My first Easter post.
As a child in Sunday school I learned of Jesus, the golden rule, forgiveness, and what it meant to be a good person. Not just a good Christian. But a good person.
Now, as I biologist I have doubts about his rising from the dead without medical intervention without human intervention. Something urgently needed now to achieve heaven on earth and restore our goldilocks planet to a garden of Eden.
I won't waist my breath praying for President Trump to do the right thing in the Middle East, prioritize the UN 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), or to stop lying. But I will offer a warning to everyone if we don't turn our actions urgently to comprehensively, holistically and synergically achieving the those 17 SDGs.
Given the evolution of war, weapons, pathogens, violent extremists, violent weather patterns, and government debt by simply reacting to wars, pandemics, terrorism, and storm destruction - we must invest in preventing these disruptive forces now needlessly taking lives while we ignore vital environmental systems. And just pay the consequences.
Humankind has never had more wealth and technological solutions in human history. We have everything we need to achieve these affordable goals, but we are running out of time - our one non-renewable resource.
While we all have thoughts constantly arising in our heads, we rarely have wise questions. Such as 'what legacy are we leaving for generations to come?'. Or 'why do we keep doing the same thing over and over again, expecting a different result?' Especially since our species has known for millennia what we need to do, and have always had the resources to do it.
The simple answer. Our minds are collectively insane.
God gave us all agency to control our destiny. But our mind's gave us ambiguous words like peace, democracy, and terrorism - and delusional concepts like independence, national sovereignty, and peace though strengthen. And then our mind resists the fundamental biological principle in the DNA of every higher life form. Offspring should not die before their parents.
Life is a profound gift of anti-entropy in an unimaginably immense and hostile universe. I don't believe we are alone in the universe. But I'm 99.999% sure, no other life form is coming to save us, and if they did, they would notice once the got up close and saw what we are doing to each other, and our miracle planet, we are not worth saving.
Why is it, that each time humankind has had a chance to unite the world we chose to divide ourselves. Starting with the golden rule, then the wisdom of indigenous cultures, followed by the Declaration of Independence, the League of Nations, the invention of nuclear weapons, the creation of the United Nations, and then the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Now in 89 days Americans (and the world) have the 250 anniversary of the Declaration of independence, a document that Abraham Lincoln said was for everyone, everywhere, for all time.
My mind believes, given the evolution of weaponry, this may be our last change at dodging Armageddon. If it is not already too late. Even some MAGA lovers believe Trump may be the Anti-Christ. I'm guessing most economists would agree that SDGs are a true measure of human progress. Yet they and our governments continue to prioritize the GDP. The best means of measuring the wealth of those who don't need it, then rarely use it in serving the most basic needs of human health and nature.
WTF is wrong with us? In a nutshell. Our mind (that voice in our head) now runs roughshod over the love and wisdom in our heart, soul, and human spirit. And our mind is addicted to being right, keeping our body feeling good, while the health of our body and environment turn to crap. It is that freaking simple! Unfortunately, our mind has fallen into the Intelligence trap and believes everything it thinks. Regardless of the horrific consequences to our body, mind, spirit, family, community, environment, government, and economy.
What will it take for us to WTF up? A nuclear war? If Jesus returned he'd get killed for being a Palestinian. It is not the prefrontal cortex of our brain that we need to listen to. It's the human spirit within each of our bodies. Bodies that are all 99.9% the same genetically. In reality we are a human family. Not special identities (national, religious, economic, political party, sexual preference, race, culture that are all unrelated to our basic biology) worth killing and even dying for.
Our brain has been hardwired to react, but it also has the capacity for deeper, wiser, and systemic thinking. Protesting, voting, and mental depression is reactionary. What's needed is transformational political advocacy to tackle the root causes of human suffering and environmental degradation. For this to happen in mind, we must learn to use it for its original evolutionary purpose. To solve problems related to the survival of our tribe. Now the human tribe.
And for God's sake, and the hopes of Jesus, stop defending dumbass ideas that may have worked once, or a few times, but are now, given our unpresented technological killing capacity, time to adapt and profoundly change our way of thinking.
There is a name for species that fails to adapt. Extinct. I'm positive that Jesus, even without a biology degree, would agree.
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