Easter Questions

[IAN 2411]

Naive and uneducated? Somehow this implies that people of our times are less naive and more educated. The latter perhaps, but I do not see good behaviour by people of our times. Does this then mean that we need religion to behave?

No, I never meant that. Two thousand years ago and more all governing bodies used religion as a Mark to adhere to. They used the laws of their religion to punish, hence the [eye for an eye] etc. If you were caught thieving you lost your hand, and this was not just isolated to the Middle East and their barbaric laws, it was here in Old England before and during and after the holy wars.

Religion guided the Kings, Queens Governments etc that guided the people. The common uneducated man “Was” naive, he believed in Trolls, Goblins and Fairies. He believed that the wicked burnt in hell. He believed in monsters, curses, chants and witches.

Do we need religion now to behave? No, it should be after all this time installed in us to abide by the same moral code. However because we are all born with equal amounts of good and evil, it depends on how strong our minds and abilities are to make one of these senses dominant and push aside the other. Most people get it right, but there will always be a small percentage that are weak and travel the wrong path.

Or is it simply because greed and violence is now our religion, in place of some sort of code of honour? In other words, we do not seem to have a code of honour that fits the 21th century.

I don’t understand this question. Each person has his/her own code of honour, whether right or wrong but they all differ in some minute way.

I think that there is a good point here. Technology is changing our ways of thinking, mostly in terms of not thinking, because we do not need to, to survive.

We all need to think to survive even the lazy. To use the technology to give you the maximum benefit you have to learn the basics. Technology is a prop, to help us achieve our goals in life and advance our leisure time, it will not work without someone pushing the correct buttons.

In fact, few of us would be able to do what the smallest fielld mouse can: find food and shelter. This way a lot of meaning has fallen out of our mental Universe, and nothing new has come back in. Or so I speculate.

No i think that has to wrong in my opinion, because survival is in our DNA. If needed, we can revert back to the animal in us and live of the land. There are only the weak, lazy and infirmed that might have problems surviving in a hostile environment. We all want to live to see the sun coming up the next day.

Be well IAN 2411