What I've done is take Genesis and put it into words that make sense to me. It is amazing what a difference there is when you just change "God" into "The Laws and Forces of Nature." Another thing that is amazing is how little is really changed. Break out your Bible and see what I've done.
GENESIS, CHAPTER 1
Over a long period, the laws and forces of Nature created the heavens and the Earth. The Earth was at first a changing mass of chaos with all the natural laws fermenting within and above the primordial swamps. Over a long period, the laws and forces of Nature let there be light, and the light did wondrous things within the swamps and to the gases above the swamps. Because of the rotation of the Earth mass, the light and dark periods were divided into what is now known as day and night respectively.
The laws and forces of Nature let there be an atmosphere between the liquids, the vapors and the clouds.
Over a long period, the laws and forces of Nature let the liquids run together into basins, and dry land which is now called earth began to appear, and the liquid filled basins are now called the seas.
Over a long period, the laws and forces of Nature let grasses, herbs and various fruits evolve which were seed bearing, and those seed brought forth more grasses, herbs and fruits.
Over a long period, the laws and forces of Nature forced the atmosphere to clear enough that the stars and Moon shown at night, and the Sun was bright during the day. The stars, Moon, Sun, and the tilt of the Earth axis coincidentally could be used for directions, seasons, days, and years.
Over a long period, the laws and forces of Nature let living things evolve in the seas; amphibians, reptiles, fish, and mammals. Every land creature that moves came from the seas. Above the dry land evolved the flying creatures which became birds.
Over a long period, the laws and forces of Nature let evolve on Earth living creatures of all kinds. These creatures continued to improve, each giving to the next generation everything that was needed to survive in the changing world and leaving off things that might be detrimental.
Over a long period, the laws and forces of Nature let humans evolve with the mental capacity to be able to dominate everything in the seas, in the air, and on the land.
The laws and forces of Nature had so evolved all living things, plant and animal, that humans now had everything that they needed to survive if they managed and respected the other living things as part of the human’s own survival.
Genesis, chapter 2
At this point the Earth became somewhat stabilized and all the creatures on Earth continued their evolution, taking with them what they could to survive. To insure the continuation of humankind, each had to work hard to feed everyone for whom they were responsible. The people soon realized that periodically their fragile bodies needed to rest in order to continue the work that was needed to survive.
These are the generations of the sky and of the Earth when they were created, in the periods that Nature made the Earth and sky, and let the plants evolve even before humans evolved, and when rains came, everything flourished. Nature promoted the evolution of humans, and humans drifted to places where there was water and various tree-growth so they could eat from the fruits of the trees. One of these cases was in Eden, where all sorts of fruit trees grew. In this great garden in Eden, Nature evolved two of many humans.
Because the humans had no work to do but eat of the abundance of the fruits and vegetables, they found plenty of time to contemplate life and the goods and evils that might be wrought. But, the humans found that if they tended the trees and vegetables, that they produced more, and for a longer period of time. So, if the humans worked at it, the garden would produce enough that they would never go hungry. By working hard they ate well, but never had time to contemplate life, and its goods and evils. The humans realized that if they ever stopped tending the garden, their food supply might stop producing, and they would go hungry or have to leave. The humans started to develop language and gave the animals and plants names.
Genesis, chapter 3
Now, free thought was more subtle than any of the vices which humans had acquired. One of the humans thought, “Why should we be working all the time? We should take time off from our toils, we can eat from all these trees but we have no time to relax and enjoy ourselves, and study about life and its’ goods and evils.”
The human looked around at all the fruits and vegetables in the garden. The human’s thoughts said that they would not die of starvation if they relaxed and didn’t tend the garden for just a few days. It is in the nature of humans to believe that good can be realized and evil overcome if one just thinks about it long enough. So, on human sat back and relaxed and studied about life and all of its great and evil things, and convinced an other to do the same. They both considered how they might do well for others, or take advantage of others to their own benefit.
Upon basic consideration they realized that what they had planned was evil, and they were ashamed of their thoughts. They hid their faces in their hands and realized that they had an evil nature, and the established society has since then considered independence or free thinking a basic evil.
LORE: (From now on, snakes and women will be enemies, as will all of serpent’s children and her children. The serpent will strike at her heel and she will strike at its head. The woman shall bear children painfully, yet women shall seek their husbands affections, and he shall be her master)
Because the humans had spent so much time in thought, nature had let grow thorns, thistles, and weeds. The fruits and vegetables stopped their production and the people were forced to eat weeds, thorns and thistles.
People worked hard and had to sweat to raise grain, to make bread to eat. People are made of the elements and shall return to the elements.
Adam, the man, called the woman Eve (Life), because all humans are produced by woman. Nature provided clothing for humans from dead animal skins. Humans became one with nature, and left the oasis and grew crops elsewhere. Now, humans and nature were equal, and the people possessed the knowledge to survive on the Earth till the end.
Saturday, August 29, 2009
Electronically Challenged
Things are spiraling out of control. I think I have become lost in a world of electronic madness.
My son informed me this week that my cell phone has become obsolete and I must head down to the Cell Phone store and get a phone that is contemporary with the time.
