"Go to the ant, you sluggard; consider its ways and
be wise" was written by Israeli King Solomon, Son
of David, 3,000 years ago. This verse in Sacred
Scripture helps us to understand that something as
lowly and mundane as the flow of sweat, energetic
manual labor, is a spiritual priority.
The priority of diligence and energy is needed in a
society that encourages us to be virtually obsessed
and hypnotized by consumptive, lazy, sedentary,
unemployed or under-employed, pleasures.
One of the most modern required pleasures,
contrary to the inevitability of occassional sweat, is
the 20th century invention of climate control; this
new environmental, desperate necessity, an
expensive addiction called air-conditioning.
We are spiritually evaluated and known by what we
require; it's not what we have, it's what we require,
the demand within us that requires anything reveals
addictions; a list of pleasures we yearn for with, too
often, an angry desperate passion.
Our narcissistic self-love is typically in denial of this
personal fault; we see ourselves as basically more
sophisticated than a debased homosapien who
craves and angrily demands the basest pleasures.
But if we peel back the vanity and see the core of
every human being, we see an unrefined, immature
organism that easily, readily devolves into a
confused, hysterical creature demanding satiety
now.
We are judged for attitudes and rebellion, for what
our prayerless, panicky, consumptive mode requires.
In contemporary society we have so many requisite
pleasures that, if we had to go without these
pleasures, our core-being would be in exposure as
impure, compulsive, argumentative, complaining,
litigious, assaultive, and to varying degrees, violent.
We may not have the introspection to understand
this yet, but what we would do . . . is what we are.
What we would do reveals the spiritually-organic,
internalized computations that drive us with
involuntary passion. We can even devolve to hatred
of the Creator and Designer, the very Spirit Who
has led us to the choice of overcoming consumptive
weakness and healing behavioral vulnerability.
This choice, to endure and overcome, sweating out
the averse circumstances that condition our
self-control, without falling into the attitudinal
rebellion of devils, is the spiritual maturation of a
dignified, empowered servant within the domain of
ascetical philosophy.
Our 'woulds' are what we are. Judgment by the
Spirit of our Omniscient Creator and Father sees us
transparently. Our internalized lines of code, so to
speak, are laid bare to the angels who protect
penitential people or abandon impenitent sinners.
Our aversion to the flow of sweat is childish and
immature in terms of endurance, and especially
jeopardizes our apocalyptic well-being; spiritual
attitudes and maturation are needed for intelligent
survival in the Great Tribulation.
be wise" was written by Israeli King Solomon, Son
of David, 3,000 years ago. This verse in Sacred
Scripture helps us to understand that something as
lowly and mundane as the flow of sweat, energetic
manual labor, is a spiritual priority.
The priority of diligence and energy is needed in a
society that encourages us to be virtually obsessed
and hypnotized by consumptive, lazy, sedentary,
unemployed or under-employed, pleasures.
One of the most modern required pleasures,
contrary to the inevitability of occassional sweat, is
the 20th century invention of climate control; this
new environmental, desperate necessity, an
expensive addiction called air-conditioning.
We are spiritually evaluated and known by what we
require; it's not what we have, it's what we require,
the demand within us that requires anything reveals
addictions; a list of pleasures we yearn for with, too
often, an angry desperate passion.
Our narcissistic self-love is typically in denial of this
personal fault; we see ourselves as basically more
sophisticated than a debased homosapien who
craves and angrily demands the basest pleasures.
But if we peel back the vanity and see the core of
every human being, we see an unrefined, immature
organism that easily, readily devolves into a
confused, hysterical creature demanding satiety
now.
We are judged for attitudes and rebellion, for what
our prayerless, panicky, consumptive mode requires.
In contemporary society we have so many requisite
pleasures that, if we had to go without these
pleasures, our core-being would be in exposure as
impure, compulsive, argumentative, complaining,
litigious, assaultive, and to varying degrees, violent.
We may not have the introspection to understand
this yet, but what we would do . . . is what we are.
What we would do reveals the spiritually-organic,
internalized computations that drive us with
involuntary passion. We can even devolve to hatred
of the Creator and Designer, the very Spirit Who
has led us to the choice of overcoming consumptive
weakness and healing behavioral vulnerability.
This choice, to endure and overcome, sweating out
the averse circumstances that condition our
self-control, without falling into the attitudinal
rebellion of devils, is the spiritual maturation of a
dignified, empowered servant within the domain of
ascetical philosophy.
Our 'woulds' are what we are. Judgment by the
Spirit of our Omniscient Creator and Father sees us
transparently. Our internalized lines of code, so to
speak, are laid bare to the angels who protect
penitential people or abandon impenitent sinners.
Our aversion to the flow of sweat is childish and
immature in terms of endurance, and especially
jeopardizes our apocalyptic well-being; spiritual
attitudes and maturation are needed for intelligent
survival in the Great Tribulation.
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