12,409. RUDIMENTS, pt. 910

RUDIMENTS, pt. 910

(a Christmas message for all ages) pt. two

In all of my life and study, 

I've always mused over 

what's presented and how

it's accepted. It appears

fairly obvious that, in life,

there is no 'Meaning' to

anything except for the

'whatever-meaning'  -  passing

and changeable or not  -  that

we attach to it; to each moving

phenomenon along our ways.

In my opinion, as well, the

meanings that ARE absolute

are the Evil ones. Everything

on Earth seems to start out as

Evil and then get 'improved'

and corrected, or grow more

Evil and become abhorrent,

with certain tags and labels

attached : murder, lust, adultery,

thieving, cheating, immorality,

mis-representation, etc. (Hey!

When you attempt (try) to make

it with a buddy's wife, and it

doesn't work out, why isn't that

called 'adultry')? On balance

that all makes this, as we're

taught too, and which is then

reinforced by teachings, a

'fallen' world. Woe is among

us. This is then, perhaps, that

long-sought ante-room of Hell

that writers have been describing

over the centuries?

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The thing about it all is, historically,

the outlandish stories get accepted,

taken on 'faith,' as the good folk

say; even when they are illogical

or against all of the present-day

evidences  -  Biblical stuff too, the

sun stopping, darkness over-all,

the Red Sea parting, manna,

Ezekial's accounts, and Enoch's.

I can go on but won't. All that

stuff is taken on faith. But when

the same reports of the vast

millennia of past time are reported,

over and over, and numerous

versions, they are denied, and

given the status of 'Myth.'

Out of the blue, they're 

dismissed as folly. Primitive 

man's attempts at God stories. 

Etc. You wish to retort?

Got one?

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To begin with, the lovely setting

for the Christmas story is bizarre.

For sure it's bizarre in Winter's

North American climes. No one

questions any of that white-guy 

stuff. Angels. Annunciations. A

Quickening in Martha's belly,

when pregnant and yet virginal

Mary enters the room. Faith, baby,

Faith. It has to fit the script.

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On the other hand, remember all 

those stories of half man/half animal

creatures running around? The also

bizarre off-beats and failed attempts

at the prime creation of a creature 

like 'Human.' Crazy Gods running

around on Mt. Olympus. Breeding

with humans. (read Genesis 6 again).

Remember the stories of caves

into the center of the Earth? The

landing strips oddly placed in

strategic locations all over the

globe? Heights, and towers, for

the Gods. Why damn-it-all that's 

just Mythology! A mere figment!

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I dare say, sweet burning-bush

humans, you're all crazy. You're 

all gullible as Hell too. Look where

it's brought you? Can't freely drink

from that river? Can't walk the

coastline? Can't pick and choose

among the natural foods to eat

on trees and bushes? Someone

has to check you in, and check

you out? Hmmm. Must be that

damn fallen nature bullshit again. 

Better go pray, but only in that

church of your choice. otherwise

it doesn't count.

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"The other-worldly nature of the

therianthropes also raises the

possibility that they are mythical

beings, or manifestations of ''animal

spirit helpers' that are common

in shamanic beliefs. This scene

may not be a depiction of an

actual hunting scene, but could

be about animistic beliefs and

the relationship between people

and animals, or even a shamanaic

ritual." Can you believe this crap!

OR they could be about real life,

asshole. They could have a meaning

and a reality based upon the sort

of everyday living people were

then doing. Or maybe your stupid

Christmas story's a bunch of junk

too. (Boy, am I trying to stay nice).

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I've often wondered why things

have all to be misrepresented so.

To us, along the way. Why is it

that profess such fealty to the

'professional' verdicts and edicts

of all that we touch and harbor?

Is not Humankind strong enough

to settle things, each of us, on

our own terms and go along? 

Of the supposed 'Christmas

Story' is about anything, it's

been somehow made to be

about the most sentimental of

poorly writ emotions, cultural

charity, and positive blessing.

Given all those changeable

meanings I've mentioned, it

is the most prosaic and most 

simple that then become the

most problematical. Example?

Robin Hood? Jesse James? 

John Wesley Hardin? To name

but three  -  stealing, and giving

to the poor. Which meaning do

you want? The good one, or the

bad one? Go ahead and choose.

Is that good, or is it bad? Are

you glad, or are you sad?

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One last word on the primitives,

and their 'Gods' : Although

unfashionable today, Sun worship

was once an integral part of many

religions. In Incan Peru, in aboriginal

Australia, in ancient Britain, to name

but three. A Sun God, not a warlike,

violent, God of War and tribal conflict,

as biblically depicted. And, really,

deifying the Sun does make more

sense in some ways than praying

to invisible, cloud-Gods. Virtually 

all energy on Earth ultimately comes 

from the Sun, as does all weather

and food too. We wouldn't be alive
here if not for that. If it's 'right' in

your heart, first, you don't need a

law or a dictate to tell you that.
Laws, (and religions), are made
for the self-interest of those 
who make them.