Reverence

Due to documented history, we are afforded a grasp of the concept of a thousand-year time period. The span of a few millennia is fathomable because we have tangible, exhumed pieces of history in museums and evidence on cave walls, and we have easily accessible documentation regarding, with impressive detail, the paradigm of life over the past several thousand years. But stop for a second and wrap your mind around billions of years. A million of something is still a sizeable concept to comprehend, but billions of something is more elusive, especially in the form of time. The Earth is estimated to be 4.6 billion years old. Think about that. For billions of years, this planet has floated through space, revolving around this sun, developing life and intricate systems of biology. Imagine the Creator painstakingly adding minute details of colors, shapes, and compositions over billions of years not only to the canvas of the landscape, but to microscopically-scaled organisms and elements—and beyond--enabling Earth to reach this point of fine-tuned, yet still-evolving, relationships and processes that we have only begun to unravel. Imagine taking that kind of time to invest yourself in a project as intricate, for your entire existence, and then opening the door to a bunch of infantile, disrespectful miscreants who throw a keg-party and devastate your work in one night. It has only taken us a relative handful of years—a few hundred—to turn billions of years of God’s work into a mocking mess.
What organism expands rapidly, consumes its host, creates tumorous growths, and makes its host utterly sick? Humans? Cancer? Both? And how does one treat cancer?
I don’t want to participate in the pathology of a cancer. In fact, it seems particularly unfair that we who don’t want to be part of the process, but who would rather go back to the Aboriginal lifestyle, are forced to contribute to the wanton violation of the Earth. Yet if we were “permitted,” to live by Natural Law once again, with no obligation to modern society, we would still have to live with the residual effects of modern impacts. Living naturally would involve listening to jets rip across the sky, smelling pollution from nearby cities, treating polluted waters for consumption, dealing with fragmented, stunted, and unhealthy ecosystems--not to mention the constant “progression” of encroachment—and so much more. Even if we reclaim our neglected inherent rights and freedoms, we are still going to face the enduring wastes and detriments of modern society. This is like suffering the effects of a housemate who smokes, leaves garbage everywhere, stinks, never flushes or cleans the seat, plays music too loudly, and throws hammers at the walls for fun. Society needs to take accountability once and for all and get a grip on the reality of Natural Law and Total Prosperity and stop making such permanent and drastic alterations to the environment. Many of us are offended at the very least, and it is wholly unfair and unrealistic to continue this romanticized idea of “progression,” at the expense of other life, our own inherent rights and beliefs, and the future generations. As admittedly impressive as modern technology is, it is not real, and it is detrimental to real life. In spite of the current fad of “sustainable living,” it is impossible for life to be sustained and healthy in a world that fears mortality, loses reverence for and connection with its foundation, and creates artificial things. Any artificial item, simply by virtue of its creation, is harmful to the environment, therefore, to ourselves. We don’t need the things we believe we do, and even though we’re too “habituated” to change lifestyles, it is crucial that we teach our children to live in the real world. We literally borrow the Earth from the future, and we are just as literally stealing it from them with this paradigm. Why are we allowing a proven destructive system to over-rule and deny the emergency of reality indicated by members of its own species? In other words, just because the masses embrace the luxury of artificial existence and the captivation of vices, it doesn’t mean they’re right; it just means that we have a serious problem. If the system doesn’t contribute to the welfare of not only humans, but of all life, then the system must be abandoned.