NOTE: The initial comments about an imminent cycle of war below refer to the period of late 2002 to early 2003. They were intended to emphasize the relationship between the growing sentiment in the U.S. and Great Britain to attack and wage war against the nation of Iraq, and the cycle of asteroid #24 Themis and that asteroid's cyclic and archetypal relationship with war and the manifestation of one culture's dominance over others.

The maintenance and perpetuation of a culture's norms and traditions is directly related to the most fundamental idea of justice. However, as civilization evolved so did many of our ideas, including, within some cultures, our ideas of justice. When we allow ourselves to revert and be limited and oppressed by such a narrow and anachronistic idea of justice such as that represented by Themis alone, we are most likely to be encouraging a state of injustice.

These pages have been left available so that the historic, astronomic, and archetypal process can remain accessible for all to view and consider. It is still my intent to release additional material about the idea of justice and its relationship to war and human evolution. My work on that material has been continuing and I hope to release further information sometime in 2007.


NASA Data Confirms Natural Cycle
of World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam.
Next Phase in This Cycle is Imminent.

A naturally occurring cyclic process is revealed here that coincides with the start of all
our World Wars, and most conflicts of world magnitude in the twentieth century.

A direct link to NASA's Horizons system,
allowing you to generate samples of this data,
is provided on later pages at this site.

Everyone can use NASA's Horizons system to confirm this data.

Complete step-by-step instructions are also provided.

However, you are encouraged to first develop an overview of this material,
and then to examine the underlying issues in more detail.

A graphic explanation of the relevant astronomy is also provided here, on a later page.

A graph of this naturally occurring cyclic process, portraying four of the major events about World War I, is below.
Graphs and events for the complete twentieth century, and our current period are found on the next page.
#24 Themis
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Smaller Graph
10/6/1908
Austria annexes Bosnia and Herzogovina, resulting in great political distress over much of Europe, building momentum that will lead to World War I. 		7/28/1914 – 8/12/1914
Major European powers declare war. 		4/6/1917
U.S. declares war on Germany.
10/15/1919
Germany, Britain, and Italy ratify the Treaty of Versailles, as did France on October 13. The seeds of WWII are irrevocably planted.

Encourage Dialogue - Promote The Cause of Hope
This impending war, however, like most wars in the past, may only be inevitable simply because we refuse to encourage sustained public discussion in order to reason out all of our many alternatives. This material does not point to any type of fated occurrence. It is simply that we tend to fall back upon our more basic tendencies, rather than adhere to our more cherished values and beliefs, and exercise our higher potential.

The Justice that most of us truly want and need can only result when we employ a process of reasoning. Otherwise, our 'Justice' is severely limited to "Might makes right," "The Law is the Law," and to maintaining order by means of cultural dominance, rather than encouraging a process of reasoning and open discussion with all the peoples of the world, thereby realizing our many common choices and needs.

The evolution of human society and the evolution of the idea of Justice have occurred at the same time and one would mean little without the other.

Our ability to reason, rather than simply to react based upon fear, has been our greatest strength as a species. As we have evolved, so have our ideas about what Justice is and what 'Justice' we truly need. At times of challenge, we are all too susceptible to responding out of fear to a lesser idea of Justice.

The next page presents graphs for the complete 20th century portraying the consistent relationship between this process, readily confirmed by NASA's data, and all of our major wars.



Next: #24 Themis - Graphs and Events
Graphs and #24 Themis: a brief explanation
Using NASA's JPL Solar System Dynamics site
Conclusion, for now...


© 1992, 2002 Barry McKenna



Sept. 28, 2006 rev. 03.2