On Death, Oblivion, and God
some woofing:
If God is love, and love believes all things
If reality is all the God there ever is
If Allah is all, and God is infinite-
Then nothing is bad. Atheism is a path toward God.
Hell, atheism IS god. Anything is. Anywhere is.
Hell is good. War is good. Pain and suffering are good.
Even death. Death is good. “Evil” doesn’t exist.
Religion is a method of social control.
There is heaven as an incentive, and hell as a disincentive.
The devil is good. Hell is punishment for sin.
And love is the reward for virtue.
And love is the reward for virtue.
It’s all part of the structure and ordering of society.
Carrots and sticks are both employed
in the service of progress, goodness, betterment, change.
It’s all good, as they say. Do what you want. Be yourself. Justice and Law are the only limits. Maybe karma, too. Prison is good. Sometimes you have to take a step backward to ultimately move forward. Maybe history has theses, antitheses, and syntheses. Vengeance is mine, says the lord. Malice and menace, included. God is a man of war. God is the prince of peace. God is love. Is not God also hate? Does he not despise sin? Yes, all of that and more. God is everybody, everything, all the time, always and everywhere. From the stink of the didie to the stench of the shroud. It is literally impossible to do evil. Maybe the word evil shouldn't even exist in the language. But maybe some things are better than others. Freedom vs. slavery, or freedom vs. incarceration. Jesuits try and see God in all things. Not everybody can. Prison is good, and so is freedom. War, and peace. Life, and death. It’s a radical philosophy. Hell is just a state of mind. All gods as facets of the one god. Torture and cannibalism and cruelty, neglect, suicide, abortion, capital punishment, the meat industry, nuclear weapons, IT’S ALL GOD. It’s all good. Enjoy life. Have at it. Have a ball. Everybody dies, eventually. All is vanity. Are these the thoughts of a pure psychopath, or a spiritually realized guru?
It’s all good. Even the psychopaths, I guess. People love the bad guys. People root for Hannibal Lecter. My dad said about his favorite high school class, "Those guys were terrorists." And that was funny. The crime, the murder, the death, the pain, the suffering, the misery, the war, the hell, the blood and guts, the disease, the torment, natural disasters, acts of god, hatred, twisted cruelty, agony, torment, disgust, vicious brutality, serial killing, mass murder, knives and guns and bombs and hostility and aggression and violence, depression and schizophrenia and neuralgia and neuropathy…reality as God can be a tough pill to swallow. Truth is good, and the truth is life is hell, frustration, futility, absurdity, nonsense. Life is meaningless. To make meaning, you have to be mean. It’s right there, in the word, itself. Crucify that fucker. Nail the bastard. String him up. That’s how it should be. That’s the meaning of life. Vile violence, and violins. The devil is for evil. Because it’s not. Because it’s good. You are God just the way you are. Live! Before you die. And everyone, absolutely everyone, dies. Get to it. Just do it. Be all you can be. Aim high. Be an army of one. Do what thou wilt. I'm not asking you to be a terrorist, unless that's what you are. God loves terrorists, too.
Life’s a bitch, and then you die. Accepted social arenas for murder are police, military, soldiers of fortune, the agent of the state (“hangman”) in capital punishment cases, prisoners who murder other prisoners (especially child molesters), boxers and mixed martial artists, lawyers and judges who sentence criminals to death, abortion doctors, vigilantes like batman who are widely celebrated (if not in fact legally sanctioned), and assassins who dispatch unloved politicians. Life can be like a game (like chess, or what have you). You can simply love everyone, love every day, love it all, and enjoy life, as an observer, a neutral participant, a prayer warrior, a meditator, a writer, an influencer, a priest, a monk, anything, anything you want, anything at all. A life without evil would be boring, I think. But boring is another kind of evil, preferable for most, I think.
I’m considering making this my last post. I’ll think of more, though, of course. It never ends.
You have to stand up for what you believe. There are different Gods, battling. Life is a mess. If there’s only one God, then everything is good, action and reaction, crime and punishment, injustice and unfairness and cruelty and disrespect, whatever happens. The devil is an agent of God. The “dark agent," in the chess game of life. You can play, or get played.
Jesus loves the hypocrites, too, right? No. He's dead.
It should be noted, as my mom taught me, God hates the sin, but loves the sinner. Hates the terrorism, but loves the terrorist. And so on. Hates the sadism, but loves the sadist. Unless it's performed on appreciative masochist. Every rule has an exception! Honestly, I don't believe or follow all the rules in this post. But they logically follow and are entailed in the concept of an infinitely loving God. Whether you agree, or have a visceral reaction against, either way is fine with me. Because it's all good.
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