The world...

I really should blog when I'm all fired all up. Now I have to sift through my memory the things that went through my head the last 3 days.

It started with me googling Grant's name and finding articles about Aaron Swartz, who recently commited suicide, but was internet progidy and activist. I read his blog and one of the things he said was so much like how I think....

"Sakichi Toyoda, the founder of the Toyota car company, developed a technique called “Five Why’s” for handling this. For example, sometimes a car would come off the Toyota production line and not start. Why? Well, imagine it was because the alternator belt had come loose. Most car companies would stop here and just fix the alternator belt. But Toyoda understood that was dodging the mistake — it would just lead it to come back again and again. So he insisted they keep asking “Why?”.

Why was the alternator belt loose? Because it hadn’t been put on correctly. Why? Because the person putting it on didn’t double-check to see if it had fit in correctly. Why? Because he was in too much of a hurry. Why? Because he had to walk all the way to the other side of the line to get the belts and by the time he got back he didn’t have enough time to double-check.
Aha! There, on the fifth why, we find the real cause of the mistake. And the solution is easy: move the box of alternator belts closer. But if we’d stopped at any earlier point (say, by just yelling at the alternator belt guy to always remember to double-check), we wouldn’t have actually fixed the problem. The same mistake would have happened again and again. Only by digging all the way to the root cause did we realize we needed to move the box of belts. The mistake pointed the way to the solution."

Then it went on to in depths discussions with my colleague about past stuff, thoughts, and eventually ended up with a discussion on world views... absolutes, if the world is better now than before....

And what really stood out for me from my discussion with him and the things I read, etc. is how what used to be normal or acceptable 50 years ago really stands out now, its actually abnormal, against the stream, etc.
E.g Purity. It shouldnt be a weird concept, but it is? And in my opinion, even more beautiful now, maybe 50 years ago it was forced on people, maybe there wasn't an option given so it had to be taken, but in a world where anything goes, or rather is encouraged, Purity sticks out like a sore thumb? Its not just one of the options it really is seen as foreign to the way everyone else thinks.

My conclusion was just that there were always people that thought against the stream, who did not see things the way everyone else did, we look back and call them heroes. What I believe may be completely opposite to the way the world is seeing things  at the moment, but it stands out like a sore thumb anad as I pursue what I passionately believe, I will make an impact.

Even if it looks like things are going one way, I believe there are always other streams of thinking, views, it may not be as loud, in some cases whisper, but God's values have always been interweaved in society too...

So from now on I continue to be moved from conviction instead of popular opinion, and though I may seem so different, I believe that I am making a difference, and somewhere someone is searching for truth, for trully truth and God's way is shining int he darkness!