Prayer Is Not A Discourse. It Is

Enclosed Within His Artificial Creation, Man Finds That There Is “no Exit”; That He Cannot Pierce The Shell Of Technology Again To Find The Ancient Milieu To Which He Was Adapted For Hundreds Of Thousands Of Years . In Our Cities There Is No More Day Or Night Or Heat Or Cold. But There Is Overpopulation, Thralldom To Press And Television, Total Absence Of Purpose. All Men Are Constrained By Means External To Them To Ends Equally External. The Further The Technical Mechanism Develops That Allows Us To Escape Natural Necessity, The More We Are Subjected To Artificial Technical Necessities.

What We Are Witnessing At The Moment Is A Rearrangement Of The World In An Intermediate Stage; The Change Is Not In The Use Of A Natural Force But In The Application Of Technique To All Spheres Of Life.

Our Civilization Is First And Foremost A Civilization Of Means; In The Reality Of Modern Life, The Means, It Would Seem, Are More Important Than The Ends.

According To The International Institute For Environment And Development, The Annual Amount Spent Globally On Advertising Aimed At Increasing Consumption Topped $430 Billion In 1998.consumer Capitalism Is Dedicated To The Proposition That Production Is Good In Itself, No Matter What Is Produced. The Net Effect Is The Massive Production Of Absurd, Empty And Useless Items Which Are Nevertheless Utterly Serious Since We Earn Our Living From Them, And Dedicate Our Leisure Time To Them.

We Are Not To Make The Torah Into God Himself, Nor The Bible Into A "paper Pope." The Bible Is Only The Result Of The Word Of God. We Can Experience The Return Of The Word Of God In The Here And Now, The Perpetual Return Of The Actual, Living, Indisputable Word Of God That Makes Possible The Act Of Witnessing, But We Should Never Think Of The Bible As Any Sort Of Talisman Or Oracle Constantly At Our Disposal That We Need Only Open And Read To Be In Relation To The Word Of God And God Himself.