What follows is just the result of my personal meditations; not meaning to point anythimng as the truth. The main reason of this is to try to “see” our hope, further protecting our mind faculties. To really get benefit from this we should talk about it for hours, so any comment and/or question is appreciated. Let’s start this topic.
Money
Let’s start with the commercial system. It’s clear that money is something deeply wrong; we remember commerce is a major part of the satanic system along with false religion, politics/militarism, mass media.
The interesting thing, thus, is to meditate about a system with no money, no commerce. We should not think to the barter system: it’s a commercial transation anyway, as a matter of fact it assigns a value (and property rights, of which we’ll talk later) to something. Ancient populations used to use cacao seeds, or salt, as money, so it’s the same thing.
Commerce enslaves man, forcing him to get hold of something to be used as similar value to exchange what he needs or wants.
This is against scriptures.
We are created to do something satisfying, not just to try feeling satisfacted somehow with what we have to do.
Getting deeper: perfect man’s ultimate nature, being made in the image of God, is love. Love gives [yes, if everyone gives, everyone receives] Love do not asks. It does not think about satisfying its own desires, but those of the other ones. On top of this, throughout history man has been forced to think about himself not just because he’s imperfect but also because of the dangers and uncertainties of daily life – we got it clear.
This takes us to the second point.
Walls and private property
Why do you need window blinds, doors, gates, perimetral walls?
It may seems obvious, but there’s more. Men has always been building barriers. In order to defend himself, for instance. From animals, thieves… “Later”, anyway, he has begun doing it to enclose, identify, what is “his own“. Not just to state it, but in order to ban people too.
Now, we are, and will be, just guests, on this planet. Yes, we will take possession of the land, but it seems more likely we are going to manage the tarritory, facing any menace no more. How any man could state something is “his own”? Did he create it? Did he bring it to existence from nowhere? Even when it comes from his ability/fantasy, could he say it’s something completely new, unrelated to what already exists? And where do his talents (real o imaginary) come from?
There’s no concept in the universe man can think up without afterwards realizing he has just “discovered” something: who thought up everything from scratch is God. This way, thinking of men clamining ownership of object or material goods, comes to be ridiculous, if not blasphem!
You would say: but I know I’ll sit under my fig tree! There’s no doubt no one will take away your fruit from you. But I tell you something more. By now I do own some fruit trees, and a fig tree as well. You know what? Most of the fruit goes to waste. Not because of decay, or bad quality, or because they are in a difficult position to be gathered; it’s just because every tree produces way much more than a family could eat up (in the life-span of seasonal fruits).
Put this with the fact that a substistance life (based on farming, a strip of land for each one) it’s surely picturesque and somehow poetically charming for XXth century men, but, as a matter of fact, it is not possible. But this leads us to the third point.
Kitchen-garden or Garden?
The whole Earth has to become a garden, as the original proposal of its Creator was. Now, a garden is something different from these: city, field, kitchen garden.
In a garden there is no room for medieval large landed estates. In a garden there are no walls, marking individual properties. The garden of Eden was fill up with fruit trees (surely also herbs and vegetables, but since it mentions just fruit trees, we believe that they were the major part of it. And it point to the fact that the paradise, as the very word means, was, to all intents and purposes, a garden.)
By the way, please do pay attention to not confuse “garden” with “woods” or “wild”: Jehovah planted a garden in Eden, while the rest of the planet was in a wild state. Who knows what excellent esthetical canons it met! Then He assigned to mankind the task to widen it everywhere: outside Eden there was not just spoil sand. They should have designed, planted, digged, built. (in many universities there are courses in Garden Architecture even today).
Now, excluding individual substistance coming from own land, the model cell-garden city remains; this one anyways clashes with the very model “garden”. [to understand: Betel houses operates as small cities or villages, in which everyone performs a task (shifting), surrounded by relatively large farms feeding everybody, in which only few work.]
Imagining a life where everything around us could be described with the words “garden” or “park” becomes thus now looking more challenging than it was at first sight.
Especially if we add the fourth point.
