God of Fire
"The truth of any matter is undeniable; a truth that is denied is no truth at all."
After reading an article on health care reform (I don't need to reference it), I spent some time combing the comments; I couldn't help but shake my head; then I caught myself and realized that I shouldn't judge.
How is it, in an age of such mass communication, that we still end up barking at each other? How is it that we end up in such dark places with an infinite amount of knowledge at our finger tips? Do we not want to be better? Do we not want to be brighter? I wonder what would happen if some of us actually got our way? I wonder if we realize that some of the things we insist on being right would be tyranny to almost everyone who knows us?
"To look is not the same as to see, to see is not the same as to perceive. We perceive, really - on a higher, conceptual-functional level - only what we know, understand well and can give a name to. " Zbigniew Czajkowski
As I've become a man, I know that before I can riposte I must be brave enough to open my eyes. That being said, the very best riposte comes from the one who can foresee the others intent. We must have sure footing and we must know the objective before us or our presumptions will almost certainly seal our doom.
Jesus said, "I have cast fire upon the world, and look, I'm guarding it until it blazes."
Many years ago there were so few of us, it's hard to believe. There was once an Earth that knew only a few human souls compared to the 6.7 billion walking the Earth today. At one point, we not only shared Earth with cousins of family, but cousins of evolution. I often wish I lived in those times fighting monstrous beasts with spears by day and fire by night; when families spent a millenia migrating over entire continents. Only the sharpest lived in those days; growing up was a right of passage; the elders taught the essentials, then Man braved life. For if he didn't, he died, and his kind with him. And so, his elders gave him fire.
