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I don't know...either you need some sleep..or I need some sleep...this is over my head at this hour...so it is probably me that is done for the day...you were thinking of cattle??? Such an unusual thought...go have a glass of wine and listen to some nice music...much more fun...methinks....
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In Burgundy, there always is cattle around my house. Happy Charolais cows.
I was thinking little do they know they are taken such care of because one day they will hop in the truck and fall alseep a few hours later. That’s the price of their happiness.
What if this were done to humans?
What if the rich Western World is a human (or demonic) experiment as it constrains us in some tedious administrative frameset whilst offering us a depressing minimum to live (food, stupid games, and decreasing freedoms)?
The third world has less rules and less richess but somehow more opportunities, even though these are much harder to achieve. Maybe it’s the opposite experiment: cattle life or game life? What are we expected to achieve?
"What if..."
I've been thinking about cattle a lot too lately. It's, frankly, getting to me. The good thing about living past 40 is I know, from experience, that this too shall pass, so I can hang with it and move on. Jesus saves.
To answer your OP, I already chose option A back when I was a secular young man. Watched a lot of my peers choose a lesser version of option B. If I could go back with the knowledge I have now and choose again, I'd double down on option A.
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The western idea of riches and luxury are a trap. I suppose if someone from extreme wealth saw my homestead and my 14 year old car , my home, etc, I would be considered "3rd world", and yet I feel like my life is full of riches. I often think of these things, and who puts that envy and lust into a man's heart that makes him a slave to "more". People do not value what they have not earned, it's a fact that it does not buy them happiness, not for long, anyway. Everything I have I worked for, and I have to remind my son sometimes through his life, that what we have will someday be priceless, 5 acres, living in a beautiful and sometimes harsh climate, but warm and a home full of food enough to share, the bills are paid every month because I do not buy on credit, clean and pure artesian well water, healthy animals. A youth who would be given a life of luxury and wealth and glamor, never having to work for it, would probably by age 40 have already turned to alcohol and drugs, or sex, or another addiction, willing to throw away their life because it is meaningless without livlihood and struggle. The cattle that live a good life only to be shipped off never knew anything else, so it really isn't so bad for them in the long run, but they are not conscious. Humans have a seed inside them that can grow consciousness, so, take a man born into wealth, some of them have chosen to challenge themselves because life has given them no challenge, think of the millionaires who pay to climb all the mountains, or go to extreme areas of the earth to experience challenge, because they missed all of that with their poofy lifestyles. I think the ultimate achievement is consciousness of God, to see each blade of grass and each tree and each other human being as a creation of God, and to see Christ in the poorest child or the suffering cripple. If you can achieve that degree of sight, and respond to God with love in all of his creation, and remain humble knowing that, a peace of mind and contentment can be reached, and that is what it is all about. It has worked for me, Praise God, is all I can say.
Well context makes all the difference...now in my mind I see you as a brilliant deep thinker...
I would probably agree that there is a certain bondage or entrapment to riches and often a price to pay...perhaps that is why Jesus said it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than a rich man to enter heaven...
I do believe your thoughts have merit...there is much to be said for simplicity...it has always been the love of money that is the curse so money does have the ability to change us.
I think when you take excess money away you have to survive by your own wits and that is when the true essence of a man kicks in...to provide for self and family....and therein lies our satisfaction in life...that we can achieve this most basic goal...utilizing our own self-determination...
Of course, God promises to supply all our NEEDS according to His riches in glory...in the west the distinction between wants and needs has become very blurred...
well you certainly did challenge my thinking with that one...it was just funny to see you...out of the blue thinking about cows...haha...God bless you and yours and have a great day...