Spending time with Marvin.

It has been a while. I have been spending time in the world of Marvin, much to my frustration and irritation.
This is not to say I have been inactive. I just do not have been posting anything.

I have listened to a few books-on-disk. One was about the finding of the poem "On the nature of things" by Lucretius.
I found part of the historical context interesting in that it echoed the idea in my mind about people being antagonistic toward organizations as entities, vs. the individuals running those organizations.

Another idea that has been going through my mind has been the Seven Sins/Virtues and what is being made of them in this day. For one thing, I find that much of the world around me seems to embrace the sins as desirable, and the virtues as obsolete. Personally I would rather embrace the virtues and consign the sins to the ash heap of history. But as long as people have the agency to choose, the sins will be around, for there must always be opposition for there to be choice.

Then there is Community vs Network. A community values the individuals as whole people. A network values only that part of the individual that can forward the network.
In comparison the God of the Universe values the souls of each man and woman as His children. He seeks to set up communities where the whole soul is valued, nurtured and expanded.
The self-styled 'god of this world' who was cast out of heaven as lightening has done his best to set up a world that does not value souls, but causes their dissolution by valuing only parts and then tearing those parts asunder and using them up, while giving no value to the rest. this by networks.

Yet I see in the scriptures to go make friends of the mammon of the world. This to save their souls, and to function in this world for the short time of our mortal probation in it.
But I have come to feel so devalued by the networks of this world, and am so disgusted by the social media used thereby, that I am reticent at best to try. This feeling has some manifestation in the above mentioned virtues/sins issue. Yet I am encouraged to go network for 'there is no other way' to find employment at this time. All the gold and silver and treasures of the earth are tied up in networks to fund armies and navies and false priests and tyrants.

Is it any wonder I wish to walk away from the whole of it and join a community where my skills and soul are valued and can be used to increase the value of others? Where is the city of Enoch when you need it?