You Decide?
After reading a blog post from DOUG, a self-admitting “Trump Hater,” that ended with his statement, “Well, if I live to get to see Trump leave office, in shame preferably, I will consider myself fulfilled.”
My comment to him was “he should read Ecclesiastes.”
The purpose of this post is to explain why he and all millennials should read and study Ecclesiastes
Some Excerpts from his post.
“By the 2020 election, they (millennials) will exceed the boomer generation.”
“They are the most racially diverse generation and the most likely to live in metro areas.”
“They’re more likely to be unmoored from social institutions — the most likely to be religiously unaffiliated and the least likely to be married.”
“and many feel as if they’re inheriting a mess they didn’t make.”
King Solomon
“The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.” (Ecclesiastes 1:9)
What is crooked cannot be straightened; what is lacking cannot be counted. (Ecclesiastes (1:15)
Then I turned my thoughts to consider wisdom, and also madness and folly. What more can the king’s successor do than what has already been done? (Ecclesiastes 2:12)
What’s My Point?
In spite of King Solomon’s 3000-year-old observations and advice about how every new generation will repeat the follies of the past generations, that is unless they wise up,
History has proven each new generation will repeat the same times of life as explained in Ecclesiastes. Many will think they know better than the previous generations and can straighten out “what was lacking” in their previous generations, then wind up repeating the same follies as the past generation, because they believe they know better.
What is even sadder today is if each new generation was taught Ecclesiastes in their youth, they might wise up and not repeat the same follies.
In other words, realize our Creator has a purpose to give us the choice how to walk on a straight path to avoid all the crooked paths that we choose to follow if only we would understand how to trust and follow in life the advice of Wisdom and Love in the Bible.
In My Opinion.
Millennials should be concerned about the fact that they are indeed “inheriting the mess they didn’t make.” For example, in the USA, the National Debt exceeds twenty trillion dollars they will somehow have to face in their future.
The news about a millennial being elected in a metro area and expressing her convictions that relate to repeating socialism, a proven failed idealism that led to millions of deaths and destruction along with quashing freedoms, seems to be repeating on the minds of millennials once again.
What to Do?
If interested, in the Source Links below, are three previous posts about presentism, and the best time to teach Wisdom and Love..
As for My Friend Doug,
In my opinion, there is something lacking in the wisdom of your statement about “being fulfilled.”
It will take too long to explain in any posts why, Perhaps if you read this book titled, Ecclesiastes, Why Everything Matters, by Phillip Graham Ryken, perhaps you will better understand why.
As for your post title, “The beginning of an Era. The End of the Era,” and how it may concern your understanding of Ecclesiastes, “it ain’t over until the fat lady sings.
Perhaps this king Solomon Proverb might be applicable advice for your longing before your time is over which I hope is a long time off because I enjoy reading your posts, and comments, sometimes. even though I believe your blog title would be better if you search for “Wisdom” instead of “Sanity.”
Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life. (Proverb 13:12)
Regards and good will blogging.
Source Links
Doug
https://findingpoliticalsanity.com/the-end-of-an-era-the-beginning-of-an-era/#comment-3711
Presentism
https://rudymartinka.com/2015/11/10/king-solomon-presentism-seven-deadly-sins/
Youth is the Best Time
https://rudymartinka.com/2017/09/12/king-solomon-youth-is-the-best-time-in-life-to/
A Better Time
https://rudymartinka.com/2018/08/12/king-solomon-a-better-when/
Rudy u Martinka 
Great post!
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BTW, I left a post on Doug’s blog.
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Your reply in comparison to Doug’s post description of the survey to describe what Millennial think, believe, mirrors what they are being taught in homes and schools.
In my opinion, what King Solomon said about crooked is going to be even more crooked in the future.
Hope I’s wrong though.
Regards and good will blogging.
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@Rudy
We have to make school choice the civil rights issue of this century. It will take decades to win this battle. May as well get use to the idea.
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Tom,
Your comment brought to my mind, “the law of diminishing returns” and “negative returns” and the possible result when a company does not pay attention to these economic laws they are taught.
While it is not wise to attempt to predict the future, however, based on the second example of sentence use given in this brief explanation………
http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/law-of-diminishing-returns.html.
If you substitute “country“ instead of “company,” The future looks sad, in my opinion.
In other words, the future of the USA based on these laws appears to be diminishing just as King Solomon advice predicted in Proverb 22:6 to train a child.
When we do not teach laws of God, will the end result be the same?
Regard and good will blogging.
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Maybe we need to start using parables, such as Shazam, to help us obtain use superpowers to win “this battle.”
If interested,
https://rudymartinka.com/2018/10/15/king-solomon-supernatural-parable-wisdom-for-president-trump/
Regards and good will blogging.
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Well, Brother Rudy, my last sentence about “being fulfilled” when Trump is gone was more tongue-in-cheek. I might admit to this right wing assign that in their eyes I am suffering from TDS (I prefer to call it a level of patriotism), pure hatered for the man I do not have and have expressed otherwise on my blog many times. I am not, and never have been, a “Trump-hater”. I have been, and always will, be an “anti-Trumper”. But I know Conservatives have difficulty with the facts.
I think you hit the nail on the head with the idea that each generation inherits the crap from the previous generation. The same lament was made by us Boomers when we took over from the “war-like” Greatest Generation-ers”. We ended up being no better…. just different. Although I should point out… the social chasm between us Boomer and our Depression Era parents was VERY wide; our generation challenged their mores and social norms and archaic moralities. By comparison, there is very little “chasm” between Gen X’ers and Millennials. Us Boomers were the fist TV and tech-like generation who invented all the tech currently being by the current generations. Our generation started sex, drugs, and rock & roll and the current generations just inherited and accepted it. Of course they have their own separate ideologies and personal perspectives.. they also lacked the huge numbers us Boomers have had for the last 60 years. Turn on any TV… us Boomers still dominate the commercials, albeit it’s all about drugs to address our aging maladies, medical aids, senior living. One of the more popular movies with the current younger set has been “Guardians Of The Galaxy”, parts 1 & 2, where the star character (played by Chris Pratt) loves 20th century music and plays old rock & roll cassettes.. and the movie soundtrack has become a hit. Boomer music lives on.
Anyway.. thank you for the kind words regarding you following my posts. While I am not as “enlightened” to mix religion with politics as you.. your “King Solomon” approach is a novel idea.
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@Doug
You stated,” While I am not as “enlightened” to mix religion with politics as you”
I am actually attempting to focus on trying to “mix Wisdom with Politic rather than Religion with Politics..
For example, the Wisdom in Ecclesiastes does include King Solomon’s philosophy, and the majority is a philosophy more related to Wisdom, than Religion.
For example, if anyone studied and understood the verses in Ecclesiastes, and substituted the Laws of Man in place of the Laws of God, and lived according to his philosophy, this world would be a much better and happier place, in my opinion.
And, if Ecclesiastes was a high school course, would save a lot of grief for people looking back at our age if they had understood then what we understand now.
Even Agnostics and Atheists might agree.
However, the verses are more meaningful if readers believed in God, in my opinion.
Regards and good will blogging.
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