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Question: What is your opinion on this quote made by Einstein!?
"I don't know what kind of weapons will be used in the third world war, assuming there will be a third world war!. But I can tell you what the fourth world war will be fought with -- stone clubs!." - Albert Einstein!.!.!.

My thoughts are that he is predicting the 3rd world war will end the world as we know it, and the 4th war will be when humans lose all technology and have to start all over again, with weapons from the stone age!. ;)Www@QuestionHome@Com


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I think he simply means that just like everything in the universe, it's all a cycle that keeps returning to itself!. We started as uncomplicated, primal beings and we're now making our way to being the epitome of complicated beings through technology and the world state-of-mind!. Eventually, it will all converge and we'll be left no choice but to be uncomplicated beings again!. Hopefully, we'll be enlightened enough by then to not be using clubs, but to transcend war completely!. Who knowsWww@QuestionHome@Com

Existence is merely a linguist's definition of experience!. What we call existence is simply the experience of an experience!.
Redness exists only because it is 'experienced'!. Awareness too!. The Divine would then be Pure Experience - thus the Creator of all Experiences!. Like the light and the prism!.
So, non-existence is for an unexperienced phenomenon or a phenomenon that has not been understood!. Existence for those that have been (whether rightly or wrongly)!.
Thus existence is only experience of essence!. Thus the root of all is Experience and Pure Experience is thus the Principle!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Maybe he was talking about the cyclical nature of time and space!. We could be caught in some time loop and just keep making the same mistakes over and over again!. Besides does it matter how we kill each other!? We are just as dead either way!. Our nature is war, our future is war, we are war!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

He was obviously hinting at his new super weapon, "the revamped stone club"

If you thought the prospects of nuclear winter was bad, just wait to see what the mad inventor of the A-bomb had in store for the 21st century!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

We can read in the most fascinating and controversial book ever written that, "the earth will be cleansed by fire" as opposed to a flood!. WW3 perhaps!. However, this suggests that not too many of us will survive!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

I believe Einstein was pointing out that the human animal has a violent nature, and will continue making war even after we have destroyed much of the earth and no longer have technology to destroy entire populations!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

it's only reasonable to assume that ww3 will be the end of the human race,!.!.!.he knew what the weapon he invented can do,I can only assumeWww@QuestionHome@Com

A weapon from our old age or stone age, back to zero way of living in such a way that no high tech gadgetsWww@QuestionHome@Com

I agree with 90% of your opinion about that Einsteins statement!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

If WW III happens, WW IV will NOT be fought by humansWww@QuestionHome@Com

Yes, that any WW3 will throw us back to the stone age!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

That brings chills to my body!. Ughh!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

ya, that's about right!.Www@QuestionHome@Com