Posted by D J Lancaster on May 11, 1998 at 21:51:36:
We live in a world of economic, ideological and natural forces. These forces collide and integrate in ways that no man or woman can fully measure or appreciate. These forces are the alchemy of progress and/or doom working as an invisible body of law and enforcement transforming everything from corporations, to governments, to individuals, to the very earth itself.
It isn't until these forces impact us in noticable ways that we really take notice, that reality is malleable and in a constant state of moderate to volitile change.
There is something deep in the human being that wants things to stay the same way, but try as they might to create a dogman, creed, doctrin,or consitution, that establishes some permanence in the universe, they will not nor cannot succeed. To even suggest that men would be able to install a permanent order in the midst of a world shaped and reshaped by environmental forces over time, is an odd inclination.
Even if man, himself, were not present in this scheme of energy exchanges, things would not remain forever the same. Radical things happen in a world that came into being in a radical way (The Big Bang) and I suspect they always will.
The great teachers of time and space have sought through various ways to communicate the pre-existance of movement in the universe before and after man. They, each in there own way, have
contributed to the liberatation of man from the inticing urge to identify creed. dogma, or scientific description as a way of life.
dj