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[...] Wars would wipe out struggling tribes before any traditions were formed.

[...] You project your sexual beliefs outward upon the nations, then, and often the terminology of the nations and of wars is the same as that used to describe sex.

You speak, for example, of domination and submission, of the master and the slave, of the rape of a nation — terms used in war and sex alike.

(“Do you mean the United States will go to war with China?”)

Not war necessarily.

Separate now: Something to do with mines, navy, and a war.

[...] To some extent the same can be said of wars, if you consider a war as a small infection; in the case of a world war, it would be a massive disease. War will finally teach you to revere life. [...]

War has often served as an emotional stimulus, as an escape in terms of drama, excitement and belonging for those who have felt alone, powerless and isolated.

(Slowly at 11:06:) When such opportunities are denied then there are riots, wars, and natural catastrophes. [...]

[...] Storms, say, or tornadoes, are brought about by angry men precisely as wars are. [...]

[...] If wars are considered inevitable, you see, there will be wars. [...]

([Joel:] “It was war. [...]

[...] I felt fine towards Joel the first night because the minute you started talking, for weeks I had been coming to class, when I would see the war paint on him I would get a terrible pain in my head. [...]

[...] You do not fight wars for the sake of the brotherhood of man, for example. [...]

The so-called war of the sexes originates in the artificial divisions that you have placed about the nature of the self. [...]

[...] I was trying to get the word war to Ruburt. I wanted the word war in the plural; however the plural gave him the idea of the number, which was blended with the sound of war, into four.

[...] Beside the word “wars” there, we see the words “for” and “foreign.” [...]

(In notes taken from discussion October 28, Bill said 1781 was when the Americans sailed into Nassau and were captured in Revolutionary War.)

A memorial commemorating the beginning of a revolution or a war. [...]

[...] Your father was involved in a war with people to the northwest. [...] And you were involved, though not as a warrior, in a war in which many lost their lives upon the nearby lake. [...]

(Long pause at 4:12.) Politically as well as medically, such distortions have led to unfortunate conditions: the Aryan-supremacy biological ideas fostered in the second world war, the concentration upon “the perfect body,” and other distortions. [...]

[...] and when thoughts of resentment and hatred are materialized, you end up with wars. [...] you are responsible for the wars and the starvation. [...]

[...] Whenever a tribe or a group or a nation decided to embark upon a war, it always used the concept of its god to lead it on.

[...] This will be done under and with the direction of an enlightened and expanding egotistical awareness (much louder), that can organize the hereto neglected knowledge — or it will be done at the expense of the reasoning intellect (again louder), leading to a rebirth of superstition, chaos, and the unnecessary war between reason and intuitive knowledge.

If this happens, all kinds of old and new religious denominations will war, and all kinds of ideologies surface. [...]

[...] This same man, however, who would not purposely entertain fantasies of such nature under normal conditions, may in time of war imagine himself killing the enemy with the greatest feelings of holy joy and righteousness.

(Pause at 9:34.) Any attempt to impair the flow of true aggression results in a distortive, uneven, explosive pseudo-aggression that causes wars, individual neurosis, and a great many of your problems in all areas.

If you shed the distorted concepts of unnatural guilt and accepted the wise ancient wisdom of natural guilt instead, there would be no wars. [...]

3. When the leaders of Iraq ordered the invasion of Iran 14 months ago, they expected to win the war in three weeks. They proclaimed that the war had really begun over 1,300 years ago, at the battle of Qaddisiya in A.D. 637, when Moslem Arabs drove the Persians, who are Indo-European, from Iraq. [...]

[...] Iranian leaders emphasize the religious aspects of the war, Iraq the ethnic. [...] In Iran martyrdom is encouraged—at home, in the war, and in terroristic activity abroad. [...]

[...] Before going into our chronology of personal events for those three months, however, I want to continue my brief study of the affairs—really the consciousnesses—involving Three Mile Island, Iran, and the war between Iran and Iraq. [...]

The killing in Iran continues—and hardly just because of that country’s war with Iraq. [...]

[...] The two warring factions have been beating him apart.

[...] These two warring elements are deeply bound up in psychic work because they were deeply bound up early in religious and mystic connotations in Catholic upbringing.

[...] The body is the warring point, and it is itself now fatigued.

[...] Without these recent deaths, your country could have initiated a disastrous war.

[...] (Long pause.) If there is an honest struggle, an honest effort toward peace and brotherhood, then even if war erupts on a practical level then the psychic development is healthier than if no effort toward peace is made, or if ideals are merely mouthed.

If ideals are merely mouthed, and the idea of peace not seriously strived for, then this is an inferior state, even if there is no war. [...]

This great division has led to your major wars. This does not mean that men were alone responsible for wars. [...]

[...] He described to us in some detail how he had a portrait of himself drawn during the Second World War, when he was overseas. War…death. [...]

[...] Jane was sure this referred to the story told us by the worker at the lumberyard, who procured the Masonite for me, concerning his war service, his portrait, etc., done while he was in the service. [...]

The tournament did refer to a war. [...]