Counter-culture revolution

Taking drugs is one means to express your discontent with the state of society. Timothy Leary is a name that I heard many times as a child. "Dont do the brown acid." "Turn on, tune drop out." The sixties where great. We did mind expanding drugs that expanded our minds and spirit.

As a youngerster I found my belief betrayed. In the book "The Road Less Traveled" the author Scott Peck describes to people a way to raise children in a loving enviroment. This enviroment that he wants people to raise there children in is imaginary. Like most scientist, he is trying to create a perfect system and impose his idealogies on the masses for profit.

He is only reinforcing a belief pattern that is inherent in our society, the quest for the perfect world. Give a child the perfect enviroment and they will be successfull. First, one must define successful, moreover, one would have to define normal behavior.

I am biased, I find it difficult to accept a statement from one that embraces science and faith. A person can only serve one master. There are times when religion and science has been in accordance and times when they are at odds. We live in a time where science and religion are at odds. It is a noble task for those that try to bring harmonay to science and religion. Therefore, I will say that Scott Peck wishes to create a heaven on earth by creating well adjusted children that are prepared to deal with life.

I must say again, the drive for perfection is a misnomer. His ideas look good on paper but in reality they are lacking. First, any member that profeses to be involved in counter-culture can shoot holes threw scripture. I did use to wonder why the Holy Bible was Holy, because it had many holes in the logic?

Yes it is true, Faith is not based on reason. The holes in logic are filled by faith. Reason can be used to try to understand faith and fail but with faith one can understand the flaw in reason. The major flaw that I see is the desire for imposing perfection on society from a chalk board.

However, it could be argued that there is no flaw. It is the process of constant change from strong and weak that causes us to label things as flawed. We like strength but detest weakness. We have been taught to aspect "the survival of the fitest," The most fit human will die of old age or the strongest man can be beat by three average stengthed men.

A Christain that enters the world is not ready. It is good to have Christains that have not encountered the world, but to me they are not realistic, they hold a line for us. I would not want to change them at all. We have a choice as christain to remian home or go into the world, we have free will.

I have yet to find a self supporting Christain organization, meaning those in the world and gain from those endeavors give to the church. The larger the organization the more members are engaged in worldly affairs. I see the concept of indulgences creepin in, as long as you give money to the church you are forgiven for your bad acts.

The hypocracy that is caused by living for God and the world was my first step towards embracing counter-culture. As a teen ager, I was fascinated by the fact that a church that I went to had a pastor that drove a rolls royce. He was comfortable driving his expensive car when teenagers where dying on the streets to get expensive cars. I thought the money he invested in that car could help alot of people.

I saw Jesus for profit. Many others things I saw as I grew from young adult to adult. I flet that the world was in total chaos. Drugs are an effective tool to forget about the inconsistencies. Drugs are like an aspirin for a gun shot wound. They help to deal with the contradiction of our existence but at a stiff price.

The problem was not the contradictions with the world it was the contradictions within myself. First, I was judging the world. It is not my purpose to judge the world. God loves the world why should I despise the world. As a Christain I am not to judge others but that is what I was doing. I still do it, but I work on it.

I wanted to change the world and impose my beliefs on others. I was right and I knew what needed to be done. We are all unique but someone is always trying to catergorize us. I hated people telling me what to do but I was going to college to get skills to tell people what to do and have a plausible explanation for the actions they made.

I think the only one that has the authority to shape us is Jesus and his disciples. The list of disciples is bigger than the twelve apostles.

The more frustrated I became for judging the world the more drugs I had to take. I was an inconsistant hypocrite. The more you become a hypocrite the farther from God you are. God does not abandon us we abandon God. I stopped listening and wondered down some interesting paths.

Lucky for me I did not forget Jesus. You can put your self on auto-pilot and do what jesus did when you lose yourself. I have been upset with GOD, but I have always loved Jesus. He is my road dog. Unbelievers tend to scoff at the Bible as make believe presented to us in bad translation, but I do not care what translation you read Jesus words they are a cogent and sound way to live.

What is wrong with the good news of Jesus? I have no idea. I do wonder about the flood but the gospel never.

In western civilization we have lost time. We sell our time for pointless bobbles and junk. We lose sight of our inner voice and tune into the nightly news. We forget to read the bible and depend on anothers person views. I like preachers but I can always go straight to the word. When we don't like what a preacher says we find something to justify our actions.

Breaking one rule you break others. I think it says if you break the tenth commandment you are breaking the first. Drugs are a way to treat the psychic damage. It comes to point when you are in so much pain that drugs do not work.

I started whittling at the log in my eyes. I still have a splintter. To end this rant. I sat in church today and the Holy Spirit made me feel like I was on drugs. I spent tons of money buying marijuana to ease my pain. The happy feeling people go looking for in drugs is right there in the holy spirit free of charge.

Today, I know that being a Christain is the true counter-culture revolution.