Choosing My Career

We may not be able to change another man's mind, but we can still change the Universe by our labor. This is the great power that we all have more or less, extended by tools or limited by infirmity. Of course some jobs are simply too big for one man to do alone, therefor we should muster aide for a difficult task. We are not alone, we need not work alone, companionship is one of the few gaurentees from our Creator. Being aware of a problem in the world leads to responsibility for the mature citizen of humanity. But even when we do recognize a problem, its not always easy to see a solution. When one man decides that his solution serves the greater good, it is just his opinion no matter how well reasoned. A solution to the problem of peace on Earth could easily work out to be a dissadvantage to some people. To deny the people any recourse to violence and enforce a requirement for diplomacy and human dignity that is non-negotiable, a very difficult thing to enforce. The threat of punishment has failed to serve as a deterant to criminal behaviour, and to be sure we still don't always recognize what is criminal. Our remarkable intelligence has proven capable of rationalizing any deed, we can always decided that we are justified in action. I believe it may be fair to argue that the sum total of human behaviour, is entirely appropriate all things being considered, and therefor always justifiable. Yes, its one thing to decide that another person deserves to be punished, and a step beyond our individual authority to decide what the punishment should be. But its easier to change the world than another man's mind and personality. And generally speaking we are impatient, we simply don't have the time to wait for everyone to learn good and civil behaviour. The public welfare is at risk if we allow anarchy to rule the day, and we allow everyone to do as they see fit. We can assume that people will learn from thier own experiences and misstakes eventually, but we are too short lived to learn enough it seems, LIFE has an inevitable end. But what if it didn't have an end? What if life was renewable? What if it could be everlasting? Then perhaps we could afford to wait for justice.

The substance of Creation is a marvelous thing and a great mystery. We can shape it, we create forms, many of the forms we create serve some purpose. Every work of Human hands may be considered ART. By practicing our arts upon the world around us we impose a higher degree of order upon the Universe. And of course we are pleased with our own work, we have created convienience, a much more comfortable habitat for humanity. We have created many entertainments, and its something that we need really, its good for us. Leisure time is good, we all need to spend some time at rest. Life on Earth shouldn't really be a never-ending struggle, a battle for supremacy and a competition. Although life is played very much like a competitive game in many venues. So long as its a competition there will always be people who fail to compete effectively, the world will continue to be unfair to some and favorable to others. But up to the present moment in time, no-one can be declared the decisive winner of the Great Game of Life and so the competition goes on, the finish line is yet to be crossed. Sooner or later someone will win the Game and finish the race, how will we know that person? How will the people know that competition is over?

Eventually, one man will have the power to destroy the world, if it hasn't become true already. And it doesn't really matter how that will happen, and it may not depend on commanding armies to march or even advanced technologies. We just don't know WHEN that will happen, but a day will dawn and the future of humanity will rest upon one man's decisions. The children of the Earth have long been pursuing this principle that "Might Makes Right;" and I can tell you exactly what lies down that path, genocide becomes justifiable. We each as individuals have all the power and authority required to judge the world and ourselves as well as others. The man with the power to destroy us will be a righteous man because might makes right. If he decides that humanity deserves an end, it must be justifiable because the rational is easy for some to aquire. We can say it is for the good because Humanity is Violent and may pose some threat to a greater community, if we make such assumptions its easy to see what responsibility requires from us. Should we imagine that Humanity is redeemable? If it is redeemable its still a lot of hard work and a difficult problem to solve, too difficult for one man alone, but we are never alone.

If the shape of the Earth itself could be changed, and the Heavens above we could literally have a New Heaven and a New Earth. Perhaps the Earth can be reformed into a suitable inheiritance for all those who should be considered meek. No man could change the Universe this much of course, and an organized group of person's would be hard pressed to change the course of planets. Its impossible for humanity to accomplish this much, despite all our technologies, but it is possible for our creator. LIFE on Earth is always at risk in ways that we are completely powerless to influence, we simply depend on God's good will for Humanity that the Earth will continue to be habitable. Our creator excerts its influence upon the matter of creation and makes choices, in a sense it is akin to some technology so close to nature that its barely noticable to us. And there is a great mind behind intelligent design, it is unlike a human mind. We can not guess at the creator's reasoning because it never communicates with us, it does not even inform us that it exists. We are left to discover the evidence on our own, but many of us have been willing to believe without evidence, the best evidence most of us have is testimony. The Kingdom of Heaven is very well populated with personalities, we can see all the evidence for the multitude here on planet Earth. We can observe the animals and see personality in them, but they are lesser persons than human beings. Its not really that hard to imagine persons who are greater than human beings, many such persons have been imagined but generally they are like us. We apply human intelligence and reasoning, motivation and emotion to all such greater beings.
Therefore we imagine an Angry God, A Great Deciever and we imagine that we will be judged. And of course we imagine that with judgement must come punishment, judgement decides who is deserveing and what they deserve. Many of us will be able to say that we were motivated by the best intentions, and these people should think they deserve favor. I don't really know why God favors some more than others, but some people seem to get all the love. Perhaps we simply take turns at being favored, and every person will enjoy an hour where they get all the attention. Eventually a day comes when we get to make all the rules with God's blessing, we take turns you see.

