First Blog

When it comes to possessions in this world, we can identify (at least) three things working... 1. Things to want to have.   Wealth, security, a nice car and home, freedoms to live, freedom to worship.   Who can deny anyone wanting to have these?   These are your needs. 2. Things you want to get.   Happiness, joy, love, peace are included. We all want these, but maybe not have them yet. 3. Things you want to get but not have.   The girl/boy next door, the next promotion, or the chairmanship of something big.   Name your own.   It is our headlong scramble for the third that causes us unlimited problems, conflicts, mis-directions, competition, and unhappiness.   You work for them, you strive for them, you hope for them. Then you get them, and become profoundly disappointed after they arrive.

The new dark age of man is upon us.  Is technology at its base? Though I'm kind of a techie geek, I don't know, but...  Are we taking mental shortcuts to opinion?  Are we taking quickie paths to comprehension. Are we taking easy steps to problem solving? Technology has reached far beyond the ordinary person's ability to understand it, its basis and its implications.  This engenders a basic insecurity in the mental systems of humanity, politics, religion, and science.  It goes much deeper, way beyond technology.  When there is no firmament of comprehension, other tools are in play. Perhaps this is driving the religious right,  cult-type movements, the slavish adherents of left, and in general all fundamentalist type movements.  Each has the common quality of wanting, desiring, and needing something simply framed to follow.  The suspension of understanding has been achieved.  Folks can now barrel headlong into anything, such as literal biblical teachings, lite