The year was 1984, and it was Peter Hyams' turn to direct a science fiction movie that tried to answer all those questions that had been drumming in your mind since 1968 when 2001: A Space Odyssey made its debut. That is, if you hadn't read the late Arthur C. Clarke's novel 2010: Odyssey Two. Sometimes it's best not to know the answers. The second movie's plot was a bomb, especially the end's repetitious "ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS EXCEPT EUROPA. ATTEMPT NO LANDING THERE. USE THEM TOGETHER. USE THEM IN PEACE."Well, Mr. Clarke, it's finally 2010, and world peace is still as unreachable as the nearest star beyond our sun. It is true that the former Soviet Union and the United States are no longer participating in a cold war, and a hot war with the new Russia seems unlikely. But "wars and rumors of wars" persist and will continue to increase, adding to the estimated thousands of conflicts throughout recorded history.
Unfortunately, man can't eliminate this perennially fatal flaw in his personality. It's beyond his power and will. An entropic disease eats at the core of his being. Its name is sin.
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Happy New Year, everyone! Forget putting your hopes and dreams of change in the hands and hearts of men this year and put them in God alone.
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