Short, and some longer, Thoughts

I imagine for people who think time is money, and have people on the payroll who do unforgivable things that this would seem an adequate explanation. The problem is when people do evil things to you knowing that you will be pressured into forgiving them. Eventually, it becomes too much.

Everyone gets what they deserve. Ponder that for it carries much implication and can be a blessing or a curse. Which one depends entirely on the person. Universal justice is always infinitely fair even if it takes a while.

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Your and God's Will

Doing God's Will is not surrendering your free will. It is not losing it. Doing God's Will is the choice to align your will with His and cooperate in creating a greater reality and a greater universe for all. Doing God's Will is to enhance your will and become what you never could on your own.

What is God's Will you may ask? It is peace, beauty, goodness, greatness, love, becoming what you never thought was possible, realising an unlimited potential culminating in the big one - "Be you Perfect even as I AM Perfect" - the only command of God to His children - the call to become like Him. That's the destiny of all that choose to align with God's Will.



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Owing Life

Life owes you nothing but you owe life everything.

"And what do I owe life?" you may ask.
To make it better. Life needs you to make it better.

The Peace of Faith

The Peace of Faith is knowing that everything will be fine even if it all appears disastrous.

The Peace of Faith is knowing that you will be fine even in the midst of what appears disastrous.

How do you get The Peace of Faith? You start with a little Piece of Faith.

True Family

Your family are not always the ones you live with. They are not always the group you were born into which share your blood. They can be called "family" but could remain strangers your whole life.

Your family, your real family, are those you share your heart with. They are those with who you connect your soul. Your real family are your greatest supporters and best friends. Those with whom real love are shared and who you know, absolutely know, will never betray you. Those you want to give your life to.

Much is said about brother and sisterhood and much ado is made about it but that is only platonic relationships until your heart and soul gets put into it. Until you give your full self over. Then it becomes something as precious as life itself. Then it becomes Eternal and Indestructible. Then it becomes True Family.



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Have a lovely life

Future World Music - Victory Of Life
(Volume.11 Preview - early 2011)
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The Woman and the King

The man that has real power has the loyalty and respect of a woman.
The man that has real superpower has the love of a woman.
The lion isn't known as King of the Beasts just because he is strong. The elephant is also strong but yet the lion can bring down the elephant.
It is also because he is wise. He knows where his real power lies.
The Woman...the Kingmaker.

HUMAN gets their "wings"... i do love the image on that. Music is awesome too

Courage

Courage is not born from safety.
It is born from peril, challenge, fear and the efforts to overcome it.
A spirit that always wants to be safe is a spirit that will always be weak.

Who's there?

A little exercise in soul searching.

Stand in front of your mirror and look into your eyes.
Look past your face, the face before you, and go into the eyes before you.
Look more.
Go deeper.
Let the rest of your reflection dissolve and only see your portals.
Go into them.
Don't feel afraid.
Don't feel weird.
What is happening?
Who is appearing?
Is it just you or is it You?
Whose face is that?
Is it different?
Who's there?

forgiveness is more for the being giving it than for the one receiving it... however it may well benefit the whole relationship depending of the receiver. Forgiveness allows putting the situation to rest... revenge never ever serves a purpose other than dark energy.

In the Silence

In the silence is where you must seek
In the silence is where you must find
In the silence is where you must rest
Put your heart in the silence and discover the Voice.

Giving

Give because you want to give
Give what you can give
Giving does not mean owing
Don't give your self away completely. Respect yourself first
Giving should be your gift. Not become your obligation nor your slavery
"No" is not a dirty word

The Reward

When you do something, do you say: "I did this, now give me something back for it?" Why? Why would you think you should get a return for everything you give? Why would your ego demand it? Does it want to show off? Does it feel like it needs to prove its worthiness by expecting or demanding a return, compensation, reward? Why is a reward so important? What if there is no reward for a task? What if your giving doesn't get an immediate return? Will you feel upset? Will you feel that you've been done in, robbed?

Giving should not be about rewards. It should be about giving because you want to. Because you feel a need to. Because you like to. Giving without wanting a reward is real. Forced giving as working for just a reward is selfish. Don't work for just a reward. Work for the love of it. Work because it will make everything better.

