We are living even now among punishments and ruins.
The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding something better to it.
Why I am NOT going to buy a computer
There is change by necessity or adaptation, and there is contrived change or novelty.
You cannot devalue the body and value the soul Or value anything else.
Charity even for one person does not make sense except in terms of an effort to love all Creation in response to the Creator's love for it.