Perseverance of thought helps understand fate.
Like human actions on the fate of Mother Earth, like the unpredictable,
‘non-linear’ laws of motion that form and control a universe like the one we
live in, and the fate of Mother Earth in the universe, fate is unpredictable…
uncontrollable. Destiny may be controllable but not fate.
Due to our own innate limitations of learning and understanding the world
using western culture, ‘linear’ right to left logic via the alphabet, or the
eastern culture, ‘all at once’, picture logic like that found in the Chinese
alphabet, humans tend to see the obvious surface ‘levels’ of change which
are predictable, but humans tend to miss the underlying, hidden ‘rates’ of
change which are unpredictable. Under the thin top layer of order, like a
thin pie crust surrounding the world obvious to the eye, everything else
underneath…unpredictable chaos. The incremental, slow-moving but
mounting ‘levels’ of change perceived can be obvious, but how fast or
slow, or momentous or devastating the ‘rates’ of change actually occur can
be chaotic and impossible to perceive or predict. By the forever changing
laws of motion…fate is the messenger.
I dare not persuade others, neither should I try nor do I want to, or even
want the responsibility. With fate the messenger it does not matter what
you believe or believe in, or what ‘flips that light switch on in your head’ to
believe…no matter how simple or how complex, fate is still the messenger.
Why does an archaeologist devote their life ‘in the field’ to the tedium and
painstaking effort of gingerly digging in dirt to unearth and understand the
past? Fate is the messenger.
Writing the written word is forever unpredictable and is why we feel the
need to do it and keep doing it. Howard Zahniser, the legendary leader of
The Wilderness Society, authored the original Wilderness Act of 1964 to
preserve and protect certain land in the USA from commercial development
and destruction. From 1956 to 1964, Zahniser fought to get a Wilderness
Act passed by the U.S. government. To do so it took him 8 years and
writing 66 drafts of the Wilderness Act before it was ever passed into law.
Writing draft after draft is as fate would have it.
Writers write and proofread and re-write and proofread and re-write over
and over. What is written may have little or no consequence, or what is
written may have great consequence. Regardless, if the task is of little
import or of great import, the task requires perseverance and fate is the
messenger.
Critics claim robots and artificial intelligence (AI) will someday ‘turn’ on us.
Fate is the messenger. Critics charge when Mark Zuckerberg reportedly
‘stole’ the idea for Facebook from the Winklevoss twins, and when Ray
Kroc some say ‘cheated’ the McDonald brothers out of a fortune when Kroc
took over the fast food company from the McDonald brothers, who
invented fast food service…fate was the messenger.
The only job of the apolitical Federal Reserve Bank of America is to
formulate policy for a sound U.S. dollar and to fight to keep inflation low;
and leave policy on climate change and fair employment practices to the
politicians.
‘Term limits’ for U.S. Congressional legislators, Washington career
bureaucrats and lobbyists is the only way to give back to the American
people big government policy coming out of Washington D.C.
You cannot reduce ‘demand’ for fossil fuels by reducing the ‘supply’ of
fossil fuels until fossil fuels are no longer an integral part of our energy
sources.
There is too much attention being put on climate change challenges
instead of addressing encroaching, yet unheard of, pandemics that
virologists are predicting will have 80% lethality, meaning if you contract
the new viruses there will be an 80% chance you will die.
The Chinese Communist Party has first strike intentions rolling out a, to
date, unstoppable hypersonic nuclear missile capable of circling the Earth
in outer space, virtually undetected, then launched from outer space hitting
any target in the world.
Former U.S. President Barrack Obama gets a third term in 2021 ‘calling all
the shots’ for U.S. President Joe Biden who acknowledges he “will get in
trouble” if he goes off script and answers all news reporters’ unscripted
questions because Biden answers only to Obama. Fate is the messenger.
Out of a tragic loss it is natural to experience an epiphany and then try to
make something positive come from the loss. The untimely death of a best
friend may devastate making you look and feel 10 years older, and then on
the same day that a best friend passes away, a best friend comes to you
needing a helping hand turning a negative feeling into a positive feeling all
on the same day. Fate is the messenger.
The Native American Indian sits and lies upon the ground to be
close to the earth’s life-giving forces. It allows one to think more
deeply, feel more keenly and see more clearly the mysteries of
life knowing that a person’s heart, away from nature, becomes
hard. Lacking respect for growing, living things soon leads to
lack of respect for humans. As a lover of nature buying and
selling land is repugnant as is killing or capturing wild animals
for sport or selfish needs.
With a profound reverence for nature and spirituality requires no faith other
than common sense, no revelation other than open eyes and an open mind,
and no guru other than your own self as one with nature; and the universe
is seen as the aggregate of all unified natural phenomena. Every seed is
awakened as is all animal life. Heavenly spirits are all around us.
Ever since the Native American Indian was hunted down and driven from
their sacred homelands, in just over 100 years later the ‘new rulers’ have
lost respect for nature, people and spirituality. Today, are the people and
society better off since losing this respect?
The Native American Indian did not mourn their nation’s untimely fate. They
feel tribe follows tribe, and nation follows nation like the waves of the sea.
It is the ‘order’ of nature and the ‘order’ of the Great Spirit protector of the
universe. And regret is useless. Our time of decay may be distant but it will
surely come. Fate is the messenger.
SUPPLEMENTAL SOURCES: NATIVE AMERICAN INDIAN: THE
SPIRITUALITY OF NATURE. A HISTORY OF SCIENTIFIC
PANTHEISM BY PAUL HARRISON and AN ANONYMOUS,
INDEPENDENT, FREE-THINKER OCTOBER 2021