The cure:
Keep it simple, stupid.
One of my all time favorite quotations is by Mark Twain and it goes
a little something like this:
‘When you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.’
Not everything that Mark Twain ever said is gospel, but this one bit
of wisdom happens to be very, very true. When you tell the truth,
you never have to spend an ounce of brain power, a second of your time,
one iota of mental faculty trying to remember what you told someone, in
order to cover your tracks, should you ever see or speak to that person
again, or, in the case of a spouse or boss or child or friend, when you
see them and speak to them again.
When someone lies, somehow, if the natural process plays itself out, you’ll
get to see that person (to whom you lied) again, and for one reason or
another, the topic will arise again, and you’ll have to cover your tracks.
If you told the truth, no problem.
If you lied about something, well … if you somehow cover the big part,
the details, if the conversation continues, will end up killing the
discussion. Liars can’t keep talking forever, no matter how skilled in their practice, ultimately liars are exposed and put to shame. Someone who tells the truth can just keep on chirping and chirping and chirping; they’ve got nothing to hide.
But, back to the cure here – the cure for Alzheimer’s disease.
This will be a shining example of how I see life and the world around me, a
unification of religion, science and accounting – they all work as one – and
how they actually and actively make a difference in all of our lives.
I’m not sure who said it, but another quotation kind of helped to lead me down
this path and that quotation goes a little something like this:
‘The cleverly stated opposite of a good idea is worth a fortune to someone.’ –
or something to that effect.
The point here is this, and here’s how I ‘came up’ with the cure for Alzheimer’s …
‘When you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.’
inside out
‘If you tell enough lies, you won’t remember anything.’
That’s what Alzheimer’s is, at least on a basic level, a disease of ‘I can’t remember anything.’ Alzheimer’s is nature’s way of balancing out the lies we as individuals tell each other.
More than 5 million people in this country suffer from Alzheimer’s.
Those 5 million people don’t tell any more (or less) lies than members of the
general population, they just end up being like pimples on the face of
society, the unfortunate lightning rods that get struck with the energy of
millions of lies. Physics demands that a million pounds (volts) of lie have to go
somewhere, and a lightning bolt shoots down and someone gets struck, and
now they lose all of their life memories, can’t remember children, live alone,
function, anything – they become a burden on everyone.
From an accounting perspective, every time a lie is told, it’s recorded somewhere ‘on the books.’ Whenever a million dollars worth of lies are told, someone, somewhere, somehow (up high) needs to put down a credit to offset all of those debits. Credit card bills add up.
The lies have to go someplace.
The victims of Alzheimer’s are simply, again, the lightning rods which take the hit (and their families and friends) to ‘settle accounts’ – just like lightning. The cure, therefore, for Alzheimer’s is simply this: somehow get people to stop telling lies. I’m not sure how this cure would work, what would actually happen, how long it would be until we saw a difference – but if I had a couple of shekels lying around, and I could sit down with God and ask Him some questions, I’ll bet that, at the very least, He’d be kind of amused with this notion.
If people really started to change their ways, started being honest, righting wrongs from the past, would a ‘miracle’ drug somehow just kind of ‘spring’ forth out of the ground?
Maybe.
I think that’s how things work.
Debits and credits.
Pings and pongs.
Lightning bolts and rods.
Maybe giving God a good laugh or a reason to smile.
When He smiles, good things just somehow manage to happen.