Not everything comes with a reward, an award or even acknowledgement but if it was done from just the love of it then you've already been rewarded before you even began to give. Know that every action has a return in some way but don't expect that return, just let the expectation go and make your own life lighter. The bottom line is...never expect a reward but yet always be ready for it because the universe, and life, loves to surprise, love to "balance the books" in fairness. Love to give.

Nothing is done for nothing. You'll get what you deserve from what you gave, even if it isn't what you think you deserve...or when you think you deserve it. How do you know anyway what you truly deserve? How do you know what your Life Book will say come accounting time? It may be more than you bargained for...it may be less than you bargained for...but, for you, always will it be just right...SURPRISE!

and it starts more get back at each other too.

The author of this is White Fly... and White Fly is not posting here since late May.

Principles of Civilized Man



1) The first duty is always to the Truth



2) Never pronounce judgment or draw conclusions without sufficient evidence. Always be fair.



3) Love all equally and unconditionally, friend and foe alike.



4) Understand, accept and do not try to change another to match your opinion of what they should be. They are as they are for their own reasons of which you may not be aware.



5) Never allow any to live in ignorance if you can help it, including yourself. Educate others, and yourself, in truth whenever possible but do not force your ways and views onto another if they prove not ready. Have patience, including with yourself. All in due time if due diligence, insight and wisdom is applied.



6) Allow for variety. Monotony is poison for the soul.



7) Be open minded and explore. Do not make speculative assumptions. Investigate and confirm. Use your mind for good. Be as objective as possible and never intervene where you have not been asked to intervene. You may not be as welcome as you hoped or thought.



8 ) Respect Sovereignty, Freedom, Free Will and Peace.



9) Do not tolerate hatred. Do not harbor hatred. Do not be be vengeful. Be Forgiving and accept Forgiveness. Mercy is for the strong.



10) Do not tolerate what is clearly wrong and harmful. Use good reason and discernment in everything you encounter. Measure all by best standards.



11) Allow life to unfold naturally. Do not attempt to force it to conform to your ideas of how it should be. What you think should be and what should actually be may not coincide.



12) It's not about what life gives you. It's about what you give life.



13) Leave no life joyless. Play a little every day and have a party once in a while.



14) Cry when you must. Laugh when you must. Give a hug. Get a hug. Give a kiss. Get a kiss...and always remember..."What we've done in life is less important than how we've lived" (jean Luc Picard - Star Trek Generations).



15) Have Faith and always honor Creator.



In conclusion then...I See You. Namaste. Many Blessings to you.

New commentary from White Fly. From My forum which cannot be used here.

Civilization

A Civilization is a peaceful society of high spiritual, ethical, moral, intellectual and technological development. Earth in 2020 has no civilization. It is nowhere to be found. It is a brutish animalistic existence of strife and competition for resources, power and sex. It is no different than the beasts of the field. In the future times of this world ,under the administration of the Divine, civilization will not be rebuilt. It will be built.

I'm back and thank you to ALL IS ONE IS ALL - KAN DAEK for the postings.

When all else fails

When all else fails, what will you do? When all else fails, when everything around you falls down and pulls apart at the seams, what will you do? Who will you turn to? Will you turn to family? What if they fail? How about friends? What if they desert you? The police? Emergency services? The government? What if the numbers don't work? What if nobody is on the other side?

If all else fails and you stand alone with nobody to call on, nobody to help you? If all else fails and you need courage, where will you find it? How will you conquer your fear? What if you are pushed beyond limits where even your body and mind feels it can't go on and is screaming for release?

When all else fails, where can you turn too?
When all else fails, you descend. You descend into Silence. You close your eyes, even if for only a moment or two, and you descend. You descend inwards toward your center.

When all else fails you descend into God. You descend inwards into the God within you. You go deep inside and you embrace the power you carry. You go deep inside and you embrace the Silence of the center of God which you are deep inside. For that one moment you embrace that silence and then...you bring that power out. You bring that power out in full force. You bring out the power of God within.

When all else fails you bring out the power of God within. You bring out the peace. You bring out the cou-rage. You bring out the knowledge and wisdom that is part of you as God is part of you. When all else fails you bring out God.

You bring out God and you see that when all else fails...that you do not...that you cannot...that it is impossible for you to fail.

When all else fails and you bring out God within and embrace that alliance which is closer than your rushing heartbeat...you discover that you are invincible. You discover that you not only have God within but also the power and peace of that God within. You discover that you are God as God is you. You discover the power of the Silence and then you discover the power of the Word. The Word of God within. The Word of God which you are.

