Sunday, September 27, 2009
waxing philosophical...
there needs to be balance. i guess this is one reason i am so unimpressed with monotheism. there needs to be at least two forces in opposition in order for there to be any action or progress. omnipotent, omnipresent, forces aren't really forces, they are just big nothings floating in the background. it would be like worshiping the emptiness of space. being a single, all-powerful being is like running unopposed in an election. if you skate in by default, do you have a license to do anything? why would you do anything? why draw attention when you can sit and do nothing and have nothing change due to oppressive inertia, an outcome which benefits you greatly?
that is what it is. monotheists are the yankee fans of the religious world. pick the team that always wins so you can have a smug sense of superiority without having to extend yourself at all.
i am feeling pretty belligerent right now. i am feeling bothered by abject, willful stupidity. i spit in its face. so, i am running for god. not God, but god, with a lowercase g. an outcome that would bump God down to god as well. i am turning this autocracy into a parliamentary system. it is time for a new fucking pantheon. we need some accountability of thought. i have just declared myself as the opposition, so now you have to make a choice too, instead of making your dismissive, blanket generalizations, absolving yourself of any sort of self-analysis. are you really ready to declare against me without considering the consequences?
there needs to be balance. i guess this is one reason i am so unimpressed with monotheism. there needs to be at least two forces in opposition in order for there to be any action or progress. omnipotent, omnipresent, forces aren't really forces, they are just big nothings floating in the background. it would be like worshiping the emptiness of space. being a single, all-powerful being is like running unopposed in an election. if you skate in by default, do you have a license to do anything? why would you do anything? why draw attention when you can sit and do nothing and have nothing change due to oppressive inertia, an outcome which benefits you greatly?
that is what it is. monotheists are the yankee fans of the religious world. pick the team that always wins so you can have a smug sense of superiority without having to extend yourself at all.
i am feeling pretty belligerent right now. i am feeling bothered by abject, willful stupidity. i spit in its face. so, i am running for god. not God, but god, with a lowercase g. an outcome that would bump God down to god as well. i am turning this autocracy into a parliamentary system. it is time for a new fucking pantheon. we need some accountability of thought. i have just declared myself as the opposition, so now you have to make a choice too, instead of making your dismissive, blanket generalizations, absolving yourself of any sort of self-analysis. are you really ready to declare against me without considering the consequences?
