Johnnymontana's blog: "Thoughts on the Sundry"

As most of you know I have been talking about our place in the universe and how we can decipher some meaning for our lives from the clues given us by that unseen force that created this mess.  I have taken issue with a few aspects of the game plan as presented by that Creator as being not very well thought out and have been getting messages from some very well meaning people who want me to see the error of my thinking before I go straight to hell.  The problem is, as I readily inform them, I am already in hell so their warning does not ring true for me.  I am living on a planet that has been decimated on more than one occasion by other rocks flying at random and that have run into us basically wiping out life as we know it and if you watch the Discovery Channel we are told that is going to happen again....oh great!!! Have a nice day???   We have mountains spewing fire, tidal waves, the ground moves under our feet without warning, strange and very mean people who want to kill us for a variety of reasons that make absolutely no sense to any one with an ounce of compassion in their soul or even less than an ounce of tolerance. We have giant corporations who get us legally addicted to little white fire things that kill us and they know it and our government pays for them to do it through giant monetary subsidies and you religious folks want to threaten me with hell?  You get my point here and very sorry to be Mr. Happy Joy  Joy this morning but as always am trying to make a point in that obtuse way only I seem to be able to produce without trying.

The best we can do is take care of each other. Most religious thought is based upon what we see here and our perceived solutions to the meaning of it all. Most religions teach us to take care of each other. The huans come along and add little disclaimers such as, " if you find someone who doesn't believe the way you do, then either kill them to put them out of our misery or correct and legislate them. "  Pass laws to make them do what our belief system says is right and true. Even though we don't know any more than the rest of you we are going to make you think we do and then try to lord it over you.  Good!!!  Very..ummmm, religious of you.  Yeah let's go to church and sing a hymn to celebrate that. Unles you happen to be a Quaker as my neighbor is and then go to a "meeting" without a leader or minister and sit and wait to say something until you are inspired.  I could never be a Quacker because no one would ever get a chance to talk and I would be ridden out of the meeting house on a rail.  Why go through that kind of degradation?  Life is hard enough without having to ride rails.

So most of us immerse ourselves in our little world and don't think about these things until some idiot like me writes a blog bringing it all up and depresses the hell out of us first thing in the morning.  We try to find happiness in our corner of the world and that is really no different than the first humans were doing walking the earth thousands of years ago.  The only difference is they didn't have some right wing religious zealot telling them to "stop that" before they burn in hell and on a stake first.  They saw what we should see today, we are all in this together and things are tough enough as it is without telling us that we know nothing about what we feel within and our instincts are really not valid so they, the ones who know all things will tell us what is right and wrong for us. Now I realize of course that we have an obligation to use our gifts correctly and within some standard of order which is where things like the Ten Commandments came from , the idea there are certain principles that seem to hold true for all of us.  We should not be killing each other because we have enough other stuff out there trying to do that without us helping. Do not take what is not yours.  

We really are all in this boat together.  So pick up an oar please and help row.  We need to comfort each other and care about each other.  We may not always say what we mean or mean what we say, we may be influenced by the past experiences of our own life and move at different pace than the guy next to us. You folks that think you have all the answers are great.  Just quit trying to make me think I dont have any answers and that my  life experience is not valuable.  You can tell I have never worked in Customer Service.  I would not last for over 20 minutes.  Comments that I would make like, "How late did you have to stay up to think of that stupid question ?", are not looked upon with great kindness and I would be out the door in about two  seconds.  Yes people can be very trying at  times and no one knows that better than me.  Throw in the Internet, which we will talk about tomorrow in more detail and you have a recipe for real communication hysteria cause we can't see each other move for one thing.  

So quit telling me I am going to hell.  I am already here thank you and doing ok at it.  So far.  If you religious folks can get down off your lofty pertch long enough to join the rest of us in the boat we might get where we are trying to go faster and with a little less effort and aggravation.  This world is filled with a myriad of people and beliefs and it all makes the world go round.  Just get over here and have a beer with me and relax for a minute and then we will get to rowing again....more next time.