This Present Age (April 3, 2008)

The present age is one in which mankind has fallen in love with reason. They have lost all passion. Each situation makes its demand for contemplation. Every calculation is remunerated with the appeasement of risk until the opportunity to act has passed. This is not apathy but rather a godlike arrogance willing control and worship. The individual can admire self because they were wise enough to think before they acted. This is all well and good until action is required. In action reason may not be the controlled scientific experiment. Suddenly relationship now dictates events. This is that strange place where life happens. Life is unpredictable and full of pain. All of which dwells outside private calculation. In this age there are no hero’s. For every great feat is diminished into a reasonable calculation. The actor is shamed for having been careless but lucky. The other alternative is the thought I could have done it myself if I would have had the time to develop the skill. Faith is given a power moniker of high thought while hope is named the endurance of positive thought. It is all of the mind. Ironically those lost in their mind are out of their minds. The spirit world is dead to these people because the things of the spirit cannot be obtained by the flesh. The mind is an organ of the flesh. It may work with the spirit as a servant but never as a master. The mind of the present age has created its own god which they venerate by calling it Jesus Christ. Just like the all caps fiction there is confusion except to those in reality. This present age cannot grasp reality because they have reasoned away the experience of the spirit. In their brilliance they have become retards. Even childlike wisdom befuddles these priests of the sacred temple of thought. None would dare imagine a fix to the mortgage industry since that would require an action outside their hallowed reasons. Ridicule, contempt, and judgment are all safe. Comfort to a mind minding its own business.