Smile: Time is not our friend

Time is not our friend. Or I should say, without a strong spiritual will, time may become an enemy. As we let the world go past us, trying to ignore the present, or at least ignore the evil therein – an unforgivable mistake, perhaps still thinking about a future, somewhere, far away, we wonder what is behind the words, the smiles, the appearance.

These questions, these doubts, that uncertainty about ourselves, what we believe in, which direction we should take, is due to the ceaseless bombardment of images, slogans, advertising, in one word to the pernicious propaganda, that penetrates our “civilised” world, night and day. 

What makes our reality?

Then we ask ourselves: What makes our reality? By this we mean our “normal” reality, as opposed to that induced by the dream machines.  Are we still there, in the world where we think, still, we were born, or somewhere else? Are we in someone else’s dream, or, worse, in the “imagination” of some super computer, stuffed with “artificial intelligence”?

Is it intelligence behind the smile?

When it comes to personal relationships, who can we trust?  What is behind the appearance of that nice girl I met this morning at the gym? Is she real? Is she too perfect?  Is it intelligence behind the smile? Or is it just a bunch of algorithms?

Where is salvation to come?

Those questions, that appear legitimate to most of us (or perhaps not?), stem from the fact that we have lost our spiritual will, our belief in the divine Creation, in the intrinsic harmony of the created world. Where is salvation to come from for us, sinners. Evidently from expiation, atonement if you prefer. But how to atone to a heinous crime, that of denying the Creator?

Atonement

“The word applies both to relationships between non-divine people, and to relationships between God and non-divine people. Both kinds of relationships can be damaged and require atonement for repair.

The definition of atonement in terms of making amends clarifies both notions through the vivid imagery of a torn garment. As a whole garment might become torn and require mending to repair, so a whole relationship might become ruptured and require amends to repair. When a garment is mended, the torn parts are brought back together into a whole. Likewise, when proper amends are offered, the parties of the relationship are brought back together into a whole—they are made at one, or reconciled. Making amends is thus an act of atonement—something done with the aim of reconciling the estranged parties.

Sacrifice

The image of the torn garment suggests another feature of atonement: it typically involves a community. Society is often metaphorically described as a garment, e.g., “the fabric of society”. When a garment is torn, some threads within the garment are broken, some parts of the fabric are disconnected. But the entire garment is also said to be torn. So atonement can be given not just to reconcile two individual parties, but to reconcile an individual or a collective with a collective.

Although the word derives from English in the 1300s, the concept it denotes is plainly much older. Early Greek literature contains the concept of an atoning sacrifice (Hengel 1986; Versnel 2005). The book of Leviticus in the Tanakh describes various sacrifices the Hebrew people were to offer, some—most notably the sacrifices on the Day of Atonement, or Yom Kippur—in order to atone for sin against God (Hayes 1998; Klawans 2006; Milgrom 1991). Various passages in the New Testament describe Christ as atoning for human sin (e.g., Romans 3:23–25; 1John 2:2).[1] These passages state the famous Christian doctrine of atonement—the doctrine that through some of his deeds, including especially his crucifixion…” (Source)

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