Recreation and town-planning
Let’s be clear from the start: re-creation with the dash. As we studied last year it means the reinstatement of the original conditions of planet Earth. Town-planning is not correct, nor proper, since it implies the existance of the city (don’t want to get into talking about cities and Nimrod now). A proper term I already used could be something like Settling Science.
We are taught that much of the water fallen down during the Flood was somehow suspended in the atmosphere. Moreover, climatic zones were radically different. It seems there were no frozen poles. Mammuths and many more nice animals lived happily along with plants and trees in places of the earth that ended under permafrost right after the Flood.
Planning-approach to the planet: God did not create earth just for nothing, but to be inhabitated. Thinking to some climatic conditions so different from those in the current time, everything shifts in to a righter place: a thermal diffusion device in the atmosphere, allowing every latitude to be settled, exploiting the already capacious Earth much better, leaving more dry land at disposal, everything without climatic disasters. What do you think about it?
I tend to believe that everything will go back to how it had to be. This way desert will actually bloom and the whole Earth will be able to become a various garden.
It is clearer now why we need a word different from town-planning: taking back the planet to its natural state is something supernatural, while making it beautiful and populated, is put in our hands.
Back to the trees: if a garden is full of fruit trees and so much more, and it span across the whole planet surface, do you manage to imagine how many people will be fed? Many, many more than assigning wide areas to farming and other small areas to residential center like today. If you like stats, please do search how many tons of food go to waste every year and how many people literally die starving in the meanwhile.
No, it’s really something hard to imagine. But the best is yet to come. Fifth point.
An open source world
Another bad habit in our thinking of the world is this. We talked about locking places, private properties and pointed out that is meaningless. But there is another field where segregation does not have any sense and is even more noxious: information.
We are conditioned in our thinkings, living and acting by this fact: any moment, any person, does not have access to some given information.
And this not potentially. I’m not talking of the house maid not being able to search something on wikipedia. I mean there are things (earthly things, human informations) that are not public, not knowable to the majority of people.
World is full of military secrets, commercial secrets, political secrets. It’s just impossible to us today empathize in a daily life where all of this comes to vanish.
Science, technology, history, biografies, world family tree… These are just the first things coming to my mind. There’s so much we don’t know, and such a misinformation about much else!
No patents, licenses, commericial rights… What a boost for progress! This surely will contribute in allowing us to fully enjoy the work of our hands! Not like the miserable goals of today. Everyone will have the same chances, the same potential, the same right, the same happiness.
It’s a heady feeling… And there would be so much more to say.
But, among things I want to talk about today, the greatest is the sixth and last point.
Absence of malice
[Before or after this post, you would probably like to read this one (click).]
The other day during service time we get into this talking when we mentioned privacy and the common absence of windowblinds in the northern Europe. We were talking about having nothing to hide, a transparent behaviour, mind our own business, don’t doubt about the neighbor etc, when we arrived to remember that the evil, the wrong, is in the eye of the watcher.
That is, our being imperfect and sinners makes our nature twisted, and we tend to do bad. This means what is evil (law of the flesh) is inside us. It affects (or, unfortunately, causes) our thoughts (then the actions). This is true for our look, gaze, as well. As explained in the post earlier mentioned, judgement by the individual is inevitable, quoting myself: “travels along with the look”; no one can evade expressing, at least internally, a judgement, with a variable consciousness, about everything other people do. This is because we have a conscience. But evil nests inside us and leads us to see evil everywhere it exists even only on a potential basis.
Adam and Eve did not know good nor evil because they did not have any experience of it; the only test bed for them was obeying God. Wanting to dodge His guide, to his right declaring of what is good and what is bad, they became evil, sinner, defective. “They realized they were naked”. This makes us reflect. Was there something wrong in being naked for them? Thinking about it, I come to say no. What upsetted them since then was the evil lurking in them, constantly trying to pop up – here now seing their naked bodies made them feel ashamed (shame for something God created with every love and purity: there is absolutely something wrong with us!).
Let’s extend now this reasoning to all the rest: we have the malice accompanies us since birth and heavily affects us, to the point it becomes literally impossible to imagine a life without it.
But this doesn’t mean we have to stop trying!