A voice of reason and sanity!

Guest Post by Kat Curtis;

Well, AT LAST, a reasonable human being who can put things into "Perspective."

I am always reading things that are written by people who live in philosophical boxes and who are seemingly unaware of that fact while they opine heavily about what's "True" and what is not, most of what they say has more to do with how they'd like to be The Ones In The Know, the standard bearers, than with whether what they're spouting has any merit as a reflection of actuality.

Egotistical extremism, Proud To Be In The Box thinking, is probably the greatest element behind the disappointing displays by people throughout our motley history as a species on this planet.

Wherever there are individual failures to live up to even the basic rules of civility or there are massive conflagrations of hostility perpetrated in the name of Me First-ism, it's always some manufactured, lame, self-serving philosophical support offered as the banner these fools march behind.

Putting a deity on the banner (doesn't much matter which one) make it all seem so much more twistedly valid, relieving the marchers of the stain of having no good reason for doing what they're doing, which is putting themselves at the center of everything and pushing everyone else out to the edges.

If you start doing any real investigation into pre-adolescent psychology, this is how it plays out with little kids who have yet to develop mature thinking skills.

The self-righteous group mentality of aggression is also self-perpetuating because the individuals see their compatriots behaving as abysmally as themselves, making it appear to be an OK thing to continue.

"WE" are doing this (whatever "this" is) because "WE" determined we had the right to do it and because "WE" know that "OUR DEITY" has pre-ordained it to be the proper course of action. WE WE WE, me me me. This is a dumb box to be in, when you think about it objectively.

I appreciate your understanding of the issue of a higher spiritual power and how that is interpreted and embodied, as understood by those who really, for all intents and purposes, are largely incapable of grasping what they're so hungry to have be the Truth.

The question in the back of most of our minds, whether we admit it or not, is not whether there is a "God" (of any description or name) to be there to hold our hand in the dark times we face, but is more likely to be "Who Am I and Why Am I Here?" (Wherever Here is.)

Looking below the surface of most of humankind's unresolved hostility and it's enactment against the neighbors reveals a lack of understanding of this very basic information, identity.

Identity seems to be one of the banners people want to march behind, whether it is racial (the surface features are easy to see and therefore an easy target to conflict over if one is in the mood to insist on conflict over something) or it's economic (an empty belly is less complacent than a full one) or even if it's philosophical. (The ME ME ME aspect of human psychology played out at is most unnecessarily complex)

What many folks do is elevate their decision to misbehave by associating themselves with the Deity of their choice, thereby putting themselves on said Banner under which they march, making themselves over in their god's image into something other than the vaingloriously obnoxious, scruffy rabble they actually are.

If their deity stands for things they themselves would like to perpetrate, then so much the better, which is why there are so many names and definitions of deities floating through the social strata of societies worldwide.

Nobody seems to notice (it would be inconvenient to do so) that having more than one "God" makes them all logically invalid.

Semantics is very disturbing at times.

But having a designer deity is the fashion these days and all the days previous to this and so people prefer to get excited by what they determine to be The Cosmic Rationale for their very un-spiritual behaviors.

Allan, say what you can, do what you can, to remind folks they've still got some maturation to do in their efforts to graduate from The Box.

Whatever progress you've helped them make is all to our good.

I appreciate your efforts.

I've made it my life's work just to be aware of Boxes and their effects and to avoid them whenever possible.

It's not probable that I will ever know a world without them in my lifetime, but life has a way of working these things out over the long stretch.

There's a reason we, as humans, are called the Hand of God.

God being God, having no names or edges or simple definitions, works through these rudimentary hearts and minds to create effects and needs us as Hands to do the manual labor of building.

We build for better or worse but we do build.

That is our Identity.

If we were all to understand that, really understand that, then the reasoning for the hostility clouding our thinking would lose it's place in our actions and maybe then we'd actually start to feel valid without doing harm.

Freedom means living without Boxes, a heavy responsibility and a delicate operation to perform.

