One Thing You Learned

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So let’s say you’re in front of God in heaven. He asks you:

“What is the one thing you’ve learned about humanity?”

What would you say to Him?

Me, I’d say it all in one sentence:

“They’ll believe what they want to believe, regardless of how they came to believe it.”
 
'Most of them will believe any fool thing sooner than what You’ve taught them …"
 
“Those who love You will do anything to come to you. Those who don’t will believe anything to try and forget You exist”
 
“We are fallen and desperately need a Savior, even though we decidedly don’t deserve one.”

Scout :tiphat:
 
The world is awash in your mercy, though most chose not to believe in that mercy.
 
Starwynd said:
So let’s say you’re in front of God in heaven. He asks you:

“What is the one thing you’ve learned about humanity?”

What would you say to Him?
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I’d be looking around, scoping the place out, finding my bearings, testing, touching, prodding, poking, and then say, “That most humans are easily deceived. Why do you ask?” 😉
 
what have I learned, am both honored to be counted among them as the pinnacle of your creation, and ashamed to be identified with them in their offenses against your goodness.
 
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what have I learned, am both honored to be counted among them as the pinnacle of your creation, and ashamed to be identified with them in their offenses against your goodness.
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Yeah, it looks like life is designed, it looks like the universe is designed; such is the implications of the anthropic principle.

Only a very, very, very small fraction of all possible universes are able to support life, and by necessity, in order to think about it, we have to live in that small fraction. Since I used an adverb iteratively three times, I’ll try to quantify that expression by saying that the vacuum energy is 120 orders of magnitude lower than what is predicted by physicists. If it was an order of a magnitude larger, we obviously would not be here to think about it since a large cosmological constant would preclude the formation of galaxies.
 
I’m sorry its lots of words, but it is what I’ve learned, that this is what I want. The Father would need a few minutes although I think we’d communicate instantly, without words. I’m certain I’d say the following thing because it really is what I’m about. That sounds corny but it’s true.

On behalf of others

Father, in Jesus’ name, I pray concurrently for everyone, for my family, physical and spiritual, as if each were the only one.
I pray on behalf of Your faithful ones, of the unbelieving, the discouraged and of all who are ever denied ministry of their faith, so that You may unite their deprivation, misery, even torment of body, to Jesus in His Eucharist. I offer their struggles and achievements, so that, even if unaware, they share in the spiritual life of the Church.

I know that in Your great love You will accept my prayer on their behalf, in union with Jesus in whom everything attains infinite value, however unworthy the supplicant. Let it obtain pardon for their sins and let it obtain their faith, hope and charity despite materialism or injustice that confronts and embroils them.

Father, through crucified and risen Jesus, I trust You to share to repletion the lowly bread of my prayer that is leavened to infinite abundance by communion in You. Give my prayer again and again through Him who endlessly gives Himself wholly to each person in the Eucharist.

Please enflame me (and all Christians) with gospel authenticity that will also ignite others with faith and ministry. Thank You God who acts in us beyond human understanding. Lent 1980
 
Starwynd said:
So let’s say you’re in front of God in heaven. He asks you:

“What is the one thing you’ve learned about humanity?”

What would you say to Him?
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If I am in front of God in heaven I cant imagine Id be able to talk! Have you ever been in the presence of someone famous? Have you ever tried to talk to them? Most people are overwhelmed and have trouble saying anything let alone something deep and meaningful. When I was in Rome and the Pope drove by I was speechless because of the holiness that surrounds him, and that was just the Pope and he was just driving by. To be in the presence of GOD Id be speechless at the very least.
 
I would say that most people are trying their best, most of the time. That we fail more through laziness than deliberate evil, that every life has a whole lot of suffering.
 
The one thing I’ve learned about humanity?

The emperor has no clothes.
 
I read this thread yesterday, and I’ve been thinking about it every since. I’ve been flipping the question back and forth in my mind between “What have I learned about humanity?” and “What have I learned from my fellow humans?” Until, I decided that the answer is really the same no matter how you ask it.

Not enough. Not ***nearly ***enough.

I spent so much time trying to be understood that I let humanity slip by almost unobserved. I have spent some time at it, of course. I’m not a total recluse, and I have read a lot on psychology and anthropology, but I didn’t learn nearly as much as I could have.
 
I am taken aback by such negativity in this thread. How incredibly sad. I would think that being in the presence of your creator would fill your hearts with such happiness that you would think firstly of the benefits that life has bestowed upon you towards getting you closer to God, and, that one would look upon life with beauty and gratitude and resolve to make things better.

People are generally good, and generally try to do their best. We must work to build a better future, together, instead of constantly tearing each other down. Be humble, yes, (as we all have erred) but wallowing in our weaknesses does no good. Find the good in it all. By emphasizing strengths, we can find solutions for our weaknesses. In the Catholic view, this would include emphasizing God, emphasizing love, and emphasizing charity, among others. (So please, leave the judgment part to God.)
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We are nothing, and You are everything! We are less than the dust of the earth…and yet, You love us – simply because we are Yours. Thank you, so much!
 
With gratitude for all the good in my life and for a good end that left me able to speak to Him, I’d say “How close it all came to never happening!”
 
Starwynd said:
So let’s say you’re in front of God in heaven. He asks you:

“What is the one thing you’ve learned about humanity?”

What would you say to Him?

Me, I’d say it all in one sentence:

“They’ll believe what they want to believe, regardless of how they came to believe it.”
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We are all children of God, and all of us sons of The Most High.
Have mercy on me Daddy,for I am slow to understand and quick to anger…
 
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