germ of an economy so efficient that freedom from want and from drudgery might be realized in fact, quite as clearly as it contains the seeds of economic ruin - again provided, of course, we do not too fondly cherish want and drudgery. The exhilaration it promises is by no means less than the gnawing misery it portends - if only we are willing to endure exhilaration. The terms on which we may be permitted to remain as tenants, so to speak, are that we agree to an astonishingly marvelous job of remodeling. We have arrived, that is, at the strange circumstance of having to accept a virtual paradise if we are not to perish: only in our more stately mansions may refuge still be found."

K.C. STAR, 8/7/99. "50,000 attend Hiroshima ceremony" Hiroshima, Japan - "Residents of Hiroshima on Friday recalled the moment 54 years ago when an atomic bomb killed 140,000 people. About 50,000 people gathered for a silent prayer in the Peace Memorial Park at 8:15 a.m. - the exact moment a U.S. atomic bomb exploded above the city on Aug. 6, 1945. Hanging over the solemn commemoration were more recent concerns about Asian tensions, from North Korea's threat of a missile test to the nuclear-arms race between India and Pakistan. In a Yomiuri newspaper poll this week, 70 percent of respondents said they were fearful a war might break out near Japan. "India and Pakistan are building atomic weapons because they've never experienced a nuclear disaster", said Hiroshi Takei, 66. "We need events like today's memorial to educate people". North Korea is expected to testfire another ballistic missile with enough range to reach the United States, Taiwan's war of words with China has escalated, and India and Pakistan recently skirmished over Kashmir. Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi pledged anew that Japan would continue to endorse a world without nuclear weapons, despite the recent deterioration in global security.

"In Hiroshima's annual peace declaration, Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba praised the blast's survivors and urged the world to adopt their willpower in the struggle for disarmament. "They were able to transcend the infernal pain and despair and to opt for life", Akiba said. Following his declaration, about 1,500 doves were released into the sky as 300 children sang a song of peace. Not everybody in Hiroshima shared the solemn mood. "The atomic bomb ceremony is bringing a lot of tourist money to Hiroshima", said Hiroshi Nagarede, 80, whose elder sister was killed by the bomb. "I don't participate in ceremonies myself". On Friday the names of 5,071 persons who were in Hiroshima on the day of the bombing and who had died since last year's anniversary were added to a monument dedicated to the victims."

K.C. STAR, 10/24/99. "A legacy of military might" By Brian Burnes. "World War II, which cost the lives of more than 400,000 Americans, ended in a heroic victory more than 50 years ago. We're still packing heat. America in the 1940s began building a super-power military, one that eventually emerged after a Cold War nuclear buildup as the world's dominant armed force. The country regularly uses its big stick, to fight wars or stand watch in its starring role as world cop. In 1948, the country airlifted supplies to West Berlin. In 1949, it helped form the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. In the 1950s, the United States fought in Korea, and then in the 1960s and 1970s in Vietnam, losing more than 112,000 American lives in all. It then faced a new threat from terrorism. Americans endured televised images of hostages in Iran in 1979 and the deaths of 241 service personnel in Beirut, blown up in their barracks beds in 1983. Through it all, American soldiers bivouacked in Cold War outposts around the world. Then there's the Bomb. Since 1945, the United States has manufactured more than 70,000 nuclear weapons. Theodore Roosevelt never imagined a stick this big. Bottom line: We won the Cold War. And yet, since the Berlin Wall fell in November 1989, United States armed forces have participated in more than 90 operations, including peacekeeping or humanitarian undertakings. Intervening from Panama to the Persian Gulf, in Somalia, Haiti, Kosovo and elsewhere, the United States lost 487 Americans who were killed. Keeping the peace has proved to be a high-maintenance hill of beans.

