Mummery

 A core concept from Adidam

Mummery (definition): A ridiculous, pretentious, hypocritical performance or ceremony.

Adi thought life was mummery.   I guess he was pretty jaded.

But I see his point.   Especially if you're a cult leader.  Life is absurd and utterly worthy of ridicule.  It's not meaningless (for me, at least).   I mean, there are problems to solve.  But if you're trying to set a worthy example of character, behavior, and wisdom, you have to incorporate the (cruel, evil, wicked, sinful, criminal, even depraved), the rude crude and unacceptable (as it were), and the daft, stupid, ignorant, foolish, unwise, uneducated, incurious, and apathetic.    If you're pure, you're the whole thing.  Unless you're purely one thing, and completely not something else....    So being "good" is hypocritical if you are also "bad."    Or, if you have questionable history.   And, if you think you're smarter, wiser, better - well, you're a hypocrite, because everybody knows the score.  Babies are genius, and adults can be boring, unengaged, nincompoops.   So it goes.   Some of us improve with age.   Anyway, all the world's a stage, and you can act like you're a boss, and make something simple into a ceremony.   I happen to like the tea ceremony.

What IS actually better, in my opinion?  Happy, comfortable, healthy, alive, good.    Engaged and interested, interesting.   Of service, making a difference.  Educated, informed, wise.   You grok, comprehend, get it.   Funny.

Mummy, mummy, I got a boo-boo!   Take off your bandages, honey.   Maybe not that funny.   I tried.   Me, myself, and I - we tri -ed (ha).   I'm a laugh riot.   Nothing funnier than abrasions and contusions.  Or a funny bone sticking out of your arm.  Ha!  Hilarious.   

Reality as all the God there ever is.   G-D, Generosity and Decency.