Danger in lies.

 

Danger in lies.

My older friends used to say in troublesome times, pray for me or, I will pray for you. It has changed. Now people say our thoughts with you. People don’t want those who openly deny God to feel bad. I guess they have feelings too, even if they don’t believe in the Gods of religions. One has to adjust the language to please others.

Yet if you go to a church, you hear people praying for peace on earth, unity amongst believers, wishes for help for disadvantaged or suffering people, and petitions to God to help those who lead us. There is a strong wish for God to produce miracles and help us, presumably His people. I ask myself, why are we asking the creator to change the laws of physics when all we need to do is use what we already have and get the results we wish for. I guess we are praying for luck, which is the greatest reason for our success. It stumps me. I wonder what God makes of it.

People have been predicting the end of the world for a very long time. The Sumerians prior to the Babylonians told the story of Noah long before the Old Testament. The stories always talk about humans disobeying God and a judgment causing an end to civilization, possibly leaving some survivors. Underwater archeological signs indicate a base for those stories.

As history advanced, the stories became complicated, but the basics remain. What does God want in exchange for letting us go on? One obvious instruction is not to lie. We are told that God always finds the truth, but since we lie, we don’t believe it. Well, perhaps we should.

Words make a difference. We know that. Some believe that Jesus is the word. Others believe that God created all there is with words and others yet that humans using words have the power to create. You can create good things or even the end of the world. Creating is making something physical out of something that is not.

Words tell stories and stories can be believed or not. A human is facing a constant inner conflict if to believe or not and confirms beliefs with physical evidence. That is science. Science these days is the replacement for religions, but there is a lot of cheating in that as well. We came to a point where people almost can’t believe anything they are told.

Take for example our economy. People at all levels are contributing efforts and work in exchange for happiness, or more often the right and ability to live. In the past, we needed the work and inventions of all living humans to stay alive. Now it changed. The work of many humans became just a contributing factor to keeping humans alive. Our knowledge surpassed the need for our sweat.

A few working humans can produce all that we need, and the rest of the work is just serving each other in many ways. Most muscle-related work that is performed on earth now is not needed for human survival.

If we just gave up on make-busy work, replacing good things with new, producing items with planned obsolescence, or hindering the ability to repair, most jobs will be gone. If we share technology, educate the poor, do away with ever-changing fashions or trends, give up on using energy that isn’t renewable, producing war machines, and building things to show off and pretend we are better than others, there would hardly be any work needed.

There is a planet made perfect for incubating a human civilization, spinning through space at a speed that no human-made machine can match. On its surface, in a thin atmosphere, there are seven and a half billion bipedal creatures all possessing imagination connected by a net of vocal languages. The words can fire the imagination and create new realities. Instead of learning the truth, we are hard at work creating lies.

I come from a tiny country that took an old book language and built around it a new modern language, right as I was growing up. We received a reputation for being “blunt” or often “rude”. It comes from a different view of what truth is.

The cultures surrounding us developed ways to circumvent truths. Every modern country has common everyday people, the workers of the hive, and a high-class culture that sees nothing wrong with lying. Telling lies became synonymous with having good manners. I was told many years ago that “if I have nothing nice to say, I should say nothing at all”. I had to assimilate, so I learned what not to talk about. The “elite” teach their young to use platitudes. My young grandson explained to me that “telling white lies is a good thing.”

Lately the world (or God), through a raging pandemic, began to teach us why there is a commandment against lying. While people are dying at a rate faster than at war, our lies have been exposed. Our success in using Capitalism depends on some level of trust, but our behaviour killed our ability to trust each other.

People have been bombarded with conspiracy theories and are dying needlessly. Nations cheated on each other about lifesaving vaccines. Rich corporations capitalized on the mass suffering to quadruple their revenues, often using bought politicians to avoid paying taxes on the windfall. Patent laws backed by a threat of sanctions prevent the manufacturing of vaccines for people in poor countries. The internet is wild with stories that not even the news media can figure out if they are true or not. Pretentious religious leaders are spewing lies and giant internet organizations are attempting to filter what is the news and which is not.

We need urgent worldwide action to avert a humanitarian disaster, and we are back to the story of Cain and Abel. God is accusing people of lying, and people are so used to it they don’t even realize that they do.

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