Musings of A Dumb Ass

What if there is a God?.... What if there is no God?

My God believing friends would be mortified at the thought of 'no God'. My friends who either question the concept or just flat out reject idea of celestial supremacy would just be bored as usual trying to consider it.

It's a neat thought to be secure in the belief that you will last forever, and likewise depressing to think right now is all there is.

The problem with either mindset is the limitation of thinking allowed to embrace either possibility.

If you want to believe in God, then you generally have to accept human rules and regulations to access salvation, or simply be alone in your thought process, because no recognized religion allows free thinking and open rules.

Most all of them have a human being between you and God that you must accept as either representative of God or a heavenly appointed potentate that you must obey and emulate without question to gain connection with the Great One.

Many of my friends claim contact with the almighty on a regular basis but it's always through some sort of weird 'sign' that has little to do with anything, or simply a thought that occurs to them that fits in with the desired direction , pro or con', they want to go, while if I happen to have a flash of some sort I just attribute it to my brain doing what it does naturally as opposed to a message from beyond.

Then there's the God of Love 'thing'.

It is said that God loves everything except sin and disrespect to Him. That is a strange position to be held in such a brutal world where all life is only here to be consumed by something else including us ( the worms finally get us) unless we're cremated at death, which oddly enough is a practice contrary to some religions. To be considered worthy of eternal life in most faiths you must be very rigid in your stay on earth making sure you don't participate in much of anything pleasurable while trying to convince everyone else how great your life is and how complete your love of God is, even when suffering great pain and knowing death is knocking on the door and tomorrow is not to be, believing God's love for you is complete, through submission of your life to him.

Then there's the 10,000 babies who are not aware of God, didn't ask to be born, who have had no opportunity to sin, nor make a decision concerning God, who on planet earth tonight will die a miserable death from dysentary , or as I like to say in plainer english, 'will shit themselves to death'. And they will.

I really have trouble feeling the love in our world and buying into the generally accepted religions that most embrace. Sometimes I have trouble feeling anything, which of course is a form of torture not known to many and appreciated by none............

Musings of a Dumb Ass

The uncontrolled spiral of my country into nothingness continues on unchecked. Nothing in this world I live in makes sense to me anymore. We are a people so completely out of touch with reality we no longer have the ability to recognise right from wrong or good from bad.

It's bad enough to just not be smart enough to understand, but when truth gets trampled so thoroughly that it's bastardized in casual conversation by people who are smart enough to avoid slamming the car door on their fingers, then there is no hope.

We have, and are continuing to buy into the decimation of our own existence with such furor that we surely can't stand as a nation much longer.

The lies are what drives me crazy: That Social Security is what you've paid for; That Medi-care is a good deal for all; That any government 'gimme' belongs to all who want it; That the government can and should be everything to everybody...... and the list could go on for a very long time.

Oppressive governments do not decree unhappiness for everyone. In fact ANY country with a socialist or communist government that has running water, electricity, roads and food abound with those satisfied to just keep on as it is. Maybe we should stay out of others business. We're the only ones who worry that they don't do as we say and therefore need to be 'freed', and we prove the importance of that attitude regularly as we parade around the globe making fools of ourselves, never worrying about the 10,000 babies who will die tonite from dysentary and diahharia, instead intent on overthrowing governments who do not behave as we want.

Today the unemployment figures say that somewhere between 9 1/2 to 17 1/2 percent of Americans are out of work nationally. So how could there be such a wide gap in numbers? It's all how you look at it........

Let's pick up the check at the mailbox, drive the Toyota down to Wal-Mart and buy all that merchandise on their shelves made in Communist China, and marvel at how great things are.................