8638	Forums / Theology Forum / Contempative Meditation	on: August 12, 2006, 01:06:13 PM
Isa 19:3.  \"Then the spirit of the Egyptians will be demoralized within them; And I will confound their strategy, So that they will resort to idols and ghosts of the dead And to mediums and spiritists.  Gen. 11:1.  Now the whole earth used the same language and the same words. 6.  The LORD said, \"Behold, they are one people, and they all have the same language. And this is what they began to do, and now nothing which they purpose to do will be impossible for them. 7.  \"Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, so that they will not understand one another's speech.\" 9.  Therefore its name was called Babel, because there the LORD confused the language of the whole earth; and from there the LORD scattered them abroad over the face of the whole earth. I have been thinking about this whole principle of integration. The paradigm is not in itself evil but what man does with the paradigm makes it evil. Integrating is taking the parts of something and making them a whole or uniting them. There is a philosophy of integration in this country that has blossomed over the years and presently it seems that truth is measured by this paradigm. There is an evil in all of this even tho the intentions are good. Here we have people uniting to build a tower with this principle of integration. Here there are many different jobs to accomplish in building the tower and they all unite to build this thing. Now there is one language so communication is the key to integration it seems to me. All of these parts are put together to in the name of unity. Well it is just what we have in all the areas of our culture here. We have integrated personalities, integrated philanthropy, integrated churches even are the new movement. It has been a long road to get to this towering problem. Here there is a cumulative effect whos evolution starts with denying the existence of God and then there is sort of a power of unity in integration that swallows up many people as if a ship was sinking and the force of the ships descent into the ocean dragged people from the surface. Integration has become sort of a life form. Well it seems that the origins of this philosophy are of mans invention. From the fall man has had this nagging power to deny the existence of God and form a garden Paradise of his own, with his own way of success. It starts with the blindness in mans mind of the reality of his inability to think properly and so man begins to develop integrated processes with the intention of placing himself at the center of his world and in his blindness he builds his own tower so that people unite around him. But really there is a clog in the system of thinking in man and that is that he really starts on the wrong foot and lives in this arrogant deception of cause and effect.  In denying God he basically denies the process of cause and effect. The integrated philosophy is a philosophy of pragmatism. Pragmatism is more than just what works the best,  it is in our culture finding how to produce unity by denying the cause and effect paradigm.