Through the course of human history what has mankind been doing in the world? have we been looking for the truth? searching for what goodness is about? have we been trying to recognize hope while facing natures formidable and indifferent end?
How were life's questions of mortality and immortality treated by ancient philosophers like Plato and Aristotle? or religious figures like Jesus and Buddha?
Many people who proceeded us through the generations have no doubt tried to escape this life's suffering, to overcome the burier of death, by organizing the world into what's good, and saying from a momentary perspective what truth is, or isn't. But is it not true that proceeding them, and coming after them, we have all sought to control thought and direct the course of the world's ideas? to set thought on a narrow restrictive course, by indoctrinating and guiding the path of billions of people even very commonly by authoritarian control?
The thoughts of man set on a course to say what's good, what fairness is really all about, how to live, that tells mankind how to respond to what has been written that supposedly instructs us in what is good and bad.
Have we fathomed wisely enough yet, however, from where we sit in time, the mystery we're part of so that the light illuminating the hidden truth behind reality shines brightly enough? do all the claims we have now emerge from a source that should never be doubted, challenged, changed, or refuted, after being produced by our ancestors wearing their ancient drabs? people who lived at a time when ideas were being turned into stone.
But I dare to question all thought, like any free thinker does, and so I now ask fearlessly the question has goodness really been entirely found? has total fairness already come to light? do we know that life has hope, or no hope, or is there more then hope, can this life offer a mindboggling future that is exceedingly good far beyond our capacity to dare imagine? I believe that future is real.
Yet did the ancient Buddha teach the right way to stop people from reincarnating in pain? or did the early ecumenical church councils, hundreds of years after Christ's crucifixion, really solidify in writing all of who Jesus is in errorless certainty?
By producing a claim of an only path to hope for mankind did this worlds prior contributors to thought know what fairness is meant to look like in its entirety with God? did they recognize in their ancient culture all that goodness is about? to know the path we're walking on with accuracy? so that they knew God well enough to understood the mystery of his love.
Perhaps our reasoning, vision for fairness, and way of treating people is yet to understand the importance and dignity of who people really are, so that we treat them all with fairness and love, other wondering minds and hearts walking clumsily along the road of life to the grave, a grave holding multitudes in number.
For now we wonder the hills watching the sun rise and set; we think, and moralize about what's fair, while hopefully daring to question what this life is about, asking ourselves is the mystery we're part of here large and fair, even more fair then we dare hope possible. Could the hope we pursue in this life point to a fair God real and good beyond all estimations, even beyond the wisdom and understanding of the thinkers who came before us.
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