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"In the country of the blind
the one-eyed man is king." - Erasmus.
The Importance of Context
11/20/2018
What is often forgotten in our thinking and discourse
concerning important issues is that context is paramount. There can be
no valid meaning without context because every issue must be couched or
framed in its proper context to have any significance, relevance,, or
validity.
Context would seem to be the ground, the framework, sometimes even the rationale
for discussing issues.
There are various levels and several aspects of context,
and it would be hard to list or describe them all, but in any situation
or discussion there is usually one that is critical and just a few others that are
germane.
When we discuss spiritual—philosophical, theological, psychological,
social, etc.—issues there are always two major aspects of context that
affect almost everything, yet this context is often missing in the awareness
of those involved. These two aspects are:
1. The human condition
2. The Saturnian and planetary catastrophe oriented reconstruction of our world's recent past.
Usually, agreement on the first, the human condition, can be managed
if done carefully, but even agreeing on this can be problematic because
of the overwhelming tendency of humans to BE in and STAY in denial.
Unless we have a very high level of conviction that something can and
will be done about it, we don't like to talk about it. Why would we?
On the other hand the truth about the world's recent catastrophic past has been buried
by a modern flood of Gradualist, Uniformitarian, and Evolutionist theory and
teaching in our halls of learning and in the relevant scientific
disciplines. Consequently, there is most times no agreement on this
important context. It is well past the time that we should learn about
it and understand its incredibly far reaching implications for and the effects
on modern society and the human material and spiritual condition.
There have been solar system rearrangements and global
catastrophes delivered from the heavens by planetary electrical
interactions; huge amounts of material have rained down on earth, and
dramatic sea level changes have taken place in our recent past. The
human race has been decimated more than once and is in denial by
"forgetting" and/or pushing these events into the far remote past. It is
high time that we come to understand these developments, deal with them
honestly, and take them into consideration concerning the origins and developments
of our civilizations and religions.
"It is a misery to be born, a pain to live, a
trouble to die." - St. Bernard de Clairvaux
If you wonder sometimes about the lack of
meaning in the world you see, maybe it has something to do with the general
failure to be aware of the true context by most people.
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