Are we living in the greatest of all times?

Question

Truth is everywhere, thanks to the Internet. We live in a time of the greatest choice... the greatest access to all things - both good and evil. At no other time in recorded history has mankind been so free to choose ... to grow in light, or to become evil.

Do you agree that we are living in the greatest of times?

Answer 1

Fabulous question, and a point well made.

I am 1,000 percent in agreement with your premise. :-)))

The old 'Scottish Curse' ( some call it the 'Chinese Curse' ) "May you live in interesting times" pales into insignificance compared to the state of all the elements at this moment.

I hope and trust that we will take all this potentiality and use to bring about the changes that we would wish to 'Be' in our world.

_()_ to you for your truly insightful question. :-)))

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Answer 2

Even though we have weapons of mass destruction, and the ability to annihilate even ourselves, I believe that we are coming to a time when fewer people are tolerant of violence. We still have so many people fascinated with violence, just take a stroll down the video store isle and look at the jackets on the videos. However, we have over a dozen countries which have banned the hitting of children as a form of discipline. We have the information highway where people who support peace can join together.
Even though people were convinced through fear ( and deception) to support the war in Iraq, most of them are against it now. We had lost tens of thousands of soldiers in Vietnam before the majority of US citizens opposed the war there.
The change is slow, but gradual and continuing. And, yes, Mumof4, the Internet is a big help. Just look at how much we all get out of R&S on a daily basis.

Thanks for a wonderful question. Peace to all.

Answer 3

We have access to a large variety of versions of truth, we take what works for us and leave the rest. The reference to light as good would leave one to think the dark is evil. Such a black and white way to look at these times. They are what they are, we do what we can and what we are called upon to do. Calling this the greatest of times somehow diminishes what those who have done in the past somehow. Without those works, this time would not be what it is, good or bane.

The choices we have are perceptions only. We have always had choices, and we have always had concequences when we make those choices. We have many restrictions on us as always, some of them are the same restrictions we have always had. We speak of freedom when nothing has really changed much. These are constant battles.

Answer 4

It all depends upon how you measure. There are more people than ever before, and so we have more people living a terrific life than ever before but we also have more people suffering than ever before. Industrialization has almost stamped out small communities and small farms and replaced them with faceless, massive centers of population where people lose touch with each other and suffer, and of course industrialization has had a massive bummer effect on the planet.

I guess on balance, these are probably the best times so far. I think we're going through an identify crisis and that things will get worse for a while, then we'll turn a corner and things will get better and better. The best is yet to come.

Answer 5

I think we are living in "the greatest of all times" for many reasons.

In a few short years:

Cures for diseases that have plagued humanity for too long will come online very soon due to pioneering medical research in genetics.

Mankind will begin its' cooperative journey to stretch for the stars.

The Internet is the most powerful form of communication and knowledge delivery available to the world since the discovery of the printing press. It neutralizes borders which only serve to divide people and it gives everyone a voice to the world.

And more incredible things than even I can begin to imagine.

Answer 6

Yes the greatest of all times is when we grow spiritually. For some that was in Nazi death camps and for some it was while hanging on the tens of thousands of Roman crosses or when burning on steaks across Europe. For some it's being alive now and finding kindred souls and awakening to a glorious awareness of the divine that we always knew but each time we whispered it someone from somewhere would shout it down. They can't shout enough now for all the people realizing what Buddha, Jesus, Zoroaster, Rumi, Melchezidek and many others all knew and taught. These same people all created great Religions that worship them as Gods when these men did not desire worship they came to free our minds from illusion. Still simple minded superstitious men sneer at mystics and point at their neon crosses imagining a God King while not realize that they are as capable of awaking as Jesus and as worthy of praise as Jesus for they are as much God as Jesus.

It's a wonderful time even if the world should end, or not, it's not important because we awaken!

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Answer 7

Yes, the greatest of all times in the age 'as we know it,' yes: in "recorded history" for which again we have recordings and orations with testament to each.

Perhaps exists never a time before that we have seen from a higher point as to look down upon a great expanse and therein observe a common thread, common to all observers to which all can defer and salute as evidence of that greatest commonality -- to which we do all agree, or will!

Ours is a time more than ever before wherein we shall behold the 'Meta' form and function and nature of any given thing because of this selfsame Thread -- a time of meta-religions, a time in which one can peer into and see constituent parts that all other pathways share a kindred.

Ours is a Golden Age amid the Iron, for comes now amid the darkest the greatest bringers of light, with Heart and Brain, again by hand and foot.

But let us look farther again and at once backward as swiftly. Surely as we have the greatest, we have the most pensive and shortened of possibilities to balance of this Greatest, yet many perceive of only one extreme and have that freedom to see it as so -- as just one. What strides!

In that wise, it is the greatest in that we see or have been availed to see so far into the distances, ranges, and scopes or at once have that license to not look at all far or close, either of these, as to be parochial of our views, limited as to foreseeable possibilities, or as surely, infinitely magnanimous that there is more, always more.

'That' is what is the greatest about it all. Hence, Meta, this multi-tasking feature, which is Consciousness.

Our physicists now treat with the theologians. Our philosophers grow preciously more the pragmattic and now look to the concrete of it all and not merely the abstraction, and the peasant does fancy a walk with the aristocrat.

Both the light and dark forces have the field existing in free form compared to those processions of several millennia ago. All things have accelerated immensely-- name it, call it whatever and as you may, but just see it to be but the multiple many fold the countenance of times passed.

The Dark and the inertia of dark have grown darker. And look there -- the light grows ever more blindingly brilliant to counter the dark; and the dark back again and ah! the light, returning with equal voracity -- the heavyweight championship of Truth.

Thus no time again has ever existed that avails all of the opportunity to reach and master the perception and ideal that is Neutrality. To wit: each volley of one intent by the other grows swifter and more precise as does that inertia proceed, yet as equally is it unpredictable, fraught with exception -- so fast is the rate and clip. Herein exists time, energy, space, and matter trying and testing itself to serve of a Grandest of Experiment and pass muster.

Who and which shall step down from the ring donned as champion? You will; nay, we each do.

Answer 8

I can appreciate what your thoughts are conveying here. The internet is a great source of knowledge, many things to be known and studied at our finger tips. I would say this is a time of great opportunity, hopefully people don't blow it away and fail to advantage of it, in times to come we may not have it like this.

Peace.

And disciple's answer is is hilarious, although I am sure he was serious, but that's what makes it funny.

Answer 9

Yes I think we are. At what other time are we able to talk to anyone in the world from our armchair. - In the last days true knowledge will become abundant. It will be the best of times and the worst of times.

Answer 10

No, this is the time of the unbelievers, the 7th and final age.
The first trumpet has sounded and the second will sound in the year 2100, and one will sound every 140 years thereafter, and then will come the "rapture" in the year 2800 AD. The 7 utterances will be spoke, one every 20 years until the end of days in the year 2940.