Posts tagged ‘god’
CAN YOU HEAR ME?
DECEMBER 25th is a day created by Wall Street to create prophets. 🙂
All kidding aside, God is anything that is greater than you are. God is also anything smaller than you are.
Call it God, or call it Nature or call it Spirit. There is always a power out there that will always be greater than man can ever hope to be.
Therefore there is no such thing as atheism. Even the self-professed atheist believes in something supreme . . . be it football games, beer or themselves. The bible (both the old and new) and the Quran were written by MEN. And while you will still find Truths in all of the good books, and you will also find paths toward ancient traditional values (respect, honesty, love, compassion, honor, humility, etc., as relevant today as they were when the Greeks wrote about them), and you will find guidance toward enlightenment (knowledge, spirituality) . . . they are still ALL interpretations written by MEN. They will always be biased toward men and against women. And they are also susceptible to half truths told by men while supposedly under the guidance of God (which may be true in some cases), but at other times they may just as well have been under the guidance and influence of drugs, starvation, or delusion.
There are a very small few that teach enlightenment without bias toward any one religion or belief. These are the ‘true prophets’. There are those that refuse to acknowledge any other way except for their own. These include Christians, Muslims and Jews. These are religious dogmatists that mostly serve no one but themselves and their selfish egos and desires. Then there are those that are lost and do not know what to believe.
This is exactly why our modern world is so screwed up. All of the religious dogmatists argue over whose gods and whose profits are supreme. Pissing on each other over righteousness. They forget the one most important pinnacle of all religions. It does not matter what you believe, or where you’ve been, or where you’re going (heaven or hell), or if you know Christ or Yahweh or Mohamed, or not. The only important thing in this life is how you treat others RIGHT HERE AND RIGHT NOW. Even if you live in the deepest jungles of Africa, or in the most remote villages of the Outback, and have never heard of the white mans gods . . . if you live your live as a good person, whatever lies beyond this life, you deserve to be in the paradise place.
For hose who understand this. Keep the faith. Keep spreading the good word and teaching how to teach enlightenment. For the rest of you . . . get over your holy selves.
GOD WARS AND DOCU-DRAMAS – A poem and philosophical inquiry.
The Gods always seem to be at war with each other.
I see it on TV.
A friend of mine has it on their smart phone as an app.
People walk around or sit all day
staring at their mini-screens or big screens
watching the Gods at war.
Some of them just enjoy the Gods at war.
Others type as fast as their thumbs and fingers can move
either helping the Gods at war keep fighting
or they are busy typing away
thinking they can get the Gods at war to stop fighting . . .
maybe they can.
But the real war, well the real war
is convincing
all of those people
with or without big screens and mini screens
that the Gods at war are not worth watching.
And the Gods at war are not worth fighting for.
The Gods have fought before.
And only men suffered.
The Gods do not suffer.
They are Gods.
Only men suffer.
Women suffer even more than men.
Are the Gods only at war for us
like the Greeks said they were?
Trying to save us
from themselves
or from other Gods not quite so benevolent?
Only the Gods would know the answer.
They are Gods.
We are only men and women.
Have we ever asked the Gods
why
they were at war???
Would they even want us to know
how imperfect their world was?
After all a Universe of Gods where they had to fight each other?
You would think as Gods
since they already knew everything
they would be at peace.
We are the Gods to ants and roaches.
We watch them or
we kill them.
Do we ever try to help them?
They only like to watch us fight.
It’s the only way they know they are safe.
As long as we’re not fighting
hungry over them.
Why are the Gods at war?
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f j llorente
July 11 2012
thank you Stephane Mallarme – Poet (1842-1898)
for re-inspiring my visual verse
THE CIRCUS . . . . . . . . . AND THE ZOO 
Written
on 11/18/2012