In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground;
Chilling words we find in Genesis 3:19... but scientifically accurate.
It has been discovered, measured and proved that work is an integral part of this physical universe in which we live.
By Unknown - Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. 231, August, 1869., Public Domain
There is no perpetual motion machine and energy cannot be created out of nothing.Scientifically there is no free lunch. Something has to do the work or someone has to pay.
Energy is always conserved.
Add to that, the effects of increasing entropy in this fallen world, where everything tends to fall apart, and it becomes a tough place to live, if one is not prepared to work.
Work is an absolute necessity, not only for survival but also to prosper. Some may get away with less work, but that generally comes at the expense of others.
It's because of this that life, for most of us, is tough... and its meant to be tough... We should not weep and wail and gnash our teeth, in fits of depression, every time things don't go according to plan.
There is no gain without the pain. I have heard people complain that if God is so powerful why doesn't he remove all suffering and prevent all evil?
That would be counter to the program and why we were introduced to this fallen world in the first place. As found in the Book of Mormon, a prophet explained to his son:
Nephi 2:11 For it must needs be, that there is an opposition in all things. If not so, my firstborn in the wilderness, righteousness could not be brought to pass, neither wickedness, neither holiness nor misery, neither good nor bad. Wherefore, all things must needs be a compound in one; wherefore, if it should be one body it must needs remain as dead, having no life neither death, nor corruption nor incorruption, happiness nor misery, neither sense nor insensibility.
Without opposites we would not be able to gain any sort of experience, to have lived. We must taste the bitter in order to truly appreciate the sweet. For every action there must be an equal and opposite reaction.
It is on the basis of this law that we either "act or are acted upon".
Work is how we act and the more we act or are proactive about things the more likely we will be able to provide for ourselves and be successful during our turn here on earth, where this fallen world throws everything it has at us.
Once we overcome we will emerge stronger and more rounded out for the experience. This is the purpose of living. Its in enduring well the tough times that character is built, and we are here to build character.
Any improvement we would have for ourselves, as the descendants of Adam, will come to us on the same basis...
"in the sweat of our face"
Previous parts of this Series.
Were the seven days of creation in Genesis seven twenty four hour periods? - Where do these notions originate?
Were the seven days of creation in Genesis seven twenty four hour periods? - Delving a little deeper
Were the seven days of creation in Genesis seven twenty four hour periods? - Into the detail
Were the seven days of creation in Genesis seven twenty four hour periods? - Some conclusions
Were the seven days of creation in Genesis seven twenty four hour periods? - Some more conclusions
Were the seven days of creation in Genesis seven twenty four hour periods? - The implications.
The evolution of Adam - a conundrum
The evolution of Adam - Who is Adam
The evolution of Adam - Two trees and choice
The evolution of Adam - Partaking of the fruit and feeling naked
The evolution of Adam - Was there death before Adam
The evolution of Adam - The biological purpose of death.
The evolution of Adam - The need for a Redeemer
The evolution of Adam - Inheritance and Redemption
The evolution of Adam - The dust of the ground
The evolution of Adam - flesh and blood and flesh and bone.
The evolution of Adam - a debt of blood and ghosts
The evolution of Adam - the lesser understood spirit within us all.
The evolution of Adam - Entropy and Eden.
The evolution of Adam - Sin and Entropy
Great post once again @gavvet. I agree with you.
I like that you mentioned "Some may get away with less work, but that generally comes at the expense of others"
Whatever kind of work you do–whether you’re self-employed, working for someone else, or something in between–if autonomy, complexity, and a connection between effort and reward are present, it’s my belief you have a much better chance of making your work meaningful.
And if you can find meaning in your work, you’re well on your way to being the best possible version of yourself.
I always appreciate a scientific take on scripture. In today's world smaller minds seem to think the two cannot coexist. All of the greatest men of science had religion in the past. Today it is still a good number of scientific minds who are so led but I worry that our sciences are paid for by governments and religion is burned away from young minds in the cauldrons of colleges who give no real guidance. Not the words you say, but the enlightened perspective from which you see, gives me a little hope. Thanx!
https://steemit.com/science/@kickassfacts/25-kickass-and-amazing-facts-about-dreams
If they try to take the faith out of the mind you'll always have people who know the truth and will tell it to other people. It's not possible to kill christian faith. Different government often tried it in many ways, but always failed. They burned themselves many times by trying to fight the faith. And they will fail in future too.
Where did we read about science in this article? Is seems to me it's more related to natural law and the ecosystem.
You are not seeing the laws of thermodynamics here? Natural Law is science, despite what some more modern scientists may label that term.
