Paradoxically Speaking

The alternate title would be , God, Greed, and Collective action and
relies on the previous two posts.

To begin with I want to specifically discuss collective action, the actions
taken by more than one individual.  So consider 4 individuals that wish
to perform an action or activity together.  You will see that in order
to succeed they must discuss details of how this action will be performed.
If they have performed that task before, those discussion may be abbreviated,
however, that task of discussion will go on at some level, how who,
where, what and when.

Now, if one individual believes or suggests he might have an
alternative method, but the other 3 agree on something, then
depending on the relationship between the 4, there might be
a less than positive effect.  For example, if there is not a strong 
relationship between them, and particularly if the 3 start into
belittling or demeaning that number 4, then one reasonable
outcome is that number 4 will just go his own way, then leaving
more work for the other 3.  This situation I believe it is fair to
call " stupid ", or perhaps, " counter-productive ".

Now we should be able to observe that this is not so different
from what happens to an individual before he undertakes
some action.  You will observe such things as collection
of information and assessments of details surrounding that task
should be taken in advance.  Time is always a big factor, so how
long do we predict this task will take?  And so individual action
requires a key component we often refer to as thinking. And there
are many aphorisms referring to this process, such as, " look before
you leap ".  Again, I will simply assert, that thinking is intimately
connected to the effective undertaking of any task and the quality
of the resulting task is related to that thinking as much as
how " together " the individual is in performing it.

Shifting over to God, now, I will just mention a few things.  First,
I will assert that it is possible to construct a rational proof for
the existence of God, but I will not get into that.  I will simply
note that one of the strongest arguments suggesting that
God doesn't exist, is the absence of physical evidence.  I will
simply note this argument is stated often, but rarely or never
proved, and that would be because it can not be proved.  Even
if it is reasonable to say there is no physical evidence now,
which I would disagree with, then you simply have to
qualify that with - yet -  ---- at the very  least.  But because
physical reality is effectively infinite by itself, asserting
the absence of physical evidence in this situation can
not be realistically provable.  Rather the correct observation
would be --- you have not personally observed it or made
the proper inference or connection.

But now let's move on to greed, or Greed if you prefer.  Very
few people will have any difficulty affirming the existence
of greed, though hardly anybody has ever seen a " lump
of greed ", or any measure of it.   And that is really because
greed is not so much a thing in itself, but more the absence of
a thing.  Mainly, I will assert that greed is the absence of
generosity and generosity itself makes itself known both
physically and non-physically.

Finally, I will also assert without proof that this issue of greed
or lack of generosity is the defining issue of the present day.
And you must observe that based on the example I gave
above concerning the behavior of 4 individuals in relation
to a task, a lack of generosity, particularly generosity of
spirit must logically result in a disruption of the effectiveness
or success of collective action.