War
Your neighbor likes to throw parties. Every Saturday night, his stereo is
blasting and the street is full of cars. What do you do? Odds are good you use
logic and rationality to work it out. You might talk to the person, report the
problem to the police or go to a movie.
However, you would probably not go beat up the neighbor.
What if you felt your business is threatened by another business? Say you own a
restaurant, but notice you are getting fewer reservations and your income is
going down. You find out the new restaurant down the road is taking your
customers.
Do you work on your menu? Improve your service? Advertise? Form a partnership
with the other restaurant owner? Enjoy the challenge of a competition? Sell your
restaurant?
Probably something like that. But would you throw a bomb into the other
restaurant? Kill its employees? Why not? After all, they are threatening your
living and hurting your business.
Perhaps if someone killed your friend or a family member, you would want to
attack the murderer. But sooner or later, you would realize blood on your own
hands was no solution. As any war veteran can tell you, killing people can cause
a lifetime of depression.
So why does anyone go to war? What might be a better solution?
Without getting involved in politics, L. Ron Hubbard has always taken a stand
against war. Even though he was a decorated Naval officer in World War II, he
disagreed that war solved anything. In 1950, he wrote in his famous book,
Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health:
"There is no national problem in the world today which cannot be resolved
by reason alone."
"The farmer of Iowa has no quarrel with the storekeeper of Stalingrad. Those who
say such quarrels exist lie."
"How much can man conquer? He loses if he conquers man. He wins if he conquers
his own fears and conquers then the stars.
"Attack the natural enemies of man, attack them well, and war of man with man
cannot thereafter be a problem. This is rationality."
In another book called All About Radiation, L. Ron Hubbard
writes,
"Man has a madness and that madness is called war. That madness really hasn't
anything to do with politics.
"The truth is very simple. A government becomes worried about its ability to
control its populace and neighbors and resorts to war as a means of compelling
obedience at home as well as abroad.
"In actuality, a weakness and insecurity of government causes war. If a
government were very strong and felt very secure, it would employ the most
peaceful, quiet methods of granting beingness* and getting cooperation from its
potential enemies. It wouldn't fight a war. One doesn't find an educated, secure
man fighting with his neighbors. No, the person who fights his neighbors is a
very insecure and not at all sane man."
(*granting beingness: allowing others to be who they are.)
Five
Ways to Stop Violence and War
1. Whenever you feel angry or violent, try using your reasoning skills to solve
the problem.
2. Whenever you want to conquer another person, find a natural enemy you both
share and conquer it instead.
3. Whenever you want to attack someone, work on your own weaknesses and
insecurity. Find more constructive ways to make yourself more powerful.
4. Grant beingness to your enemies. Use your strength and intelligence to obtain
their cooperation.
5. Pass on this article.
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