A new Human.

 

A new Human.

Some time ago I was listening to a past American president's campaign speech. He was threatening harm to people who didn’t support him for the next elections. To me, that is the end of democracy. I wonder what we are planning to do next.

Years ago, I came to Canada to build a new life. There were no refugee hotel rooms or any financial help or direction, as provided by the government today. Now we have the potential of a government next door that insists that we should pay higher taxes and increase military spending or the neighbors will ask the enemies to harm us. Things are changing but not to benefit me. My situation is not improving relative to my efforts. Am I taking things personally or am I crazy to see it this way?

I am a firm believer in the potential of mental health science to help people. We can go a long way with the right kind of help. Keep the physical body well, understand the mental part and work with the spiritual aspect. Being short on any of those will not provide for a pleasant existence. I accept mental health help for me and for those I am with. I take help when provided.

Combining the above, I come up with a crazy conclusion. Humans are mentally sick. Not just some of us, but all or most of us. We are born with a self-preserve mechanism that protects us from destroying ourselves and perhaps the world we live in. It’s like a reflex. If my hand gets close to a fire, the hand jumps away from the fire faster than I can think. Am I in a reality that I understand, or is my mind building a new existence? Is “now” the end of the way we were? If so, which way do I want it to go? All options are open.

Where I grew up in Israel, we had Jackals and Hyenas. The Hyenas are a female-dominated species. At twilight, they produce a blood-curdling cry that freezes the heart and paralyzes the prey. Their principal weapon is fear. At night I used to lie in my bed and hear the hyenas, thinking that Satan is out and we are doomed. Now I am old and again I have the feeling that some evil force is dominating humans and we have no escape plan. Satan, Trump, Putin, Netanyahu, and other power-seeking selfish entities compete to dominate and shape us. Here, evolution is just starting on a new trajectory. If we humans can survive a major change in how we are made, the species will emerge differently than it went in. It will be changed mentally, drawing upon something old but new that we named “spiritual”. Now I am visualizing five billion people going in the same direction, with no force or coercion to dominate others. Can it be done? I remember we are over five billion, but we are all one. My imagination is building a new, better human being, but there is very little time to properly plan what it should be

Imagining a new form of human being is difficult, since I am looking for a new and improved version. Repeating old mistakes will not do. We shouldn’t be aiming at simply increasing the population as we always were. It’s done and now quality takes over from quantity. A new human should include something immaterial we call beauty. We are done with efficiency.

People have been digging the natural resources up for thousands of years, finding new ways to dig better and more. Name a natural resource and you find us extracting it very efficiently and refining it even faster. We don’t need all that we produce and can use recycling for the rest of our lives. The new humans will do exactly that. Life will be tied to our ability to adapt to new ways. For generations, we have been learning the wrong things, causing overproduction and death to our planet. By cheating and making useless things, our so-called business drowned us in garbage and built useless projects. Now our noses are against the wall.

It is time for the cheaters to face reality and come back to where we need them. We don’t need all their extra oil and gas or other things they make just to be rich. No need for more roads to China either. What we need is a change of heart.

The new people I am imagining will keep busy by helping and educating others.

In the new (imaginary) world, all the effort will be aimed towards what we know is good. Weapons will not be needed and nature will be allowed to punish those who go against it. People will see a reality in which there is a hell on earth for those harming our planet and the good people on it.

Nature, or God, as I call it, is a harsh judge. It does what is needed and can’t play human games considering humans’s forever-changing feelings. Throwing people to the mercy of that court is a harsh step, but sometimes is necessary if we don’t learn what will save us the easy way.

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How can humans survive?

 

How can humans survive?

I had a son a long time ago, and he survived only one day. (Now I have another). The doctors could not help him and prayers did not prolong his life here on earth. It was a case of “let God’s will be done.” Is a one-day-long life less than many years of life? I think when God prolongs life here on earth, it is for those left behind, not for the person who will not live another day. I try to stay alive and let God decide for how long. He probably planned the life ahead before it began, for reasons I didn’t know. A God who planned and created universes doesn’t need my computing power to reach His goals.

If you ask people what they expect the government to do for them, joy probably gets many votes. Many will answer that they expect long and healthy lives. Nowadays, there will be a pleasure component attached. People expect pleasure of some sort, such as holidays, or perhaps things that money can buy. People in our world as we know it assume that there will be divine intervention offering prosperity or other pleasures as part of the deal. Life should include happiness, or is it a big enough gift?

Words and more words. Love and happiness can only exist if there are others to enjoy it or suffer it. Over the years, we learned that all of humankind is a part of one creature that is connected without an overall skin. We like them, hate them, force them, and learn from them. There is no life without them and “them” is interchangeable with “us.”

For humans, there is only one way to exist on earth. We try to be more successful by forcing each other to be the same as ourselves, but we always fail. We try to make others do our work and they instead make us do theirs. Our goals can only be achieved if we do them together, and that is by agreement, which is a lofty goal. The one way is working together if we wish to survive and it’s not always fair.

