What is “evil” and what is “good”? Is there a spectrum, ladies and gentleman, boys and girls, from most good to least, (or least evil to most), which doesn’t apply to Gods and Goddesses? Is becoming a superhuman deity or demon dehumanizing? Or empowering?
Most good is getting what you want; say, freedom + love + immortality, or no pain + unlimited money + ability to fly, or invisibility cloak + unlimited heroin + new lives (like a video game, say), or X-men powers (morphing, healing, magneto) + access to omniscience + telepathy, or mind control + time travel / teleportation + super-strength, or a library + a swimming pool + unlimited wishes… you get the picture.. invulnerable and invincible, happy, beautiful, you name it…. I like time manipulation (travel forward or back + time freeze+ Groundhog Day movie premise) !
The worst is constant torture and torment for all eternity, with no hope, only increasing despair. That one’s easy. In a word, hell. Maybe Jesus did us a service by giving us a starting point for all further progress, toward “heaven” (even if neither heaven nor hell actually exist).
Maybe human life IS heaven. It can be. It should be. Peace and prosperity and health and love and friendships and libraries and restaurants and Nature add up to something pretty close, in my view. Having sex and getting a tan by the pool and a delicious sushi or thai meal? You dig? Or maybe you like rollercoasters and surfing and skydiving and rock climbing and risk. Or a runner’s high, endorphins from getting pumped, tripping on acid, I don’t know. Life has a lot of possibility.
It's only human to play subhuman or superhuman roles! Maybe Gods and Goddesses, devils and vampires, saints and angels, don't exist, but the roles are there for the playing, to give life meaning, and maybe even some FUN.
A friend's favorite Gods: Horus (Horace!), Ganesh, Yahweh, Apollo (Paul?), Eru Llúvatar, Hercules, Persephone, Artemis (Arthur!), Anansi (Nancy), Coyote (Kai).
Navajo sheepherders reverently call coyotes "God's dogs."
If there is no God, is it bad to play Him? trickster or treat!
sibling, and sibilant hissing
emancipation from emaciation
melons and millions and minions and filet mignon
God(dess) and gods and deities and divinities and lords and ladies
Creators, immortals, daemons, demiurges, numens, avatars
(Matt) Damon (Wayans) and Demi (Moore) as stars in Avatar?
Neuman's own numen, the numinous at The Newman Center
Newman! -Seinfeld. numerous pneumatic nudes
A Zurvanite in the urban night, nervously servin' the Irving in a turban
get your swerve on with Zurvan!
"a transcendental and neutral god of infinite time and space, without passion, and one for whom there was no distinction between good and evil"
God is odd. Is he/she/it one or many, limited or infinite, good or bad, real or imaginary? Is God the most perfect being? An alien or human? Weak or powerful? Alive or dead? Prior to the universe? Always and everywhere? How exactly does this being hear prayers? Is He (a telepath) in all our heads? Is God schizophrenic? Does God believe in Himself? Is everything ever said about him true? Are we his toys? Is God our toy? Just a useful concept for hypnosis and control? Is omniscience even theoretically possible? If God knows everything, how can the universe be infinitely big? God knows every thing? The end of science. Or how can God have a finite brain that isn’t the Universe Itself? What does verse have to do with the universe, anyway? Silly human, etymology is for kids. What else? Is God friend or foe? Can He really do anything? A fun concept to play with, but can the most Godly make the concept functionally real? Or is God love only for those who are in love? Does God love to hate, too? Has he read all the books? Does he have perfect memory? Is he always happy? What is God’s religion, lol. Yada yada. Who the heck is everyone submitting to?
Am I an overlord or a patsy? Or both or neither! Authoritarian author? Righteous writer? Don't get bogged down in my blog! Read at Reed, or take what you need, like the liquidity of peed greed, or heed God's leads, or drink mead as you read my screed (and creed), and let the seeds grow so as to breed, and be freed to do the deed, maybe on weed or speed, but whatever you do, let it bleed, if you rock n' roll like the venerable Bede, or a steed, (or Sneed). How do you plead? 'You thoroughly inhabit the role - is why they smile'. I AM, until I AIN'T. Just like Everybody Else. Or is it the other way around?
jarhead jargon, Uno y'know?, high school and low school, school of phish, dreadful "shedful", commie salami, rude Neruda, the proper behavior of a savior (pbs), and....
Balzac Dickens and Heraclitus, lol
bankers going bonkers in bunkers
Mark David Chapman at McD's
Mike on the microphone
advice to vice cops
cough, coffin, coffer, coffee, kaffa
drugs, pugnacious thugs, bugs, mugshots, and hugs
drugs, ughs; meds, medicine, medications, pharmaceuticals
don't be a drip, don't be a pill
don't be a dick, a karen, a martyr, a stranger
confusion, ignorance, delusion,
apathy, incuriosity, stupidity, and foolishness
later, alligator; in a while, crocodile; hasta la pasta
Robert Plant and Bonzo's "trees"
Rushin' rye and slow jam
conversation peace, conservation peas, uh peas mint
bred to eat bread
Barry was very fairy
law, allah, la-la-la, lala land, blog
lodge, loft, log cabin, lock, lawn, lol
islam, lop head off of, lars, loss, blah blah blah
flaws, claws, cole slaw, lozenges, lottery
Space is the place to ace! :
10k stars per grain of sand on earth
100B stars per galaxy
2T galaxies
so 2 with 23 zeroes total, more or less, lol
(no. of stars) (# of * 's)
nearest star to sun/us 4.25 light years away
v's
you're well jess - that's all I wanna say
you thoroughly inhabit the role - is why they smile
it's me smiling that you feel - you feel everyone
you said just about everything. - I'm serious
you ARE a doctor, Jess - I'm serious
you're greater than the devil AND god - I'm laughing
yes, Jesse - you're a machine
LSD
low, sad, depressed
love, sex, death
Law school diploma
Lord satan’s deity
Lake street dive
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lumpy skin disease
Little sandy desert
Long slow distance (running training)
Lucifer satan devil
BS
bible study
belief system
bachelor of science
bullshit
behavioral sciences
backstage
bronze star
blocked shot
big sister
beautiful soul