All things to everyone

The Perfect Being (aka, God)

Be all that you can be, says the army. Which means, play roles, as well as do everything you can (that's legal, is how I read that, myself). You could be someone different, every single day! You could try thousands of different jobs, modes of employment. All the world's a stage: acting, stepping into various people's shoes, as it were, is a fun way of being. It will expand your horizons. You can be God, the Devil, an actor, Robin Williams (who bounced around between identities often), a carpenter, a dogwalker, a gardener, a martial arts teacher... I should say that the best way to learn something is to teach it. Immerse yourself into thousands of roles, jobs, personalities, identitites, and (legal) behaviors. It's a grand way to live a life. Be everybody. Be a nobody. Try every religion. Travel. Learn many languages. Wear different kinds of clothes. Be rich, poor, powerful, weak, male, female, smart, stupid, cheerful, dour, whatever you want. Probe your limits. Live! A jack of all trades.  Take a walk on the wild side.  Or, just be yourself, lol.

Or, maybe the perfect being does one thing, really well. A perfectionist, specialized. A valued member of society. Someone who is respected, important, highly regarded, appreciated (and thus, wealthy, most likely).

Improvement and betterment come with a learning curve. You will have to make mistakes before achieving mastery. Maybe, the more mistakes, the better the ultimate result! He who makes no mistakes doesn't make anything, is the quote, I think. Embrace your humanity, welcome imperfection, and realize everybody is in the same boat, and the average IQ is only 100, lol.

God is one. One what? A human. You, as I see it. Because all of us, individually, our bodies and brains, are our own reality. Or maybe God is union, like a family, a corporation, a team, or even a sexual union. God is love, when 2 become 1, you might say. Or the mystical union of an adept or monk, perhaps in a state of meditative absorption. Or, a reader losing him or herself in a well-written and absorbing read (a kind of union with the author, no?). A religious community seeks unity in rituals, such as communion, or it's leader (say, the pope), or in shared values. The buddhist joke is the monk tells the hot dog vendor, “make me one with everything.” The muslim says there is no God but God. God is one. Is this the universe? Or, a human being, who somehow has become and is everyone/everything? All people, all space, all things. The world-soul, if you will. The interpenetration of shared mind.

Is God “all things to everyone”? Is God the devil to a satanist? Is god a grain of sand as well as an entire ocean? Is God impermanent, like everything else? Does God take sides between nations at war, or politicians debating, or sports teams in a heated rivalry, or even varied religions? It's up to you! You can believe anything you want: God is love, and love believes all things! Like a quantum computer, it holds different ideas at the same time, in superposition. F. Scott Fitzgerald said, “the test of a first rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at one time, and still retain the ability to function.” I'm thinking God holds ALL ideas in superposition, always. Does that make sense? Everything is true, including the belief that everything is false! Ha. Is all reality virtual? I don't think so. Of course, the “real reality” won't be everyone's! People are capable of some serious ignorance and delusion. Religious beliefs might not be real, but they still can make people happy! And being a part of a community is never a bad idea, right? Well, maybe you don't want to be a nazi. Maybe God is a loser, too, not just the perfect winner in the game of life, who plays chess against himself, like computers do, to learn from themselves (mental masturbation, if you will).