NOW vs THE MIDDLE AGES

Middle Ages.  Primitive?

Scenario 1 (2013):  Ahhh, I've got a tooth infection cos I got lazy with brushing my teeth (after all, there are too many other things to do).  I drive to the dentist, who prescribes me antibiotics, and I'm hunky dorey in a week.

Scenario 1 (1413):  Crikey, I've got a tooth infection cos humanity hasn't yet figured out that flouride prevents cavities.  I'm in agony and the doctor decides to drain my veins to let out the bad blood.  It may have been a demonic attack because of my sin.  I'm dead within the week.
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Postmodernism.  Advanced?

Scenario 2 (2013):  Consciousness barages me at 5:45am with beeps from my alarm.  I subconsciously tap around on my iPhone to turn it off.  Simultaneously, a myriad of concerns of the upcoming day flood my half-asleep mind.  I snort a goodbye to my family while I bustle out the door, bagel in hand.  I'm running late as traffic encloses me a relentless obstacle around me.  I honk at the guy who's trying to push in.  Someone behind me honks at me.  The audacity!  All the while my emails fill like a boat with a leak in it, perpetually threatening to drown me as I bail out one bucket of a task at a time.  I need sleeping pills to counter the caffeine at night.  Then I wake up to Tuesday.


Scenario 2 (1413):  My favorite rooster's familiar crow alerts me to the blossoming of the first rays of light.  This is the day that the Lord has made; I will rejoice and be glad in it.  I roll over and hold my wife for a little while longer.  As the sun gets stronger, our family sits together eating boiled eggs before the day's work commences.  My neighbors and I are busy helping Mr Brown harvest his field.  When that is done we'll share the profits and rest.  I've known these guys since I was born and the comradery towards a common purpose is perfect.  Everything has its rightful place in my world; everything is a manifestation of God's plan.  (Even the magical fairies that the Brown children spot periodically).  As the sun dips below the edge of the earth, God has ordained that our work day is to close.  I walk across the field to get back to where my wife and kids have spent their day.  My eyes close in a mysterious peace.  Then I wake to the next day's rays.

Comments:
We tend to think of history as linear - ever progressing onwards towards truth.  Time certainly has eliminated a lot of tragedy from the world.  But in it's process, has it eliminated wisdom?  

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Butterflies reverting to grey caterpillars

Forgetting the colorful fantasy flights of youth

Now time is money and gold makes the rules

The golden rule is sweet as honey to those who sting without mercy...ultimately causing their owns deaths

"Buzz off people, you're an inconvenient interruption of the self-instruction I'm engaging in.

Stop making me put down my spiritual books, can't you see I'm trying to be godly here, damn...(ed)"

The money markets mock the merchants

who have no cash to sell

It takes money to make money

And costs too much soul acquiring the former

Well ill keep discovering what I'm born into

Keep shedding these onion layers.

Ill use the tears to wash my soul,

Instead of mixing cement for walls.

Four walls is what it seems like I'm contained in

But the butterfly doesn't realize that the cocoon is self-induced.

Like the mind thinks its separate from Reality. 

Hating the Rat Race

Wow, I'm in the process of buying a house at the moment, and what a mission and a half!

I've only been in the country for a year and a half, so it complicates an otherwise complicated matter.
But here's the point, and why I'm spending valuable synapse energy on it:  I can NOT handle working for someone 40 hours a week for the rest of my life!

We work to pay rent, and hardly get to appreciate the roof that the work puts over our head cos we're always at work saving for it.  Our lives are so full and so empty, and we never have the time to pause and properly delve into why.

Whether or not this first step on the property ladder is going to significantly change the course of my life, it'll save me $225 a month in rent, while I'm also building equity.  A choice that required effort to make, but is in the right direction.  Life's simple: make good choices.  God will open up the next rabbit hole once you follow the cat.

I wanna start my own business, but am stuck like a deer in the headlights of possibility.
A laser beam is useless if the ray is focussed too widely.  I need to hone my intention down on a specific field/opportunity, but I'm cautious about choosing the wrong pill.

Summer is a time for new life, new color, new vitality.