"Stephen Ambrose, in a 1971 book, 'Rise to Globalism', compared the postwar United States with an earlier empire: "At the end of World War II, America was in an enviable position. Her power was such that it invited comparison with Imperial Rome". The question now is whether the United States, having dominated the last half of the 20th century with its military, should want to do the same in the next. Ambrose is OK with that. "We have 6 percent of the population and, what, about 95 percent of the world's firepower?" he said in an interview. "I think we ought to do everything we can to keep the peace. We're the only superpower left". Just look around. To the north (of K.C.) is the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College in Fort Leavenworth. To the east, Whiteman Air Force Base, home to the country's B-2 stealth bombers. In south Kansas City sits the AlliedSignal plant, which makes nuclear bomb parts. To the west is Fort Riley, Kan. Then there's the Truman Library in Independence. In March, Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic joined NATO at ceremonies there. For the occasion, curators brought out the small table on which President Harry S. Truman, in 1947, signed documents at the Hotel Muehlebach authorizing $300 million in aid to Greece and Turkey. That set us on our long course to contain communism until, defeated in the Cold War, it began withering away. The 1940s, American military buildup transformed the country. In 1938, America had no military alliances. Some of the Army was still on horse-back. Then the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, and America re-tooled. By 1942, one-third of the nation's economic activity was war-related. -

"The most profound change may have been the decline of Jim Crow practices. In 1941, President Franklin Roosevelt directed government officials to discourage discrimination in defense factories. As the war progressed, the demand for foot soldiers also offered opportunity to blacks. And in 1948 Truman issued Executive order 9981, which forbade discrimination by race in the military. In the 1930s, blacks represented perhaps 2 percent of the nation's armed forces. In 1996, blacks represented almost 20 percent. Jackie Robinson integrated major league baseball in 1947. But Truman's executive order was just as important. - Americans feel more ambivalent about their country's nuclear weapons. What was viewed in 1945 as a godsend by American soldiers poised to invade Japan was viewed as just the opposite in 1949, said Jacob Kipp, adjunct professor of Russian and East European Studies at the University of Kansas. That year - 1949 - the Russians detonated their own nuclear device. "There is a fundamental divide with my generation, which grew up with the idea of 'duck and cover'", Kipp said in an interview. "In the case of our generation, nuclear weapons were not the emancipator, they were Damocles". Many area residents still consider themselves beneath Damocles' sword. - Despite the end of the Cold War, the United States and Russia still maintain about 10,000 nuclear weapons each. Each year, the United States spends about $35 billion on nuclear weapons and related programs. The recent battle over the nuclear test-ban treaty reminded Americans that much of the unused ordnance from the Cold War remains in place. -

"The near future: peaceful. Defense analysts maintain that a potential enemy won't emerge until 2010. If so, that leaves a 10-year window for the United States to pursue a "revolution in military affairs" - "RMA" for short. The U.S. military and its civilian overseers want to ensure that the country is never again surprised by another Pearl Harbor and never again has to fight a big-casualty world war. They hope that advances in communications technologies, combined with breakthroughs in arms systems, continue to give the United States an arsenal unmatched. - In the spring, B-2 stealth bombers left Knob Noster on 30-hour bombing missions to Yugoslavia that allowed pilots to drop their payloads in Europe and then return to the tranquility of the Midwest. And this month, authorities confirmed that the United States used computer warfare against Yugoslavia, waging cyberattacks on its air defenses. Still, nothing has been invented that can prevent human error. It was a bomb from a B-2 bomber from Whiteman that mistakenly struck the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, killing three journalists and endangering our relationship with China. - Ambrose, as it happens, served as adviser to another landmark movie, "Saving Private Ryan". That film, a story of ground troops, brought to a vast audience the ethic of sacrifice and the magnitude of the victory the soldiers of the 1940s achieved. It was nothing less than civilization, Ambrose has written, that American soldiers helped save. Today, since the 1940s, perhaps only the weapons have changed"

Is War and Killing the Lifestyle Jesus taught about? Is the USA really a Christian Country? The U.S. is not dominating one part of the World as Rome did, it is dominating the Whole Planet as Atlantis did. All the rise and fall of Nations were all in a limited section of the Planet, but now the cycle of another One Nation with Planetary Control is upon us in the End Times of Life on Earth. It is Time to use our High Tech Science for Balanced Eternal Physical Life. Remaining as tenants on Spaceship Earth will depend on if we can throw off the Old Man, the Fallen Nature of Body Birth Reproduction, and put on the New Man of the High Tech Nature of Reproduction, and return to BEing the Asexual Caretakers of Life and overcome being the Heterosexual Killer Species.