Published On: 10-11-2007 04:45 AM
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There was a time when I was a hater of my fellow man.... I "drew a circle in the sand" and within it I allowed the world inside...until one day a "kind" of people no longer pleased me and I found considerable intolerance for them.  My solution was to push them to the outer limits of my circle and commenced the drawing of yet a newer (smaller) that effectually locked out those undesirables.  Trouble was (and I did not realize it at the time all this was happening I could never escape the domains I myself created within my circle of acceptance) this process continued throughout my lifetime...until a few years ago and I found myself with myself and no others within my final circle - my domain.  I had indeed been guilty of contempt prior to investigation in my rationale....and I stood alone in the world without a friend, and I had no moral compass to enlighten me as to why this happened.   Why...I was the good guy in the scheme of life, wasn't I?  Through a terrible act of attrition that played me right into the jaws of hell, I in a swoop fell landed in a nether zone for a substantial number of years.  During this "subatical" I found something for which I had been searching my life long...an honest conection from my mind to my spirit and my soul...It didn't happen overnight-no!  It took years of research in scientific data that was forcefed me in my secular schooling as a child, mixed with a very healthy new dietery food - God's own words (yeah, the Christian version), and tomes of the philosophic offerings from Greek, Roman, and other later and perhaps more influential and powerful men of more recent times.  The admixture was the most challenging and life altering event in my life-10 years of study and intense interest in all kinds of men's drifts, mixed with a healthy stew of the dregs of the earth, I suddenly found myself staring life dead in the face of the reality the circle had vanished and I had been set free upon earth for the first time in memory.  My quest is not to prosthelize, but to continue learning to learn from every man, woman, and child who will take the time out of their own precious lives to "educate" my mind....I believe, as one of those sages said that "the kindest thing one human can do for another...is to LISTEN TO WHAT THEY HAVE TO SAY.  amen.  finis