Someone to Think for Me

I have come to believe that you are in life exactly where you want to be. Contrary to popular belief, a person who chooses to live a mediocre life for the most part did not come to that decision as a reaction to something terrible that happened to him. It's a mindset that was developed out of a series of failures. When the going got tough, he wasn’t, so he quit.

"Besides, that’s what everyone else is doing. "

Why is everyone else doing it? Because it’s much easier to maintain than it is to excel. Unfortunately, because of this, the picture of the American Dream has faded into earning a “good salary” at a “good job” for 40 years, have a couple of hobbies, and keep your nose clean (whatever that means). This thought process is the same kind of thought process it takes to hang someone….let me explain.

Hardly anyone would have the guts to take a person out by themselves and hang them from a tree, but put a mob together, (someplace you can lose your identity; a community where no one points the finger at anyone else, because there is no one to blame), and you’ll hang people all day simply because:

“That’s just the way it is around here.”

“Everybody’s doing it.”

And by the way:
“You can’t judge me. I’m no different that anyone else here.”

or:
“I’m just here watching. I don’t have anything to do with this, so it’s not my fault.”

By the way, how do you get away with doing something you know is wrong without feeling guilty? Get around enough people who want to do the same thing. Herein lies the answer to the age-old questions, “Why do bad things happen?” & "What went wrong with the world?" It’s not because bad people are doing too many bad things, it’s because good people aren’t doing enough good things, therefore the consensus has become whatever was bad (but everyone secretly wanted to do. They just didn’t have enough guts to do it until everyone else did) has now become acceptable.

How could we have let it get that way? Because it’s easier to do nothing. If you don’t think about it, it’s like it never happened, right? And because so many good people had turned their minds off, the mob became the brain, therefore, the one’s with all of the answers, therefore, the final authority on all truth and morality.

Now we’ve come full circle. It all comes back to the fact that people do not know how to think. So, what do they do? They let other people think for them: the media, their family, their teachers and professors, the government, scientists, etc.

“I’m not the expert on anything. That’s what those guys are for. If they say that’s the way it is, who am I to argue with them?”

Most people don't choose to think this way, they just eventually come to the conclusion that it's easier than "open[ing your]...mouth [to] speak boldly, as [you] ought to speak, " (Eph. 6:20) or taking one more risk, which in their mind is destined to fail...again.

"Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new." (2 Cor. 5:17)

Absolute Truth

I was recently speaking with a co-worker (who is actually sitting right behind me as I’m typing this). He is one of those guys, like most of the guys that I work with, who says he is a “Christian,” yet for some reason disagrees with most of what the bible says about morality. Again, like most people, he will never say that out loud, but it’s simply how it is with him.

The other day we were arguing about whether or not homosexuals were born that way. In the end, I said to him, “Listen, it boils down to this. There are only two possible ways to look at morality:

1.) “There is an absolute Truth that at one point or another we deviated from, and everyone started making up their own sense of what’s right and wrong.”

2.) “There is no truth, therefore, no meaning or purpose whatsoever, and we are all just wandering around aimlessly trying to eek out an existence until we die.”

I told him, “This goes way deeper than you think.” That’s exactly what Francis Bacon was talking about when he wrote, "A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion" (see post below). People refuse to go deep in there thinking, because they know that as soon as they do, they are going to come face to face with the fact that there is an Absolute Truth, which if you go deep enough, is completely undeniable. At that point people know that they will have to be accountable for the sin in their lives. They avoid going down that road, so they branch off to take more scenic routes. Roads that are prettier, non threatening………and easy to get lost on. They know that their conscience lies deeply recessed in their mind behind all of the junk that they’ve shoved in front of it (so that they wouldn’t have to acknowledge it anymore).