This author is so dramatic..but I loved the last verse (29):
"..God made human beings straightforward, but they have devised many schemes."A number of times in my life I have imagined that if I just left civilization and money, found a small uninhabited bit of land, that I could probably make do. In actuality, I would probably be dead in a week because I am hardly worldly enough to figure out how to build a shelter and provide food and water for myself. And God knows what I would do without a toilet.
With all of our material things we have really over complicated life. People and relationships are what this earth is all about. We can advance science, mathematics and the arts in order to keep ourselves healthy and smart, but most of our effort goes to advance our leisure activities and especially in that US. Yet another study has come out that US kids are falling further behind the world in math. I feel like I have been hearing this for 20 years, which means, that now those students who were falling behind are teaching the next generation and lowering the standards. Yet, the US is the mecca for entertainment. I think that that when God made us "straightforward" that was to mean simple-minded, it was supposed to mean forward thinking. Instead we exhaust our energy scheming to entertain ourselves in the present. Vanity! :)
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