TakingITGlobal - Panorama - Can the youth...

Published on: Sep 22, 2009

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Type: Short Stories

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As we watch each other, in awe at the greatest creations of technology, we forget that we are praising false temples and loosing track of our inner selves. I only wish the youth had the time to turn the world back to the way it was supposed to be. But that is impossible. It would need to be the beginning of this lifetime.

The grand unveiling of one of man's accomplishments, brings people from far and wide to see. These buildings or inventions of "greatness" of the past and present have brought more of those who are willing to see "superior technological creations" than those who want to step back and look at the world and to find the beauty that lies within each and every quark of the Natural Creation of this Earth. These "Natural Masterpieces" are the ones that should have been sought. They are the ones that should have been praised and given the attention of the many workers. They should have been forever tended to, with all the love and care with which they were created.

Daily, workers polish the floors, clean spotlessly and pamper the new technological buildings. Workers, who try to advance this world with technology, destroy their and our sense of our inner sanctity and awareness, thinking it is for the benefit of society. Why have we passed the great mountains, waters and all natural life, torn them into shreds and stripped them away in order to "progress?" Is this for our own endeavors? Is this truly man's nature: greed with no concern for life?

Even today, man destroys nature. He takes too much from it. But does he provide the same necessary input for this paradise as he does for his technological advancements? The youth must change their own and make their own see the world in the way it was intended to be seen, not in the twisted was we want it to be seen. We must live in the love for life, not in the destruction of life, living solely for the moment. For then love would be lost. Our "great monuments", too, would too be destroyed. Our life’s work would be viewed as nothing but great mistakes.

We are forgetting self-knowledge. The knowledge we acquire today can only improve our "up to date technological state". "Modern education" has lost its understanding of our most spiritual self, i.e. one may receive an M.Sc. in Chemistry, only to engage in work/ research that destroys the world, or one may create "possible" medications to cure the ills that we, ourselves, have caused. The better option is to use this knowledge to give unto nature that which it deserves. For then life will go on as it was intended.

In each phase of life, man has faces new challenges primarily because he has brought them upon himself. Is our generation really ready for all that we have forced onto ourselves? The truth is at your disposal. You may either close or open your eyes to it. Compare the bearing which comes from within with the needs which we can live without. The knowledge of "subject matter" is a goal-motivated action. Self-knowledge needs no action, just love.

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by Timothy G. Branfalt Sr.
Published on: Sep 22, 2009
Topic:
Type: Short Stories
https://www.tigweb.org/express/panorama/article.html?ContentID=26033


As we watch each other, in awe at the greatest creations of technology, we forget that we are praising false temples and loosing track of our inner selves. I only wish the youth had the time to turn the world back to the way it was supposed to be. But that is impossible. It would need to be the beginning of this lifetime. The grand unveiling of one of man's accomplishments, brings people from far and wide to see. These buildings or inventions of "greatness" of the past and present have brought more of those who are willing to see "superior technological creations" than those who want to step back and look at the world and to find the beauty that lies within each and every quark of the Natural Creation of this Earth. These "Natural Masterpieces" are the ones that should have been sought. They are the ones that should have been praised and given the attention of the many workers. They should have been forever tended to, with all the love and care with which they were created. Daily, workers polish the floors, clean spotlessly and pamper the new technological buildings. Workers, who try to advance this world with technology, destroy their and our sense of our inner sanctity and awareness, thinking it is for the benefit of society. Why have we passed the great mountains, waters and all natural life, torn them into shreds and stripped them away in order to "progress?" Is this for our own endeavors? Is this truly man's nature: greed with no concern for life? Even today, man destroys nature. He takes too much from it. But does he provide the same necessary input for this paradise as he does for his technological advancements? The youth must change their own and make their own see the world in the way it was intended to be seen, not in the twisted was we want it to be seen. We must live in the love for life, not in the destruction of life, living solely for the moment. For then love would be lost. Our "great monuments", too, would too be destroyed. Our life’s work would be viewed as nothing but great mistakes. We are forgetting self-knowledge. The knowledge we acquire today can only improve our "up to date technological state". "Modern education" has lost its understanding of our most spiritual self, i.e. one may receive an M.Sc. in Chemistry, only to engage in work/ research that destroys the world, or one may create "possible" medications to cure the ills that we, ourselves, have caused. The better option is to use this knowledge to give unto nature that which it deserves. For then life will go on as it was intended. In each phase of life, man has faces new challenges primarily because he has brought them upon himself. Is our generation really ready for all that we have forced onto ourselves? The truth is at your disposal. You may either close or open your eyes to it. Compare the bearing which comes from within with the needs which we can live without. The knowledge of "subject matter" is a goal-motivated action. Self-knowledge needs no action, just love. « return.