When all else fails you then stand up. You lose your fear. You go beyond. You find your true courage and power. You take a step forward...and another...and another...and you begin to walk as God on earth. You become the invincible Spirit you are, for when you walk as God nothing can ever fail and when all else out-side fails nothing inside will.

This call is sent out to all who may find themselves alone in the midst of chaos and fear where ever and whenever it may occur during the coming times. Know that when all else fails but you embrace the Silent Power of God within that you will never fail. The power is only a thought away. God is only a thought way. Let it lift you and guide you. Listen to the Silence speak.

When all else fails...take the step...and let God take the rest with you. You are never alone and never will be...even when all else fails.

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Equality

Equality is a myth. It cannot exist. All are where they are and who they are and can't be anywhere or anything different than what that is right now.

Although all are created equal, which means with all the same potential, that is where it stops. Beyond that point all depart on their own journeys. They gain their own levels of intelligence, knowledge, wisdom, experiences, skills. Not one is the same as another and not one can ever be. That is what "equality" means, all the same.

Equality is standardisation and standardisation can only exist for artificial things. Equality also has other names...one is BALANCE but another is STAGNATION

None can and ever will be equal. No bug is equal to another, no tree is equal to another, no human is equal to another, not even any angel is equal to another. Equality is unnatural. Inequality is natural and that natural also goes by other names...they are UNIQUENESS and ADVANCEMENT

For any to be equal that which are more advanced must be held back so the less advanced can catch up. Then all must forever be held at the same level, dictated by the slowest developer. That is not fair nor right to any.

Inequality is the only standard there can be. None are and will ever be equal beyond the creation moment. The task of those ahead are not to bring those behind to their level but just assist them to move ahead to their own higher, and most suitable, level.

The task of those at lower levels are to advance and not try to unduly hold back those at the higher levels to "catch up". Development is not a competition. It's a progressive process, the "journey", and each can only ever move at their own best pace. This fact makes the very idea of equality an impossible "pipe dream".

The only equality that exist are that of and within the Father's Love. There is none higher that can be had.

If we are not equal before the law, then there is no and never was a 'father.'

Great job Whitefly!

This is a very relevant thread.

Top 10 in the all times of GLP says me!

Thanks Brother.

We may not be equal in other areas but before the Father's love, mercy, universal and divine law we are all equal. None transcends the Father's laws and all will always be given an equal chance of redemption. The question just is if that chance will be accepted or rejected. Sadly there are those that reject that chance to live within The Law and so choose their own demise.

I will personally attest that living within the Father's Laws is not limitation. It is real liberation because the laws are from love as are the rewards. Great things do the Father have in store for those who love his law and his will.

this is the total lack of comprehension about what the Father is... and in heaven cases are tried in COURTS under the Ancients of Days or other lesser courts. The the Ancients of Days.. there are 21 of them... can order the annihilation of a being.. Lucifer was one of them so ordered.

Your Imperfection

As a human, abide in your imperfection. You are not meant to nor are expected to be perfect. Rather, use this (your imperfection) as a motivator to aspire to and grow towards perfection but do not worry that you will not achieve it as a human. Know however that you will achieve it as a spirit as you progress through your eternal career.

A long thought from the Urantia Book - [link to www.urantia.org (secure)]

Culture and Civilisation

5. Cultural Society
81:5.1 (905.6) Biologic evolution and cultural civilization are not necessarily correlated; organic evolution in any age may proceed unhindered in the very midst of cultural decadence. But when lengthy periods of human history are surveyed, it will be observed that eventually evolution and culture become related as cause and effect. Evolution may advance in the absence of culture, but cultural civilization does not flourish without an adequate background of antecedent racial progression. Adam and Eve introduced no art of civilization foreign to the progress of human society, but the Adamic blood did augment the inherent ability of the races and did accelerate the pace of economic development and industrial progression. Adam’s bestowal improved the brain power of the races, thereby greatly hastening the processes of natural evolution.

81:5.2 (905.7) Through agriculture, animal domestication, and improved architecture, mankind gradually escaped the worst of the incessant struggle to live and began to cast about to find wherewith to sweeten the process of living; and this was the beginning of the striving for higher and ever higher standards of material comfort. Through manufacture and industry man is gradually augmenting the pleasure content of mortal life.

