Exogenous
Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ
(Galatians 6:2).
This writer has found that if
anyone, even one of your associates or family members, reads anything you have
written with which they disagree, perhaps have a different opinion, they will
never read anything else you have written. The magnificence of the human being
is his neurological system, his ability to think. The bird has far superior
eyes to those of man, the dog a far superior smell to that of man, the cat a far
superior muscle system than that of man, the horse-cow a far superior digestive
system to that of man. Man has the ability to think, plan, make decisions,
dream, the only animal who knows he is going to die. The inner man is usually
comfortable with self although many human beings are treated for stress. More psychotropic
drugs than any other drug prescribed.
Our main
problems are exogenous, matters developed from external factors. The attached
photograph shows a check written in my professional office 42 years ago. I
still remember the very attractive young couple, he, studying for his law
degree at Chapel Hill. I knew both his father
and grandfather, prominent lawyers. In some way, I stuck the check into a book,
or perhaps used it for a book marker. Now, totally blind for many years, since
the war, no longer able to practice, I sell old books, even my own. This book
was sold and before it was shipped my assistant always checks to see if
anything is in the books. Over the years, I have found many valuables in old
books...old letters, old stamps, etc., the exogenous history of living. Since
this was an ophthalmology book, I am reminded of esotropia (eyes turning
outward). When the eyes turn outward it is very difficult to have a single
image in the brain...leading to headaches. (Esotropia you treat with surgery,
esophoria treated with prism in lenses.) Our lives are more influenced by the
exogenous around us than anything else. It is not difficult to love someone who
pulled you out of the river, on to the river bank, when you were drowning.
Dealing with the exogenesis-eccentricities of our fellow man is an entirely
different matter, particularly those who think it is their life's ambition to
make others miserable. You can be sure that if you are excelling in life in
anyway, educationally, economically, just enduring-enjoying, there will be
someone who will want to cut you down in order to build themselves up. Most
children never realize the sacrifices made by parents. Doctors, teachers,
pastors have told me that they so seldom get a genuine thank you particularly
from those for whom they did the most. Most Christians have never realized how
much Christ did for them, the will of God, the work of Jesus, the righteousness
of the indwelling Holy Spirit. This writer maintains that most, in spite of the
fact that they pretend, do not have the knowledge in their hearts. If so, their
lives, living-giving, would be entirely different. Within the insidious future
of health care (under socialized-Obama care), all care will resemble that of
the veteran's administration system. We think we see suffering because of
complexity now but when true socialized care takes over, the last vestige of
privacy, we will truly know stress. Next to family members-pastors, our spiritual
and physical contentment, we most need the privacy-surveillance of our doctor.
Why are American's just sitting by and seeing the last features of our
democracy evaporate?
Of all the
changes in my long life, perhaps the greatest, a total change in family life. A
term from the scripture was used throughout, on this side of the cross. I
believe it was made popular by Jesus himself. "But Jesus said unto them, A
prophet is not without honour, but in his own country, and among his own kin,
and in his own house" (Mark 6:4).
We expected our "kin" to always be there for us. Too many of today's
young people know nothing of their "kin," their relatives. Many do
not even know their own mother or father.
Just as
those in the stock market always though that a company such as General Motors,
once considered the premiere American corporation, no longer in the Dow
average, a corporation taken over by the government, bailed out by government
money. Do you dare make the exogenous comparison that people are now bailed out
by the government (welfare-entitlements-grants)? People no longer looking
toward their kin for help in a time of trouble but only to the government, not
even the kinship of Jesus in their hearts. Recently, in this town, a mother
prepared two months of frozen dinners, stored in the freezer for her husband
and two sons, caught up all their clothing chores, spring cleaning, then killed
herself. We have one veteran to kill himself every day...such is the stress of
life.
Sammy Davis Jr. sang,
"Whether I'm right or whether I'm
wrong
Whether I find a place in this world or never belong
I gotta be me, I've gotta be me
What else can I be but what I am."
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