Order of things

I cannot track down the mental origin of this thought, but is has been aided by several things that stuck to the snowball as it rolled down the hill.

In a Sunday school class a teacher mentioned how each lesson builds perfectly on the last, which reminded me of a thing that was said by one of the actors on the LOST dvds about how people love a good serial. I know I do although I might fid it hard to sit through hours of a movie, when broken up into small bits, It is enjoyable instead of overwhelming. It is part of building a good following, although it might feel exclusive. I could allude to Kate and Jack, in a very funny joke, but unless you had seen LOST you might not get it. I commented how the man in black, the bad guy, Lucifer in Supernatural, too. Was the uncle in the Tommorrow People and no one knew what the heck I was talking about. And several shows I stopped watching and tried to watch but felt like I missed too,much to continue. I still have not watched all of Downton Abbey, but I digress...

When you want to clean a room that seems irrevocably dirty, the monumental task can be accomplished by taking small steps. Over and over, I have heard it said that achieving greatness is by constant small goals towards that end. Reminds me of the Tortoise and the Hare, huge sporadic but dramatic and neworthy events do not win the race to becoming successful. Another side track is failing a thousand times means you KNOW what will not work, so keep trying with all that extra kniwledge!

So, I was thinking about how I have studied the restoration of the Gospel as a thing that could only have happened because other events sort of paved the way. This is directly related to the success of humanity, and how certain things are "outgrown" and dismissed as unimportant or even childish. But, my thought is that part of humankind evolution, not evolving from apes, but minutely perfecting what was...we all owe a debt of gratitude to Judaism for monotheism among other things, and I recently heard how Christianity had so completely entwined itself with our culture (thereby success, right) that it drastically effects our search for truth or way of thinking at all. So, scientific thought only came about because of Christianity. And that is worth thinking.

One thing builds on another and often the thing that gives birth to another thing ends up being an enemy. One day in the back of my dad's truck I was eavesdropping on a conversation a woman was talking about how so often when we really really hate someone, more than is usual,  it is because they are too much like us. That was just a tid bit I tucked away till later. It's later. I think the reason the government seems to oppose religion so much is that they are too similar, at least one exists because of the other and as much as one wishes it was not so, they cannot. One thing builds on the other, and we believe the most current to always be the most successful... time to make dinner already, geesh.