81:5.3 (906.1) But cultural society is no great and beneficent club of inherited privilege into which all men are born with free membership and entire equality. Rather is it an exalted and ever-advancing guild of earth workers, admitting to its ranks only the nobility of those toilers who strive to make the world a better place in which their children and their children’s children may live and advance in subsequent ages. And this guild of civilization exacts costly admission fees, imposes strict and rigorous disciplines, visits heavy penalties on all dissenters and nonconformists, while it confers few personal licenses or privileges except those of enhanced security against common dangers and racial perils.

81:5.4 (906.2) Social association is a form of survival insurance which human beings have learned is profitable; therefore are most individuals willing to pay those premiums of self-sacrifice and personal-liberty curtailment which society exacts from its members in return for this enhanced group protection. In short, the present-day social mechanism is a trial-and-error insurance plan designed to afford some degree of assurance and protection against a return to the terrible and antisocial conditions which characterized the early experiences of the human race.

81:5.5 (906.3) Society thus becomes a co-operative scheme for securing civil freedom through institutions, economic freedom through capital and invention, social liberty through culture, and freedom from violence through police regulation.

81:5.6 (906.4) Might does not make right, but it does enforce the commonly recognized rights of each succeeding generation. The prime mission of government is the definition of the right, the just and fair regulation of class differences, and the enforcement of equality of opportunity under the rules of law. Every human right is associated with a social duty; group privilege is an insurance mechanism which unfailingly demands the full payment of the exacting premiums of group service. And group rights, as well as those of the individual, must be protected, including the regulation of the sex propensity.

81:5.7 (906.5) Liberty subject to group regulation is the legitimate goal of social evolution. Liberty without restrictions is the vain and fanciful dream of unstable and flighty human minds.

6. The Maintenance of Civilization
81:6.1 (906.6) While biologic evolution has proceeded ever upward, much of cultural evolution went out from the Euphrates valley in waves, which successively weakened as time passed until finally the whole of the pure-line Adamic posterity had gone forth to enrich the civilizations of Asia and Europe. The races did not fully blend, but their civilizations did to a considerable extent mix. Culture did slowly spread throughout the world. And this civilization must be maintained and fostered, for there exist today no new sources of culture, no Andites to invigorate and stimulate the slow progress of the evolution of civilization.

81:6.2 (906.7) The civilization which is now evolving on Urantia grew out of, and is predicated on, the following factors:

81:6.3 (906.8) 1. Natural circumstances. The nature and extent of a material civilization is in large measure determined by the natural resources available. Climate, weather, and numerous physical conditions are factors in the evolution of culture.

81:6.4 (907.1) At the opening of the Andite era there were only two extensive and fertile open hunting areas in all the world. One was in North America and was overspread by the Amerinds; the other was to the north of Turkestan and was partly occupied by an Andonic-yellow race. The decisive factors in the evolution of a superior culture in southwestern Asia were race and climate. The Andites were a great people, but the crucial factor in determining the course of their civilization was the increasing aridity of Iran, Turkestan, and Sinkiang, which forced them to invent and adopt new and advanced methods of wresting a livelihood from their decreasingly fertile lands.

81:6.5 (907.2) The configuration of continents and other land-arrangement situations are very influential in determining peace or war. Very few Urantians have ever had such a favorable opportunity for continuous and unmolested development as has been enjoyed by the peoples of North America—protected on practically all sides by vast oceans.

81:6.6 (907.3) 2. Capital goods. Culture is never developed under conditions of poverty; leisure is essential to the progress of civilization. Individual character of moral and spiritual value may be acquired in the absence of material wealth, but a cultural civilization is only derived from those conditions of material prosperity which foster leisure combined with ambition.

81:6.7 (907.4) During primitive times life on Urantia was a serious and sober business. And it was to escape this incessant struggle and interminable toil that mankind constantly tended to drift toward the salubrious climate of the tropics. While these warmer zones of habitation afforded some remission from the intense struggle for existence, the races and tribes who thus sought ease seldom utilized their unearned leisure for the advancement of civilization. Social progress has invariably come from the thoughts and plans of those races that have, by their intelligent toil, learned how to wrest a living from the land with lessened effort and shortened days of labor and thus have been able to enjoy a well-earned and profitable margin of leisure.