I pointed out that the fancy Razor/Slim line phone with camera built in that he made me trade my perfectly good flip-top Motorola cell phone for two years, still works perfectly fine. Well, except for the camera thing. Never could figure that out.. Even the few times I actually did take pictures I couldn’t figure what to do with them and gave up.
That is except when I would push the wrong button and take a video of the ceiling or my feet.
Seems the issue is that I am unable to text with the tiny little 3 character buttons. "Hi, son," would come out looking like, "Gh Qmo." My grandkids have even spoken to my wife about Poppa’s crazy text messages. Give me a break. Whatever happened to actually talking on a phone? Isn’t that what they were invented for?
They want me to get one of those phones that you can turn upside down and sideways and has a typewriter keyboard with keys about one-eighth the size of my pinky finger.
One of my son is a realtor whose real occupation is fly fishing. "Way to go, son." Or in my text language, "Xbz um Io, rmo."
We were floating the Buffalo River in his guide quality drift boat south of Yellville, Arkansas. We were miles from anything remotely resembling civilization. Rock canyon walls were on either side of us. Bear with me as I try to explain this strange thing.
His "Blackberry" rang. It was blue and I asked him why it wasn’t called a Blueberry. He shook his head with that “dealing with an elder” despair look I get a lot these days. It was another realtor who called to say that the sellers he represented had agreed to my son’s client’s changes and he had the signed documents in hand.
My son told him to FAX the papers to his office and he would get them signed and Faxed back, to close the deal that morning. A minute later the phone rang and he hit a few buttons and looked over the FAX, now on the Buffalo River with us.
He then called his clients and told them he was Faxing the papers to them to sign and asked them to FAX them back to his office. While he was waiting, he hooked into a fat rainbow and was just releasing this 22 inch beauty as his phone rang again with the signed FAX from his clients.
He called the other realtor and told him he was sending the signed papers back by FAX. The deal was closed. He smiled and just said, "You are a little behind the times, Dad." I guess I am.
I thought about the business I ran without a Blackberry that played music, took videos, pictures and communicated with Facebook and Twitter.
I signed up under duress for Twitter and Facebook, so my children, their spouse, and grandkids could communicate with me in the modern way. I figured I could handle something as simple as Twitter with only 140 characters of space.
That was before one of my grandkids hooked me up for Tweeter, Tweetree, Twhirl, Twitterfon, Tweetie and Twittererific Tweetdeck, Twitpix and something that sends every message to my cell phone and every other program within the texting world.
My phone was beeping every three minutes with the details of everything except the bowel movements of the entire next generation.. .I am not ready to live like this. I keep my cell phone in the garage in my motorcycle saddlebags.
The kids bought me a GPS for my last birthday because they say I get lost every now and then going over to the grocery store or library. I keep that in the other saddlebag. I accidently wore my bluetooth headset in the grocery store once and was talking to my wife as everyone within the nearest 50 yards was glaring at me. Seems I have to take my hearing aid out to use it and got a little loud.
I mean the GPS looked pretty smart on my dash board, but the lady inside it was the most annoying, rudest person I had run into in a long time. Every 10 minutes, she would sarcastically say, "Re-calc-ul- ating" You would think that she could be nicer.. It was like she could barely tolerate me. She would let go with a deep sigh and then tell me to make a U-turn at the next light. Then when I would make a right turn instead, it was not good.
When I get really lost now, I call my wife and tell her the name of the cross streets and while she is starting to develop the same tone as Gypsy, the GPS lady, at least she loves me.
To be perfectly frank, I am still trying to learn how to use the cordless phones in our house. We have had them for 4 years, but I still haven’t figured out how I can lose three phones all at once and have run around digging under chair cushions and checking bathrooms and the dirty laundry baskets when the phones ring.
The world is just getting too complex for me. They even mess me up every time I go to the grocery store. You would think they could settle on something themselves but this sudden "Paper or Plastic?" every time I check out just knocks me for a loop.
I bought some of those cloth re-usable bags to avoid looking confused but never remember to take them in with me.
Now I toss it back to them. When they ask me, "Paper or Plastic?" I just say, "Doesn’t matter to me. I am bi-sacksual. " Then it‘s their turn to stare at me with a blank look.
My son informed me this week that my cell phone has become obsolete and I must head down to the Cell Phone store and get a phone that is contemporary with the time.
I pointed out that the fancy Razor/Slim line phone with camera built in that he made me trade my perfectly good flip-top Motorola cell phone for two years, still works perfectly fine. Well, except for the camera thing. Never could figure that out.. Even the few times I actually did take pictures I couldn’t figure what to do with them and gave up.
That is except when I would push the wrong button and take a video of the ceiling or my feet.
Seems the issue is that I am unable to text with the tiny little 3 character buttons. "Hi, son," would come out looking like, "Gh Qmo." My grandkids have even spoken to my wife about Poppa’s crazy text messages. Give me a break. Whatever happened to actually talking on a phone? Isn’t that what they were invented for?
They want me to get one of those phones that you can turn upside down and sideways and has a typewriter keyboard with keys about one-eighth the size of my pinky finger.
