Saturday, May 31, 2014

   Back , confused and cheerless , weathered and worn but here none the less . A different day , another sedative , apologies to some , the rubbish bin for others . My current and future pursuit is to continue the mixing and blending of words . I strive to be a constructor of sentences , paragraphs and pages . I write like a blind fool speaks , or an English bard in a bawdy house . I am greatly enamored of seeing words , MY words , fleeing my head in favor of the virtual paper at which I often sling them . Hello ! hello ? is anyone listening ? Is this frequency active ? Yes , I may appear quite mad , but I am mostly playing a part in the theater of my psyche , or a mindless scribe with a huge vocabulary and masterful command of the English language . Actually , I'm like one of those old fashioned hand crank stuffers , where you pour words into the top , and out of the spout comes literary sausage . By changing the tip , you can change the color and contrast of the meaty emergence , and even the texture and taste . If you choose , you can go from Lord of an English manor , to a French dandy in a limousine , to a slave enduring the whip , to my usual , which is arrogant uneducated asshole . The largest problems occur when doing an emergency die change , and the supply of raw material gets intermixed or contaminated , causing grief for longer than just a short purge of mixed sub-product before righting itself . So if I seem at times to be angry , confused or bewildered , it's probably because someone shit in the hopper , and we have to roll out the bleach wagon and scrub down the blades .
   Now , because I've quite enjoyed this aspect of the cleanup process , I'll move on to the next step in the sanitation , which involves imparting to you a spiritual lesson on our place in God' universe . We are all just travelers through this world we inhabit , and our stay is a miniscule period of time in God's grand scheme . We all , or at least most , have a soul . It is our very own , and belongs to no one else . Our savior tells us that at the end of our visit to this earth , God will examine our stay here , and determine the richness of our reward , or the severity of our penance . Some Eastern religions believe our souls are reincarnated and live forever in some form or another . Some believe by killing yourself in order to kill your enemy , you are rewarded in death with 72 virgins . What , exactly , the point of THAT is I have no idea .  If Heaven is a physical place , rather than a gathering of souls , what use to be presented with 72 sexually inexperienced virgins ? Is this because some cultures still treat women as chattel , so you are rewarded with hymens to destroy ? Children to hurt ? Getting back to the premise that we are only here for a blink of God's eye , what can we , as His creations , do to improve this place we are all destined to visit ? I can only assume that this place is just a stopover on a a much longer and more mysterious journey . When we leave this place , do make a clean getaway ? Are we held here , after our bodies have gone , to observe , or serve , or suffer ? I have no idea of the answers to these questions , and we cannot know the mind of God . I do know that , even a plaque , or a tomb , or a mighty stone of granite , will all eventually turn to dust . I know that God is all around and inside us , and He is eternal . We are not shown the next stage of our travels , and even the most intelligent and strongest of us cannot cheat the stationmaster . So if our stay here is momentary , and all we know shall crumble away , what can we do to make our stay here worthwhile ? Firstly , and most importantly , believe in a kind and loving God , praise His name , and witness His Glory to the world . Secondly, and no less important , is to treat others , all others , as your brothers and sisters , all children of one God , living in God's own creation . I'm not sure where the Golden Rule was first conceived , but this should be the one that guides you as you trudge your path . Treat others as you would have them treat you . Simple , elegant , and undeniable . When you think no law applies , no rule makes sense , this one leaves no confusion about what you should do . All of God's commandments are rooted in this one regulatory guideline , and the world is a wonderful place when even some of us obey . So while we are on this quest , if following this simple rule makes one other persons life better , it was a noble exercise , and most likely improved your life too . If we could , by our witness , convince just half the people we encounter to do the same , in a fair amount of time , the world could be better than it's ever been .
   At this point in the day , I'm wrung out and ready to retire . So I wish you all a pleasant Sunday , be kind to all you meet , and God bless .

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