There are many filters in life and if you ask certain tradesmen they would tell you that filters are life savers. Filters are everywhere: in our cars, our homes, and even in our places of work. Industry has to filter their smoke coming out of their chimneys. We filter everything that we can to preserve our air quality, the air that we breath to maintain health and happiness. We live near a large city that is situated in a large valley between two mountain ranges. When there is a layer of heavy cold air between the mountain ranges it traps the warm air, and smog, underneath and causes the air quality to be less than desirable. It makes it appear that a series of smoke bombs were discharged around the city. It may stay that way for several days until wind or rain comes into the area and moves the cold layer of air away allowing the smog to rise and to move out. The people, living and working in the city, pressure the lawmakers to require better filters on industrial plants and car exhaust systems. In many cases, the people who complain about the smog are the same people who complain about the additional taxes required to filter the smog makers.
Most Americans live in luxury in comparison to those living in many other countries around the world. Thus, the desire to be an American, even if it takes illegally entering into the country. The luxury of living in this country is a dirty process, creating a great deal of waste. The challenge has always been, how do we live the way we want to and at the same time reduce the waste created by it? When I was a young boy there were city garbage dumps just outside of most every town and city. They burned the garbage, creating a great deal of smoke and pollution. As the populations grew open burning of waste had to stop as people began having lung diseases. They finally developed a system of compressing the waste and adding to it until the compressed mountain became too high. Then they would move the dump area to a different place and start over again. Eventually they used the garbage mounds as new neighborhoods were created. Under each of those mounds they were required to install a filter to prevent any poisonous liquid from seeping into the groundwater and contaminating the cities drinking water. Where cities are located near the ocean, such as New York City, the waste is placed on huge barges and carried out to sea. After they are some distance from the city they dump it into the ocean where some of it is eaten by sea animals and the rest of it pollutes our ocean. There will be more filters, more sophisticated filters designed to deal with the world’s waste. It may be a space garbage vessel. At some point we know that the current system is obsolete. There are so many filtering systems that it would be a chore to try to name them. Filters will forever be filtering one thing or another, new and better ones are being developed every day.
There are even organizations that could be considered filtering systems. Religions and some political organizations could, in many respects be considered filters. How, you say? Well, they try to filter things out of our lives that we have adopted in, things that are considered dirty, addictive, inappropriate, antisocial. Things that are considered contrary to the will of our Father in Heaven. They might be considered mental and spiritual filters, the kind of filters that will prepare us both physically and spiritually to meet our maker.