One of my son is a realtor whose real occupation is fly fishing. "Way to go, son." Or in my text language, "Xbz um Io, rmo."
We were floating the Buffalo River in his guide quality drift boat south of Yellville, Arkansas. We were miles from anything remotely resembling civilization. Rock canyon walls were on either side of us. Bear with me as I try to explain this strange thing.
His "Blackberry" rang. It was blue and I asked him why it wasn’t called a Blueberry. He shook his head with that “dealing with an elder” despair look I get a lot these days. It was another realtor who called to say that the sellers he represented had agreed to my son’s client’s changes and he had the signed documents in hand.
My son told him to FAX the papers to his office and he would get them signed and Faxed back, to close the deal that morning. A minute later the phone rang and he hit a few buttons and looked over the FAX, now on the Buffalo River with us.
He then called his clients and told them he was Faxing the papers to them to sign and asked them to FAX them back to his office. While he was waiting, he hooked into a fat rainbow and was just releasing this 22 inch beauty as his phone rang again with the signed FAX from his clients.
He called the other realtor and told him he was sending the signed papers back by FAX. The deal was closed. He smiled and just said, "You are a little behind the times, Dad." I guess I am.
I thought about the business I ran without a Blackberry that played music, took videos, pictures and communicated with Facebook and Twitter.
I signed up under duress for Twitter and Facebook, so my children, their spouse, and grandkids could communicate with me in the modern way. I figured I could handle something as simple as Twitter with only 140 characters of space.
That was before one of my grandkids hooked me up for Tweeter, Tweetree, Twhirl, Twitterfon, Tweetie and Twittererific Tweetdeck, Twitpix and something that sends every message to my cell phone and every other program within the texting world.
My phone was beeping every three minutes with the details of everything except the bowel movements of the entire next generation.. .I am not ready to live like this. I keep my cell phone in the garage in my motorcycle saddlebags.
The kids bought me a GPS for my last birthday because they say I get lost every now and then going over to the grocery store or library. I keep that in the other saddlebag. I accidently wore my bluetooth headset in the grocery store once and was talking to my wife as everyone within the nearest 50 yards was glaring at me. Seems I have to take my hearing aid out to use it and got a little loud.
I mean the GPS looked pretty smart on my dash board, but the lady inside it was the most annoying, rudest person I had run into in a long time. Every 10 minutes, she would sarcastically say, "Re-calc-ul- ating" You would think that she could be nicer.. It was like she could barely tolerate me. She would let go with a deep sigh and then tell me to make a U-turn at the next light. Then when I would make a right turn instead, it was not good.
When I get really lost now, I call my wife and tell her the name of the cross streets and while she is starting to develop the same tone as Gypsy, the GPS lady, at least she loves me.
To be perfectly frank, I am still trying to learn how to use the cordless phones in our house. We have had them for 4 years, but I still haven’t figured out how I can lose three phones all at once and have run around digging under chair cushions and checking bathrooms and the dirty laundry baskets when the phones ring.
The world is just getting too complex for me. They even mess me up every time I go to the grocery store. You would think they could settle on something themselves but this sudden "Paper or Plastic?" every time I check out just knocks me for a loop.
I bought some of those cloth re-usable bags to avoid looking confused but never remember to take them in with me.
Now I toss it back to them. When they ask me, "Paper or Plastic?" I just say, "Doesn’t matter to me. I am bi-sacksual. " Then it‘s their turn to stare at me with a blank look.
Thursday, August 27, 2009
Just some thoughts:
"You can't get where you're going till you leave where you are."
"Death can never steal the essence of a life well lived, charity well given, nor deeds well done. Love, laugh, & give, that is eternal life."
"If a man seeks the flaw, he will always find it. If another seeks the good, the one seeking the flaw will find another and ignore the good."
"Be careful of the man whos library consists of but one book."
"Words are not wisdom, they only tell of it."
"Listening is not same as hearing just as Seeing is not the same as believing."
"Time is like a river. You can't touch the same water twice because that which has passed will not pass this way again. Enjoy every minute."
"Stop complaining! Your friends still love you and your enemys are glad you're getting what they think you've earned."
"Finding your humility now is a gift.... finding it later is a given."
"There will always be good fortune hidden somewhere in your misfortune, but you'll never find it if you don't look. Sometimes it's the lesson."
"Death can never steal the essence of a life well lived, charity well given, nor deeds well done. Love, laugh, & give, that is eternal life."
"If a man seeks the flaw, he will always find it. If another seeks the good, the one seeking the flaw will find another and ignore the good."
"Be careful of the man whos library consists of but one book."
"Words are not wisdom, they only tell of it."
"Listening is not same as hearing just as Seeing is not the same as believing."
"Time is like a river. You can't touch the same water twice because that which has passed will not pass this way again. Enjoy every minute."
"Stop complaining! Your friends still love you and your enemys are glad you're getting what they think you've earned."
"Finding your humility now is a gift.... finding it later is a given."
"There will always be good fortune hidden somewhere in your misfortune, but you'll never find it if you don't look. Sometimes it's the lesson."
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