I take things as they are. I believe that the only value life has is what an individual or various groups of individuals decide, so that humans determine what has value and what things mean, not some unseen, imagined intelligence or deity. I believe life and consciousness are the result of energy acting on material. When you die, you're gone. In the scheme of existence there is no certainty, no permanence and no significance. There is no objective right or wrong, good or bad. There is only the individual desire and drive. Ethics are all subjective whether personal or corporate. I do not believe that there is a higher power, or supreme being or gods or a heavenly father. Life is not here for any purpose and people must live out their lot however they see fit. A person may be a psychopath or a caring philanthropist but neither holds any significance except to the individual and whatever values they may project onto their personal reality. What people do in life is solely a matter of what they like, what they personally enjoy, the subject of their passion. Universal, objective, ruling morality is a fantasy created by humans out of the fear of oblivion. I believe that ascribing meaning and significance to life is natural yet is absolutely arbitrary and vain. For regardless of the reality I alone, or I and my group have constructed to lose ourselves in, ultimately it is all utterly meaningless and insignificant. It will all, like smoke in wind or shadow at twilight, dissemble, dissolve and forever disappear. I am the Creator and Lord of my cosmos. I am a slave of Mindless Chaos.
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Whatever we owe to our European predecessors, we owe incalculably more to those they “owned”, upon whose backs our founding was physically accomplished.
A circle is egalitarian. There are no high or low points. There are no divisions between sides. It is unified. One. Perfect.
A circle might be a good model for community. Equality among members. No one higher or lower than another. No divisions between them. It forms a picture of people sitting, facing each other around a common center. At the center is Christ, God the Father. Like children sitting around a fire. As the Father speaks, the various members of the circle express his heart. Circles are smooth and seamless. A circular community would lack protrusions of officials and professionals. Each member would be recognized and fully respected as a child of God. That kindred fact would be the highest quality and highest qualification of the circle so that all other secondary attributes would be invisible and unquantifiable. But circles are sedentary, static, boring. A circular community might well give rise to great apathy or tedium. A spiral is a 3 dimensional circle. It is a circle that grows and goes. It is slinky. It has direction. It is progressing from one state to another. A spiral might be a better model for community. It has all the attributes of a circular community, but it is moving. The body of Christ, or, community of Christ, is a spiral. Jesus said that it does not have titled leaders. (Matt. 20 and 23) The leading parts of a spiral draw along the following parts without demarcation or division. What goes before seamlessly affects what comes along after. This is a picture of the rich relationship between God’s children, ungoverned by human design as they move through the world. Slinky. More could be elaborated on about this but why? The spiral is less elaborate and beautiful in its simplicity. So I let these words trail off to be whatever part of God’s spiral they are for the benefit of all. |
The DoorpostThe Doorpost is written for the family and friends of Fred / Papa / Dad Paddock in response to this admonition found in Deuteronomy 6:6-9: These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Write them on the door posts of your houses and on your gates and emails.
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