Post by drystyx on Oct 10, 2018 14:41:09 GMT
I said "something else", because while "sense of identity" is close, that sense of identity is always going to be of the flesh, which means a desire to be divisive.
For example, the U.S. sense of identity is divisiveness and being anti-team. That kind of identity makes a country anything but great. The U.S. has the greatest resources and should be the greatest, but flails miserably from "anti team" identity. A lot of nations have naturally hostile environments. Their crocodiles are larger than American alligators. Their tigers more dangerous than wildcats. Their rivers harder to manage, mountains harder to tame. Then there are the snakes. Who would trade America's snakes for those of Asia or Australia?
But I assume you mean what makes a country "great" aside from the natural resources.
"Identity" would be the answer, if the identity is based on being pro team instead of being a lynch mob. If you don't have the holy ghost as your identity, you're doomed to desiring to form a lynch mob.
When the identity is "the Holy Ghost' that means we improve who we are. When it is not the holy Ghost, it means we look to bring others down, and since that is demon based, it means we have no control over ourselves, and we just bring down whomever is easiest. It's easiest to attack a teammate who trusts you with his back than the enemy who faces you. That's what Western culture is.
Yet there are still raving lunatics who deny this, proving my point, that they are out of control.
For example, the U.S. sense of identity is divisiveness and being anti-team. That kind of identity makes a country anything but great. The U.S. has the greatest resources and should be the greatest, but flails miserably from "anti team" identity. A lot of nations have naturally hostile environments. Their crocodiles are larger than American alligators. Their tigers more dangerous than wildcats. Their rivers harder to manage, mountains harder to tame. Then there are the snakes. Who would trade America's snakes for those of Asia or Australia?
But I assume you mean what makes a country "great" aside from the natural resources.
"Identity" would be the answer, if the identity is based on being pro team instead of being a lynch mob. If you don't have the holy ghost as your identity, you're doomed to desiring to form a lynch mob.
When the identity is "the Holy Ghost' that means we improve who we are. When it is not the holy Ghost, it means we look to bring others down, and since that is demon based, it means we have no control over ourselves, and we just bring down whomever is easiest. It's easiest to attack a teammate who trusts you with his back than the enemy who faces you. That's what Western culture is.
Yet there are still raving lunatics who deny this, proving my point, that they are out of control.