Nature as truth

The findings by the anthropologist and archaeologist who conducted a recent study of a latte site on Tinian gave us good bedrock foundation of important information about the indigenous people of these islands.

Such excursion to our past prior to recorded history of the land and people takes us back in time before the first contact with outsiders, the introduction of Christianity, and the influence of materialism to the indigenous people of these islands.

Before the first contact with a white man, the only truth that the indigenous people knew was “Nature.” The indigenous people still to this day believed that nature is truth, or truth nature. It is fixed in our psyche that is all you need to know on earth, and all you need to know.

We are a food-gathering society in which life and living all depended on what nature provided. We learned to apply simplistic living where our supermarket is the ocean and land resources. Just as any other primitive society cruising in time, the indigenous people progressed as toiling, suffering, learning, and hoping society. The next time zone in this excursion was the impact of Christianity on the indigenous people. The acceptance that God is truth has unexplained nexus with “nature.” So, the indigenous people took this plexus of relations as truth.

In modern time era, materialism is taking charge of the life of the indigenous people. It seems to me that materialism is crisscross cutting the indigenous people’s respect and love of God and Nature. If we could just turn the clock one hundred years back, the indigenous people in these islands were in harmony with nature and they were secured with their God.

Is this the price we pay for being in modern times in deep relations with modern man? Materialism and capitalism are all in the same sphere of psychological and sociological order. When mammon is the root of all evil, it is time to revisit our primary instinct and search our soul and mind whether we are fulfilling the laws of God and Nature before their power inflict pain and suffering to those who disregard truth about their existence. This is just food for thought, and as you can see these subjects make good kitchen table discussions if not in public forum during the year 2012.