*That very respectable geologist "knew" that the world is flat and published volumes of books to support this.
*That doctors used to give Bloodletting as a prescription, in "scientific" belief that losing blood will cause body balance since blood was regarded as "humours" and bleeding will cause the body to balance hence healing.
*That leadership was a divine right passed through linage and to Kings & queens only.
*That the earth was the centre of the universe and saying otherwise you would be blasphemous and you would be burnt at the stake.
*That aluminium was the world rarest and most precious mineral.
*That for years doctors refused to wash their hands when attending to patients and subsequent many patients especially new mothers died due to childbirth fever due to poor hands hygiene and the doctor who urged them to begin this practice of washing their was dismissed from the profession for referring to as "murdering their patients."
*That Aztecs people would cut the abdomen of a human, remove the heart while its beating and hold it towards the sun in order to please it, hence prevent the sun from burning them.(you can imagine how many people were killed due to this practice)
*That cutting a criminal in half (when alive) with a saw in public spaces was a legal punishment given by courts.
*That gender/Skin colour/body size was used as a measure of intelligence....etc
Now, you see this "facts" were considered to be true and unquestionable for many centuries. Today we look at them with horror and laughter and wonder how cruel,foolish and stupid this humans were to hold this "facts" as true. This "facts" had less time in the universal clock and soon had to be abandoned when truth came out.
So, at this age, today, we too hold our own "facts" and many centuries from now, future generation will wonder what on earth we were thinking to hold this "facts". They will wonder what caused us to fight for circular metals and paper with numbers on them, they will wonder how we would spend our whole life on a system driven to just build an economy , they will wonder how stupid we were to cut a whole forest in the name of development and civilisation, they will wonder why we enclosed ourselves in small bordered territories called countries yet earth is just a minute rock floating in space,they will wonder how we would fight over religion based on unseen Superpower Being, they will wonder how billions were spent on military budget and wars yet people died of hunger daily, etc...they will wonder and wonder.
So, in in long run everything will look stupid, cruel and foolish but we have things and actions that have remained constant and timeless and have never been otherwise these are the pursuit of wisdom,Justice, Truth,courage and service. That's why we read of people like Plato, Socrates, Seneca, Hannibal, Aurelius, Pericles and others many centuries after they have died because they pursued the latter and their timeless actions and words are still being consulted to date.
So, why not engage in fact that will live centuries after your long gone. In actions that will contribute to pushing humanity forward, in actions and words that will echo to many generations to come. Then, you will sit in the halls of generations to come as the person who curved the direction of humanity during your age.
Though we are victims of our society and we may hold firmly on ideas and actions that have less time, we can always undertake our duty in the best way we understand it and maybe in the process each will produce a ripples that together they will form a mighty wave that will push the ship of humanity to new lands that upholds timeless ideals and character. And our generation will stand tall on the humanity timeline as people who guided man towards eternal survival.Our actions will echo in their minds of the time of people they ought to be.
Then why do things that will end with you when you die? why not engage in actions that will push humanity forward; actions that are timeless. This actions will echo generations if the infinite future. Today and everyday and in every action you have two options either less time action or Timeless Actions.
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