Posted on 05/24/2021 8:40:06 AM PDT by delta7
Philosophically man has lost his way. Could he think himself out of his age-old predicament he would long ago have done it, for the world has had more than enough serious-minded men of superior intellectual endowments to examine every rabbit path in all the meadows of human thought and to explore every forest and wilderness in search of the way. Since the first fallen man got still long enough to think, fallen men have been asking these questions, Whence came I? What am I? Why am I here? and Where am I going? The noblest minds of the race have struggled with these questions to no avail. Did the answer lie somewhere hidden like a jewel it would surely have been uncovered, for the most penetrating minds of the race have searched for it. Not a foot of ground but has been spaded up, neither is there crevice or cave anywhere in the region of human experience but has been spied into thoroughly and often as the centuries passed. Yet the answers remain as securely hidden as if they did not exist. Why is man lost philosophically? Because he is lost morally and spiritually. He cannot answer the questions life presents to his intellect because the light of God has gone out in his soul. The fearful indictment the Holy Ghost brings against mankind is summed up count by count in the opening chapters of Romans and the conduct of every man from earliest recorded history to the present moment is evidence enough to sustain the indictment.
God gave them over . . .God gave them over . . . he gave them over . . . Romans 1:24, 26, 28
Breathe deep the gathering gloom
Watch lights fade from every room
Bedsitter people look back and lament
Another day’s useless energy is spent
Impassioned lovers wrestle as one;
Lonely man cries for love and has none
New mother picks up and suckles her son
Senior citizens wish they were young
Cold-hearted orb that rules the night
Removes the colours from our sight
Red is grey is yellow white
But we decide which is right
And which is an illusion
The Moody Blues can make catchy tunes and great arrangements, but they are lacking in philosophical cogency.
” the world has had more than enough serious-minded men of superior intellectual endowments “
but we have also had Communists, Socialists, Progressives, Democrats, Mooselimbs, 1,2,3 and 4th wave Feminists, Race Hustlers, Anti-Semites, Anti-Christian Zealots, “Christian” Charlatans, Pedophile Priests, CNN, MSNBC, CBSPBSABCNBC, CIA, NSC, and all the other Alphabet people too.
It’s been a battle since the beginning:
The Light vs Darkness
You just reminded me I have not listened to this album in years. Correcting that now. I loved the orchestral arrangements.
“Whence came I? What am I? Why am I here? and Where am I going?”
Why am I here?
What does it all mean?
Why do men have nipples?
Why is the sky blue ?
Why ask why ?
There's the issue. A child's way is simple, and simple-hearted. He has an innocent curiously to learn and explore.
Under two get in free. It goes a long way in explaining why Herod targeted that particular age group.
God knows the dark side has no vision. I mean look what happened when rumors of a Deliverer were swirling all around.
The bad actors headed to the delivery rooms, focused on the... deliveries.
Sharp as a bowling ball. ~ Foghorn Leghorn
“Why ask why ?”
That’s the nature of Mankind.
Thanks for posting this.
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