What Means Victory - All Contentions Demanding Subservience to Ultimate Cause - Ultimate Adversary Ultimately Defeated

Submitted by M Tovey (United States), Nov 1, 2022 at 15:16

Humanity is in a conundrum: even as there are multiple contentions of dominance in the world arena of modern history attempting to fit the written agenda of competing ambitions of power and the intended potential billlions of erstwhile slaves to those ambitions becoming victims: does placing any trust in such suspect determinations have any validity in perpetuating peace? In a word: no. The answer is made manifest in history itself: humanity has no such capacity. Victory under such terms is elusive at best: victory in human terms does not exist except compromise enters in and precludes obtaining peace without extreme cost in human lives. Ultimately, there will be the ultimate victory, but the cost is still going to be extraordinarily high. It cannot be mitigated for the same reason as any extreme human endeavor- misapplied issues of whose superiority is to be recognized in the struggles of humanity.
But what victory is humanity willing to accept in the meantime? Do the food fights or energy squabbles emanating from all sectors of the world have any commonality in which alliances are to make sense; or does the propensity of mankind to fight meaningless battles for superiority over questionable objectives appear once again to extend the inane lack of any common moral aspiration in desiring peace; or will the Divine Providence that humanity constantly fights in rebellion finally get its intended victory? Search Israel's destiny to find that answer. Seriously, the answer is there. Otherwise, victimhood is self imposed and none are able to struggle hard enough to defeat that.

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