Post 912: Is Something Wonderful Happening?

As you know, contrary thought is a favorite strategy of mine. In the midst of much anger, concern, truth telling, opinion expression ... is there something wonderful going on.

Hal, the computer in the movie 2001: A Space Oddessey, causes his own demise to enable the space station inhabitants to realize the "something wonderful" that is about to happen. It's a foreshadowing of shocking rebirth that speaks to an incomprehensible intelligence.

Outside our small and local universes, there is something we cannot fathom. It is a logical conclusion that knows no single mathematical formula or spiritual dogma. But, our human destiny is to keep searching.

Faith is our only security blanket. And, a fine invention indeed.

Until 911, perhaps Vietnam or Watergate were the last spectacular events in which a mirror was held up to America's face.

Have we permanently and collectively learned anything over the course of human events?

Not yet.

Maybe we are about to.

We should naturally suspect any one individual, institution, government or other entity signaling the seminal. That is the cry of Armageddon prophecy and is rooted in history.

On our planet, we are divided. Take an apple pie, make as many laser thin slices as you can in it, and you can count the differences.

But, it is still a mess.

Rather than torture ourselves, maybe we should just accept that we have and are a mess.

A wonderful mess of creation.

Maybe people come together for a given reason, only the reason is unimportant.

It is the coming together that is noteworthy. The Close Encounters-Field of Dreams-type compulsion that I wrote about in 912:What Really Happened?

Individually, we have a kernel of knowledge. Or, a degree of inspiration. When individuals collect, in one space-time, we have something that may follow a given theme, but that masks the real explanation.

People who came to D.C. last Saturday were not alone. They were joined "in spirit" by many, many more. That would seem significant.

While far from being the messenger of a clarion call, we might want to reflect on the driving compulsion and less on the reason that so many people peacefully assembled.

Could it possibly be, lying buried deep within the emotions, something wonderful is happening?