I won’t use the terminology of the giants on whose shoulders I stand; they encouraged me to find my own voice from merging myself into the message. So if I had to pick one thing to talk about as the singular core of my existence, the drive to keep functioning daily in this human form in our Fallen Realm it’s this:
Discover the unique mind and logic of your heart. If you need scientific background, go here for my summary on that. In a follow-up chapter I describe how it works for religious believers. However, you can toss aside as much of that as you please, so long as you grasp the notion that your heart has its own separate faculty for knowing and deciding things, and that its proper operation requires your intellect play the servant, not the ruler. Once you get that working in any way at all — your heart feeding guidance down to your mind — everything else takes care of itself.
That’s what drives me. If you need to hear something about my interest in such things, let me assure you: If more people operated under the guidance of their heart-minds, my life would be far, far better than it is now. It might be hard to explain in mere words how that works, but I’m utterly convinced it is so. If I can get you sensing and deciding from your heart, I can afford to let you run off on your own path far, far away from me and my ideas and my plans. Find your heart and forget about me, because my own heart tells me nothing can possibly do me as much good as you learning to live by your heart.
So perhaps you’ll be a little less surprised or annoyed when I make so much noise about how computers and the Internet are a big part of what I do. It’s probably just a little easier to understand that I am not driven to sell my favorite brand of Linux or BSD for personal gain or some kind of religious satisfaction. Use what you find effective in your heart-led operations, but if more people use some kind of Linux, the Internet will work far, far better than it does now. It would vastly simplify my mission. So long as things stay like they are, I spend the vast majority of my time working on fixing all the problems that naturally arise from that. Not just time spent fixing other people’s computers, but dealing with all the resulting hassles of a virtual world running on dumb-assed crazy lies about what matters in computer networking.
My technology concerns are shaped by my moral concerns with heart-led living. It’s not about Linux; come up with something viable that does the same job better and I’ll support it. (That’s the same thing I say about the modern State of Israel: Come up with a state that actually follows God’s Laws and I’ll be first in line to support them, even immigrate there.) How much time I have to mess with it is a consideration, but if what you have is genuinely better for my mission, I’ll jump right on it.
So here I come to the point of this post: The reason I make so much noise about survival in terms of technology and cyberwarfare is because that’s the basis for what comes after our little taste of Armageddon. Yes, we are going to experience some drastic changes in the system that makes life possible right now. We might not have anything so well defined as to call it a “war” in classical terms, but there will be lots of destruction and death. If you think we’ve got too much of that now, just wait; it will spread like wildfire all too soon. I am quite convinced there is no single human source that understands it well enough to describe what’s coming, and what it will look like, or what you will experience on the way. I am utterly convinced that we will pass through some really crazy shit.
But I am equally certain that, while the Internet will see some drastic changes, it won’t go away. If anything, a form of global networking will become even more functional and more central to continuing human existence. So I’m doing my best to prepare for that unseen future with measures I sense in my heart are highly likely to remain viable through this mess and out the other side — whatever that might mean in real terms.
Some of you surely understand Windows, for example, well enough to keep it viable for the time being. Great; God bless you and keep up the good work. Learn how to share your blessing in such things, because we are all called to play shepherd one way or another. That’s the fundamental nature of God’s call on people who can hear His voice: Feed the sheep and keep them alive and growing. People need shepherding for their computer networking, too. All the more so because the coming civilization will stand on that foundation. But in my case, the best I can do is steer folks away from Windows because I’m convinced it will be less hassle and less time wasted if you can shift your habits over to the Linux world. If computers matter to your calling and daily life, I believe you’ll have less hassle once you get over the initial hump of learning a different OS. To me, this seems a far shorter path for folks who have better things to do.
Just use my blather as some kind of example of driving hard after God, of knowing beyond all doubt what He wants you to do for His glory.
