Capitalism is suppose to be the best way to bring out the best in humans while they do their best selfish, greedy, “natural”self.
God is in charge…his will not mine, do not worship that which is of man, for you shall be rudely disappointed. I saw the Dead sea scrolls when they were here in the Chicago Natural History museum. And the Gnostic Book of Thomas that was not in the öfficial bible as the men of power in the church decided what was kept and what was hersey. Men decided this not a perfect supernatural being. What would that be anyway? A being that created a real physical universe so big and so small that it is incomprehensible and a little over done if that was the case. So we have dinasoars that they say lived and ruled the Earth for 250 million years???? We humans just popped up with some capacity to reason and imagine and create math in last 5,000 years?
Shared flood myth around the world. So man must go back much further but so what? We just came down from the trees and behave like ants or monkeys, chimps, wolves.
Anyone can see without a map that we are much like Mr. Smith’s description of humans. Not Adams. I just realized that most people do not like the truth. They expect to be told a fairy tale because how cruel is it that we have the capacity to feel emotions about our experiences and imagine if than elseif than if than end end end. We don’t have what we think is blissfull ignorance of animals, yet life is still a carnival believe it or not. Anything can happen so be prepared. Then we seek out someway of living with this knowledge or knowing. We ate know apple, we did learn and by doing so, have been cursed with fear of the past or future. So how did the old books know all things insights into human behavior. All the leassons we do NOT follow at all, not even attempting to be “good” just legal. It is sad because we will not get the chance to get it right for very long.
I watched House of Cards for the first time and of course got me thinking about how we mistreat each other in everything we do and so created laws that were above any one person. So we have lots of laws and rules to keep predators in loose chains. And there are still fools that woujld like to get rid of a lot of rules. Everyone does not agree on what they like and thus politics and deplomacy and still we keep chasing our tails. We have the capacity to think that we can create systems that will allow us to live in peace and work on what we shoujld be doing which is advancing our survival. Reminds me of some PBS radio show with a guy calling himself something at a higher level than homo sapien. And that reminds me of a professor that thought I was hitting on her when I used social intercourse in a sentence. I was, once again, disappointed in the lack of challenge. And that brings me to the need for a mentor for every person that wants it or needs it. I learned so much from people in consulting whereas, in a coporation, knowledge is used as a weapon way too often.
There are solutions but winners are losers and the first shall become last. And the meek will inherhit the earth.. robots with strickt moral code built into their software?? Or geeks shall inherit the earth, not meek.
I have to stop dancing around the issue of religion. I would so I am not religious and particularly mainstream religions. I only have to look at the Catholic church and the common response to crazy alternatives, “they could never keep something like that a secret”. What? It always happens. Rarely does someone say, this is wrong and I am going to tell someone. And Snowden was on my shit list because I think he hurt good relations and years of diplomacy which are often back channel to save face. I always imagined the behavior of nation states as grade school playground behavior and emotions. Who is top dog? We do it at all levels of human groups. Beast behavior.
Let me be clear, I think a rational human acting on animal instincts is evil. Premeditated, knowingly planned, imagined killing someone is worse than insane irrational behavior. That is just our old driver taking control again.
A crime of passion is different as we know we cannot always overrule our DNA and genetics. I wanted to get into the mismatch of biological