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And had to tell the internet about it. So this is also an ambienated post too.
So I'm here being ambienated, and I'm dozing and watching part of the DS9 series finale. Nutshell: the GOOD gods, the PROPHETS, the gods that the religious Bajorans believe in and pray to, these prophets have literature and text that claims they built Bajor, that they love Bajor, that they're responsible for everything that happens on Bajor. And THEN up springs the Pagh Wraiths (the antichrist) and they choose two zealots to follow them into fire, and all of a sudden it's religious war all over Bajor and gods fighting gods.
And the thing is. I believe in the prophets. Like, I believe they are gods of Bajor who createth the fruit of the vine and so on. I believe the prophets know the fate of Bajor and of every Bajoran, and the fate of Bajor over many generations, over the existance of the planet. So it's not surprising that little wars (a fraction of a second in god time) that pop up around the planet every hundred years or so, that doesn't even have a lick of significance to the great gods who are looking at the BIG picture.
And I thought -- if I believe in Bajor's prophets, if I accept the Bajoran faith as a RELIGION -- assuming we're in a universe where Earth and Bajor actually do coexist, imagining Bajor's real -- does that mean I'd want to convert from my current athiestic judaism to the Bajoran religion just because I BELIEVE in it more?
And so it gave me a notion of planetary gods. [And I blame this not at all, no, of course not, never, on the crazy Mormon books] But think? So our Judeochristian god, the god of our planet, he's Buddha and Allah and all the rest, he's Earth-God, and he made the heavens NEAR the earth and he made the earth and has been looking after us ever since.
But OUR local religious wars are meaningless to them, a speck of dust on the side of a mountain. They see the fate of humanity, the end of the planet, our god sees the entire shape of human existance on earth.
He knows that this crazy little war in the year 2003 won't affect the next evolution of sentient beings who evolve on this planet in the next million years. He sees the big picture. He imagines destinies. We toil in obscurity, and coincidence takes care of the rest. And fate.
It's just so interesting how similar the proof of finding god is to the proof of finding extraterrestrial life. Is it thinking. Does it know me. Can it affect me or respond to me in any way? Can we communicate.
Believing that there's a planet like Bajor in the real world galaxy somewhere, believing wholeheartedly that there's intelligent life in this galaxy, out there, wondering about us -- that's always been the closest thing I've had to a religious belief. I believe there is someone UP there, yes. But whether it's god or extraterrestrial forces, it's still an ALIEN event. Which is to say -- The Mother Theresa in a bowl of oatmeal -- that's god! Those are ALIENS doing that.
ALIENS ARE GOD, or at the very least, aliens exist in the same sort of intangible unreality that god does. Unexplained phenomena. Miracles. No hard proof of either. Belief and non-belief at odds, often hostile toward one another. A comprehension of BELIEF. Of FAITH. Aliens are god.
I brought the Bajoran gods here with me and tried to talk to them in bed, but what I was doing was talking to our god, Earth-god, the local god who's in charge of here. Talking to god. Like people do when they pray. And I don't pray. But I'd talk to an alien.
So perhaps I do believe in god. At least, I believe in this one. This Earth-God, Jesus or Allah or Buddha or whoever you want to call him. I think he did the things we think he did on this planet, but rather than conjure up a garden of Eden he seeded the planet with biological life, proteins and amino acids and he watched them grow together to form organisms. He altered the weather patterns, shifted gravitational plates, and built a new planet, as new life forms were beginning to evolve. He helped them evolve, gave them webbed feet and shorter noses so they would become the beginnings of what he knew his EARTH would become. I'll pray to this god. I'll worship this god. I'll love him and trust him with my life and my people and my planet.
So anyway. I'm religious now. I like that god alien guy. And so much more plausible than the garden and the snake.
I thought I had something else to say but found myself instead stumbling off to bed.
I'll do that now. But first a chat with the alien god.
So I'm here being ambienated, and I'm dozing and watching part of the DS9 series finale. Nutshell: the GOOD gods, the PROPHETS, the gods that the religious Bajorans believe in and pray to, these prophets have literature and text that claims they built Bajor, that they love Bajor, that they're responsible for everything that happens on Bajor. And THEN up springs the Pagh Wraiths (the antichrist) and they choose two zealots to follow them into fire, and all of a sudden it's religious war all over Bajor and gods fighting gods.
And the thing is. I believe in the prophets. Like, I believe they are gods of Bajor who createth the fruit of the vine and so on. I believe the prophets know the fate of Bajor and of every Bajoran, and the fate of Bajor over many generations, over the existance of the planet. So it's not surprising that little wars (a fraction of a second in god time) that pop up around the planet every hundred years or so, that doesn't even have a lick of significance to the great gods who are looking at the BIG picture.
And I thought -- if I believe in Bajor's prophets, if I accept the Bajoran faith as a RELIGION -- assuming we're in a universe where Earth and Bajor actually do coexist, imagining Bajor's real -- does that mean I'd want to convert from my current athiestic judaism to the Bajoran religion just because I BELIEVE in it more?
And so it gave me a notion of planetary gods. [And I blame this not at all, no, of course not, never, on the crazy Mormon books] But think? So our Judeochristian god, the god of our planet, he's Buddha and Allah and all the rest, he's Earth-God, and he made the heavens NEAR the earth and he made the earth and has been looking after us ever since.
But OUR local religious wars are meaningless to them, a speck of dust on the side of a mountain. They see the fate of humanity, the end of the planet, our god sees the entire shape of human existance on earth.
He knows that this crazy little war in the year 2003 won't affect the next evolution of sentient beings who evolve on this planet in the next million years. He sees the big picture. He imagines destinies. We toil in obscurity, and coincidence takes care of the rest. And fate.
It's just so interesting how similar the proof of finding god is to the proof of finding extraterrestrial life. Is it thinking. Does it know me. Can it affect me or respond to me in any way? Can we communicate.
Believing that there's a planet like Bajor in the real world galaxy somewhere, believing wholeheartedly that there's intelligent life in this galaxy, out there, wondering about us -- that's always been the closest thing I've had to a religious belief. I believe there is someone UP there, yes. But whether it's god or extraterrestrial forces, it's still an ALIEN event. Which is to say -- The Mother Theresa in a bowl of oatmeal -- that's god! Those are ALIENS doing that.
ALIENS ARE GOD, or at the very least, aliens exist in the same sort of intangible unreality that god does. Unexplained phenomena. Miracles. No hard proof of either. Belief and non-belief at odds, often hostile toward one another. A comprehension of BELIEF. Of FAITH. Aliens are god.
I brought the Bajoran gods here with me and tried to talk to them in bed, but what I was doing was talking to our god, Earth-god, the local god who's in charge of here. Talking to god. Like people do when they pray. And I don't pray. But I'd talk to an alien.
So perhaps I do believe in god. At least, I believe in this one. This Earth-God, Jesus or Allah or Buddha or whoever you want to call him. I think he did the things we think he did on this planet, but rather than conjure up a garden of Eden he seeded the planet with biological life, proteins and amino acids and he watched them grow together to form organisms. He altered the weather patterns, shifted gravitational plates, and built a new planet, as new life forms were beginning to evolve. He helped them evolve, gave them webbed feet and shorter noses so they would become the beginnings of what he knew his EARTH would become. I'll pray to this god. I'll worship this god. I'll love him and trust him with my life and my people and my planet.
So anyway. I'm religious now. I like that god alien guy. And so much more plausible than the garden and the snake.
I thought I had something else to say but found myself instead stumbling off to bed.
I'll do that now. But first a chat with the alien god.
