War ... always has been ... always will be

War... always has been, and as long as there is ego therefore selfishness & separation ... it always will be. 

Take Istanbul for example. It has been ravaged with almost 13 invasions since (as early as recorded) 2000 BC:

1) 2nd millenium BC: first inhabitants of the Asian side of Istanbul area

2) 7th century BC: Greek king Byzas colonized the Bosphorus strait, the only access to the Black Sea and named the city Byzantium.

3) 6th century BC: Persian Empire ruled the city

4) 4th century BC: Alexander the Great conquered it.

5) 2nd century AD: Roman Empire's Septimus Severus conquered it

6) 4th century AD: emperor Constantine the Great made Byzantium the capital calling it Constantinople and built on 7 hills like Rome, while eastern empire was called Byzantine Empire.

7) 6th century: during Justinian I's rule, riots destroyed it but rebuilt with outstanding structures such as Hagia Sophia (meaning holy wisdom) and monuments in honor of the age of Byzantines.

8) 7th century: besieged by the Arabs

9) 9th century: beseiged by the Barbarians (probably Mongols).

10) 13th century: ruled by the Fourth Crusade that destroyed and took its wealth

11) 15th century: taken by Ottoman Empire lead by Sultan Mehmet II and renamed to Islambol (city of Islam), still the capital.

12) 16th century: converted to Istanbul, where "eis tin polin" means "to the city" in Greek.

13) 20th century: freed from Allied Forces (Great Britain, France, Russia, Italy, Romania, Japan and the United States) after WWI by Ataturk (meaning father of the Turks; the name given to Mustafa Kemal) under Turkey. The political capital changed to Ankara, while Istanbul became the commercial & cultural center.

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Why do people fight? People are different, sometimes in non-complementary ways. In fact, no two people are exactly the same because each individual, even a fruit, even the same personality types due to experience, circumstance, inner work, and therefore desires are 100% unique. For example, one person may prefer order and quiet, while the other prefers messiness and roudiness; those two will end up fighting over territory in order to shape it as per their preference. Even if they are similar, then they can still clash; for example two people who like to plan would conflict on where to go and when (and how). 

Upon encountering conflict, fighting occurs as an ego (that which seperates masculine from feminine) reaction because the opposing gender elements (left masculine & right feminine brain) are not fully balanced because that's how mind works (and exists), which creates desire either for avoidance or desctruction. However, it can also happen in action due to the same reason (left brain to control for whatever reason regardless of greater good, and right brain to let things be as regardless how messed up they can be).

However, the more ego one has the more superficial one is therefore the more therefore more differences one sees, including in one's spiritual practise methods. When one does not understand their religion, they disturb or at least undermine others'. "You are a drop in the Ocean, to be the Ocean in a drop then go deep, don't just go dye blue.". Also, the more the ego the more attachment therefore desire one has for wanting things in a certain way (could be for a deeper desire such as principle or value), regardless of whether it is superficially motivated. Finally, people naturally have the desire to perpetuate themselves.

People have the tendency to desire to spread their presence, because the ego self mirrors the Spirit self (as within so without).

Due to differences (or similarities), even if in terms of values themselves, people fight within the same family (or art, or club, or between different arts or clubs). Do you not think they will fight between different families, tribes, cities, countries, empires, or planets? Absolute nonesense that peace is possible without overcoming the ego, which is difficult therefore will not happen by choice if not by chance. The software (mind) is designed to break the hardware (body) unless soul (awareness) steps in, which is difficult, therefore will not happen because the software is flawed, which is why it infinitely loops (more info about that here, especially at the 4 ages).

However, even if it is not about ego, then especially when it comes to the Left Hand Path, people will defend themselves, or themSelf (the united spirit Self). More info about that here, especially at the bottom. So yes, it is not only about resources, because ones who have all the riches ever imagined still invade other countries due to the masculine mind's tendency to "harmonize" therefore control the world, which is unfortunately needed to balance out the even more dominant feminine tendency to "energize" therefore overpopulate the world.

This outer war between masculine & feminine elements of duality (separation between dry & wet / hot & cold / hard & soft / etc.) is a direct consequence of the inner war between feminine and masculine concepts of dualism (separation between manifest matter & unmanifest Spirit).

Therefore to overcome ego / seperation one must either overcome dualism through the feminine method that seeks the manifest feminine through the unmanifest masculine, or overcome duality through the masculine method that seeks the masculine unmanifest through the feminine manifest, or idealy, through both. More info on that here.

The Hagia Sophia was built in the 6th century as the patriarchal cathedral of the imperial capital of Constantinople.  It was the largest Christian church of the Eastern Roman Empire (the Byzantine Empire) and the Eastern Orthodox Church, except during the Latin Empire in the 13th century, when it became the city's Latin Catholic cathedral. In 15th century, after the fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Empire, it was converted into a mosque. In the 20th century, the secular Turkish Republic established it as a museum. In 2020, it re-opened as a mosque.

The Blue Mosque was built in the 17th century by the architect Mehmet Ağa, instructed by Sultan Ahmed I. It was designed as an imperial show of strength to complement the imposing Hagia Sophia. It is dubbed the Blue Mosque because of over 20,000 handmade ceramic Iznik tiles that decorate the interior, featuring many different tulip, rose, carnation, and lily designs, well lit by windows.

A hypothesis for the word Turkey is that the word goes back to "türük", a derivative of "türe", which meant something like law, cultural norm and tradition (Modern Turkish: "töre"). So, "türük" was probably used to denominate people who abide by customs and traditions. 

A hypothesis for the Turkish language is a mixture of the cultures that populated the area after the Mongols / Barbarians invaded mixing Arabic, Persian and possibly Greek, later converted into Latin script.

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Sources: http://www.allaboutistanbul.com/history.html & https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hagia_Sophia & https://istanbultourstudio.com/things-to-do/blue-mosque & https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantium

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