Again, to win, we must all work together, which we cannot do since we trip each other. I build and another kicks it over, so I will not have more than they do. We both lose, so I try to force. Forcing people to do things is very costly and often dangerous.

A big problem for us is that we only know how to play games to win or lose. We used to play for pride. Each of us wanted to be the best in something like a sport or a skill and show it off. We gave it up and changed the word. Now we find people saying something like I am proud to be gay. I have a hard time figuring out how being proud of a skill that takes a lot of effort to obtain relates to sexual attraction, but I don’t wish to offend, so I wait for the answer to come to me. I wonder if it ever will. For now, I work hard not to say things that may offend good people. I am just one human and there is surely enough that I don’t understand, but possibly will.

Why can’t I understand the world I am living in? That is a two thousand years secret. That which some of us call God created a conflict which forces us to go against our nature to have a nature at all. Male and female, He created them. The males can subjugate the females but in a short time will all die. Females are the only ones who reproduce.

The males and some aggressive females try to use physical force and fail. Females use their softness to soak up the male strength and equally take part in the art of creation. My wife can get her way even if I deploy the most modern weapons that exist. A shy smile that is stronger than an aircraft carrier group. If she says “I love you” I will be ready to disarm a three million dollars supersonic ballistic missile. I have no defense against the soft power.

Yet, I love this life the way it is. I think that she also does. We can’t win while we fight with equally lethal weapons, even if they are different. We play a game for the joy, not to win. It never ends.

In the beginning, we were more like animals and killed each other for gain. After thousands or even millions of years, we learned to work together and civilization grew. Our Lord said, “Whenever two or more of you gather in my name, I am in their midst.” We tested the theory, and it worked. The soft energy wins. It is the hard energy that must be on guard or it will lose its strength and throw the balance off.

I am glad to be a human. Let’s play together and nobody wins. I just want to enjoy the game.

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Note: Tuesdays with Morrie is an interesting book if you like.

 

 

 

 A rock speeds through The Milky Way, which is assumed to be empty, but it’s not. It is turning around its axel. Flying around a small burning star (Sun) that gives it heat energy providing “Life.” The formation is named by the humans upon it, the” world.” Some stardust captured material that is rotting slowly doing things on its own. A thing that has a mind. From tiny to huge particles and observable waves, a small veneer is what humans call “Life.” I am existing in “Life.” Life as I know it can only be in “Light” and “light” is something material. It is balanced against something “spiritual” which I can’t understand. The people of old understood that the emptiness we can sense is full of something that yet is not observable by my human senses. It is not material, but we would call it energy. Just like our human subconscious, it has a mind that stirs it towards goals. It can “act.”

At this point in my life, I am suffering and having a hard time wanting to stay alive while in pain. We don’t crave pain, but we want to be with others we care about. However, I have a job to do and I don’t want to give it up, pain or no pain. My task is to sow the seed of hope and happiness, starting here and spreading out. My mind is whispering, do something good. It will spread.

We talk a lot about saving lives and invest much in saving lives. Equipment, training, infrastructure, and insurance all go in. Also, at the same time, we make significant efforts to destroy life as we know it. The year 2024 just began and I see efforts expanded toward human action that will cost lives and many resources. Nations are getting ready to fight over water, air, living space, and other resources we dig up from the ground. There are millions and billions of dollars budgeted for weapons and gaining strategic or economic advantage. Over here in my peaceful valley, we are working hard to produce materials for weapons and industry. In other areas, efforts are geared towards the production of cheap energy. Meteorological coal and carbon for burning is what we produce and we try to do it without paying taxes. CEOs are getting rich while migrants and less skilled people are forced to work for less. The competition is the fiercest at the bottom.

I work hard to figure out if there is a way to achieve Christian love and peace in this world, considering what we have become. Is the Christian model the answer to our inequality, which brings wars, poverty, and a need or desire to fight and kill each other?

We have a complicated task to solve. About half of us learned through life to fight for advantage over the other half. I know I used the word “fight” and we hurt and kill to do so. My present provincial leader is openly advocating to fight my federal leader to gain more prosperity. We call it the “right” of the political divide, and I pay for lawyers on both sides left and right. Politicians and business experts are busy creating an environment that will help them gain more prosperity in many ways. The Casino must always win. Is that enough to keep someone interested in life?

However, I like to view what we do from another vantage point. First, look and see what is good for all of us. The group is most important. Be sure that some will cheat, and take advantage. Society trained us how to be humans and is often not the best example of such. Life must go on with small and great contributions each doing what they can. I look at the forest until I can start seeing trees. Now I look more to see what is good.

I follow a young Jewish Rabbi from thousands of years ago. He had no technology or modern tools. His teachings were about human behaviors and he lost his earthly life. Is it wise to use Christianity as guidance for this time in history?

I take examples from my faith and trust God to lead where I should go based on intuition.

 

I have to trust in God blindly. I am scared, but I do it. My Christian faith fills me up stronger than intellect and all material things. Life is all there is, and it leads to something eternal. If I have the faith that I need, I may move our kind forward. If I don’t, we go on searching where there is little hope of finding. Should we living humans invest our time on earth believing something immaterial? I am ready.

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