Part 1 - Pathways

A-Seeker

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B-Seer

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C-Belover

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Part 2 - Resources

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In line with this, the sojourning alien learns about the World Wars and the development of the Atomic Bomb. Before nuclear bombs modern warfare had already changed the moral and spiritual character of war. Modern warfare differed from all previous wars in that it was waged with weapons that the individual soldier could not control.

Modern weapons were all weapons of mass destruction in that they indiscriminately killed vast numbers of people at once—as such, the traditional military and moral distinction between a combatant and a noncombatant disappeared.

Many of us were raised in religious or spiritual traditions that professed that there could be a Just War. While arguments still rage as to whether the two World Wars were Just, with a clarity we had never known before, now we knew that modern nuclear warfare irreparably nullified the application of the principles of a Just War.

Nuclear war upped the ante, so to speak, in that if global nuclear war breaks out,
there is no guarantee that the bombs dropped on the enemy won't
eventually kill the warrior himself.
Nuclear fall-out. "Atomic friendly fire." In an unsettling way, nuclear bombs actually
erased the distinction between victor and victim—
there are only victims.

For awhile this bizarre truth—that there are only victims in a nuclear war—was realized by the major global powers and they entered into a MAD pact (Mutually Assured Destruction). All recognized that the only way to win a nuclear war was not to start one!

But the sojourning alien observes a deeper, more threatening and chilling transformation that occurred on

August 6, 1945. It was the day
everyone on Earth was redefined as
an Intimate Enemy.

Continue—Intimate Enemy