5 Replies to “Christmas Day, 1914.”

  1. Frohe Weihnachten meine liebe Freunde bei Smalldeadanimals!
    Hebe hoch!
    Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
    1st Saint Nicolaas Army
    Army Group “True North”

  2. If only that bloody war had ended in 1914 with that truce. So many men died in the filthy trenches, in rickety airplanes and in the ocean. That useless war enabled Lenin and his evil followers to enslave Russia and later half the world. It was the cause of WWII, it destroyed the infrastructure of Europe and Russia and cost all of the free world so much in loss of beauty and terrible loss of life. I knew WWI vets, they survived the war but their lives were haunted by the young men who had been slaughtered. One of my great uncles was killed in 1915 and I do believe he was in Belgium in 1914.
    The world would be a much better place if all those soldiers had turned around and gone home Boxing Day, 1914; everybody would have won if that had happened.

  3. Proving once again, that if the men on the battlefield had their way, war would be extinct. In any war there is just a father/husband/average guy on both ends of the bayonet.
    At Christmas and as a new year dawns, we should pledge ourselves to re-evaluate the war making rationale our controllers expect us to buy into. We must realize they have us in a perpetual state of war: war on terror, cold war, culture war, war on drugs, war on impaired driving, war on crime, war on smoking, war on poverty etc. Police are now militarized in mindset, tactics and ordnance. They act as an occupying force rather than a civil service. Continual “war” against all these nebulous “enemies” demands we sacrifice civil freedoms and justice for the “cause”. We must also realize that the UN is a war-making body and has no solutions except those of the war makers. Before we reflexively march in lockstep behind the war makers we must answer one important question – Qui bono? Is it freedom or is it systems which further enslave?
    Merry Christmas SDA.

  4. Israel wanted an earthly king over them, like the pagans…nowadays they take a lot more than a tenth of your seed.
    The days of the king going out to fight the battles didn’t last long, did it? Yessir, that higher earthly authority that doesn’t know any more than we do is really working out well…
    1Sa 8:10 And Samuel told all the words of the LORD unto the People that asked of him a king.
    1Sa 8:11 And he said, This will be the manner of the king that shall reign over you: He will take your sons, and appoint them for himself, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen; and some shall run before his chariots.
    1Sa 8:12 And he will appoint him captains over thousands, and captains over fifties; and will set them to plough his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and instruments of his chariots.
    1Sa 8:13 And he will take your daughters to be confectionaries, and to be cooks, and to be bakers.
    1Sa 8:14 And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your oliveyards, even the best of them, and give them to his servants.
    1Sa 8:15 And he will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants.
    1Sa 8:16 And he will take your menservants, and your maidservants, and your goodliest oxen, and your asses, and put them to his work.
    1Sa 8:17 He will take the tenth of your sheep: and ye shall be his servants.
    1Sa 8:18 And ye shall cry out in that day because of your king which ye shall have chosen you; and the LORD will not answer you in that day.
    1Sa 8:19 Nevertheless the People refused to obey the voice of Samuel; and they said, Nay; but we will have a king over us;
    1Sa 8:20 That we also may be like all the nations; and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles.
    1Sa 8:21 And Samuel heard all the words of the people, and he rehearsed them in the ears of the LORD.
    1Sa 8:22 And the LORD said to Samuel, Hearken unto their voice, and make them a king. And Samuel said unto the men of Israel, Go ye every man unto his city.
    Merry Christmas

Navigation