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January 07, 2007
Reverse engineering 'God'.
Can you answer this question:
"Who is God?"
I bet you can't. Now I don't mean replying "Hey, everybody knows who GOD is. He's that all powerful guy with the long hair and the white beard that's Jesus' dad!" I don't mean replying that god is Allah, Buddha, Yahweh, Jehovah, Goya, Uranus, Thor, Odin, Satan, Zeus, Coronas, Mattes, Apollo, Aries, Athena, Bast, Belial, Leviathan, Thea or Astaroth, just to name a few.
These names were given by man to give an understandable persona to the forces greater than we believed to exist. A line from the XTC song "Dear God" spelled it out rather poignantly: "Did you make mankind after we made YOU". There is no real proof of these gods or even their names. IN the same instance, technology has not led us to believe differently as to their existence either.
What we DO know scientifically is that there are unseen forces in the universe. What we do know is that first and foremost there are energies abound in the universe and it's dimensions that clearly show themselves however unexplained.
So let us reverse engineer the concept of god. Many of our kind in our time have shown many talents and abilities beyond those of normal men, and yet we consider them heretics or witches or freaks simply because we choose not to understand them. The "norm" was set long ago in the evolution of man and based on events that could probably have been proven through science with today's technology. We now can scientifically fathom the different spectrum of energies from ultra violet, ectoplasm and Electro magnetic. We have created machines to detect such. So let's start with how god was conceived. In a time of a science-less world, anything abnormal or occultist was deemed supernatural and in most cases because of it's rarity, evil. From the belief in Jesus' miracles to the Salem witch trials, man has thought that anything that is not 3 dimensional and tangible was either an act of god or the devil.
Faith was created and fueled by superstition and ritual, based on very little fact and supported by fear. Fear of angering the gods, fear of being against the norm, fear of being unnatural. These fears were culminated for the purpose of mind controlling the masses. The masses who followed like sheep sat and listened to the lawgivers who were in themselves corrupt.
Face it. MAN made god as a control device. God is as much a concept as he/she/it is real. God is a point of view. God is a thought process. God is better left within our hearts as a driving force... A thought... A need... A desire. We control our destiny, but we cannot control fate. We can only shape it and bend it, but never can we, like time, tame fate.
Where does that leave us? Well first, let me tell you where it doesn't leave us. In reverse engineering god, It doesn't leave us under the control of man made religions. It doesn't leave us beholden to societal rule. Nor does it leave us in anarchy. You see, that's the first formula you see when you examine the gods of organized religion. You see them as fear mongering tools. Especially in the Christian sects. If you don't go to church, god will punish you and you're a bad church dweller. Well, considering that a plate goes past your nose to collect "offerings" for which you dump your money, I'm sure that's why it's a sin to them if you don't. Because, you see, if you don't go to church, you can't give them your money. The same can be said for the faith healer believing Evangelical churches. Some have the nerve to charge for "healing holy waters". Were they so magnanimous, they would heal for free. Who paid Jesus to heal? No one. He rode on an ass, not in a large limousine.
These organized religions are some of the most corrupt of all time. They are the biggest hustlers known to man. They are the priests and ministers and reverends that prey on you for your money, so they give you the whole show for the price of admission. One has you singing and dancing or screaming out and another keeps you in line like a good little foot soldier of god. Either way, let's call them what they are..."cults".
Society has no idea how it has been duped. No concept of how it has let itself become sheep. Now the sheep are in control of the world and the populace under it's rule are simply the lambs to the slaughter. This is the result of centuries of bastardized stories from two to three thousand year old text.
My friends... Here we have unraveled our concept of god for just what he is... A concept. Well, if I must have a concept, I want to make MY own god. I want a personal god. I want a god that reflects me and my desires. I want a god that is the same for all, but mine alone. Allow me to tell you about MY gods:
MY gods have no faces. MY gods have no names. MY gods do not follow the doctrines set forth by the predecessors of religious dogma. MY gods fuel my fire. MY gods are my batteries to my inner gifts. MY gods wield the power cosmic. MY gods allow me the sentience of free thought and the free will to do as I instinctively please as long as I do not infringe on the same in others and do not kill my fellow man for sport or gain other than in war to defend what is mine in home, property and country.
MY gods acknowledge my inner gifts and do not hinder nor shun them. They nurture my quest for knowledge, they feel my growth, they allow nature to respond in kind, they allow probabilities to be altered because my gods live within myself as they touch me. MY gods do not believe in idle prayer for they do not wish to be bothered with our menial desires and wants, thus they grant us the abilities to make these things happen for ourselves. They allow us to be satellites of their godhood. They allow us to be as gods on earth in a small way. If it was believed we were made in a gods image, then we should have a fraction of that power we so envy. We are offshoots, fingertips of an un-divine hand or rather, hair follicles of a supreme head. We have been touched by a dark cosmic force. It gives us instinct and our mentality allows us to act upon it within the confines that we do not disturb another's right to do the same.
There you have it. God has been restructured and resurrected in a new image. A personal god.
Posted by Darkstar at January 7, 2007 10:34 PM

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