Phyllo … I shared some thoughts that popped into my consciousness … triggered at least in part by Pan’s comments concerning the scientific/philosophical notion of complexity.
I have no blue print of the future.
My small mind finds no contradiction between Pan’s scientific/philosophical view of complexity and Teilhard’s somewhat tainted … religious/spiritual … view of complexity.
All people predict/forecast every day … unconsciously … we all predict/forecast that the sun will come up tomorrow.
The Ice Age, Atlantis(Eden) is born from God(s), The Floods swept away God’s shame/disappointment, Sumeria?, Egypt/Babylon?, Rome?, Washington/New York?, Armageddon?
If all religions were melded together, what would be THE tenet they were all comprised of?
I’ve written many times … words in and of themselves are impotent.
Readers … be vigilant … you may feel someone tapping you on your left shoulder … someone who wants to give you an experience of agape love … an experience involving God.
2,000 years of the “ping pong” of verbosity has literally killed the story of Jesus. Simple fatigue and frustration … the absence of a clear and credible critical mass to the story … seems to have driven the most pious of believers away.
What is the alternative?
Silence!
In todays’ world silence is about as attractive as a shit sandwich for lunch.
Probably explains why the Hebrews are still waiting for a “messiah” … they have always expected an “authoritarian personality” … seems to be a natural outcome of patriarchal society(s).
The one thang that is absolutely certain … beyond the shadow of doubt … universal … is “change”.
Yet … that reality provides no assurance … one way or the other … that the change you mentioned will remain cast in stone.