Have we been traumatized so, that we no longer believe in the possibility of innocence. Having been removed even one step further than non existence, but now we are jaded in such a manner that we do not even think innocence possible or mathematically probable. What does a man experience in this construct when confronted by a young gentleman of noble intent or a pious young lady reserving herself for a righteous dream. Are they beasts of unbelief, items of fantasy to be dispelled or do they confront us immediately with the callouses upon our firmament?

This world is in horrific disarray, yet beauty abounds. There is financial imprudence and abuse of power in broad display, yet there are still those with sound, conservative or egalitarian reserves, ready to lend a hand. Governments having been given too much power by the people they serve, have now become hawks seeking to take the table scraps of authority to which they have no claim. Yet there remain public servants who would fight to diminish the rights of bureaucracy that the pendulum of private public partnership is reserved in perpetuity.  There is garbage welling up in underground facilities, nuclear and industrial waste polluting rivers and lowlands and tons of chemicals in the air for all to breathe. Yet even now we can see the Glory of God’s Face reflected in the sharps focus of a mountain peak, the lazy buzzing of a bumbler bee and the shimmer of mountain lakes. What then causes us to become so callous or jaded that we fall into despair proclaiming all things desperate?

Is there a tipping point of worry or concern that lends a man prone to victimization or dismal discontent? What then of the beauty, the righteous, the pure, do we lose the capacity to perceive them or simply forget they exist, forcing them to the edges of disbelief? How do we reconcile this apparent inconsistency in perceptive understanding quantified with the level of overwhelming trauma individually received? Is there a certain measure after which enough trauma has been sensory established beyond which we are in a perhaps a cultural shock, something akin to the philosophical theories of the 1980’s symposiums? And how is this point of realistic disturbance occur when we have the Holy Spirit of God living within?

There you go, you always have to point toward the dirigible floating above the trees tracing our harmony valley.  Every thing has to go back to the Bible, I don’t get that but let me try and answer your question from a secular point of view. If I believe, because I have had my sense of fairness in the world dashed upon the rocks so many times that there is no longer anything good in the world, then I have made a confirming statement of change in belief structure. If then confronted with an object or human that appears to challenge that new belief boundary, I must find an alternate method of describing or defining it to remain consistent with my new found position of comfort.  Sounds reasonable for a man without hope or with limited capacity at change, but what about someone who is a realist?  Are they as prone to simply dismiss and recalculate their understanding to discount the probability of innocent examples?

No, I guess you’re right at that point it really becomes a differing subject, because the realist or the pragmatist is going to look at that example and adjust their previous hypothesis with the new data, having to reestablish the possibility of innocent in a tortured world. Okay, what about the person with hope, maybe even the person with some belief in the impossible?  What does that person do when the world begins to fall down around their ears, maybe to the detriment of the innocent as they are typically the most vulnerable of species? How do they adjust when problems, significant problems continue to mount and the general prognosis of society is declining toward entropy? Well that person does something that frankly makes no sense to me and that is he holds out hope that some supernatural authority or influence will provide the missing components of humanity and produce innocent just to infuriate those powers attempting to eradicate its beauty and to the frustration of them who have adjusted belief. For they are confronted with the proof of their own incorrect determination and discernment.  Yes, by Franklin, that person, I guess you are referring to a Christian would believe in the impossible, the Hand of God to intervene to protect the innocent that they might not be wiped from the face of the Earth that God created.  I guess that position makes sense in that perspective, but I still think they are barking up a tree with no branches or leaves.

That’s okay, you once told me I was an idiot and that you would never agree with anything that I had to say, but I had hope that this day would come.  Guess what, you better run, because I am praying that you are going to meet Jesus at some not so distant point in the future.  Love and Hope overcome all evil in this world, we simply wait them out, because there is only one thing that doesn’t change and that is the Lord our God.  Praise His Name.