An On-Off Switch?

October 26, 2011

What happens when we die?

When you are young that’s never a question that one asks, let alone attempts to answer. The older you get, the more death you see, especially that of your parents, the more you begin to wonder. Of course there are many groups with answers….just FOR YOU!

>You go to heaven if you’re a good Christian.
>You go to heaven with lots of virgins if you’re a self-martyred Muslim
>You come back to life and try to get it right if you follow a number of Eastern religions.
>You go to a “holding area” (Purgatory) if you’re a devout Catholic
>You simply cease to exist if you’re an atheist

Of course I am simplifying the whole concept but regardless of what you believe it’s one of those events in life that none of us can escape. Steve Jobs had to finally step outside of his Buddhist traditions and face that reality last month. In the just released book, Steve Jobs, written by Walter Isaacson, we find Steve Jobs as having said the following.

“I’m about fifty-fifty on believing God. I like to think something survives after you die……maybe your consciousness endures. But then on the other hand, perhaps it’s like an on-off switch. CLICK. You are gone. Maybe that’s why I never liked to put on-off switches on Apple devices.”

Steve now knows what we only speculate.

But, one day we will know for sure as well.

Written by Ernie · Filed Under Daily Commentary

Ignoring The Crisis

October 20, 2011

Houston, “We have a problem.”

Surely you remember that phrase. Well, it really is much bigger than that. People of planet earth, we have a CRISIS!

1-There’s too much government involvement, (regulation) in the lives of people.
2-There’s too many people (approaching 7 billion) for the resources of the earth.
3-There’s too many religions killing each other in the “name of God”.
4-There’s too much superficial reading of the Bible (a deep spiritual library).
5-There’s too much ME & MINE and not enough YOURS & OURS!

The list is much deeper and longer, but, let’s not get depressed here.

From the Tea Party to the “Occupy Wall Street” groups the message is (coming from different directions of course) LET THE PEOPLE LIVE! Or, as Ronald Reagan once said, “The Federal government has a philosophy that if it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it”.

The CRISIS is a poverty of Spirit!

We are spirit beings! We were created to LOVE, not HATE. We can’t go on very much longer without serious consequences to ALL of us; however, stepping out of the behaviors that we’ve adopted and lived for all this many years won’t be easy. The first step is to admit we’re in a spiritual famine.

And, we are thirsty

Written by Ernie · Filed Under Daily Commentary