On Existence

What does religion do for us? Does religion solve our problems, guide us on our quests, keep us moral, good, content? Yes is does. Religion is very good at that. If for no other reason, religion lets us know that there is an entity out there that honestly gives a damn about us as people, as a living, breathing, existing universal recorder for the great beyond. Since we were unlucky enough to be spawned from the heavens with all favorable biological attributes in such a remote area of out galaxy, within itself creating perhaps a grand biological joke that the great creator may have been able to knowingly change, within itself creating even more pressing questions about the motives of our gods, we are so far unable to intelligently contact other forms of live in our great universe. Perhaps the heavens are out there, locatable within the outer reaches of space and time. Perhaps we, as humans are just not yet capable of reaching these goals as a community, perhaps time will work with us on this great test.

I consider this to be a very exciting time in the span of technological advancement. We are just beginning to develop the tools necessary to explore our skies, and I regret only that enough is not being done in my lifetime to tour the great beyond our mother earth, and that too much internal bickering is still going on in our primitive minds to find the way more clearly before my era is up. Our ability to know and process our surroundings in a unique way made us the dominant force of our floating rock, and as a result I can now do things like type on a keyboard words and then post them in a virtual library for any and all to read. A concept in and of itself beyond comprehension, the internet, put that's for another rant at another time. Our ability to do all sorts of things comprehensibly, to think abstractly and creatively, to make and learn in a way no other creature on our planet can, is a gift and a terrible curse. To be given a window to look out of without a door, we constantly are peeking at what could be more.

But it also swings both ways. we're allowed to become passive, to not question. In fact, it's encouraged, because not only are we great creatures, we're terrible ones. We take and push ourselves towards our own agendas. We ARE allowed to think abstractly, and to stay there indefinitely. We can create our own purposes, we can live entirely within fantasy, we can find ways around thought, since others have thought enough for those to follow their revolutions.

I'm not sure what I need, but I know what we need as a conscious entity. Problem is, not everyone would agree with me. And the problem with that is, they are allowed to not agree with me, and I tolerate it, because, people are allowed to disagree, a concept that I support as a practice of law and society, but moreover all it does on a grander scale is create more slack, more what if's and less what are's. It fosters a simmering idealism and dialogue, to find better ways, to find the answers to our questions. What it doesn't do, unfortunately, is create the variable outside of the box. The second opinion. The outside intervention, the ref, the Supreme Court ruling. Whether it be god, the aliens, a catastrophic celestial event, ie. meteor, solar flare, moon explodes, etc, or some talking sea creature we haven't discovered yet, we are forced to figure it out on our own. Cause for whatever reason, god only likes talking to certain people. And an awful lot of them don't want us to all benefit from it.

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