THE TENS AND HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF PAGES OF AMENDMENTS AND LAWS REGARDING THE FOUNDING CONSTITUTION OF THE USA ARE TOO MUCH FOR THE AVERAGE PERSON'S COMPREHENSION AND PERUSAL. IT HAS BECOME THE THOUSAND POUND GORILLA SITTING AT THE BREAKFAST TABLE.
APPARENTLY IT IS A NECESSARY EVIL PROMULGATED TO COPE WITH THE THINGS THAT HAVE COME AND GONE SINCE THE FOUNDING PAPERS WERE FIRST PUT FORTH. HAS THIS HAPPENED SIMPLY IN LIGHT OF SEMANTICS AND PARSING? HAS THIS BEEN NECESSARY DUE TO THE MULTIPLE MEANINGS, POTENTIAL INNUENDO AND SOMETIMES AMBIGUOUS DIRECTIONS THAT WORDS IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE CAN TAKE? ARE WE FOREVER SUBJUGATED TO LITIGATING EVERY BIT OF MINUTIAE SUFACING OR HEAD FAKE COMING INTO PLAY IN ORDER TO GIVE OUR 'SEA TO SHINING SEA' CONTINUANCE IN THIS COSMIC DANCE?
I SUSPECT THAT MUCH OF THE EMBROIDERY SURROUNDING THE CONSTITUTION HAS TO DO WITH THE SYNTAX OF ENGLISH. WHERE THERE IS A DOOR MANY WILL ENTER, EACH WITH VARIOUS INTENT. I ALSO SUSPECT THAT EVEN IF THE INTENDED MEANING OF THE WRITTEN WORD IS OBVIOUS THERE ARE ONES WHO WILL TAKE THE OTHER POSSIBLE DIRECTIONS FOR THE PURPOSE OF SERVING THEIR OWN INTERESTS. SOME WILL ENTER TO ENHANCE, SOME TO PROFIT. ARE THE ENDLESS TWISTS AND TURNS ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY? OR WILL IT CONTINUE TO GENERATE A MISASMATIC BLINDNESS WHERE STEALTH WILL HAVE ITS DAY?
GIVEN THE SPIN WE ARE SEEING IN TODAY'S GOVERNMENTAL STATE I THINK WE ARE LANGUISHING IN THE OUTWORKINGS OF THE ABOVE, A WEB NOW TOO GREAT TO ALLOW ESCAPE. IS THAT THE PRESENT AND FUTURE REALITY? IS THERE ANYONE OR ANY GROUP WHO OR WHICH IS CAPABLE OF PERFORMING A "RECONSTITUTION"? IF IT WERE POSSIBLE WOULD IT BE BASED ON EVERYTHING WE HAVE COME TO OR BEEN THROUGH OR WOULD IT BE POSSIBLE TO BASE IT ON EVERYTHING YOU LEARNED IN KINDERGARTEN? WHAT WOULD ITS BASIS BE? WHAT WOULD BE MISSING WHEN IT WAS FINISHED? WOULD THE MISSING PARTS BE SUPPLIED BY WHAT IS AHEAD, IN THE FUTURE?
CAN THERE BE TIMELESS VALUES AND ETERNAL TRUTHS IN THE PHYSICAL WORLD, HERE ON EARTH WHERE THE FACT OF ONGOING, INESCAPABLE CONTINUOUS CHANGE MAY BE THE ONLY UNCHANGING REALITY? THE FOUNDING FATHERS OF AMERICA EXHIBITED HOPE UNCEASING WITH THEIR DECLARATIONS THAT THERE CERTAINLY ARE . WERE THOSE DECLARATIONS ONLY THE RESULT OF DIRE EVENTS AND RESOUNDING TRIBULATIONS ?
NOT SO IS MY ESTIMATION. FOR THEM IN THEIR TIMES, THE TRUTH THROUGH TRIAL HAD BEEN LAID BARE AND IT FORMED THE CONTENT FOR OUR NATION'S START. IN THEIR FAR SEEING VISIONS, SUPERIOR WISDOM AND PRAYERS FOR DIVINE GUIDANCE THEY PROVIDED THE ONLY FRAMEWORK WHICH WOULD TAKE THE NATION TO ITS LIFE IN THE FUTURE, DAY BY DAY. TO STATE THE OBVIOUS, IT WAS DEDICATED TO HUMANITY WHO WOULD BECOME AMERICANS AND NOT JUST THEIR PRESENT DAY AMERICANS.
WE ARE BOUND BY THOSE GIFTS FROM THE PAST TO DO THE SAME.
THE LAWS WE KNOW GOVERN OUR INTERACTIONS IN THE PHYSICAL WORLD UPON WHICH WE LIVE BUT THERE ARE LAWS WHICH AREN'T ENFORCEABLE AND THEY AREN'T REALLY LAWS SUCH AS THE PHYSICAL LAWS THAT KEEP SOCIETY STABLE AND ARE ENFORCED BY PENALTY. USUALLY VALUES AND TRUTHS ARE BOUND UP IN WHY LAWS ARE NECESSARY AND ARE PUT INTO EFFECT BY GOVERNING BODIES FOR INSURING DOMESTIC TRANQUILITY. THE IDEA OF LAWS APPLYING TO THE METAPHYSICAL WHERE TIMELESS TRUTHS AND ETERNAL VALUES HOLD SWAY RUNS MORE IN THE VEIN OF INTRINSIC CAUSALITY SUCH AS THE LAW OF GRAVITY OR THE EFFECTS FROM THE MERRY GO ROUND OF KARMA.
I THINK WE SHOULD PUT THE GORILLA ON A DIET.
Saturday, May 7, 2011
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