Even if We Lived Like the Jetsons...
Tao Te Ching, Chapter 1 by Lao Tzu translated by Gia-Fu Feng and Jane English (1972): The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao. The name that can be named is not the eternal name. The nameless is the beginning of heaven and earth. The named is the mother of ten thousand things. Ever desireless, one can see the mystery. Ever desiring, one sees manifestations. These two spring from the same source but differ in name; this appears as darkness. Darkness within darkness. The gate to all mystery. Names, religion, and consensual reality are the product of language, time, place, and culture. All of which are relative. The human condition, the infinite, the eternal, and the absolute, and God are not just found only in the minds of men...they are hardwired in, though dormant. For us to be living life like the Jetsons would not change that because we would still be the same species that discovered fire, domesticated the wolf and revered women (Venus o...