The conglomeration of science and religion is incredibly interesting. It puts a more logical look on religion that many people might appreciate. Especially those who struggle to see the reason behind religion.
I have to say I agree with the concept that one has to work for what you want in life. Not only is that necessary for survival but it is also important for one's self image. Instant gratification also removes the sense of accomplishment that comes from working towards goals.
Maybe you can discuss Millennials and some of the issues they may come across as they reach adulthood and how to work through them.
Opposition is the basis of the meaning of life.
In a utopian world, the decline comes at a time, because the equilibrium does not exist.
In the world we live in, the valuation of an action is done by the difficulty it provides. The easier we have the less we apreciate the result.
The very conception of the value of life depends on the opposition between good and evil. Thank you for that thought ^^
I totally agree with you, no free lunch anywhere, even in Freetown, you must work in order to eat
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But then, too much work is bad, we should remember the basics, the body itself needs rest....
Human parts are not manufactured in a factory!
I always feel best when I am kept busiest. The burning of energy makes the refueling that much more enjoyable. Definitely an integral part of life!
2 Nephi 2. Possibly my favorite chapter! Good to see it on steemit!
One of mine too.
Awesome. I love the part where you said:
'we must taste the bitter to appreciate the sweer'
If you notice, you'll find out that the you enjoy a reward better when you work for it. There is thus added satisfaction you get when you work for your reward. I believe God put it there in us. You'll appreciate an outcome better when you worked for it. It makes you see the true value of that thing.
God did not make work to kill us, but to instill in us the discipline and diligence that work produces, making you, people, and mankind as a whole better people,an in turn making this world a better place.
Exactly God did not give us work to kill us. I believe work is a good thing however I do not think we are supposed to all be depressed and miserable or on the border of suicide from our jobs.
Well said. You made an important point here. I believe people commiting suicide because of their work is a very unfortunate situation. Another thing I've noticed is that Historically, suicide rates do rise during economic downturns. The entire population is still usually experiencing the downstream effects of economic recession, coupled with the pressure from the office, and all these lead to mental stress, and then suicide.
We pray God helps us to see work as a training ground - a blessing.
God did not curse work, but rather He caused the ground. Work is a noble task. Even God works.
Thanks so much for your feed back.
Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice, need. So you are absolutely right work - it's energy and energy is life.
There is something to be said from succeeding through hard work. One can also make a valid argument that when people are just "given" something that they don't appreciate it as much. Whether it is through procurement of your families food, building a home or in modern times working to bring home a paycheck, there are no free rides, there is and will always be a cost for everything.
On that note, (this might be a little off subject) this idea might be changing in the future with the advent of AI. When robots start replacing humans in all industries there is a chance that we could become obsolete. there is also a chance that we could live longer more leisurely lives because we no longer have the need to perform menial tasks. What are your thoughts on this?
Many though technological revolutions of the past would render jobs obsolete but in those scenarios the nature of work just changed and new jobs emerged.
hayatım şifrelerini çözdügün an enerji de öğlen yemeginide aslında evren sana emek harcamadan verecektir
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The rest of your life is easy to decrypt
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"That would be counter to the program and why we were introduced to this fallen world in the first place". So, what is the reason why we have been introduced into this world?
" we are here to build character". Why our passage here is to build character? And for what purpose?
if you have answers to these questions, please share. I really need an answer.
You can think of life as our test to see if we can handle our physical bodies without God standing here making us make the right decisions. You can find me on Steemit.Chat if you want to know more.
Yeah sure.
This mortal phase is a tiny but not insignificant step in our eternal progression...
To build a character is not as easy as turning the palm of the hand, it all takes time and process.
Heaven is the real purpose of life for the grandchildren of adam .. to reach heaven it takes sacrifice and hard work, hopefully we get it ..
Thanks @ gavvet.
Work = Force X Distance. That's all you had to say yet you wrote all this!
Most people are put off by equations ; )
Such a wonderful and meaningful sentence : We must taste the bitter in order to truly appreciate the sweet.
I agree with you !
You are absolutely right! Work plays a big part in life and those who work hard will end up happy. God put all the good things in life high up and it is only those who are willing to work that will access the door to happiness and success.
Thanks for the wonderful post! Really enjoyed reading it :D
You are right, from the first if we want something that can be realized then it must work and have to make a little sacrifice either with strength or direction. do not just daydream and dream beautiful, be aware of your daydreams, then start acting with a work full of enthusiasm and achieve success.
I agree with you on work, and how without suffering their could not be enjoyment.
However, this line:
Is complete crap.
The entire universe is a perpetual motion machine.
Energy is constantly put into the system, (from outside) used, and then returned (to outside).
