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100 Thoughts - Life, Politics, Science and Religion
Preface
Our youth seems to be adrift. Life seems to have lost its meaning.
Our country seems to have lost its direction. Priests are being
convicted of child molestation. Corporate corruption seems to
be on the increase. Athletes and movie stars are making outrageous
salaries. The world seems to be getting more confusing all the
time. People from other countries hate and attack the United States.
We spend hundreds of billions on our military, yet we don’t feel
safe. We argue over whether evolution or creationism is more correct.
Our leaders send our soldiers to foreign lands to fight and be
killed. Jobs are leaving our nation for other countries, leaving
workers here unemployed. We spend hundreds of millions on law
enforcement and prisons, yet we don’t feel safe.
The purpose of this book is to try to answer these concerns, as
well as many others. The thoughts in this book are mainly about
topics that people aren’t supposed to talk about. You may have
heard the phrase, “Never discuss politics or religion.” Although
there is a certain amount of wisdom in that saying, this book
is meant to encourage the discussion of those topics. This book
even tries to answer the big three questions that have plagued
mankind, “Where did we come from? Why are we here? What happens
to us when we die?”
Part of the reason life is so confusing is because there are so
many things to know and so much of it is contradictory. By discussing
one hundred topics and showing how they are interconnected, you
should able to see the world more clearly. If you understand the
root causes of our political mess, you can see through much of
the confusion. If you understand the foundations of religion and
science, you can see their value. If you understand the purpose
of life, you can more easily make choices that are meaningful.
I think if you read this book, you will experience a certain joy,
similar to the joy a person with poor vision gets when he or she
puts on glasses for the first time, the joy in seeing the world
more clearly.
A few closed-minded individuals will be deeply offended by this
book. I think a great many more open-minded people will benefit
from many of the thoughts. It is my hope that this book acts like
a signpost, pointing us in a direction that leads to a better
future for our whole planet.
T.M. Akashi, September 7, 2003