81:6.8 (907.5) 3. Scientific knowledge. The material aspects of civilization must always await the accumulation of scientific data. It was a long time after the discovery of the bow and arrow and the utilization of animals for power purposes before man learned how to harness wind and water, to be followed by the employment of steam and electricity. But slowly the tools of civilization improved. Weaving, pottery, the domestication of animals, and metalworking were followed by an age of writing and printing.

81:6.9 (907.6) Knowledge is power. Invention always precedes the acceleration of cultural development on a world-wide scale. Science and invention benefited most of all from the printing press, and the interaction of all these cultural and inventive activities has enormously accelerated the rate of cultural advancement.

81:6.10 (907.7) Science teaches man to speak the new language of mathematics and trains his thoughts along lines of exacting precision. And science also stabilizes philosophy through the elimination of error, while it purifies religion by the destruction of superstition.

81:6.11 (907.8) 4. Human resources. Man power is indispensable to the spread of civilization. All things equal, a numerous people will dominate the civilization of a smaller race. Hence failure to increase in numbers up to a certain point prevents the full realization of national destiny, but there comes a point in population increase where further growth is suicidal. Multiplication of numbers beyond the optimum of the normal man-land ratio means either a lowering of the standards of living or an immediate expansion of territorial boundaries by peaceful penetration or by military conquest, forcible occupation.

81:6.12 (908.1) You are sometimes shocked at the ravages of war, but you should recognize the necessity for producing large numbers of mortals so as to afford ample opportunity for social and moral development; with such planetary fertility there soon occurs the serious problem of overpopulation. Most of the inhabited worlds are small. Urantia is average, perhaps a trifle undersized. The optimum stabilization of national population enhances culture and prevents war. And it is a wise nation which knows when to cease growing.

81:6.13 (908.2) But the continent richest in natural deposits and the most advanced mechanical equipment will make little progress if the intelligence of its people is on the decline. Knowledge can be had by education, but wisdom, which is indispensable to true culture, can be secured only through experience and by men and women who are innately intelligent. Such a people are able to learn from experience; they may become truly wise.

81:6.14 (908.3) 5. Effectiveness of material resources. Much depends on the wisdom displayed in the utilization of natural resources, scientific knowledge, capital goods, and human potentials. The chief factor in early civilization was the force exerted by wise social masters; primitive man had civilization literally thrust upon him by his superior contemporaries. Well-organized and superior minorities have largely ruled this world.

81:6.15 (908.4) Might does not make right, but might does make what is and what has been in history. Only recently has Urantia reached that point where society is willing to debate the ethics of might and right.

81:6.16 (908.5) 6. Effectiveness of language. The spread of civilization must wait upon language. Live and growing languages insure the expansion of civilized thinking and planning. During the early ages important advances were made in language. Today, there is great need for further linguistic development to facilitate the expression of evolving thought.

81:6.17 (908.6) Language evolved out of group associations, each local group developing its own system of word exchange. Language grew up through gestures, signs, cries, imitative sounds, intonation, and accent to the vocalization of subsequent alphabets. Language is man’s greatest and most serviceable thinking tool, but it never flourished until social groups acquired some leisure. The tendency to play with language develops new words—slang. If the majority adopt the slang, then usage constitutes it language. The origin of dialects is illustrated by the indulgence in “baby talk” in a family group.

81:6.18 (908.7) Language differences have ever been the great barrier to the extension of peace. The conquest of dialects must precede the spread of a culture throughout a race, over a continent, or to a whole world. A universal language promotes peace, insures culture, and augments happiness. Even when the tongues of a world are reduced to a few, the mastery of these by the leading cultural peoples mightily influences the achievement of world-wide peace and prosperity.

81:6.19 (908.8) While very little progress has been made on Urantia toward developing an international language, much has been accomplished by the establishment of international commercial exchange. And all these international relations should be fostered, whether they involve language, trade, art, science, competitive play, or religion.

81:6.20 (909.1) 7. Effectiveness of mechanical devices. The progress of civilization is directly related to the development and possession of tools, machines, and channels of distribution. Improved tools, ingenious and efficient machines, determine the survival of contending groups in the arena of advancing civilization.

81:6.21 (909.2) In the early days the only energy applied to land cultivation was man power. It was a long struggle to substitute oxen for men since this threw men out of employment. Latterly, machines have begun to displace men, and every such advance is directly contributory to the progress of society because it liberates man power for the accomplishment of more valuable tasks.

