I believe that, Robert. But I believe we will go through some major trials first. If they happen in our lifetime, we must remember during them what you’ve said here.
That’s a new world order I can live with!
Well, Voltaire criticised this view in his book “Candide.” He depicted his protagonist as some one who never saw defeat in the course of it’s onset to enable him to arm himself against the results of his unrealistic position in his view of the world. In the end he and his companions were shunted off into a life of hopelessness without being able to effect thier own or anybody elses destinies.
Are you hoping that the media will stop selling sex, drugs, and violence to the weak and the down trodden? No chance of that type of humanitarianism. No way.
The Pope has been elected as the head of the media??? Well, NOW it’s possible!
We can feed the world now, Ed. We just prefer to watch cable. With the change to true spiritual values, far fewer people will be able to abide luxuries while others starve.
No common sense in feeding 5000 people with a couple loaves and a few fish. No cogent narrative explains the pure faith of a soldier hardened by battle going to some Jewish preacher guy and asking for healing for someone he loved by the rabbi’s word alone.
I know that. But money and power, and the deadly Original Sin that is within us all, will prevent this from happening until Christ’s return.
I don’t think we need to wait for Jesus to come again to make great progress toward perfection. Sometimes it’s hard to look back at history and realize we have come a far way from when children were considered little more than slaves and torture was a public spectacle instead of a hidden shame.
I was a hippie. I was neither “doped up” nor “misled.” I was too busy working for civil rights. Note: everyone sits where they want on the bus.
When revelation enters into the annals of history, as did the “5000people…” as you have said, it then becomes a matter of common parlance. This in turn becomes the stuff of not just historical narrative but litterary metaphor and philosophical analogy. From the writtings of St Gregory of Tours, Eusebius, Veneralble Bede, Langland, Procopuis, Dante, Chaucer, and many, many others, one has the common sense of that which God gave us in the primitive, for our shared society.
people tend to be pessimistic in the present and looking toward the future… and wax positively nostalgic about the past… but in terms of quality of life… it has never been better… and the future looks bright. technology and progress have always been the answer and they will continue to be. spiritually we are always playing catch up because technology and progress occur much more rapidly than we can socially or culturally adapt. we feel more of the pinch because… since the economy has gone global (due to technology) the supply and demand curves (thousands of them) have been out of whack (they always seek equilibrium) and the result has been hard on us since most of the world has had a quality of life well below ours… our quality of life has essentially been put on hold to subsidize the rest of the world. is that bad… no, not necessarily… is it bad for us economically… in the short term… yes… but in the big picture, especially as christian catholics we should be supportive (besides, it is inevitible). the quality of life for the planet has improved immensely. there is still much to be done and it may be painful for us but ultimately it is good.
But, Julia, how often are older passengers given seats by younger ones nowadays?
Only to the blind. To those who see, it is a simple story of Truth. Also fact, if you insist on such. Miracles aren’t analogies or metaphors, they are the Presence of God in Time. It’s pretty simple. Want more God in Time? Want more miracles? Get closer to God. Also simple.
No, it doesn’t. It matters if you get to Heaven. That is all. Don’t be distracted by cosmic trivialities.
I don’t know, has there been a study? Do you take the bus very often? I used to ride it through the city every day and saw many kindnesses to people of age or disability or with children in tow. I also saw coldness and callousness.
AFAIK, no studies; it’s just my own impression as a frequent rider of buses and subways in NYC that there is more obliviousness, if not callousness, to the plight of elderly riders today, especially elderly men. Maybe that’s because I’m “almost” in that category. Yes, I’ve seen kindness as well.
One wonders what you mean by blind. Sight can be construed in many different ways. For instance we may take common eye sight through the occular sense or we can speak of that sight referable to an inner enlightenment or that which refers to the sudden understanding of a subject after much toil over study. We can, without too much trouble, construe this sight as being completely withheld by some act of nature, lack of study or that which is peculiar to a degraded moral sense.
Maybe the geographic location may have something to do with it. In the buses of Pittsburgh, I see people giving up their seats to elderly people, disabled people, and pregnant women.
And where is God in this " new world order? " If man is not converted to God, things will continue to get worse.
