CAN YOU IMAGINE a world without measurements or weight…?
A world without systems standards of any kind? Think what would happen if there were no alphabet, no metric system, no currencies, no hours or minutes. Imagine if 1 plus 1 didn’t equal 2 but instead 3, 12.863 or 39 — and only on a sunny day.
Without these things, there would be anarchy. Commerce, science, music, medicine, engineering and almost all other disciplines would be much more difficult — if not impossible — to pursue. But more than that, a world without standards is really not a world without standards; it is — rather — a world in which there are many standards, defined by whomever, however he or she sees fit. For example, if I wanted to own your house, I could offer you my No. 2 leaded pencil because, hey, in my mind that pencil sure is worth alot. And if the words “muggleforth sienkleton ropersplatten” don’t make sense to you — well, that’s your fault, because they add up in my book.
Obviously, we need certain standards to function in life, whether those standards are time measurement, established rules for language, or simply the acceptance that a dollar is worth 100 cents. Without acknowledging and accepting these principles as truth, the world would be pretty chaotic.
THOUGHT: It is interesting that we accept this notion — that standards are necessary — in most every area of our culture, but that when it comes to the moral state of our culture, we are often quick to reject that standards are necessary or important. Even the most avowed secularist and relativist is likely to agree that certain mathematical laws are reliable across time and cultures, such as the Pythagorean Theorem. But often these same people will contradict themselves and say that there are no absolutes. They will say that morality cannot be considered absolute and unchanging. (Alex McFarland)
KneEmail: “In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes” (Judges 17:6).