So what is this remarkable thing that Jesus called 'Faith'? Does it really matter what we believe in or does it depend more on who you know? Is it enough to believe in a higher power, one that we can trust? We are really quite easily prejudiced as a species into thinking that if the Universe has any purpose at all, it must be us! We like to believe that we are important, but its not good enough to think that we are equally important as God's children, we always prefer the point of view that makes us more important. We prefer to think that our opinions matter, and then maybe it does make a difference what we believe in. If there can be no consequences to opinions alone, we act upon them and with our deeds become accountable. Which matters more in life, how well we are judged by others, or what we think of ourselves? If it matters what other people think, then perhaps it is important; not that we know someone but that we are known by someone. In a sense it does matter who our friends are because they create opportunities for us that we can not create for ourselves. Because there is always the problem of being well-informed, and given our limited capacity for paying attention, we can never be aware of everything that is happening in the world. Many wise men and women, thinking of a higher-power of greater capacities, have craved its counsle. When we can find someone more knowledgeable than ourselves, we should desire guidance from them, but we don't often want them to make a decision for us. Many historical persons have claimed guidance from a higher-power, they often wanted to impose order upon the world with a set of rules. Guidelines for life, order descending to Humanity from Heaven. This is the way things are they said, Humanity needs to be governed, and who can refute the need for some governance? But the One-True-And-Most-High-God has never offered to do the job, if it offered us Laws it never offered to enforce those laws. According to some "Punishment" has been prescribed for the ilk of Humanity, someone will be found deserving for whatever reason; Judged and unforgiven. I never believed in the Angry God myself, I wonder if God could even be dissappointed in how things have turned out for us here on Earth. There are a few things we have to be proud of, and things that should cause us shame but if we can not learn to be better than we we're, what are we worth? If Humanity deserves anything it should be an education, and for the most part punishment has always severed as a form of education of poor quality.

Yes, we do live within the Eternal Kingdom, and we are children of the Most-High God. We are as durable as the Universe iteself because we have become part of it. God blesses us with consciouness and therefore we have become aware of our own existance, and we each receive some talent for judgement. We decide for ourselves, no higher-power governs our authority to make our own decisions. And when we are gone we are always remembered, because the Universe has a way of remembering itself. It doesn't really matter that we were popular or well known or well liked. It doesn't really matter what accomplishments we have in life, it only matters that we have lived. If we made no great contribution to the world, we still changed it a little bit just by living in it. If Jesus did his job well, we are saved for the Eternal Kingdom because he cared for our immortal souls. I have no reason to think that Jesus failed to save us, and no reason to repeat his work. I care more about life on Earth and the quality thereof. Perhaps my place in the Eternal Kingdom is assured, but I still want a place in this Universe and here on Earth, because I like it here, I want that to be assured. That I deem to be the greater good, more life, and I want the same for you without reservation. I would be willing to give up my place and my comfort to guarentee this possibility for my friends and children.

I made my commitment long ago to this great cause, and because I was willing to take the Villain's reward for the sake of fulfilling an old prophecy I was rewarded with some favor. God perhaps or some other higher-power I do not know. But on that day I won a personal battle to find divinity in the Universe, and to believe that a man could be inspired. The victory was given to me as a gift, only because I was willing, but I made a promise. When we find our place in Eternity we can venture to make lengthy commitments, and I made one that goes well beyond the scope of mortality. A bid for dominion, to overcome the world, and to be honest I liked the idea of being more powerful if only briefly. Perhaps the long expected anti-Christ is someone that the world really needs right now. The Great Villain, the Tyrant, perhaps i'm not well suited to play this role. Faith has not made me more powerful and I don't think it ever will; the only power I have is the power to make arguments. But knowing that there is a higher-power to be aware of those arguments is the great leap that I stumbled upon by accident. When a man is effective at changing the world around him, he becomes the great reformer; but if he is ineffective he becomes the rebel. I would be content to be the rebel and just one of the 14 billion children of Humanity, of those who now live or have ever lived. I have accomlished enough in Life, I don't really need anything more to make my life meaningful. But its simply not enough to be willing, you have to be offered the job.