The Roots of Human Circumstance

By Raymond A. Hult

Throughout his 27-year career as an FBI Special Agent in big cities and small, the author has personally associated with persons of all backgrounds living in circumstances ranging from extreme poverty to ultimate opulence. That has afforded him the unique perspective in analyzing not only the varied living conditions of those observed, but also the multitude of varied causes resulting in those wide-ranging circumstances.
Add to that living for two years each in Morocco and Germany and traveling extensively around the world, he became convinced his experience would enable him to pinpoint in a concise manner some of the most significant roots and resulting circumstances encountered by humans throughout their sojourn in mortality; the purpose being to help facilitate an analysis of how to best maximize the worldly challenges faced by each of us.
In addition to a joy of writing (this is his 6th published book), Ray and his wife have settled down in Utah having celebrated their 55th wedding anniversary while enjoying their five happily married daughters and 15 grandchildren. Oh yeah, and he probably plays too much golf.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Trafford Publishing
• Release date: Jan 10, 2021
• ISBN: 9781698705330

Raymond A. Hult

The author is 78, having been married for 57 years with five daughters, 13 grandchildren and 3 great-grandchildren. Having been for most of his life a comiited Christian, he eventually determined he was actually an Agnostice. Having served 27 years as an FBI Special Agent, he finally replaced his blind faith, invloving multiple layers of hearsay, with the importance of relying on evidence and common snense. He's now retired in Bountful, Utah engaging mostly in writing and golf. He's authored seven published books, six of which deal with his Agnoxtic views and the seventh a novel dealing with his experience in the FBI. All have been published by Trafford and can be purchased at both Barns and Nobel and Amazon.

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CONTENTS

Preface

1.     Biblical Origin

2.     Scientific Origin

3.     Racism

4.     Faith

5.     Law And Order

6.     Intelligence

7.     Physical Health

8.     Mental Health

9.     Physical Appeal

10.   Employment

11.   Addiction

12.   Government

13.   Wealth

14.   Location

15.   Mother Nature

16.   Gender

17.   Pairing Off

18.   Charity

19.   Science And Technology

20.   War

21.   Fun And Entertainment

22.   Indoctrination

23.   Seven Deadly Sins

24.   Longevity

PREFACE

Mortality begins at birth and is immediately impacted by what will become a long string of circumstances determining the quality of life’s journey for however long it exists. It’s different for everybody. For the lucky few, life becomes a totally satisfying experience with few bumps in the road. For those less fortunate, it can result in a miserable experience from beginning to end. For the rest of us, it lies somewhere in between.

The motive for writing this book has been to highlight some of the major causes or roots determining the circumstances facing the mortal saga. Some destructive roots for the most part can’t be avoided although in some cases minimized. Others are mostly up to each human to avoid or suffer the dire circumstances.

Beneficial roots similarly impact humans in a couple of ways. For some, they take hold with little or no effort on behalf of the recipient. For others, the good roots don’t magically materialize and must be initiated by the recipient to result in a positive outcome.

Hopefully, readers will be assisted in recognizing and minimizing the bad and capitalizing on the good.

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ONE

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BIBLICAL ORIGIN

Trying to figure out the circumstances determining one’s human life experience starts with attempting to ascertain its origin. There’s really only a couple of theorized possibilities that result in pitting religion against science.

Although there may be others, the most universally accepted religious explanation is found in the Bible from which I’ll devote the remainder of this chapter. I’ll consider the scientific theory in chapter 2.

The Bible doesn’t waste any time in devoting its First Book of Moses called Genesis to explaining how the Earth was formed along with the first two humans, Adam and Eve. Accepting that would of course mean fully formed humans much the same as exist today originated in that form. There have been no intermediate versions. Fully formed physical bodies and mental capability have continued essentially unabated from the beginning.

Moses allegedly received that revelation directly from God. The problem I have with that is there is no available evidence anything like that ever happened. It could just have easily been some fictitious story make up by a mere human. There’s no way at this late date to put Moses on the witness stand or to find other witnesses who may have been able to authenticate or discard his account.

One way of determining the credibility of Adam and Eve originating humanity is to evaluate the believability of the creation of earth as outlined in Genesis. Not very convincing to say the least.

Moses records God created light on the first day, but didn’t get around to creating the sun and the moon until the fourth day. What was the source of the light for the first three?

Then, God created grass, herbs and fruit bearing trees on the third day, but there was no sun until the fourth. How could those plants grow without the sun? It’s hard to conceive of plants existing in frigid conditions. Wouldn’t an intelligent creator want to create the sun first?

The sceptic I am, if God created the sun on the fourth day and the earth already existed although without form and void, it makes me wonder what that mass was rotating around in the meantime. Again, seems to me the sun needs to exist as the first step in any creative effort.

Genesis records that the firmament (universe) was created on the second day. Why was a creative effort that enormous a necessary element in the creation of the earth? Yes, the sun and the moon were necessary, but why everything else we now know exists in an ever-expanding universe?

The known universe is currently estimated to contain over 100 billion galaxies with a total of roughly 10 billion trillion stars. The sun is just one of those stars. As every minute goes by, it’s estimated the universe is continuing to increase its volume by a trillion cubic light-years (the distance it takes light to ravel in a year-cubed) with no end in sight. Note: The speed of light travels approximately 670,7 million miles/hr. x 24 hrs./day x 365 days/yr.