OK...back to the important stuff

Let me try to teach you a valuable lesson. We have one life to live, and the more tools we acquire to survive, the better off we are. Not all of us were fortunate enough to be born with these tools, in fact not many at all. The most important tool in this world used to be our physical body. Our hands with opposable thumbs, our two legs for walking, our genitals to create new life, and our brains all helped humanity survive. Slowly these tools are diminishing in importance. A new tool has come to the forefront. A small portion of the human beings on this planet were born with this tool, but the majority of us are not. With this single tool we can eat, breathe, sleep, stay warm, be popular, look good, have sex, control lives, commit crimes, wage war, and if used properly, bring peace to the world. But the holders of this tool in its ever-inflating glory will never use it for that. Peace on earth is the enemy of this tool. Peace on earth takes away every usefulness of this tool. The need for this tool would disappear, but for those who want to use this tool to control lives, peace on earth would devastate them.

This tool was invented by mankind and is not used by any other life form on this planet. For those of you that believe in God, it would seem that a careful examination of the masterpiece called life would reveal that God has given every tool necessary to support this system. When a new tool is needed, God introduces new tools with evolution. Mankind has invented another kind of tool to help uphold a very different kind of system. The church itself uses this tool claiming to serve God, but does not take responsibility for this tool’s harmful effects on society.

With every good there is a bad, and vice versa. So don’t get me wrong when I talk about this tool. It has it’s uses, but is completely subject to exploitation amongst the less scrupulous types. This tool can in fact help a man who has lost his natural tools. It can help him walk if he loses his legs. It can help him talk if he loses his voice. It can help a handicapped person survive amongst his fellow humans who have all their natural tools to draw upon. Without this tool, this handicapped man perishes; possibly freezing to death on the street, unable to escape from predators, or unable to gather food. Sounds like a very noble tool, doesn’t it?

The fact is, this tool is only necessary as long as this tool exists. Without it, life is still going to go, rivers still goingto flow, and the trees are still going to grow. Whether this tool was invented out of goodwill or not, it’s use has extremely harmful effects on this planet’s natural system. The invention of this tool has required the invention of another tool to help protect this tools use. This secondary tool is also referred to as law. It is law that protects this important man-made tool. But depending on the amount of the tool you have, these laws may not apply to you. With enough of this tool, you can escape punishment for breaking the law. You can use this tool to actually commit the crime if you like.

If you take away this tool, we can return to freedom. We started our species a free entity. We were free to do as we please, but we were one man against another. Until we realized how much easier life was through cooperation. Cooperation eventually evolved to trade, and then we invented the tool. We’ve evolved as a species to incorporate this mystery tool into our survival, and without it we suffer every injustice that the world can hand us. Some choose to use the tool to help those who do not have the tool. Then they claim to have rule over those less fortunate.

Slowly we realize that joint effort, mutual respect and freedom are the real tools we need to use. But we have no choice in the matter. If you don’t use THE tool, you are sub-humans, backwards Third World, hippies, or perhaps criminals. Criminals LOVE this tool. They love it, and it is the very reason they are criminals. They may steal this tool, break the law so other criminals will give them this tool, or if the feeling of despair from not having this tool sits in their hearts with anger, they may lash out at others who have this tool, or take their aggressions out on the other humans that cannot use this tool against them. Until we realize that this tool is NOT the driving force behind our kind nature…we will forever be slaves to this tool. We will be slaves to the master who uses this tool as our golden ring on the carousel of life. The vicious cycle that must be broken because until it is, we will be sheep in a society of greedy wolves. Wolves that we…WE elected to office, that WE support by “keeping up with the Joneses,” that WE support in the collection plate to build monstrous palaces to worship God, instead of using this “tool” to give the less fortunate a chance at happiness in this world, while instilling in them a feeling of good will towards their fellow man, and ultimately a chance at heaven.