Hope—The Currency of the Future:
There are a lot of people who say, “God is love.” That’s close, but falls rather short of the mark. As I explain elsewhere in the book, “god” is hope for the future. Love is a specific type of hope for the future, and a thing that lots of people hope to have in the future.
“God” is the force that powers the universe. “God” is hope. Does that mean that hope is the force that powers the universe? From a strictly psychological/subjective standpoint it does. Hope is the belief that things are going to turn out alright. For children, as I explain elsewhere, the purest form of hope is the sense of hope that is (or isn’t) learned from their parents. For adults, the purest form of hope is the belief that they have the ability and the resources to make things turn out alright. When children and adults have hope, they’re satisfied with their lives, the world seems to make sense, and they’re willing to work a lot harder because they believe they can succeed at whatever they’re doing.
Over the course of writing this book, I’ve had to live through not one, but two Valentine’s Days working at jobs where they play commercial radio all day long. So to all of you out there who are responsible for helping to fill up the airwaves with diamond engagement ring commercials, as the author of The Third Testament©, now I can say…
FEEL MY WRATH!!!!
Love is a specific and very popular type of hope for the future. “God” is hope for the future, and is often confused with love. Now lots of people try to convince everyone that love has to be bought at the jewelry store, or a ski resort, or wherever. Obviously, that marketing tactic must work, because if it didn’t, people wouldn’t keep putting these simpleminded commercials on the radio, would they?
Now a lot of people in America honestly believe that hope can best be measured in dollars and material resources. A lot of other people feel like there is no real hope left in the world, and their god has abandoned them—or was just a lie. Well what do you expect? If you try to buy love, hope, and god at the store, you put your love, hope, and god in the hands of the greedy motherf*cker who’s selling it to you!
Can a book by a simple carpenter restore “god”, love, and hope to the world and make everyone millionaires of the future economy? I guess we’ll find out, eh?









