I know you've thought the same thing at one point in your life. You've searched your soul for the answers of the Universe...thought to yourself I must have a purpose, life can't be a mistake, there is something greater than I orchestrating this symphony of life; only to have a slight feeling that God is just bored.
If you don't believe in God that's fine, there is no intrinsic proof of its existence, only feelings, faith, and ancient texts attesting to its presence. (I say it, because I think attributing a gender to God is a bit ignorant, unless the devil is the other half, and I wager that Satan would be male in that case.) Of course this brings in the question of good and evil; and that is a philosophical tangent far longer than I care to dive into however.
If God does exists, I think he has an eternal bag of popcorn, and Jesus, Gandhi, Siddhartha, Muhammad, David Koresh, Micheal Jackson, Bing Crosby, Eminem's career and the rest of the deceased gang are floating around laughing their asses off at the daily events on Earth. We're just plain entertainment for consciousness beyond the physical.
I began to get this feeling watching various videos online, on assorted sites like Youtube.com, and Break.com. Videos that include red necks getting knocked out cold trying to tight rope walk the top bar on a swing set wasted; or kids crushing their face into the ground trying to do a front flip from some elevated position; or losing their ability to procreate attempting a standard kick flip. Yes it is painful for the individual rupturing his left testicle, but then again, to the innocent by-stander, that shit is funny. I don't know about the rest of you, but I for one get amusement out of watching people mangle themselves' in self inflicted moments of stupidity. It's not just moments of individual suffering either, but also the hilarious things children say, the touching moments when a father returns from military service, or being present when a man awakes from a 25 year coma.
These moments seem few and far between in our own day to day existence, but with the wonders of the Internet, we get to enjoy the blunders, achievements, dare devil attempts, reunions, and creative wonders of individuals around the globe; and it dawned on me that God has gotten to enjoy these moments since the beginning of time. She hasn't missed a single face plant, panda sneeze, gun recoil to the face, meteor exploding in our atmosphere, or child holding in an urgent piss in right field. That lucky bastard has gotten to see it all, and I for one can't help but think eternity was getting a little boring for the spirit in the sky. It doesn't just involve humans either. All it takes is a single episode of Discovery's "Planet Earth" to see that this planet must have been one entertaining orb to create. The diversity and wonders of the existence of life on this planet still baffles every neuron in my head (so at least six) and I stand in awe of the complexity and creative genius that could even fathom such an existence as this.
Ok, so there are plenty of things that aren't so entertaining on Earth, and there are many things that people do to each other, that is no laughing matter; War and violence being the front runner on that list. Starvation, disease, hatred, cruelty and any other undeserved suffering fits the bill as well. However I see these cancers as harsh lessons we must endure until we figure out that we aren't a bunch of individuals wandering this planet; it's not every man, nation, and continent for themselves, but one Earth putting on the greatest show in the Universe; a show that we will all get to enjoy when the time comes.
Many see heaven as a clouded kingdom in the sky, with golden streets, pearly gates, crystal streams, or seventy two virgins that they get to ravage for eternity, but I see heaven in a far different light. Heaven is when our consciousness reaches the point that we see beyond our individual selves, join that which is greater than I, and we see that everything is eternal, including ourselves. Our jokes, our achievements, our laughter, and our love; our hatred, our violence, our anger, our suffering, lives forever in the pages of time. We will be third person observers with no pain, suffering, or self interested ego filtering what we see. We'll get to grab some of that divine popcorn, and cruise the history books. You can check out whatever you want. You can even get the statistics on who masturbated the most in history, or what its like to see the sunrise, and sun set all at the same time. I, for one, think I'll avoid the two girls one cup afternoon, but whatever you choose to watch is on you. People spend their time doing some rather intersting and/or disgusting things, but that is part of life, and those individuals own choice.
What ever story you want to write with your time here is your business, and please keep attempting the kick flips, mini bike jumps, base jumps, parody songs, Chuck Norris jokes, film projects, and practical jokes; because if I don't get to see it now, I sure as hell am going to watch it when I check out of this meat jacket.
Of course I could be completely wrong, heaven's gate could have been the only ticket to eternity, and the rest of us are screwed. The biggest sign to me that God has a sense of humor is that we don't really find out if there is meaning to this life until we die. The biggest key is to know that we really know nothing, and if you can't control something, you might as well enjoy the ride.
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