Thursday, February 10, 2005

Ok I'll tip my hat now

Alright kids here is some more comentary on being a contributor to society.

And this is also where I tip my hat and, Fowler, I can owe it all to you. I was going to be all sneaky and try to mask my true feelings about improving the world but I will say that I think humans can have a great impact on the world. "Wait wait wait Andrew you can't go changing your position all willy nilly like that? I hate you!!" you might say to me. BUT WAIT! Hear me out here. If you read my argument carefully you will see that I only mention 'humans' contributing to the world and I believe that human endeavor, based soley on human motivations and human drives and human means will ultimately pass away. The temporal creates the temporal and cannot do otherwise. It's not in man's nature to be able to create change or establish anything outside himself that won't pass away.

So where does the change come? How can man be an agent of change if it's not in his nature to change? I'll tell you how! With the aid of the supernatural, i.e. God! Granted I'm taking an admittedly Christian perspective here, so if you're not under the persuasion that Christ gives meaning and purpose to all activity you may find my argument stupid. But I think that all goodness and all integrity and all positivity flows from Christ. What good we can impart on society comes from the goodness of God himself. Government (particularly a democratic one), Fowler argues, is a manmade insitution. I purport that it's a divine institution given to man by one outside of time and outside of the temporal. I think socialism is a perversion of a democratic government. Where has it succeeded? Where has it positively impacted those subjected to it? Guess what? It hasn't. Man made-communism. God breathed-democracy. I know someone out there is probably cringing at my notion, but that's my idea and I'm sticking to it.

Man is the vessel and all good comes from God. Even the good deeds that we do, I believe don't ultimately stem from humans but stem from God. I can't go into a diatribe right now and break down my argument to every minute point because Keith is whistling and talking loudly like a jag-off and disrupting any semblence of concentration I can muster. But the point being What man does passes away. You put man's works and a holy motivation behind it? I think that impacts people. The impact of the spiritual on the temporal produces lasting change. So if you want to go out and make a positive change in this world, do it for Christ. the witness you becomes, the lives you touch, the things you make, the instituions you establish, the papers you write will all be infused with that timeless spiritual nature that breathes into them life beyond our years and impact beyond what we can ever see with our cloudy, finite eyes. There I'm done.

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