ALL ABOARD THE ENTROPIC DEATH MACHINE

[digging]

Well I’m new here but you have made an interesting point.

Oddly the core point you made reminds me of something said in the book of Revelations, go figure?

Rev 9:6 And in those days men will seek death and will not find it; they will long to die, and death flees from them.

The bible is also a history book so perhaps this is a pattern of empires behaviors as they fall?

Digging

[ashvin]

Zarathustra, loving the analogy to “Crime and Punishment”. I do get the sense that many of us are longing for that kind of repentance for our past sins, even collective sins, and perhaps even many of those in the ruling elite class. Yet our worldly urge is to project that need onto others or justify our fundamentally unjustifiable transgressions as necessary deeds in the face of some vaguely defined threat or “evil”.

digging, I like this sentiment from Paul:

2Corinithians7 wrote: 8Even if I caused you sorrow by my letter, I do not regret it. Though I did regret it—I see that my letter hurt you, but only for a little while— 9yet now I am happy, not because you were made sorry, but because your sorrow led you to repentance. For you became sorrowful as God intended and so were not harmed in any way by us. 10Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation and leaves no regret, but worldly sorrow brings death.

Obviously, the concept of longing for and seeking repentance/atonement is found all throughout the Bible, as is the concept (and reality) of avoiding/rejecting those things and reaping the consequences. As for war, famine, disease, earthquakes and floods, we unfortunately get plenty of that too…

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