Finite Thinking Is The Opposite Of Eternalist Thinking. (in progress)

   
He thought he saw a protester
with big and scary eyes
comin' to vote against me
for all my filthy lies

Better run to the bunker,
Better run to the bunker,
Better run to the bunker,
You big jackass.

Whoa he had a nightmare
and saw the ghost of John McCain
saying 'I don't like presidents who run
with their tails between their legs.'

Better run to the bunker,
Better run to the bunker,
Better run to the bunker,
You big jackass.

How he hates to run and hide
out of his ivory tower
He only wanted to inspect the bunker
for three and a half hours. 😆

Better run to the bunker,
Better run to the bunker,
Better run to the bunker,
You big jackass.


    I want to give a brief history of Western Civilization and why a form of thinking, the form I call 'finite thinking' has dominated our world, at one time in a positive way, but now in a negative way.

     Eternalist thinking is the opposite of finite thinking. Finite thinking has a point at which it stops and needs no more knowledge. Eternalist thinking has no ending point and is a continual gathering of knowledge.

     For about 15 hundred years a form of finite thinking established itself with a populace that furthered the concepts of heaven and hell, places presumable where we all go when we die based on our behavior as well as our beliefs. One is good, one is bad, very simple. Very handy in keeping the children in line. And no wonder because mom and dad were also raised to believe it. And they go somewhere every Sunday just to have it reestablished in their minds. No wonder it caught on.

     They also found it easier to identify with other members of their tribe, these Euro-centric emerging 9th century, tenth, twelfth, take your pick of what years you might feel it was most significant, because they ALL were. It solidified the constantly developing culture of western civilization, and it seemed pretty good with them for a long long time, years and years and generation after generation.

     The age of finite thinking has got to be over, for the sake of our fellow humans, for our happiness, and for our survival. We need to tear down the divisions created by finite concepts of tribalism, nationalism, racism, sexism and the type of religiosity that confuses dogma for reality.

     After a while we come to America. A new land and a new opportunity to change our way of thinking. But did we? (signal with hand). Meh, Some did. But not enough to drag that whole finite mindset into more generations.

     As long as we genuflect to religions that confuse myths with reality we will live lives that confuse myths with reality. I'll say that again - as long as we bow to, and subsidize with tax breaks, the organised religions that market in the selling the confusion of myths with reality, then we will live lives and have minds that confuse myths with reality.

     People tell me, 'but Dennis, it's just a metaphor.' Then, fine, you want to live by a metaphor, we'll give them a metaphor. How about the metaphor of a man, handcuffed, on the cold concrete with a knee pressing against his neck so that he choked to death - THAT is a metaphor for EVERYBODY'S future if they get away with it, and the will not get away with with it because George Floyd LIVES within me - there's the positive metaphor - I am George Floyd.



     But it's GOT to stop.

     We are DEAD CENTER in Eternity. We have an Eternal past behind us and an Eternal future ahead of us. That makes THIS MOMENT the balance and the fulcrum.







(plays song)

  (out) My name is Dennis C. Lee. Go to my facebook page there's plenty of links to my Eternalist blogs. Thank you.