81:6.22 (909.3) Science, guided by wisdom, may become man’s great social liberator. A mechanical age can prove disastrous only to a nation whose intellectual level is too low to discover those wise methods and sound techniques for successfully adjusting to the transition difficulties arising from the sudden loss of employment by large numbers consequent upon the too rapid invention of new types of laborsaving machinery.

81:6.23 (909.4) 8. Character of torchbearers. Social inheritance enables man to stand on the shoulders of all who have preceded him, and who have contributed aught to the sum of culture and knowledge. In this work of passing on the cultural torch to the next generation, the home will ever be the basic institution. The play and social life comes next, with the school last but equally indispensable in a complex and highly organized society.

81:6.24 (909.5) Insects are born fully educated and equipped for life—indeed, a very narrow and purely instinctive existence. The human baby is born without an education; therefore man possesses the power, by controlling the educational training of the younger generation, greatly to modify the evolutionary course of civilization.

81:6.25 (909.6) The greatest twentieth-century influences contributing to the furtherance of civilization and the advancement of culture are the marked increase in world travel and the unparalleled improvements in methods of communication. But the improvement in education has not kept pace with the expanding social structure; neither has the modern appreciation of ethics developed in correspondence with growth along more purely intellectual and scientific lines. And modern civilization is at a standstill in spiritual development and the safeguarding of the home institution.

81:6.26 (909.7) 9. The racial ideals. The ideals of one generation carve out the channels of destiny for immediate posterity. The quality of the social torchbearers will determine whether civilization goes forward or backward. The homes, churches, and schools of one generation predetermine the character trend of the succeeding generation. The moral and spiritual momentum of a race or a nation largely determines the cultural velocity of that civilization.

81:6.27 (909.8) Ideals elevate the source of the social stream. And no stream will rise any higher than its source no matter what technique of pressure or directional control may be employed. The driving power of even the most material aspects of a cultural civilization is resident in the least material of society’s achievements. Intelligence may control the mechanism of civilization, wisdom may direct it, but spiritual idealism is the energy which really uplifts and advances human culture from one level of attainment to another.

81:6.28 (910.1) At first life was a struggle for existence; now, for a standard of living; next it will be for quality of thinking, the coming earthly goal of human existence.

81:6.29 (910.2) 10. Co-ordination of specialists. Civilization has been enormously advanced by the early division of labor and by its later corollary of specialization. Civilization is now dependent on the effective co-ordination of specialists. As society expands, some method of drawing together the various specialists must be found.

81:6.30 (910.3) Social, artistic, technical, and industrial specialists will continue to multiply and increase in skill and dexterity. And this diversification of ability and dissimilarity of employment will eventually weaken and disintegrate human society if effective means of co-ordination and co-operation are not developed. But the intelligence which is capable of such inventiveness and such specialization should be wholly competent to devise adequate methods of control and adjustment for all problems resulting from the rapid growth of invention and the accelerated pace of cultural expansion.

81:6.31 (910.4) 11. Place-finding devices. The next age of social development will be embodied in a better and more effective co-operation and co-ordination of ever-increasing and expanding specialization. And as labor more and more diversifies, some technique for directing individuals to suitable employment must be devised. Machinery is not the only cause for unemployment among the civilized peoples of Urantia. Economic complexity and the steady increase of industrial and professional specialism add to the problems of labor placement.

81:6.32 (910.5) It is not enough to train men for work; in a complex society there must also be provided efficient methods of place finding. Before training citizens in the highly specialized techniques of earning a living, they should be trained in one or more methods of commonplace labor, trades or callings which could be utilized when they were transiently unemployed in their specialized work. No civilization can survive the long-time harboring of large classes of unemployed. In time, even the best of citizens will become distorted and demoralized by accepting support from the public treasury. Even private charity becomes pernicious when long extended to able-bodied citizens.

81:6.33 (910.6) Such a highly specialized society will not take kindly to the ancient communal and feudal practices of olden peoples. True, many common services can be acceptably and profitably socialized, but highly trained and ultraspecialized human beings can best be managed by some technique of intelligent co-operation. Modernized co-ordination and fraternal regulation will be productive of longer-lived co-operation than will the older and more primitive methods of communism or dictatorial regulative institutions based on force.

