One-dimensional man
This is a person who lives only for his body. He acknowledges only what is material, that is what he can try to know by the senses. They only receive from the physical side. They work to spend a large part of earnings on bodily needs. Imagine a one-dimensional man watching through a pub window his colleague from his work just coming out of a bookstore and carries purchased books.He immmediately criticizes ihm for wasting a lot of money, If avcolleague from work had reason,he would miss the money with him in the pub. It is typical for these one-dimensional people that they all know and understand everything.In the third beer they have solved the economic situation in the state, in the rift political situation and in the eight they revise the theory of relativity. And most importantly, they are quite clear on questions of faith.Just as poetry is useless,faith is also useless.And what about his co-worker? He also occasionally goes to drink beer, but he also builds his second dimension.He travels, learns a foreign language, attends concerts,he lives a living culturalist. But let’s go back to our one dimensional man.He finished his last beer and went home. Along the way,he sees a young man entering the church.If he had critical reservations about his colleague from work, who had sunk so deep that he even reads the book,then he could not find worlds the young man at all.It’s nobody has to teach. He knows it is, Jesus was invented by the parish priest to fool people. The young man eats also and drinks, sports and studied, but he is also looking for something else. Values that exceeds man. He search other views that expand his being by the the spiritual dimension. I intentionally write searching because three dimensional life is searching.It is an act of will by effort. Therefore, accepting the gift of fait always carries with it a claim to onself. By no means should we despise one- two demensional mans loofting, because it would be unfairly, immoral and unchristian.As if we regarded as inferior those, who hear badly or see only with one eye.Faith is a gift and a task comes from it. The role of love for all. If my faith diminished love for others and intensify contempt for other people it would no be faith in Jesus and the way to God.Even a one dimensional person hat its human value. Maybe it was a time or a family, which does not awaken other dimensions.But they are in him. And what about waking them up. The price of person is immense. In God’eyes alwyas greater than in the eyes of the world. Once a person already exists he should try to be.We are invited to be full three – dimensional beings. If we have a chance to try new dimensions of our being, we should not postpone this opportunity.
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