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Life Without Ritual

or A Guide to Escaping Mental Mind Traps (part 1)

Written with a style dedicated to Rockie and Bullwinkle. Here's to never finishing the story.

"Consistently inconsistent," my Dad says. It's a sentiment I've heard before, but never so eloquently put. And that would be my Dad. He's an example of power through minimal words, a man Lincoln would praise for his ability to use the least syllables while expressing absolute meaning. Unlike this paragraph and unlike me, most of the time.
Allow me to digress...
The world is in a period of obvious drastic change. 'The End of Times,' some say.

The End of Times...
   Not the End of Time,
   Not the End of the World.

What are 'times,' anyhow?
   Let's start where I learned to and then go backwards in case I was taught wrong.

We start off by defining the first word and gaining an understanding of the core concept, then the whole (thank you, Gary Mullanax).

Try to stay with me...
   'The' - Used before a noun, with a particularizing/specifying effect.
   'End' - Point. Place. Line. A place adjacent to tan extremity. Conclusion.
   'of' - Used to indicate direction, separation, origin, source, apposition, identity.
    'Times' - Preposition - "Two times four is eight" Related words: Contemporary world; modern times; multiplication.
(Thanks to Dictionary.com)

For emphasis....
TIMES - The act or process of multiplying.

In a story...
If I were walk up to any 10 - 45 year old, educated individual and asked for the definition of 'times,' what would I hear?

'Times' is a multiplication of that/those which is/are? Something similar?

What if the end of times is an end to the multiplication, the division, separation? What if it represents a coming together of the globe to eliminate the differences that disable or harm us?

Part 2 will be posted between 10 and 11 AM......
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Location: Salt Lake City, UT 84105, USA

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