I guess turnaround is fair play. The Mongols raided Europe and threatened Rome, but then they begin to fall apart as empires tend to do and retreated to Tibet and the safety of the Himalayas. The Tibetan Buddhists are the last of them. The Catholics used to have the Holy Roman Empire and ruled half or more of the known world, but now they're hemmed up in a tiny stronghold in Italy called the Vatican. It's much smaller even than Tibet. The Catholics have about as much of a chance of surviving the Chinese invasion of Europe as Tibet and the Dalai Lama did. The same land bridge still exists now as it did when the Mongols used it. Will the Pope retreat to America like the Dalai Lama did to India? I can't imagine that he will find as warm a welcome here among the Evangelists.
It's my take that the world has gotten entirely too small for the old systems to survive intact with all their worn-out rituals and unveiled secrets.
I may be projecting my own personal health situation on to the world. My physical system is worn out, and all my secrets turned out to be fairly common knowledge. I'm gonna try to get a dental appointment as soon as possible. I can hardly open my mouth to get food in it. The last molar I have left on the bottom right-hand side seems to be the culprit. It doesn't hurt like a normal toothache does. It's a much deeper pain than that. It seems life-threatening. I can be a pretty tough guy when it comes to dealing with pain. I've always been so poor I couldn't afford to run to the doctor with every little ache and pain. I coped. My present situation is not business as usual.
I do not attempt to tell the God's own truth here because I don't know what the truth is or hardly ever. I try to capture the drifting thoughts that randomly appear in my imagination for reasons I may not understand. I don't know if the content I capture with these words is true or false. The Comments settings are turned off to prevent me from having to defend what amounts to little more than fanciful, sometime crude speculation. Great moments in our lives never return.
