The twentieth day of the fifth month in the 2729th year of our dispersion.

I need to read more about primitivism. How does our Father feel about the thousands of chemicals, organic and inorganic, that we produce as byproducts and prime products of our great industrial complex and then proceed to leave in the public air and waterways? They certainly don't, on the whole, help the ecosystem survive with the diversity and abundance it once had. Is it bad stewardship? It makes things easier for us; is it slothfulness? Or is it diligence, for allowing one man to do what it once took many men to do? But manpower is an incredibly, potentially infinitely renewable resource; you can always make more men. We don't know how to make oil.

Plastic doesn't go away, at least not that I know of. You can toss it somewhere and it will break into smaller and smaller pieces, until the pieces are so small we can't see them. But they're still there and they can make it into the water. Should we go back to using glass, paper, and metal? Or is de-industrialization a dead end? I always hear about third world countries and how they are constantly dealing with famine, pestilence and disease. I used to think it was because they didn't have the infrastructure to produce like we do. But what if it is simply a result of their disobedience? Certainly Israel was not in such a predicament when they followed יהוה. They were constantly taken care of. But if this is correct, our technology will eventually be useless, because we also are ignoring many of the laws of יהוה.

It's one of those quandaries which are difficult to solve through experimentation. It's not like I can just go build a yurt and live in it. I'd have to witness an entire society which practices woodworking, metallurgy, and the other ancient disciplines which made "civilized" life possible millenia ago, while at the same time obeying the laws of יהוה. Would they come up with cleaner, better alternatives to our current methods? Would they advance past our technology level? I always pictured the World to Come that way. Great technology - "miraculous," as it were - would be that which does the amazing and impossible, but without destroying the earth. Would Israel have done this if she hadn't whored after other gods? Or was יהוה just waiting for this period of time to allow certain technologies to be revealed? I wish I knew. Even the technology which the Nephilim and fallen angels use pales in comparison to what יהוה used to create the universe and whatever is beyond it (at least, this is what I gather from Enoch's account). And the angels are capable of amazing feats. Just look at what "UFO's" can do. Reports mystify me of machines with organic skin which perform maneuvers which defy the laws of physics as we know them. Could we discover how to build them? Or does it have to be taught, shown to us by a higher intelligence?

There are so many questions with no answers. So few people even seem to be asking them.