Miracles

I'm not a great believer in divine intervention. However, to the extent that this happens, there's several things we can say about it. For one, it must be unpredictable. Otherwise, it would be part of the normal operation of the universe, and hence discoverable through science and deductive thinking.

Miracles in the form of divine interventions are the exclusive domain of God. If people could perform miracles, things would get seriously weird. The temptation to benefit personally from it would be too much to handle. There would be constant meddling in all sorts of affairs. It would make a mockery of justice and the laws of nature. It would also make existence pretty much meaningless, as is evident in the lives of people who have it too easy for they own good.

The rich and powerful are blessed with the man made miracle of central banking. There's hardly a thing these people can't buy and control. Yet, nothing but evil comes of this. With easy access to free money, most waste their lives in pursuit of pleasures. There's no struggle to attain anything, and everything becomes in this way empty and meaningless. It's not uncommon to see such people burn themselves out at a young age.

Others get caught up in the pursuit of power. They imagine themselves gods, and their fancies to be destiny for all. All sorts of evils come from this, as is evident from the destruction wrought by such people over the past few years.

Very few end up using their lucky circumstances for the good of others, and the money that they dish out to various noble causes is but a fraction of what has been stolen from the public through the inflation caused by central banks. Besides, many of their noble causes are corrupt, causing more harm than good.

It all goes to show that man made miracles aren't miracles at all. They are inherently evil in that they cause more harm than they do good. It's not up to us to dish out money to people, or to print it for ourselves to spend as we please. This is not how God intended things to work, and even a kid can tell us this.

My ten year old son brought this up the other day. He told me that he wouldn't give away all his money to charity if he found himself rich one day. He would spend some money on charities. But he would keep most for himself.

I took the opportunity to suggest that he could create a company that would employ people at a good salary, and the idea was immediately understood. That's better than merely handing out money, he said. It would make everyone better off, including himself. I didn't have to explain this to him.

It's not up to us to act as selfless angles. We're supposed to act in society through cooperation with others. Anything else would be presumptuous and demeaning to others. This is why I rarely give money to beggars. However, I don't scorn them or ignore them. I engage in their little chatter. Some, I even greet with a friendly good day when I pass them in the streets.

Miracles are the domain of God, and no-one should expect them to happen. No-one should make it a part of their plan, because hope is not a strategy. Hope is not in itself going to get us anywhere. There has to be action and planning. We have to do something with our lives. We can't just sit idly and wait for miracles to make everything good.

This is not to say that miracles never happen. Things have a tendency to turn out well, especially for those with a plan based on an understanding of what's going on in the world. But such lucky turns of events are rarely due to divine intervention. They're merely manifestations of the miracle of existence. This is how God intended things to work from the start.

An example of this is the recent appearance of the Omicron variant. It's causing problems for those pushing vaccine passports and similar measures. It's dealing a blow to the official narrative, which relies on the idea that the virus is dangerous and deadly. However, the appearance of this mild variant isn't evidence of divine interference. It's arrival was entirely predictable based on basic insights into how viruses work.

Miracles in the form of divine intervention are rare and unpredictable. However, the miracle of existence is neither rare nor unpredictable, and this is the domain where we live our lives. Our mission is to do the most of this. To do otherwise is to waste the gift that is life itself.

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By Ferdinand Barth - Goethe's Werke, Public Domain, Link