Better

I like science and technology, architecture, and music. I don’t want to be part of creating systems designed to destroy people or make their lives miserable.  Problem is it is not always easy to see what technologies always add value or which will be used for evil purposes.  Medicine or a car could be misused by those with nefarious purposes. Most technologies could be used in an evil way. 

Another problem is we all don’t always agree on what is better.  Better for me better for others? Better for others better for me?  Better for others equals better for them? In an ideal world none of us would have to worry about ourselves.  I have tried to live this way and have ended up on the street.  Those oppressed might not be able to help when the going gets tough.  Is it wise to give to a point that your life becomes in jeopardy?  Is it wise not to account for a fallen world?  Could we use this as an excuse not to help those in need?  Are we more effective with our health or trying to help people when we have several health and other problems?  Is it wise to drive a car with three wheels?  Is it not wiser to fix the missing wheel first?  Maybe a sunroof and leather seats might make the drive a little more comfortable too. A couple super models and a briefcase full of cash could make the drive more comfortable. Now imagine only fixing the wheel.  Only water and bread for the drive.  Gets the job done, but could I be more effective with a cup of coffee?  The three legged dog might pull you out of a burning car.  Makes for a good movie but in reality does it work out that way? Forcing people with Chron’s disease to stay in the office wiser? They are going to the bathroom an awful lot, I better comment on that. Maybe wiser not to.

Maybe the idea is we all have different ideas of what it takes to be happy.  I think we all want support too. If we thrive off the losses of other people’s support, we will likely lose our own.  If we lose our support and see others with more it can make us jealous. Maybe others have more because of hard work and dedication yet when they have profited off a system that has oppressed us that hurts.  In a fallen world there seems to always be a certain level of oppression.  Not always easy to understand what level of profit has been obtained through hard work and what profit has been obtained off the backs of others.  Those with more might think they don’t owe anybody anything.  Nobody helped them off the street.  They easily forget all the days of clean water, crimes that were prevented, and love and support they were given. Maybe it didn’t feel that way when someone they loved left them.  Always a reason to be thankful, and sometimes big heartaches can make it harder to see.

One of the problems with The USA.  We are seen as those with more.  Yet many of us are just fighting to survive.  Those with less might see us as turning our backs on them.  Some might profit off the illusion.  Some might use this as a way to get us to stop working together.  Want to destroy any system, take away it’s ability to correct its errors.  No forgiveness and reconciliation.  It destroys friendships, relationships, marriages, states, nations and alliances.  Mercy and forgiveness, because the alternative hand cuffs us to a train that will take us off a cliff.  

Do I want to be cheated on? No.  Can I forgive someone that cheated on me? Yes. Do I want to have to forgive them when we could have made better choices in the first place? No. Do I want to be married to someone that continuously cheats on me? No.  Would I still want them to be successful and happy? Yes.  Is taking away their support likely to make them cheat more? Yes. Will cheating push us to look for better options? Likely. Is taking away their support going to help make them more successful and happy? Not likely.  So they cheated on me and now I am supposed to increase their support? Yes, didn’t say it was easy.  But that encourages it to continue.  Enablers. Nay sayers, they will be there when the going get tough?  Increase the right kind of support, while simultaneously steering away from the problem and fixing your own problems that you have less time for because now your dealing with this. You must proceed. The great thing about science, I know a way it could happen, so I can be merciful. Doesn’t mean I want it to happen.  

Is it fair to label any a cheater for life? No.  Once a sinner, always a sinner? Do we always agree upon what sin is? No. Sins of omission could easily doom us all. We didn’t see it because we chose not to see it.  We were just trying to survive can’t put that on us. We missed it because we were working on something else. What else was so important? People, if it were easy for everyone to work together we would all do it.  Mercy and forgiveness makes it easier to work together.  Mercy and forgiveness because without it, it is like running a car without oil. Might run for a little while, then it all breaks to shit.  People are at different places in the journey.  Forgivable for some might not be forgivable for all yet. Let everyone know everything equals wise? Unforgiving intelligence with unlimited wire taps wise?

They look like they have more.  They can handle the extra problems. Wait they had health problems that aren’t being fixed and they are leveraged? I didn’t see that.  Why didn’t they tell me? Could they tell you?  What might happen if they did. I just operated on what I knew. And they operated on what they knew. But I am still mad because it hurt me.  Yes, but knowing they had problems of their own makes me feel better? Now I feel bad for getting mad in the first place.  So hurt because of the loss and now hurt for being mad about the loss in the first place. Damnit I can’t seem to win, why should I try in the first place. God accounted for their success, yet my dreams left to the dust?

That’s how it is.

That’s how it is?

That’s how it’s going to be?

We can’t make it better?

Let’s make it better.

Let’s make it right.

Their supercomputer model said this would be better. Our supercomputer model said that would be better. The fatal flaw we allowed more than one model? The fatal flaw our models didn’t match God’s model? God can’t account for multiple supercomputers? Always listen to the intel? No room for mercy when plans don’t match? Any man made system perfect for all scenarios? No.

Not an excuse to not make it right. Not an excuse to not be merciful or forgiving.

Always room for love and mercy? Yes

They came from a broken family so we had mercy on them, but you knew better. The problem with that? Their problems mattered to us and your problems didn’t. Love, mercy, and support for all better. Just because one wheel squeaks louder doesn’t mean the other’s don’t have problems too. Trying to fix all wheels at the same time makes things more complicated. Have a little mercy on those trying to fix the problems. Too many cooks in the kitchen a problem. Too few with too many orders also a problem. More problems more reason for mercy. “More money more problems”. So more money equals more mercy?

Be more merciful to the wealthy? Give more money to those that hurt me? Depends on return on investment? Yes, Yes, and Yes. Good return on investment can help us help more in the future. Getting people to a point that they can provide good return on investment requires support. Doesn’t seem like it makes sense but it does. “Oh we got a wise guy eh?” We got a job for you. Since when?