Happy World Humanitarian Day!
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
The world is deteriorating quickly.
I'm not talking about morals (that is for another time), but our minds and our bodies are dying, losing all of their original capacities.
Technology and other civilized advancements are crushing many of our bodily functions. Memory is losing importance with the aid of computers and phones to catalogue events, numbers, people, etc. Physical strength is becoming pointless with the lack of hard labour required on a daily basis. Even hard work is becoming pointless in a world where instant gratification is valued above all else. Our minds are being programmed to value the invaluable and to spend our energies and strengths in areas that should really be hid away, taken apart. We are slowly turning the human being into one large vestigial organ - a once useful, but now unnecessary living thing.
What is going to happen to our children?
Will they have similar bodies to us, or will their capacity for labor be decreased?
Will their appetite no longer be sated by healthy, natural ingredients? What if in our future, messed up world, people can no longer handle regular food and only dine on junk food?
Unrealistic, maybe, but we need to consider what we are doing to ourselves.
Each action has a consequence. And we can't be selfish for we impact thousands of lives, wether we want to or not.
I may have already shared this theory on here before, but I believe that the world is black and white, no gray. There is always a right choice and a wrong. Wether it is a decision to attend a particular university or to wear a purple shirt, you always will have a better option available. For example, we will play on the purple shirt. Let's say you have three options: a purple shirt, a white shirt, or a blue shirt. If you were to choose the purple shirt, that day at school someone will see you in that shirt and abruptly remember that they left their cell phone in Purple Heart Park. If you wear the white shirt, you may be called on 4x more in class than if you hadn't worn that color. Yet, if you wore the blue shirt, Lonely Joe may stare melancholily at your back and sigh as he sees at least seven other students wearing that particular shade of blue. This will lead to wishing he also had worn blue, that he also fit in. Your blue shirt could cause him to belittle himself and make his fragile self-esteem even lower.
Those example were slightly exaggerated, but it still is a truth. Every action has many, many consequences, and most often we cannot see the repercussions
Here is the full selection from T.S. Elliot:
The Eagle soars in the summit of Heaven,
The Hunter with his dogs pursues his circuit.
O perpetual revolution of configured stars,
O perpetual recurrence of determined seasons,
O world of spring and autumn, birth and dying
The endless cycle of idea and action,
Endless invention, endless experiment,
Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness;
Knowledge of speech, but not of silence;
Knowledge of words, and ignorance of the Word.
All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance,
All our ignorance brings us nearer to death,
But nearness to death no nearer to GOD.
Where is the Life we have lost in living?
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
The cycles of Heaven in twenty centuries
Bring us farther from GOD and nearer to the Dust.
Bring yourself farther from the Dust and nearer to God.
xoxo,
McCall
P.S. I'm not even gonna bother apologizing for my lack of posts.
Deal with it.
Happy World Humanitarian Day!
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
The world is deteriorating quickly.
I'm not talking about morals (that is for another time), but our minds and our bodies are dying, losing all of their original capacities.
Technology and other civilized advancements are crushing many of our bodily functions. Memory is losing importance with the aid of computers and phones to catalogue events, numbers, people, etc. Physical strength is becoming pointless with the lack of hard labour required on a daily basis. Even hard work is becoming pointless in a world where instant gratification is valued above all else. Our minds are being programmed to value the invaluable and to spend our energies and strengths in areas that should really be hid away, taken apart. We are slowly turning the human being into one large vestigial organ - a once useful, but now unnecessary living thing.
What is going to happen to our children?
Will they have similar bodies to us, or will their capacity for labor be decreased?
Will their appetite no longer be sated by healthy, natural ingredients? What if in our future, messed up world, people can no longer handle regular food and only dine on junk food?
Unrealistic, maybe, but we need to consider what we are doing to ourselves.
Each action has a consequence. And we can't be selfish for we impact thousands of lives, wether we want to or not.
I may have already shared this theory on here before, but I believe that the world is black and white, no gray. There is always a right choice and a wrong. Wether it is a decision to attend a particular university or to wear a purple shirt, you always will have a better option available. For example, we will play on the purple shirt. Let's say you have three options: a purple shirt, a white shirt, or a blue shirt. If you were to choose the purple shirt, that day at school someone will see you in that shirt and abruptly remember that they left their cell phone in Purple Heart Park. If you wear the white shirt, you may be called on 4x more in class than if you hadn't worn that color. Yet, if you wore the blue shirt, Lonely Joe may stare melancholily at your back and sigh as he sees at least seven other students wearing that particular shade of blue. This will lead to wishing he also had worn blue, that he also fit in. Your blue shirt could cause him to belittle himself and make his fragile self-esteem even lower.
Those example were slightly exaggerated, but it still is a truth. Every action has many, many consequences, and most often we cannot see the repercussions
Here is the full selection from T.S. Elliot:
The Eagle soars in the summit of Heaven,
The Hunter with his dogs pursues his circuit.
O perpetual revolution of configured stars,
O perpetual recurrence of determined seasons,
O world of spring and autumn, birth and dying
The endless cycle of idea and action,
Endless invention, endless experiment,
Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness;
Knowledge of speech, but not of silence;
Knowledge of words, and ignorance of the Word.
All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance,
All our ignorance brings us nearer to death,
But nearness to death no nearer to GOD.
Where is the Life we have lost in living?
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
The cycles of Heaven in twenty centuries
Bring us farther from GOD and nearer to the Dust.
Bring yourself farther from the Dust and nearer to God.
xoxo,
McCall
P.S. I'm not even gonna bother apologizing for my lack of posts.
Deal with it.
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