God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

—John Lennon

We've been studying Dante's Inferno in my class, and so, not unnaturally, religion is kind of a big topic on our minds of late. Well, long story short, this thought has occurred to me.....

God is a scapegoat.

If things never went wrong for us, we'd not have to blame anyone for those things. As it is, though, far be it for us to take responsibility. It must be the responsibility of someone or something that we cannot control or fix.

Think about it: if everything always went well, would you feel any need to attribute it to someone else? The existence of God in good times is an afterthought — a cover-up, if you will.

John Lennon had a rather mixed-up sense of politics and the like, but he nailed this one. Probably.

Bump: I wonder if, just maybe...

....the story of Noah's Ark refers to an event that's yet to come....

I had a wicked dream about this last sleep....probably influenced by the peculiar amount of snow that the northern hemisphere has seen this winter (and is still seeing). It came on the heels of other dreams involving a stolen car, hopelessly drunken acquaintances (actually nobody to whom I can attach a name I know, but they were acquaintances in the dream), and finally my own being held hostage by a psychotic police state. And I don't mean imprisoned, I mean being in a large house and part of a group of people whose numbers were ever falling.

So I got to thinking once again about the possibility of global warming inducing massive floods to "clean up" the wholly messed-up world we're on. And I don't know if anyone reads this blog regularly, but I do wish that somebody would comment and let me know what they think.

I wonder if, just maybe....

...the story of Noah's Ark refers to an event that's yet to come.....

You know....with the threat of global warming melting the polar ice caps and inducing mass flooding around the world.....

After all, let's face it...the world's a mess right now. The cleaning thereof might very well require something cataclysmic as the "Great Flood." And, of course, we'll all be trying our hardest to survive the thing....

Yeah....the scenario depicted in the story of Noah's Ark may very well happen, I think.

Any thoughts?

Now posted on the forums (or is it "fora"?)

Cromagnon - Orgasm (a full album of freak-out-ery)

and

Ananda Shankar - Ananda Shankar (Indian classical meets the (then) modern West. Highly recommended!)

at

It's PSYCH

or

The Gathering of the Tribe (check out Garden of Delights for details)

Edit, four days later: and now also at Groovy Fab.

Happy Easter! (The holiday where we celebrate a bunch of guys getting stoned and thinking they see a dead man rise. I can't think of a better explanation. :-)