Acting On False Motives

A lot of people in this country are phones. I guess corporate heads are phoneyer in their motives than even the rest of us are. We saw this when the rubber tire manufacturers like Firestone lobbied to get rid of the Red Line streetcar system in Los Angels and put up instead the choking web of Freeways and cars we have now. Apparently in the 1930's the cotton growers wanted to put the hemp manufacturers out of business and along with the paper and tree pulp industry lobbied congress to make marijuana possession and use illegal. Of course they wern't above stopping to the lowest of arguments to do so. It was said that if Black people smoked marijuana they sould be able to stare the white man down and not flinch in his presence. In congressional testimony it was said that marijuana would make white women sexually desire Black men. Marijuana was also responsible for jitterbug and bee-bop music of the black culture. We may look at all this as rather silly today. But not silly enough that we have repealed any marijuana laws. Because we are all subcontiously still running all those old "scripts" in our minds.

The role of "scripts" or a variation of what we call "en-grams" goes on a lot with people and I'll give you an example. Suppose I were to give you something I wrote called "Eternity- - a Difficult Concept" a lot of things would go through your mind that you are not even contiously aware of. Some of you would think of the end of the world. Or you would think of the Thousand Years of Peace talked about in the Book of Revelation, and also propigated by Adolph Hitler. You would think of some "end climax battle". Some people would think of Heaven which they see as this spirit realm you go when you die and death is the magic ticket that gets you there. Death is the "fairy dust" which transports you there. In this place you see God and Jesus and all your loved ones. If asked "Where is heaven" you can't say. It used to be up when we had a flat earth but now you just don't know. It's in your mind but it's also real, "If you believe". The harder you believe the sooner you'll get there. This is certainly a childish concept. People say "Child like" is good but "Child-ISH is bad". I don't know why. For my money the two words have identical meanings since "ish" means "like". Of course there's the tag line "- - and they lived happily ever after". That's a code name for "The end of the story". And that's just it. We think of stories having a beginning, a middle and an end. But don't ask what happens past the end. That's not part of the story. What about the day Sleeping Beauty hits menopause, and she gets hemeroids and wakes up with that twinge in her knee and knows she has arthritus? In like manner you aren't supposed to ask what Jesus did before he enters the Gospels at age thirty. The mere asking of the question is blasphamy to people like Jesus on KFI. It's "Not part of the story" so in effect doesn't exist, to think about one way or the other, any more than Prince Charming's getting lung cancer from hanging out with Sir Walter Rolleigh.

I say all this because when people think of the universe they think of a beginning, a middle, and an end. They're trapped in time. Maybe there is some Paradise out there waiting for them where things are perfect. It's funny how all the main religions have the same theme. First there is creation, then the fall by means of some corruption, which explains mans misory in life. Then tnere is some Savior who is doing so in Secret, which is why you have to believe in him. Chuck Smith speaks of death being like "Seeing the other side of the tapestry that's being woven by God and we just see the ugly under-side and not the finished product". The thing wrong with this is that it's just emotional imigry like the desire for "some grand conclusion" is an emotional one. You have to ask then, what is the loom, what is the loom weaver, what is the thread, ect. ect. The concept of some thing or process just "going on forever" eludes most people. They just can't conceive of it because they've been conditioned not to think that way.

Certain things Christians say are just plain wrong and I'll give you two examples. They love to talk about Sacrates' alligory of the cave. They look at the world of shadows and say "This isn't real, the outwide world is real, and that represents heaven after we die". Just to correct you the shaddow world is quite real. Shadow casting I imagine is a major division of solid geometry and projection. Projection of shadows on round objects is an even trickyer science. The action is very real and the more you know about it the smarter you are. Also someone might coment on the idea of waves on the ocean we talked about in the last post. I suppose the truth of it is that waves are set in motion by objects. But you don't know if it was a rock or a cell phone that was cast into a pond to make the ripples. A really smart person could tell you which. We have been saying that sixth dimensional reality is something we don't see now because we're still looking at the waves. Of course there is the rock or earthquake that set the waves in motion. There are varied kinds of waves. Electronics and sound use sine waves or waves that fluctuate around a median. Ocean waves have a different shape to them. Gravity warping of the universe could be akin to isobars on a weather chart often clumping in round loops. And sixth dimensional reality is like someone getting ready to tie a bow. I say all this because if someone is on the sixth dimension "seeing the rock before it was cast into the lake" that doesn't make the ripples any less real or damage from tidal waves any less real. This brings me to my other great truth which is that some say "Human life is basically meaningless and worthless in the grand scheme of things because it's so short in comparrison to- - - Eternity. Because it's so short therefore it's less real, they say. How does being short make human life any less real to the people in it? After all it's all we've got. It's the only reality we can be sure of. To assume anything beyond this life and hope and expect in it- - - is not alltogether rational. We said mankind falls into the trap of assuming creation and a middle and then an end or destruction. I got the idea from a Simpson's episode to construct a model of the Universe that didn't necessitate creation or destruction but an endless progression of black holes within black holes, like one of those Zoomquilt pattern things where you keep zooming. But people are locked into this belief that everything had to have a beginning, a middle, and an end, and the "And they lived happily ever after" phase to life. People's metaphysical concepts need to grow up out of childhood.