Monday, March 23, 2009

Annihilation- "Mutually Assured Destruction"

Annihilation - Wartime references of Annihilation often refer to a 'Mutually Assured Destruction', because the lasting outcome of an Annihilistic resolution to conflict is always in question. Globally, this type of resolution may be seen in situations such as:

Sri Lanka & the Tamil Tigers
The bishop of war-torn northern Sri Lanka has written to the country’s president warning that more than 100,000 people face “total annihilation” – unless an immediate evacuation gets under way.
Describing how government and rebel forces are preparing for “the final battle”, Bishop Thomas Savundaranayagam’s urgent message to President Mahinda Rajapaksa pleads on behalf of people trapped in a war zone in the north-east of the country.
The Bishop of Jaffna’s letter, a copy of which he sent to the Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need, comes as the armed forces of the Colombo-based government prepares for a final showdown with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), also known as the Tamil Tigers.

Other global instances of Annihilation:
Nazi Germany & Jews
Israel & Palestine

Russia & Georgia

Looking at at more personal level, annihilation is the uneasy peace that results from total obliteration of the losing party.
A recent example from the world of sports:

Covenant coach who beat Dallas Academy 100-0 is fired
The Covenant School fired its girls basketball coach Sunday, the same day he posted a message on a youth basketball Web site saying he disagreed with school officials who had publicly apologized for the team's 100-0 victory over Dallas Academy.


Coaches- Think of those people who are 'locker room cancers'.
Teachers- Think of students who totally disrupted your teaching.
These people don't want to work together or assimilate, they want to obliterate everyone and everything that gets in their way.
Can you think of ways to deal with these kinds of people?

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