Free energy exists in abundance. We would know this except that a small group of people want to keep us in a low vibration, a low state of energy. To keep us as cattle. To keep us under their control. Thus the whole reason for big oil.
And so, this group of people have unwritten our science books and held aloft such people as Michelson-Morley, Darwin and Einstein. All of them made up shams.
They never allow Tesla or Maxwell to be brought up. They never speak of their discoveries or their equations they worked out.
However, doing work is part of man's identity, what makes him a man. This is not a completely spiritual world, it is also a physical world. Thus, we can have the joy of getting our hands dirty.
Perhaps I belong in a feedlot in some respects then.
Not all work gets to the goal, but nothing big can be accomplished without going through hard work. thank you for sharing this good post and able to build more grow.
Too true... “Some may get away with less work, but that generally comes at the expense of others.”
You are absolutely right and well said @gavvet. You always give to us great scientific scripture. I really
like to study fro you. Some concepts got from web and read some books. Someone has to work more
and then receive some payment. Then we can buy something to eat. Without working how will we live
together currently? But Barbarians life and humans life more difference. Barbarians likes as animals
where stay. Animals and barbarians life little meaningful. They have little necessary things. But
currently situation very different before Adam`s period as you know. I we have not ready to working
any job need to leave from maybe life. Stay live more tough condition in currently and in future.
Humans need more money to if we require to live on planet. in this fact the main engine of progress in
society. If we need to success firstly planing our work and after divide work each other. Need engaged
together workers. "There is no gain without the pain" Thats great quote you showing from this post.
Thats powerful mind concept and sometimes do strong our mindset. For every action there must be an
equal and opposite reaction.
The working low basically happened act or are acted upon. Thats absolutely correct point. Definetely
all humans can win their life. But someone cannot keep mind positively always. So their lifes fall down
very earlier. It cannot acceptable. Why peoples did not try to do their skillful work? You and all us
know peoples has some born skills. We try to learn and then work our maximum limit of work i think.
There is an opposition in all things. Lot of troubles will be come to our life. If so why we fallen from
our mind? Humans have superb wisdom. Peoples need to be patience always. I think this is the
purpose of living. More valuable our life experience however. Thank you for share great learning post @gavvet.
Resteemed your post.
Without pain how can we see the essence of blessings? There are nothing easy on earth, if God remove all the suffering how can man then set to appreciate him?
Life is a challenge, do not listen to the talk of people, the important work and work. Work will produce something and while the talk will only produce an excuse. this is a clear and plain post. because from the first we are taught bitter first and then sweet.
Sounds kind of dogmatic. And seems the Luddite Fallacy may be about to expire. Human labor seems to be nothing more than output from an intelligent biped with human thumbs. We have the robotic bipeds and robotic hands, and by 2029 Ray Kurzweil thinks we will have the computers as smart as humans.
Great post once again. I agree with you.
I totally agree with you and appreciate a scientific take on scripture! Today it is still ayou must work in order to eat
Nice post perfect one on steemit
Thx Nice additional again. Everything started in Brabant
This post is upvote & resteemed.
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A very good article and just fit to understand our efforts in Steemit. The very understanding for me is that work is a process that requires the application of mental or physical effort, which aims to obtain a certain result. It is work, as a rule, that determines the social status of a person. And is, in fact, the main engine of progress in society. Work, as a phenomenon, is inherent only to living organisms and, above all, to man. Thank you @gavvet
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yes work is a man power,worker man never loss hart and live the life happiness and joey,
Thanks fro share great educational post yo steemit @gavvet. That would be biological topic may be. Anyway I always learn from your posts. Past ones read successfully. Thats success story. Thank you sir.
good work ;)
cordially
david, son of angel momone
Chilling words we find in Genesis 3:19... but scientifically accurate..... @natural.beauty
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I totally agree with you @gavvet. You gave us remarkable evolution working point.
I want to eat some food from my working...Need to seek scientific books for more research.
God put all the good things in life high. connection between effort and reward are present
And that pushes me to be less lazy at work no matter if I have reward of not, sometimes they are intangible.
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Good one........
very good
Well, say! @gavvet
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We will only survive by taking care for ourselves, nothing for Free..... it could happen we have to pay to See the sunrise....
Even though i am an agnost, gotta say a well written post that actually makes sense, rather than the usual god exists because that's what i believe :)
Good po
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Woww. Incredible post. I really learnt today.
Physical and mental health are adversely affected by lack of work.
I grew up being taught that there are 2 types of forces in this life: things to act and things to be acted upon just like you said. When things “just happen,” the effect is dependent upon your decisions/actions stemming from that cause.
You have a choice to make: be an agent unto yourself, or go throughout life with little to no control over your own destiny.
Make that decision early and stick to it.