I don't see how anyone can think all this shit was just happenstance.
There IS something greater than us, there HAS to be.
I tend to be a kind of gnostic in my belief and so I believe everyone has a connection to God which means that I cannot be threatened, even when I feel like I am being threatened. I think Jesus made this abundantly clear when he said The Father and I are one. Everything else, including religion and evolution, is immaterial.
Frank said that God is the First Cause but God is also the only Cause, everything else is only an effect. Therefore most of what we think of as "problem solving" or "science" is simply messing with effects and that is why it seems hopeless sometimes because it starts to seem like the effect is the cause. Unless we join back with the First and Only Cause. The only way to truly solve a problem is to not solve it. Seek first the Kingdom of Heaven and all else is added on.
As the great spiritual teacher Philip K. Dick wrote, "Matter is plastic in the face of mind." This means whatever theory people embrace and put their energy and thought into will start to appear to be true. And things that appear to be evidence and proof will start to manifest. But as the great poet Yeats notes, "the center cannot hold" this is because trying to stitch together effects, mere echoes of the First and Only Cause is like trying to stitch shadows together. I mean, one can create the illusion that one has stitched shadows together by rearranging light and reflection but at the end of the day, a shadow is still nothing.
This is why every 10-20 years theories that were thought to be absolutely true are tossed out in favore of theories that were ridiculed 10-20 years earlier.
To go back to Phil, "He causes things to look different so it would appear time has passed."
This is necessary to maintain the illusion because, of course, time doesn't exist, the past, present and future all happen at once, instantaneously. Evolution is a particularly good trick because it makes time seem so real. But magicians have been sawing ladies in half forever and yet the ladies always emerge whole from the box. How did the magician put them back together? He didn't have to because they were never divided in the first place. Nothing ever needed to evolve because it was already whole and complete in the first place.
And to be perfectly clear, because I think Phil cocked this up a bit, the First and Only Cause did not create this illusion. We did. God can't create anything that isn't perfect therefore we are, in fact, perfect already, it is simply that we don't think we are. And because we have all the creative power of God behind our thoughts, we can keep this illusion going a long, long time. Until we get tired of it and decide to return home. Which we never left but we think we did so we manufacture the evidence that we are somewhere other than where we are.
This is why the world appears to be mad. But something that does not exist cannot be mad.
