I know I should probably be doing
something more useful with my time to day but I just feel the need to get this
down on paper.
So
much futility in the world today huh? Unimaginable horror and tragic loss of
life, everywhere!
How can one human being treat
another human or animal for that matter with such senseless remoteness or hate? Where did
that come from? I don’t profess to have the answers or more to the point the
inclination to stand in the way of harm to stop such stupid behavior. I am not attempting
to, ‘stand on the higher ground’ here either; I was, many years ago in, ‘the
service of my country’ and thank God (I should change that phrase as you’ll see
later) I didn't see any meaningful, ‘Action’. So I don’t need to boast about
being in a ‘special service’ and having killed for my country. I am one of the fortunate
few who will hopefully go to my grave having harmed NO ONE.
Surprise! I’m not going to ramble
on about being anti war and maybe sing you a tune or two, no this is not about
that either. I’ll get to the point: what is it ALL about? The big
questions you ask yourself, usually in later life or maybe after a life
threatening situation (not in my case, thank God….stop that God shit Kevin). Call
it an epiphany while walking my dogs this morning or something that has been
brewing for a while now. Maybe part of the reason for these thoughts, over the last few weeks I've been witness to the
biggest side show on earth as two men embarrassingly battle for complete power over
the most powerful country on this planet both of them citing GOD as being on
their side. How we as mankind actually made it out of our caves baffles me to
this day. We've traveled to the moon, designed amazing technologies that yesterday
was only science fiction, drugs that have let us live longer and healthier lives
and stopped pain and suffering everywhere. In the last century alone mankind
has leaped forward tenfold, we are indeed very fortunate to be living in an exciting
and wondrous time.
OK so here it is folks; Why Oh
why are we still dealing with this GOD thing?
Alright so just after we left the
cave the ones that succeeded where the ones that grouped together and fended of
enemies and very big game, yep safety in numbers, makes sense so far. Until one
of the star gazers decided upon him/herself (probably him as he owns the big
club) that this whole thing is way beyond his thinking ability and he also conveniently sees
a way to make a free meal ticket. Just by the mere fact of looking at the stars
and thinking, dare I say it, a guy called Darwin comes along and gives him a
few extra brain cell connections more than the rest of the tribe. Wallah! He then invents GOD. How else could all the
daily calamities occur, someone / thing must be in charge, if we appease and
worship this invisible GOD maybe he’ll keep that nasty tyrannosaurus from
eating who the hell he feels like every tea time. OK so far I buy it, It all makes sense
and much later because of this so called GOD the successful tribes design
shrines which in turn makes humans stay put and sow seeds. Yup it all makes
sense…I buy it. My subscription to National Geographic has finally paid off!
Fast forward a few millennia and
a few billion lives later that have been murdered and mutilated in the name of
GOD. We read in history how many of the various civilizations successfully used
religion to control the masses, how else could you control an uneducated usually
hungry and contempt people from lynching you in your ivory castles and usually for
very good reason.
Sadly most of you have probably
stopped reading this by now as this is blasphemous and the writer will probably go to a
fiery hell for eternity for even thinking such wickedness. Most of us have been
programmed from early childhood to, ‘BELIEVE’.
Mum for a little while forced us to go to Sunday school, my happiest
memories were singing the songs but the Jesus thing was a kind of leap of faith
for me. Fortunately for us the other choice was catholic I am so glad as a
child I did not have to withstand the heavy hand and forced programming that
many of my friends had to endure.
During times of extreme sadness
and loss in my life I have even prayed to this unseen GOD of ours. For many
years when asked, I always replied….agnostic! I believed that if Jesus Christ were to appear before my very eyes and say, ‘hey you got it wrong mate and get on your knees…NOW!
Over the years I have battled with these thoughts; am I a hypocrite? Should I
bottle under and just have faith and be happy knowing there is a heavenly father
who will always steer me in the right direction. One day I will go to heaven
and meet up with all those loved ones; such endearing love can never be lost
forever…could it?
I think of myself as being a spiritual
person and I feel a glimmer of hope in our future. It makes sense that there
should be some rules; we can’t all just go around murdering each other. We are all
a family (there’s a song) and if we don’t look out for one another then we are
just unintelligent savages. Life as we know it is meaningless. We owe it to
ourselves from everything we as a race have learned from our irrational history.
Protecting ones borders may seem to make sense in the short term but from a
point of view of a civilization it makes absolutely no sense. While there is a, ‘them
and us’ mentality there will always be conflict. Security just equates to mean
bigger and more evil weapons of destruction. Although I have an attachment, I
don’t think of myself as a Canadian or a Brit I have traveled enough and proud
to feel that I am a man of this beautiful world. Beating ones chest around the world does not make for making friends.
Getting back to the god thing and
what this blurb seems to be about. I’m sure I’m not alone in feeling very
positive about a, ‘new world order’ sounds pretty deep huh! I’m not completely
sold on it…yet! But getting there. As the scientist are getting closer every day
to the very meaning of life; every other week now it seems they look further
and further into the cosmos almost to the beginning of time itself. They even
think there are other universes out there in fact one theory shows that there could even be mirror universes! yeah you got it, other mirror Kevin Firth’s writing as I
write, pretty confusing stuff. Don’t laugh who was it said that men would never
fly?
Is there a creator to all of this? …..Hmm let me think about that for an
eon or two. This might bring us right back to what we started except it isn't a
GOD not as we know it anyway, most definitely not singular.
How is it that when I feel positive
and strong, things just seem to come my way, when I really put my mind to
something I am usually pleasantly rewarded. Those days when I’m the opposite, well
we won’t talk about those days. I just saw a video only yesterday showing a
French Buddhist monk who’s head was completely wired during an experiment
showing that his brain during meditation showed an unusually high reading of
that part of his brain that shows happiness. Scientifically I believe we are at
the cusp of great new advances in exactly what that gray mass in our heads is actually capable
of.
This, 'new order' might sound silly to
some but I am beginning to believe we all have an inner consciousness that we are
learning to control if that is the correct term to use. When we can each leave
our ego behind and concentrate on the bigger picture only then will we find our
inner happiness and with that a global awareness will eventually take place….Peace! and humankind's next big step.
Just a thought ya know! come on Tig and Pantera.
Playa Panama 06:00 9th Oct 2012
