Initiation II

I often contemplate questions that do not coincide with rational behavior. I do not ask in the form of prayers for I am not God, do not believe in God, and as such, I search by reason. Reasonably, God would want no more of me than a nonbeliever would give. Knowing all thoughts at all times reasonably means to me, if God is a fact, the greatest acknowledgement of him as he is known to be, would be to be true to one’s nature until he dictates otherwise. To search for truth with righteousness and always lend an ear to reason. To sharpen one’s skills to see beyond the rhetoric and stay the course with determination. To leave God be until you find him. Do not play the game that you know him. Do not create him based on what you are told he is. As I think, I reason the reasonable and even try to place reason on that which I find without reason. The reasonable would reasonably stand fast amidst reasoning. The following is the manner to which I speak of, consider this: based on my observation of patterns of human behavior, I have come to accept that all people without reference to kind at some point in their lives are affected with some form of behavioral challenge. These challenges are begotten in a vast number of providential or unfortunate ways. They manifest themselves without awareness or upon command with all the reason needed to present and, for most, justify the behavior. These actions or thoughts can be likened to a machine with a broken or wrong-sized part. The machine runs fine until a request for a specific function is placed or stress is placed on the inappropriate part whereby the malfunction presents itself. This action takes place in the ways of a lack of information, the wrong ingredients to a recipe, weight beyond a specified range, not enough attention from a parent, too much attention from a parent, a lack of oxygen during the birth process, trauma to the brain physically or psychologically, substance abuse, acts of nature, fear, love, hate, hunger, thirst, depravity, etc. Just what sets us off is the catalyst to the joys and sorrow of the human experience.
In life, there are psychological archetypes that allow people to be profiled to a modicum of accuracy. These constant themes do not account for all the behaviors that plague humankind. If there is a possibility where provocation is not an influence, then God is a fact. “What if God is all provocation?” answers its own question. Cause and effect lend reason to the whys and lies of human behavior. All the answers could not and would not change human nature. The circle, the closed loop, keeps things happening even beyond reason.

A World without Lies

“Reason the possibilities and the idea will seem lacking.” As much as we resent the action or the effect, we cannot and more so must not eradicate the reality. We can envision a utopian society where there is peace and love and no form of discontent. But this vision is so unrealistic that we do not see a representation of it in the media. It’s just not a good story. We can rationalize the effect as simple as having the yin without the yang or any idea that displaces an aspect of duality. The outcome somehow does not result in peace and tranquility. It does not get rid of a form of confusion or chaos but allows for more of the same. It would not make people love one another, and the remarkable outcome would bring more of the opposite. Also, if we could eliminate peace, it would not yield total hate. The human nature of people would sustain mankind either way. The only way the reality could exist is to create a being fully void of humanity. The robot would do as programmed and carry out the total annihilation of humans if the humans did not band together to stop it. “The wolves may fight amongst themselves, but against a common enemy, they become one.” Likewise, the humans will fall in line for self-preservation. Well, at least one would hope that they would! By way of the individual, human nature exists independent of the races, creeds, classes, etc. By way of the individual, humanity is self-sustaining and outlives the community to create more individuals. The checks and balances give motion to the picture, but they do not sustain the whole, although through faith, one would hope they would.

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Death

Without question or lament, blind obedience without task; what is done is what is meant. In the end, words and things held no value to the reaper. Both mindless and mindful with focused intent, death fell the body and took the soul. The soul of the mind expressed in kind no sentiment or request, it left the earth with God’s best! Funny that no one has ever in my awareness spoke of death as being God’s best!

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