my way

 Thinking purely about the survival of our species and The logical approach to human existence on the planet, individual ego is largely an impediment. Then again ego quite often drives us to come up with new ideas to make the planet a far better place to live. To some degree everyone on the planet goes through a routine that coexists with or enhances the routines of those around them. The idea that we're all part of a machine that makes society work. But our actual implementation of activities leaves much to be desired as far as operating at top efficiency. If we all worked without ego simply to provide for ourselves and others, we would basically end up with way more stuff than was needed. Take cars as an example. Every car I've ever heard of does the same thing, carries occupants from point a to point b. It's human ego it turns it into some kind of contest where lots of people can't afford a car and then other people have cars worth millions of dollars. if everyone manufactured world-class products and everyone used exactly what they needed to accomplish a routine that would sustain and enhance all of society then it would be one of those sort of socialistic Utopias. But my guess is that the eternal Paradise won't even work this way. For instance one of the things the Bible makes clear is that people will receive rewards for their works. What would the point of rewards be if some people weren't going to be better off than others? If rewards just left everyone exactly the same what would be the point of rewards? So the reality is that we operate to produce an excess of some stuff that we really don't even need while other needs go unmet for those that are less fortunate, or that live in a society where the government, their religion, their economic system, or their educational process leaves them disadvantaged. Not to mention their own unwillingness to work at times. And let's not forget that we all come under demonic attack that also neutralizes our efforts to help ourselves and others. It's a sick test.

At times I would hear people at work make statements like I took a mental health day yesterday. What this means is they weren't sick, they just didn't want to come to work. They may not have had any vacation time so they just took a sick day and stayed home and sat around and watch TV and ate popcorn and drank beer. The next day they wake up and they feel all better, back to work.

Another joke I heard was I didn't come to work yesterday because I was having vision problems. The other person responds wow what was wrong? The first person answers I just couldn't see coming to work. Hahaha.

 These examples sound funny but they just point out that we all work in a somewhat inefficient manner. We're all somewhat selfish, or emotion based, and we're driven at times by spiritual forces. There are times that good spiritual forces help us, but the times we really notice are the times the spiritual forces are fighting us. When spiritual forces are helping us everything goes right and we think we're geniuses. But when everything goes wrong it's all these evil spiritual forces and God's not helping us. We're messed up.

 

 

 

Now I like fancy cars. I like the idea that Tesla is shaking up the car industry. It would have taken us hundreds of years to get electric cars going if somebody didn't come in and say look we can really do this right now. That took massive ego. The forces of the existing car industry had no desire for any meaningful electric car market. It threatens their existence, but none of these guys seems to have any real interest in everyone having a car. Of course the question would be what does everyone need a car for? I thought about having fleets of social network cars. The problem with this is the usage maintenance and cleanliness. Some people are going to crash them into stuff and trash out the insides with babies throwing up and all kinds of sick stuff and then just turn the car in a big mess. Other people could drive the thing 10 million miles and you never known it had been driven at all. That's what makes this so much fun. Now every time a car was turned in you could just run it through some sort of massive car Wash process that would basically turn it back into a perfectly clean vehicle for the next occupants and it really wouldn't matter. And if cars are basically indestructible so people can bounce into all kinds of stuff without hurting the car social networks of cars might be more plausible. Regardless of what you did to the thing it would still be equally usable by the next occupants. But currently we don't live in that world. The closest thing I've seen to that so far is the use of battery powered scooters and bicycles that people pick up at one location and drop off somewhere else. Notice that both of these vehicles don't allow for the occupants to spill soft drinks or have diaper accidents. Both of these types of vehicles are relatively indestructible given their usage. If you tear up a bicycle it's probably going to tear you up worse. So I guess we could make vehicles like that. If you crash the vehicle it will almost certainly kill you. This would encourage careful driving and the problem would be self-solving. The people would crash one time and never drive again. And frankly that's basically how bicycles and scooters work. If your crash bad enough to tear them up you're going to be in the hospital for a while or dead. An even stranger solution could be set up so that if you bring the car back with a dented fender, they break your finger. And so forth. Totaling the car would be fatal even if you personally hadn't even sustained a scratch. Anyway the reason I'm having so much trouble with this is because people don't do what we talked about at the beginning, work together so that it works best for them and everyone else. The everyone else part gets lost somewhere.

I've heard people say, if I wasn't working I don't know what I would do with myself. Well let me tell you. You would get up in the morning get ready for the day just like you always do and have breakfast. Then you would do whatever you wanted to. Maybe go back to bed, go for a walk, read a book, clean up around your place, think of some creative project, some project you had dreamed about all those years at work, guess what, now you can do it. Ore you could volunteer some of your time. Set up a schedule to volunteer time on Monday Wednesday Friday. The thing is you could do whatever you wanted to. If you just got up every morning and looked at the mirror and dove back over to bed and plopped into bed, then maybe you need to rethink your life. You're allowing outside forces to completely dominate and drive all your activities. Maybe you need to get in the driver's seat. Say a prayer that sounds something like this, dear Jesus I want to do what you want me to do, please put me in the driver's seat. Don't get me wrong I worked my whole life in jobs, but now I'm not and this is way better. One reason we don't all do things to make other people's lives better is that it's a fight. If you do produce a better mouse trap people are going to gripe that it doesn't work right and want their money back, the government's going to have their hand out for taxes, and then there's going to be all kinds of agencies griping that your mouse trap is super dangerous and could kill small pets. The list of problems just goes on and on and all you're trying to do is kill rats and vermin. Do those people come to your aid and help solve those problems? Do they join your team of building a better mouse trap and give their time to see that mouse trap destroy all the rotten mice and rats on the planet. Eradicate the planet of mice and rats in your lifetime, think about the incredible blessing that would be to the planet, all the disease, all the people slaughtered needlessly, by rats and mice ended in your lifetime. But now all governments and other useless stupid people can think of is how dangerous your rat trap is, how they need to take your money away and spend it on some worthless project or give it to other people that won't work. what a mess