My dear and real friend, Panpanpan,
This will necessarily be a long post. Your most recent post finally go me started on the question of what the future holds. A few others here are interested in this, and I hope they will find food for thought, and maybe some comfort from the knowledge that there is a highly structured and integrated pattern at work on all levels, and there is very good reason for all of this turmoil and change in the world today. Of course I can't tell you everything I think about this and I haven't mentioned what the pattern of future society will be. Maybe I'll write another post about that one of these days.
In reply to your first paragraph: I don't know whether the United Nations Security Council will stand or fall. It may fail. I didn't mean to say that it will change the course of this war, and change itself. Maybe it will, and maybe it won't. What I was trying to express is that if it fails, a better developed form will surely arise.
I also don't know if the end of this war is the end of wars in the Middle East, but someday that is going to stop. I assure you of that. The processes have already begun for some time, that are leading in that direction.
International organizations are evolving, and will continue to evolve, because that is the nature of this time. We live in "the time of the coming of age of the entire human race." Coming of age is the beginning of adulthood.
I would like to illustrate to you, through some thinking about the reflected patterns of life, from the smallest to the greatest, why I think there is a caring and interested Creator, who has a clear Plan for us as a human race, just as there is a clear plan of progression for every baby that is born. I hope to prove to you that the human race is right on track in that Plan and things are tough, may get tougher, but are definitely moving in a positive direction.
Have you heard the great saying: "All things are in all things?" That seems to be the way creation is organized. Everything reflects and acts as a metaphor for everything else, and this happens at all levels.
The microcosm reflects the macrocosm.
In fact, Baha'u'llah says that this world of reality in which we live in physical bodies, is just a reflection of the greater world which is the next world, into which our inner beings become awakened after death, when we leave our physical bodies here in the physical world to which they belong. Possibly you don't believe what Baha'u'llah said, but I think when you hear what can be said about the other reflecting patterns you will have to agree that there is some High Intelligence behind it all, anyway, and that history hasn't been chaotic or without purpose. This is a great comfort, in itself.
Dear Pan, before I start I want to say, you know we are friends, and I am never irritated or upset by a friend. In fact, I don't even know what you were referring to when you said you feared I had been upset by something you wrote. If I ever am confused or upset I will be sure to ask you about it privately, you will explain, and we will get it straightened out. I think you would do the same for me. :-)