81:6.34 (910.7) 12. The willingness to co-operate. One of the great hindrances to the progress of human society is the conflict between the interests and welfare of the larger, more socialized human groups and of the smaller, contrary-minded asocial associations of mankind, not to mention antisocially-minded single individuals.

81:6.35 (910.8) No national civilization long endures unless its educational methods and religious ideals inspire a high type of intelligent patriotism and national devotion. Without this sort of intelligent patriotism and cultural solidarity, all nations tend to disintegrate as a result of provincial jealousies and local self-interests.

81:6.36 (911.1) The maintenance of world-wide civilization is dependent on human beings learning how to live together in peace and fraternity. Without effective co-ordination, industrial civilization is jeopardized by the dangers of ultraspecialization: monotony, narrowness, and the tendency to breed distrust and jealousy.

81:6.37 (911.2) 13. Effective and wise leadership. In civilization much, very much, depends on an enthusiastic and effective load-pulling spirit. Ten men are of little more value than one in lifting a great load unless they lift together—all at the same moment. And such teamwork—social co-operation—is dependent on leadership. The cultural civilizations of the past and the present have been based upon the intelligent co-operation of the citizenry with wise and progressive leaders; and until man evolves to higher levels, civilization will continue to be dependent on wise and vigorous leadership.

81:6.38 (911.3) High civilizations are born of the sagacious correlation of material wealth, intellectual greatness, moral worth, social cleverness, and cosmic insight.

81:6.39 (911.4) 14. Social changes. Society is not a divine institution; it is a phenomenon of progressive evolution; and advancing civilization is always delayed when its leaders are slow in making those changes in the social organization which are essential to keeping pace with the scientific developments of the age. For all that, things must not be despised just because they are old, neither should an idea be unconditionally embraced just because it is novel and new.

81:6.40 (911.5) Man should be unafraid to experiment with the mechanisms of society. But always should these adventures in cultural adjustment be controlled by those who are fully conversant with the history of social evolution; and always should these innovators be counseled by the wisdom of those who have had practical experience in the domains of contemplated social or economic experiment. No great social or economic change should be attempted suddenly. Time is essential to all types of human adjustment—physical, social, or economic. Only moral and spiritual adjustments can be made on the spur of the moment, and even these require the passing of time for the full outworking of their material and social repercussions. The ideals of the race are the chief support and assurance during the critical times when civilization is in transit from one level to another.

81:6.41 (911.6) 15. The prevention of transitional breakdown. Society is the offspring of age upon age of trial and error; it is what survived the selective adjustments and readjustments in the successive stages of mankind’s agelong rise from animal to human levels of planetary status. The great danger to any civilization—at any one moment—is the threat of breakdown during the time of transition from the established methods of the past to those new and better, but untried, procedures of the future.

81:6.42 (911.7) Leadership is vital to progress. Wisdom, insight, and foresight are indispensable to the endurance of nations. Civilization is never really jeopardized until able leadership begins to vanish. And the quantity of such wise leadership has never exceeded one per cent of the population.

81:6.43 (911.8) And it was by these rungs on the evolutionary ladder that civilization climbed to that place where those mighty influences could be initiated which have culminated in the rapidly expanding culture of the twentieth century. And only by adherence to these essentials can man hope to maintain his present-day civilizations while providing for their continued development and certain survival.

81:6.44 (912.1) This is the gist of the long, long struggle of the peoples of earth to establish civilization since the age of Adam. Present-day culture is the net result of this strenuous evolution. Before the discovery of printing, progress was relatively slow since one generation could not so rapidly benefit from the achievements of its predecessors. But now human society is plunging forward under the force of the accumulated momentum of all the ages through which civilization has struggled.

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Live for it

You have often heard the expression "I will die for you" or "I will die for my cause". But ask yourself first "Why?" Why indeed? The dead are useless.

Rather say "I will live for you" or "I will live for my cause". Only the living can make a difference. Live for it.

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Childlike Innocence

Innocence is freedom of corruption. It is to be childlike but not childish, which is to be foolish, immature and unwise.

A return to innocence and childlikeness is possible. Like everything it's about choice. You can choose it. You can choose to purge corruption from mind and spirit without sacrificing truth, wisdom and maturity.

You can choose to become pure and innocent once again. Choose to be childlike but not childish.