Thinking....

[cthulhuvong]

Yes I know, thats quite dangerous =P

Anyways, was in the bathroom (best place for thoughts, maybe I should just move the toilet into my room....) and was reading a book nick had given me (Soviet Politics, 1917-1991) and a question popped into my head.

Are events/movements in history unavoidable and not linked to those we link them to (MLK to the

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[shiniji_no_baka]

Interesting thoughts, but suppose we'll never know till it happens. As for events and people...hm. I would say that while some things are fated to be, it takes a certain person to bring those things into existance, good or bad. Perhaps somebody may have done what hitler tried to do, but the outcome could never be exactly the same. Heh, anyway, odd, but an opinion

[lscruffyb]

Schisms invite radicalism and a militant attitude, not moderation. The reformation began with a challenge, the nailing of complaints on a church door, on the door of God. From there, a weak riposte by the authorities produced a furious counter by the new Lutherans. So any sundering of the faith will have violent repercussions

[cthulhuvong]

Maybe I have it backwards then. Maybe the more fanatical will break away from the moderates who are trying to keep the majority moderate, and will form their own type of Islam. All I know is, there is major change brewing within Islam, and it cannot stand in its current form. You have the more moderate folks in the West, who find their own interpretation, but then you also have those in much of Islam who still hold to the traditional views and believe that any moderate modernization is anathema to Islam. Throughout the world there are the modernizers and the reactionaries, and while most of the muslim world just lives their life in peace, these two sides are competing and will come to conflict more and more. There will be a confrontation and if something is not done to reconcile them, then there will be a "reformation".