What does the word war mean?
The word war derives from the word called “warfare”,
according to the scientific explanations, war is defined as a violent conflict which takes place among social entities,
where two or more social groups go to war for the sake of establishing the legal rights or the practising of their opinions or social principles.
The word war also means “birth pangs”, or the resistance which takes place when new changes are being introduced into nature or human behaviour.
What causes war?
People have always engaged in war whenever the psychological changes which takes place during the progressing stages of civilization are shifting from one level into new changes.
And as a result of these new changes; the unconscious fear or the unknown fear of not knowing how to deal with these new changes,
begins to push the human energies of aggressiveness, hatred, ignorance, revenge, lack of knowledge, anti-semitism, rebellion towards God’s prophetic truth,
into the realm of finding fault, looking for who to accuse for their own weaknesses and mistakes etc. And eventually this has always led to the physical action of engaging in war.
In a time of war there is a social group which goes to war for the sake of forcing another social group into accepting the terms of their psychological principles.
But also war can take place when a social group of people is being hindered from being able to express or practice their own psychological principles which advances the life style of their culture, religion or belief.
To simplify my article let me give you an example:
what caused the first world war?
During the first world war the psychological state, (scientific state of the mind, personality, emotion, behavior, desires, interpersonal relationship, empirical method) of the Europeans had changed, and because of this; the second world war broke out.
The psychological changes which caused the second world war were due to the physical and spiritual state of the woman.
The women who were known for doing house work, (cooking food, looking after their children, and taking care of their husbands when they return home from work),
these women’s psychological state had physically changed. But at the present time, the men were still claiming their jobs to be the work that can only be done by the male figure.
As the second world war was taking place, there was no man to work the farms, fields, industries, factories etc, and through the desperate need of keeping these Jobs running, women were forced to substitute for the men.
Women began to work in factories, fields, driving lorries and big tracks, running the farm, and they went as far as making weapons that the men needed as they were fighting at the front line.
The first world war ushered the world into the psychological changes which brought the woman’s status from being a house wife who does house work, into the realm of a woman that is capable of doing men’s work.
By Apostle A Ngabo