3,000 Years Ago

Watch the sunrise, on a clear, cool morning, and try to imagine what that sunrise must have been like 3,000 years ago. Look at the ocean or a lake or an old-growth forest and imagine what they were like 3,000 years ago.

Imagine the earth without the trappings of civilization and try to imagine how clean and pure and uncluttered it was then.

Picture yourself where you are now, but turn back time 3,000 years, and imagine your life then.

Would a life defined by electricity and butane gas and SUVs and stainless steel gas grills and designer cloths have been imaginable then? Probably not. Would that life have been easy and uncomplicated? Probably not. But would life have been simpler and richer and more attuned the world around you...the world that lets you live or die? I think the answer is 'yes.'

I would love the opporunity to take a brief journey back in time to learn what it was really like. I know it would teach me things. I could impart wisdom I don't possess.

The point of this rambling? Try to look at every problem through a lens from the past. Interpret laws from an experienced perspective...a REALLY experienced perspective.

I don't have answers, but I have an idea...that everyone should listen to the the Christians, the Jews, the Muslims. Speak simply and directly an without pulling punches...we can deal with it.