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The Strange World of the Future-Reprise
Somehow, the human race cannot translate the technological accomplishments of the 21st Century into making a better society. And we seem to be unable to stop destroying this world. Mega-Billionaires who have prospered enormously during the Pandemic, apparently can’t envision their place in history, as the people who, by themselves, stopped hunger and homelessness across the world while remaining Billionaires. Instead, they play space tourist. It’s sort of like Superman deciding that reading the Daily Planet is the best he can do, before making another orbit around the world.
I have given up on politics as a means of rescue. I will vote, as I have, for the last 50+ years. I’m grateful that I live in Portland, Oregon, where there may not be many churchgoers, and there are a lot of Progressive Liberals. My ‘Give a Damn’ was broken on January 6th of this year when members of various police forces attempted to protect The United States Capitol in its first invasion since the War of 1812. A large portion of our elected officials are saying that the deaths of police officers in their attempt to protect the safety of said politicians was similar to a visit by a regular tour group… An allegiance to a criminal who told the world that COVID is a hoax; and the world believed him. Not because of his credibility as a human being, but as some devotion to an American Religion.
Consequently, I have returned to Science Fiction to find sanity.
The first law of thermodynamics states that the total energy of an isolated system is constant; energy can be transformed from one form to another but can be neither created nor destroyed.
Think about this:
You are a brain with a body. All of you that exists, your body, your ideas, your dreams, these happen in your brain. Your body provides transportation and nourishment to your brain. You theoretically are reading this on something that looks like a piece of paper. You do not have a screen in your brain. You cannot see a piece of digital paper. As far as your device is concerned, it’s all ones and zeroes translated into machine language. The light contacting the retinas of your eyes sends electrochemical signals to nerve centers in your brain. What you are reading is a scientifically created illusion.
Take it a step further. Suppose that our current scientific understanding of the brain is missing what I believe is the key element: you are Energy. According to the first law of thermodynamics, you can be transformed; but cannot be destroyed. There is a YOU that is crafted by Creator and exists outside of our limited understanding of Life. I use the word ‘soul’ as many other people do. There are people who do not believe that the Soul exists because there is no evidence to prove it.
I have been following the Faith Walk, the Spirit Walk for 48 years. I cannot prove the existence of the Soul, but lack of proof does not mean lack of existence. The biggest problem I’ve had with my Faith Walk is religion. I have served in a variety of capacities in a number of denominations, and I am continually amazed at how people can take a few sentences out of their context, and then build a religious belief. I have also learned that I cannot change the minds of people whose minds are closed. The most I can do is provide an environment where change can occur, when someone wants to change.
You can be transformed; but cannot be destroyed.
This messes with the religious beliefs of many people.
I can’t help that.
Short Religious thought [Mark 9]:
Jesus [‘Yeshua’ in Hebrew] takes Peter, James and John to a high mountain. As Jesus is standing apart from the three, He is “transfigured” [think superhero] Jesus’ “garment was shining and became very white, like snow, in a manner by which men on earth are not able to whiten. 4 And Elijah and Moses appeared to them as they were speaking with Yeshua.”
- There were no cameras in Jesus’ day, nor centuries earlier in Elijah’s and Moses’ time. How did those with Jesus know who the newcomers were? The images from Egypt were probably the most sophisticated of the time. Very few, if any, portraits in Egypt [Moses was in Egypt before the whole ‘parting the Red Sea’ stuff].
7 And there was a cloud and it was a shelter about them, and a voice from the cloud which said, “This is my Beloved Son, hear him.” 8 And suddenly afterward, the disciples gazed up, and they saw no one except Yeshua alone with them.
- Creator identifies Jesus; and the three with Him continue to think Jesus is some sort of prophet…
9 And when they descended from the mountain, he commanded them that they would tell no one anything that they had seen until after The Son of Man had risen from the dead. 10 And they seized on that statement in their souls and they were inquiring, “What is this statement, ‘When he rises from among the dead?”
- Jesus and his followers knew that Jesus would end up crucified; they had seen, every day, of their lives what Rome did to troublemakers. Jesus was a troublemaker. He didn’t bother the Romans—Jesus wasn’t sent to the Romans. Romans officially believed that the Emperor was something like a god.
It seems to me that if Jesus came to die on a cross so that Jews could be saved from Hell [Jesus was Jewish], He might have mentioned the concept of being raised from the dead. His closest followers had never heard about Jesus being raised from the dead.
Creator entered Time and Space in the form of one cell implanted into the womb of a young girl. That young girl gave birth to a boy named Yeshua, who apparently entered into the trade of his ‘foster’ father. Yeshua became a carpenter. I read somewhere that an ancient writing talked about plows made by Yeshua. Yeshua came to teach people how to live—what to do with the Energy that we all contain—Energy that can be transformed; but cannot be destroyed. This messes with the religious beliefs of many people. I can’t help that.
So what do we do with this unbreakable Energy [soul] within us? We try to make the world better.
Get Vaccinated. Nearly every COVID death that has occurred since Memorial Day was avoidable. If you fear the practice of Vaccination, I would remind you that every child in America, under the care of a medical practitioner was vaccinated for Measles, Mumps and Rubella. If you’ve ever been to an ER to patch up a hole in your body you created with a tool, you were vaccinated for Tetanus. I did a lot of that in my years building/repairing houses.
If you are afraid that the government is injecting you with some sort of device that can track you, wherever you go, you should stop listening to Conservative news sources, and throw away your cellphone. You show up on tracking of some sort every time your cell phone gets turned on.
My personal recommendation is that you should stop using QR-Codes with your phone. You have no idea what is programmed via a QR-Code. They were developed by the automotive industry because the format can transmit data better than a bar code. If you are scrupulous with passwords, but accept any QR-Code you see, you might as well give up on passwords.
However, I was born When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth.
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