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"Ain't Gonna Study War No More"
The old spiritual use of the word "study" interests me. I suppose it is taken from the Bible, but I have no idea where in the Bible. I find it difficult to rephrase the title using current language. How would the board members do so?
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trivialize? back?
Irenology - this seems to be 'peace studies'
Polemology - does someone want to offer a definition? It's not just the study war, but of peace too, or what? Didn't Tolstoy cover this?
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Reviving an old thread: The old spiritual use of the word "study" interests me. I suppose it is taken from the Bible, but I have no idea where in the Bible. I find it difficult to rephrase the title using current language. How would the board members do so?I would suggest the phrase tracks the famous passage of Isaiah 2:4 (New King James Version): They shall beat their swords into plowshares, And their spears into pruning hooks; Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, Neither shall they learn war anymore.Other versions translate this phrase as "train for war" or "military training", but the most common seems to be "learn war". All essentially the same meaning, and one quite different from what awad had supposed. searchable at http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?interface=x&language=english
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Dear WW: when in doubt, type it into Yahoo! search box
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study centre for peace problems
... Polemology is a science which concerns itself with research on the causes of
war and the conditions for peace. One cannot graduate in Polemology at the ...
http://www.kun.nl/fbw/english/peace.html
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Professor Gaston Bouthoul of the Ecole des Hautes Etudes Sociales in Paris... the founder of Polemology (a word he coined), or the study of war. - Harper's, 1970
...and pole- comes from the Greek word for war.
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