it is to “My good” to stay and work with the Neothink Society….

Earlier this year I asked my colleagues, "Why am I here? What can I do for the common good?"

I am an 88-year-old retired physician. I spent 30 years in the U.S. Public Health Service doing research on tropical and parasitic diseases in Guatemala, Venezuela, and Liberia, and then working with parasitic diseases, arthritis, and diabetes in the United States. After retiring from the Public Health Service in 1970, I worked as Chief of Research and Statistics for 13 years, the last three of which I also served as Acting Deputy Director in the Hawaii Department of Health.

I have written and had published about 300 articles or chapters in books on medical and zoological topics, and produced two movies on tropical diseases and a fictional movie using a model railroad layout.

I was interested in religion in my youth. Before I was even a teenager I read the Bible extensively and was asked to leave Sunday School and not return, because I would point out anytime the "teacher" said something that had a different version elsewhere in the Bible. Seventy years later I started reading the Bible again, but I refused to join the church I attend because I do not believe everything I would have to say I believed in order to join.

It was while I was seeking guidance to find enough faith to believe the church's concept of the Bible that I joined the Neothink Society. Its literature seemed more satisfying than anything I had read in the Bible or anything sanctioned by the churches I had attended.

I still do not know what I can do for the common good, but now, at least, I am convinced that it is to "my good" to stay and work with the Neothink Society.

Thomas B.