God lives in in total freedom. Do we not want to emulate that which we profess to revere?

Maybe, when we're wiser.

It's a long march to maturity, isn't it?

Kat (Who likes dogs.) Curtis

Well, there you have it. A little ponderouse and heavy at times, but all in all he tells it like he sees it!

Your humble scribe;
Allan W Janssen

Allan W Janssen is the author of the book The Plain Truth About God (What the mainstream religions don't want you to know!) and is available at the web site www.God-101.com

Visit the blog "Perspective" at http://God-101.blogspot.com

Who gives a shit!

Well the latest Hollywood gossip is about Felicity.

Felicity Huffman is addressing those rumors that she was drunk on the set of “Georgia Rule”.

She was............ Some!

“OK, it’s a little true. I was drunk a little bit of it, but not a lot,” the “Desperate Housewives” star tells Parade magazine. She wasn’t, she insists, falling down drunk.

I'm certainly glad to hear that since we just can't get enough of all this bullshit that celebrities are doing to keep us entertained and amused.

That last paragraph was strictly said with tongue in cheek since truth be known I couldn't care less what Anna Nicole Smith did while she was alive, what Paris Hilton did to get 45 days in jail, what Tom and Katie are doing, what or who Lindsy Lohan is screwing up now, what Britney Spears is using to grow her hair back, what, or who George Clooney is doing or even what my neighbour George is doing behind those closed curtains at three o'clock in the morning.

This national obsession with the lives of celebrities has grown to unhealthy proportions. Our fixation with the personal business of people in the limelight is an indicator of something seriously wrong with society when we have to live our lives vicariously through other people.

Personally I am going to try and concentrate on the lives of my family and friends and the rest of the world can go to hell in a hand basket for all I care.

Since my wife got sick with Lymphoma it has put a lot into perspective for me and you soon learn what's really important and what isn't.

Your "old philosopher" scribe;
Allan W Janssen

What do we know?

I just finished watching, (again) the program "What the bleep do we know!"

As usual they made quite a few salient points in the program and it also sent me on a quick flight of conjecture about the nature of this universe we live in.

Without going into a long discourse about the subject, I was reminded of the saying "If a bear shi......no wait.... if a tree falls in the woods and nobody hears it, did it really fall?"

Yes of course it did because we are talking about it - so there it is!

BUT, by the same token it seems to me that if there was absolutely no conciousness in the Universe - no me, no you, no Martians or Venusians, no people from Utah, no God or nuttin, then the Universe really would not exist. No one to see it so it ain't there! See?

So the corollary of this is - that I guess we are important after all. ;-)

Sorry to bore you, please go back to your regular programming.

Your metaphysical scribe;
Allan

Allan W Janssen is the author of The Plain Truth About God-101 (what the church doesn't want you to know!) at; www.God-101.com
And the petition to have people mind their own business instead of yours at; http://www.petitiononline.com/moses/petition.html

The Road Less Traveled! With apologies to M. Scott Peck

*The road to truth is long and winding........ and lined the entire way with annoying bastards!

*Why is it that people who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them!

*First you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up and finally, you forget to pull it down. - George Burns

*Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped!

*In the beginning, there was nothing. And God said, 'Let there be Light.' And there was still nothing. But, you could see it a lot better. Or, First, there was nothing. Then it exploded!

*Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day.
Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life!

*Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness?
It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means!
- George Burns

*****There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things we know we don't know. But, there are also unknown unknowns. These are things we don't know we don't know - Donald Rumsfield

*So many Right-Wing Christians, so few lions!

And Finally!

When we talk to God, we're praying.
When God talks to us, we're schizophrenic!

Your Scribe;
Allan

So be it!

Your faithfull scribe just got an e-mail by long, long distance.

** I AM – GOD

** I Think, Therefore I am -Descartes

** I yam what I yam, and that's all what I yam. –Popeye


Your humble servant,
Allan