After the sunshine of the last few days, the wind, rain and greyness have descended on our little valley in Yorkshire. Here it is either beautifully radiant in the Sun or dark grey and broody. I am it has to be said massively effected by the weather. My temperament will soar in the sunshine and I will think all is possible. When the grey descends, so do my doubts and I become reticent and withdrawn. I spend lots of time alone in the quiet during the day, being able to watch the changing scenery is awesome.
Nature has the power to make somewhere seem warm and friendly one moment, then grey and dark descends and a place can become foreboding. Authors use the weather to influence our imaginations, much as the real weather does. There is then this great all powerful weather that has the power to control our lives and in extreme circumstances to destroy our lives and our homes. We have the power to limit it's effects on our lives to a certain extent, but we are ultimately at it's mercy.
So much of life is ordered and controlled by us now. We have so much scientific knowledge now that we can manufacture life, prolong life and we can destroy life. We can alter genetic programs to effect that outcomes of foetuses and we can grow parts and in general we can play God. We have such knowledge and power, but I am not convinced we have the self restraint. Lines can be and are crossed, laws are broken and what is truly unnatural has become normal.
There are undoubtedly great benefits to the knowledge that we have gained. Lives saved and diseases cured. But we have learnt many times in history that what on the surface seems to be beneficial can down the line be harmful to the generations who come after us.
We have given ourselves warmth, electricity and wonderful items that have made our lives easier, but at the same time we have destroyed environments, mined nearly all of our natural resources, fed ourselves and left others unfed, protected our countries while giving weapons to others to kill each other. We sit pretty in our ivory tower, whilst enabling the destruction of other families, children and countries. Our progress has even altered the weather, as it becomes more erratic and more extreme every year. When do we stop and learn. What point do we cease to think just of ourselves and start to think of others.
We are an all consuming society. We consume our resources without a by or leave, then dispose of them without regard to the out come of our disposal. We have become so bound up in what we need for ourselves that we have started to discuss the point at which we can end our own lives.
A small thought for you to go and think on, we may think we can tame the future for our own ends. We are not in control of nature, no matter how hard we try or how much we think we are. I can assure you that in the long term, our legacy for children and theirs is that they will learn that we did not have the power and knowledge we thought we had. The only question is, will they learn from our mistakes? When we have not learnt from our fore fathers. Maybe we are doomed to spend eternity thinking we know best. The more we rely on our own manufactured wisdom, grown out of knowledge gained, rather than using the wisdom that God gave us to temper our so called progress. The further we will go from his presence. The world will become empty and broken. We must learn to listen to our God and our fore fathers before it is too late.
So much of life is ordered and controlled by us now. We have so much scientific knowledge now that we can manufacture life, prolong life and we can destroy life. We can alter genetic programs to effect that outcomes of foetuses and we can grow parts and in general we can play God. We have such knowledge and power, but I am not convinced we have the self restraint. Lines can be and are crossed, laws are broken and what is truly unnatural has become normal.
There are undoubtedly great benefits to the knowledge that we have gained. Lives saved and diseases cured. But we have learnt many times in history that what on the surface seems to be beneficial can down the line be harmful to the generations who come after us.
We have given ourselves warmth, electricity and wonderful items that have made our lives easier, but at the same time we have destroyed environments, mined nearly all of our natural resources, fed ourselves and left others unfed, protected our countries while giving weapons to others to kill each other. We sit pretty in our ivory tower, whilst enabling the destruction of other families, children and countries. Our progress has even altered the weather, as it becomes more erratic and more extreme every year. When do we stop and learn. What point do we cease to think just of ourselves and start to think of others.
We are an all consuming society. We consume our resources without a by or leave, then dispose of them without regard to the out come of our disposal. We have become so bound up in what we need for ourselves that we have started to discuss the point at which we can end our own lives.
A small thought for you to go and think on, we may think we can tame the future for our own ends. We are not in control of nature, no matter how hard we try or how much we think we are. I can assure you that in the long term, our legacy for children and theirs is that they will learn that we did not have the power and knowledge we thought we had. The only question is, will they learn from our mistakes? When we have not learnt from our fore fathers. Maybe we are doomed to spend eternity thinking we know best. The more we rely on our own manufactured wisdom, grown out of knowledge gained, rather than using the wisdom that God gave us to temper our so called progress. The further we will go from his presence. The world will become empty and broken. We must learn to listen to our God and our fore fathers before it is too late.
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