Ever notice how they are always branded
as weird, kooks, heretics and blasphemers, nuts, ridiculed,
discouraged, or sometimes even exiled or ostracized until they come
back with the fruits of their hard work and accomplished glory?
All these trail-blazers are always told
at the outset that “this is this and that is that because of what
we know.” Really? Well how do we know this? Oddly enough, the work
of the great pioneers who blazed the field of whatever the subject
matter being touched on up to this point in time is cited. Well,
what was there BEFORE those pioneers dared to go against the flow?
Nothing.
Nothing, really?
That's right, nothing. They were being
told, just as you are now, to stick to the already covered ground,
the safe territory, the known territory, and being told that THEY
were crazy nuts for wanting to push beyond that. They ignored these
admonishments, of course.
Has anyone ever stopped to notice this
pattern?
Only AFTER a pioneer has blazed the
trail - be it discovering new lands, or new science, or new
philosophy - and knocked down those “threatened” folks who rise
up to challenge them for what they're doing, do ANY of the masses
follow.
Now it's safe, now the way is clear,
now it's made doctrine, and the pattern begins all over again.
Calvin was initially branded a heretic
for starting the Reformation movement, and now we have Protestants.
Einstein never had a degree, and yet
he's cited as one of the greatest scientific minds to have ever
lived.
Benjamin Franklin was chided for his
“blasphemy” when he invented the lightning rod.
And had the American Revolution not
succeeded, every last man in the Continental Congress that founded
the country now known as the United States of America would have been
hanged as traitors to their king.
Being a pioneer is lonely and
dangerous. Yet nothing in this world moves or progresses without
them.
You'd think we'd all learn by now to
trust in that, instead of repeating history like the machine-cogs in
a music box, playing the same tune over and over again.
