Endeavour
is still wonderful! These days , the shuttle Endeavour space travel and astronauts meet in space station. Hence, perhaps, one day they will leave to other stars. Incredible success of human intelligence and teamwork!
But despite this great achievement, one wonders: Why all this? What do we want ? We feel we too cramped on our planet? What pushes us to come out well? Scientific curiosity? Desire of conquest? What else?
mixed with admiration, criticism is not lacking in the people. I mean all that money spent while ... But I'm not sure there would be fewer poor and hungry if all those billions had been used for humanitarian purposes! It seems clear that the root cause of poverty is elsewhere: in the heart of man, and I can not rule out mine!
But after this digression, let us see things differently. We can not stop humans from the natural desire to progress. Desire for expansion, discovery, and perhaps a new world where peace and brotherhood, etc.. I do not know if this reasoning is that researchers at the NASA . Even without religious references, we all have, more or less, a kind of nostalgia for a happiness that had already existed, a "lost paradise". How did he lost and how do I find? Outside of biblical revelation (1), I do not see an answer.
Some progress in seeking a solution to our prison in this world. It would be unwise to disparage the progress itself. It can obviously improve our living conditions. Does it still it facing the right direction. But he can never free ourselves from the limitations of time and space. The solution is to another level.
This life, despite all its attractiveness and beauty of creation, is felt as a living "in exile". Hence the idea of a "lost paradise". We seek to "recover" our true country, a stable state, beyond time and space where there is universal brotherhood flawless.
It is indeed touching to see the astronauts arrived on the space station, kissing like old friends found when they were of different nationalities, above all political conflicts. But here, in these "reunion" aliens, time is still there. This famous time, because of the finiteness , aging men and things. We 're prisoners. The fact of escape from our planet and the laws of gravity does release or time or space.
should find something else that progress as we conceive it. Believers or not, we know only one thing we can free up time: death. Those who have been there never returned. We did not come back. Death is the cure for the door and lead us out of spacetime. Unless you prefer to see it pass into nothingness! Whatever our choice, it is a must. Live outside space-time, for the Christian faith, this is: eternity.
progress, spatial or otherwise, does not lead us to eternity. But it can be filled with the hope of eternity. In this case, death directs us to the right place and the proper remedy. If progress is definitely improves our earthly condition, and so much better, it can not however be confused with "Paradise Regained", our city final.
(1) For those who love theology and metaphysics, here is a document that can help them understand the "Paradise Lost":
http://biblio.domuni.org/articlestheo/pecheor/po000004.htm
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Nobody is an island While
"No is an island. "is the title of a book Thomas Merton . We are not isolated, but people in relationship. I return to this theme. However, although related, we live in a certain autonomy, that of our people. They can not be confused. So, like islands, we are also separated, but each island, links submarines invisible link us.
mysterious solidarity of people. These links secret key elements of our being, are the human community. They are the cause of suffering and joy. The two are inseparable. Ties that cause suffering, are also those who bring us joy. Sometimes, these links tend to diminish and disaparaƮtre . So the person wilts and becomes insensitive to nearby islands. Would that this spiritual death?
These links, as those that bind us to our source, those that bind us are spiritual in nature. They are no different. So that the interdependence which gives us pain and joy can exist only by our dependence on the Creator. But how to remove links that give us pain, without removing at the same time, those who give us joy? As for the "good wheat and the tares "of the gospel.
of being part of one whole, it is obvious that we all influence each other. Influence of example, words, thoughts, etc.. And good or bad! The saints themselves are people of great influence. But they found their strength and effectiveness elsewhere in themselves. I mean other than their voluntary me selfish . Therefore, they know they can be proud of.
Like those sailboats in the wind (wind = Spirit) they are driven by a foreign force to the oars and engine. The Saints know they are mus another . That's where they get their humility. They have nothing to do. Or almost! As the prayer weaves the secret links that had to keep strong. Just as the sailors were able to hoist the sails. But it's the wind that drives them.
In such a swarm of islands live, sometimes we are benefactors, victims, perpetrators, bystanders or the good or evil. Difficult to judge or condemn. The Gospel tells us: "Do not judge!" It is to our advantage, moreover, because if you do, "you will not be judged!" We're not better than others, but we will not be tried or sentenced. Just forgiven. It is the law from above!
Judges of our courts function is to judge actions, not people. And they awarded according to their code. As for us, bad evaluators intentions, yet the gospel makes us understand that, as Zacchaeus, the woman adultery, the Samaritan, the prodigal son, the good thief, and so others, "there, where we see the faults condemn, God sees creatures to help ..."
"No is an island. "is the title of a book Thomas Merton . We are not isolated, but people in relationship. I return to this theme. However, although related, we live in a certain autonomy, that of our people. They can not be confused. So, like islands, we are also separated, but each island, links submarines invisible link us.
mysterious solidarity of people. These links secret key elements of our being, are the human community. They are the cause of suffering and joy. The two are inseparable. Ties that cause suffering, are also those who bring us joy. Sometimes, these links tend to diminish and disaparaƮtre . So the person wilts and becomes insensitive to nearby islands. Would that this spiritual death?
These links, as those that bind us to our source, those that bind us are spiritual in nature. They are no different. So that the interdependence which gives us pain and joy can exist only by our dependence on the Creator. But how to remove links that give us pain, without removing at the same time, those who give us joy? As for the "good wheat and the tares "of the gospel.
of being part of one whole, it is obvious that we all influence each other. Influence of example, words, thoughts, etc.. And good or bad! The saints themselves are people of great influence. But they found their strength and effectiveness elsewhere in themselves. I mean other than their voluntary me selfish . Therefore, they know they can be proud of.
Like those sailboats in the wind (wind = Spirit) they are driven by a foreign force to the oars and engine. The Saints know they are mus another . That's where they get their humility. They have nothing to do. Or almost! As the prayer weaves the secret links that had to keep strong. Just as the sailors were able to hoist the sails. But it's the wind that drives them.
In such a swarm of islands live, sometimes we are benefactors, victims, perpetrators, bystanders or the good or evil. Difficult to judge or condemn. The Gospel tells us: "Do not judge!" It is to our advantage, moreover, because if you do, "you will not be judged!" We're not better than others, but we will not be tried or sentenced. Just forgiven. It is the law from above!
Judges of our courts function is to judge actions, not people. And they awarded according to their code. As for us, bad evaluators intentions, yet the gospel makes us understand that, as Zacchaeus, the woman adultery, the Samaritan, the prodigal son, the good thief, and so others, "there, where we see the faults condemn, God sees creatures to help ..."
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