God is a utilitarian par excellence.
One of the best qualities I like and attribute to God is His utilitarianism, and by extension our utilitarianism which is a spin off of our free will. Similarly, it is also a spin off of God's free will.
In essence, utilitarianism is the act of doing the best for yourself or for groups on whose behalf you may act or choose.
The Root of all Evil – Part 2 – by P.K. Odendaal July 2023
My previous article on the root of all evil is pure drivel.
Will
I delete that article or will I keep it here on my repertoire as a lesson in
folly? Yes, I will keep it here, as the endeavour and accomplishment of
humankind is fraught with error, omission, folly and evil. I make no excuse.
What this exercise in folly really taught me, is that an idea which has slumbered in my soul for too long - the idea that expressing an opinion is useless, fruitless, superficial and egoistic, has been let loose.
The Gift of Flight - Part 6 - Escaping death in the Zlin
Published January 2023 by P.K. Odendaal
ZLIN 50-LS 325 HP
And so it happened that, after I got all my flying licences and flying ratings, that I got bored with flying ‘straight and level’. That was lesson one in my training, and I did not want to stop there.
The
Pursuit of Happiness – Part 8 – Becoming a Friend of God.
We have now come to the end of this series, not that the subject is exhausted, but rather that this part is the ultimate happiness and joy any human can live for and even die for; the incredible opportunity to be a friend of God, or more specifically, to be a friend of Jesus Christ, the human side of God. Scripture says 'for in Him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily'.
The Pursuit of Happiness – Part 7 – Exploring a conversation with God
How does one strike up a conversation with God ?
That was my main thought when Jesus Christ came my way some
five decades ago, and saved my soul by God's Grace.
The
Pursuit of Happiness – Part 6 – Starting a conversation with God
Ultimate happiness can only be experienced when we are in
the presence of God and talking to Him, like He talked to Adam and Eve in
Paradise, in the coolness of day.
But, Paradise was lost due to no fault of God, and He is presently working hard to restore that and to restore Mankind to its proper place in the Universe, ruling with Him.
Part 5 - Genesis to Revelations
It is not necessary to have or read the Bible to get to know God and communicate with Him.
Millions of people have found Him by searching for Him and He is always ready to reveal and even partially expose himself to those who search for Him, whatever the form or shape of that path may be.
Part 4 – Embrace the Nietzsche Moment
Now that we are at peace with our decisions, we do not care about the past or the future, we have shunned negative people from our lives and we have made peace with those whom we have wronged and those who have wronged us, we can sit back and enjoy every moment that we are alive and blessed to partake in the wondrous universe and people around us.
Part 3 – Inspire or shun negative people.
You get a breed of people who can never be happy. They are never satisfied with their lives, with what they have and with people around them. They can never embrace life or accept responsibility for their actions. They have no idea what their mission in life is and can never accept their destiny. Despair, prejudice and bitterness darken their inner being. They have no faith, no hope and no love.
Part 2 – The joy of forgiving and forgetting.
In the first part we learned how to be free to choose anything from all possibilities, regardless of what the outcome of the choice may be, and that the past and future has no meaning for us.
We thus progress on this road to become free, to delete the past, and for that matter also the future’s pain that the past may have caused us.
