Greetings good citizen, one of the quickest ways to go 'screaming off the reservation' is to start questioning the nature of existence itself!
If the first 'unanswerable' question doesn't throw you for a loop it doesn't matter because the follow up questions don't do anything but make the water muddier than it already is.
We all know the 'official answer to the question 'why are we here' [eg exist at all] is to 'glorify god'. This response is considered 'unassailable' [that's your purpose, shut up and DO it already!] So we might venture that our secondary 'purpose' is to not ask questions...of ANY kind.
Worse, who do we ask these pressing questions? No sense asking the clown next door, they're just as ignorant as you are...although humans, for reasons as yet unexplained, tend to relish the opportunity to pretend they know what's going on.
How do you think we got saddled with the 'glorify god' answer? Do you honestly think God came down and told Mickey the Dunce to his face he existed to glorify him? Seriously?
Because we have a name for people that hear voices in their heads...we call them NUTS! [Or we elect them president...W claimed to talk to God.]
So here we sit, stand, kneel...glorifying God in ways nobody ever imagined! Oh wait, that other thing we do, that's our job! We only do the glorify thing on Sunday for about an hour, then we throw money in the basket, go home and park in front of the TV for an afternoon of Sports...
Ah, could 'heaven' be any finer?
Well, you could have zero interest in sports. [I haven't watched a single football game all season, even though the Pats are in the Superbowl ya think I'm gonna start watching 'em now? I got better things to do!]
But wait, I digress...but not by much because YOU'D be hard pressed to answer the question at all!
Sure you'd try using 'because' [the ONLY ANSWER to the question WHY?] Which brings us to the 'accommodation' most people arrive at. "I'm just doing the best I can with what I've got to work with...and like everybody else, I'm just waiting for the worms to come. [Besides, can't you read? I've got 'Born to Die' stamped/tattooed on my forehead!"
If this is true then why do certain people have an 'easier time' of things than most of us? Are we back to the 'don't ask questions' part of the equation?
If YOU stop asking questions then what you see is what you get...game over!
[The simple fact you're here means you're the 'inquisitive type' and at the very least, curious about 'other possibilities'. However, the Do as I say and not as I do crowd will be quick to remind you that curiosity killed the cat!
BEWARE!]
What am I pointing to? Given that there ISN'T a 'good answer' to existence, there is no 'pressing reason' for things to be as they are!
I'm not about to launch into the 'litany of woe', you all know without my uttering a sound exactly what I mean.
It's that lousy 'don't question your 'lot in life' BS and all the associated crap that goes with it.
We make the best of what we're handed, the question is why aren't we handed 'more'? It's there for the taking...
I'll close today's offering with this quote from today's NY Times that ties somewhat to a comment I made in yesterday's piece...
QUOTATION OF THE DAY
"We tried to warn you, with Occupy. We understood that people were sick of the political system, which is fundamentally corrupt. People want something radically different."
DAVID GRAEBER, a professor at the London School of Economics who helped organize the Occupy protests, on the rise of anarchists as a political force in the streets.
Just a little something to chew on until tomorrow, Thanks once again for letting me inside your head,
Gegner
If the first 'unanswerable' question doesn't throw you for a loop it doesn't matter because the follow up questions don't do anything but make the water muddier than it already is.
We all know the 'official answer to the question 'why are we here' [eg exist at all] is to 'glorify god'. This response is considered 'unassailable' [that's your purpose, shut up and DO it already!] So we might venture that our secondary 'purpose' is to not ask questions...of ANY kind.
Worse, who do we ask these pressing questions? No sense asking the clown next door, they're just as ignorant as you are...although humans, for reasons as yet unexplained, tend to relish the opportunity to pretend they know what's going on.
How do you think we got saddled with the 'glorify god' answer? Do you honestly think God came down and told Mickey the Dunce to his face he existed to glorify him? Seriously?
Because we have a name for people that hear voices in their heads...we call them NUTS! [Or we elect them president...W claimed to talk to God.]
So here we sit, stand, kneel...glorifying God in ways nobody ever imagined! Oh wait, that other thing we do, that's our job! We only do the glorify thing on Sunday for about an hour, then we throw money in the basket, go home and park in front of the TV for an afternoon of Sports...
Ah, could 'heaven' be any finer?
Well, you could have zero interest in sports. [I haven't watched a single football game all season, even though the Pats are in the Superbowl ya think I'm gonna start watching 'em now? I got better things to do!]
But wait, I digress...but not by much because YOU'D be hard pressed to answer the question at all!
Sure you'd try using 'because' [the ONLY ANSWER to the question WHY?] Which brings us to the 'accommodation' most people arrive at. "I'm just doing the best I can with what I've got to work with...and like everybody else, I'm just waiting for the worms to come. [Besides, can't you read? I've got 'Born to Die' stamped/tattooed on my forehead!"
If this is true then why do certain people have an 'easier time' of things than most of us? Are we back to the 'don't ask questions' part of the equation?
If YOU stop asking questions then what you see is what you get...game over!
[The simple fact you're here means you're the 'inquisitive type' and at the very least, curious about 'other possibilities'. However, the Do as I say and not as I do crowd will be quick to remind you that curiosity killed the cat!
BEWARE!]
What am I pointing to? Given that there ISN'T a 'good answer' to existence, there is no 'pressing reason' for things to be as they are!
I'm not about to launch into the 'litany of woe', you all know without my uttering a sound exactly what I mean.
It's that lousy 'don't question your 'lot in life' BS and all the associated crap that goes with it.
We make the best of what we're handed, the question is why aren't we handed 'more'? It's there for the taking...
I'll close today's offering with this quote from today's NY Times that ties somewhat to a comment I made in yesterday's piece...
QUOTATION OF THE DAY
"We tried to warn you, with Occupy. We understood that people were sick of the political system, which is fundamentally corrupt. People want something radically different."
DAVID GRAEBER, a professor at the London School of Economics who helped organize the Occupy protests, on the rise of anarchists as a political force in the streets.
Just a little something to chew on until tomorrow, Thanks once again for letting me inside your head,
Gegner
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