Sunday night thoughts

Sometimes, the right glass of red wine at the right time is the best thing in the world.

I am really enjoying the return of the NFL. I know I've watched it for years, and I know this is nothing new, but it still surprises me how happy and comfortable I feel once the season starts again, and it really does change my weekly schedule, and my life. 

I am seriously thinking about revisiting my old idea about studying the Bible. I think a lot of the problems that people struggle with these days are down to the modern ways of communicating, and the way we're connecting in a way that isn't really connecting, it's just sharing online crap. We're trying to deal with these scenarios using instincts and thought patterns that are based on thousands of years of evolution and simply haven't yet developed enough to keep up. So, I'm thinking, the further back we go into those instincts the more likely we are to find the answers. Too many modern 'help' books use modern methods that have only been created to sell the books they are featured in; they're not based on research, experience or common sense. So I want to ignore all the weird mock-philosophical, pseudo-scientific stuff about colours and crystals and emotional attachment types and read about people who existed before technology, and read about how they dealt with life as it was for them; as I have a suspicion that the basic problems they faced are fundamentally the same as the ones that most of us face today.
So... back to the Stoics, back to the Greeks and Romans, back to Cicero and Marcus Aurelius, and yes - back to the Bible.
I mean, if you're looking for guidance on how to live your life, the Ten Commandments aren't a bad place to start, are they?

RC 21-9-25