Those the Gods would destroy…

You too, have friends, don’t deny it, that pray for a space rock to hit us, so that we may be put out of our misery. Why do I think that? Because I see your postings, all over social media.

Why is it that so many people, seemingly, are in misery? What is our complaint? In a short sentence, it is the Age of Dichotomies that moves us to despair.  After we go over the litany of the hypocrisies of humanity, we sigh, and say, “Dear God, gods or Universe, wipe us out!”

A different pleading might be for those nasty reptile aliens to come down  to do the job. They don’t even have to be reptile, just nasty and alien, with big guns, make that lasers, that can destroy us by the millions.

Make that billions.

Of course, nature can do the job herself. According to the research I’ve done concerning Gaia’s ability to give us a big send off, how about a couple of those super volcanoes going off? The junk those volcanoes would spew up into the atmosphere would wipe out the sunlight for a year, which would destroy crops, and cause EMI disturbances on a grand scale. That means a huge failure in electrical ability, which means no freezers, no Internet and no EVs. Now don’t get smug thinking your fossil fuel fed vehicle will work. It takes electricity to turn the engine over.

I know what you’re thinking here.  A classic car. No computers needed, and it can be jump started by pushing it, and popping the clutch. I can see it now, a rush to the Petersen Automotive Museum to steal the cars. That means my wish would be your wish: A return to the days of yore.

Be careful for what you wish for.

A couple of facts are needed here. It has been 60 million years since a really big space rock hit us. The last super volcano to rumble and roar, was about 27,000 years back. You will have to pray to Gaia for another, more recent, and ongoing solution. How about a plague? You know, that good ole Bubonic is a sure fire way to remove many people from the planet. I mean, if Covid could overwhelm the hospitals, and Covid is a puny little virus, think of what the Bubonic can do. Bubonic has the ability to kill off about 30-60% of the population. And it doesn’t destroy the Earth! Unless you think about the problem of having to bury or cremate 5 billion bodies, Bubonic is the green solution. No carbon footprints here.  And no worries about environmental justice. Gaia doesn’t care who she kills. She has to save the Earth, so the hell with humanity in its rainbow of colors.

Does Gaia make you wish for the space rock instead? The rock is such a male solution, because those goddesses can be real bitches. Think about Hera, who will burn you alive if you sleep with her husband, Zeus. Or Aphrodite, aka, Venus. She will starve you to death if you don’t procreate. Then there’s Artemis, who won’t think twice about turning a wild boar on you if you kill a deer without her expressed, written permission.

See what I mean? It’s the space rock, right? Not only will it knock you out when it hits the atmosphere, it has a purging fire that consumes the Earth’s surface. Which means, no bodies to bury. And no-one left living to mourn the others.

Aye, there’s the rub, being left behind. Shall we then think of another prayer, i.e., another solution to the issues we moderns face?

Firstly, let’s study this phrase about the gods or God, whatever your perspective is on that, destroying us. The Earth’s peoples have stories about such events, that have been circulating for thousands of years. Two of the most universal stories are the flood, and Sodom and Gomorrah. In both, the storyline is that people have been so wicked, that God decides to call it quits. The flood story is Gaia based. Sodom and Gomorrah is Zeus, or god in the sky, based.

What exactly was the wickedness people participated in that made their god withdraw his protection? In the African story, God Retreats to the Sky, Man begins killing after he learns to make a spear. The interesting conundrum is that it was God who taught man how to make tools. So when Man used the tools to eat, he could then use them to kill humans. So God decided to move out of the neighborhood. But Man followed him. So finally, God moved his household to the heavens. Once the people understood that God wasn’t coming back, and, feeling lost without him, a leader arose, and told them that God was in the sun, and in the moon.

Yes, it is a story that talks about the making of a religion. Because religion is important. It is a glue for a society, but more importantly, religions are about conduct. Our behavior. It is religion that keeps us sane. What is my evidence for that? The insanity we see around us. I suggest that sin, in the new way of thinking, is a mental disorder.

Notice that, in the flood and fire from the sky stories,  the gods always leave a remnant behind so that we can begin a new cycle. I ask you, is that the madness of the gods?

Back to the adage. Do you wonder when or where this saying began? Perhaps, with the Greeks. Sophocles, in his play, Antigone, has a character say this:

Evil appears as good in the minds of those whom god leads to destruction.

That sounds like the issue in Sodom and Gomorrah, and a part of our own problem today.

The Romans also thought along the same lines. Here is a direct translation of the Latin:

Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first deprives of reason.

Reason, as a noun, can be used two different ways: as an explanation for an action, and secondly, the power of the mind to think, and form a judgement. As a verb, it means, to think. Let’s ask the question. Without reason, are we mentally ill?

The pertinent quote below comes from Ian Fleming, the creator of James Bond. In, From Russia with Love, Bond says this:

Those whom the gods wish to destroy, they first make bored.

Now we are getting somewhere. Because this is based on the adage of idle hands are the Devil’s playground.

Going back to the remnants that the gods leave behind, it illustrates the point that we, the human beings left behind, are to improve ourselves, which is to say, better our thinking. The God of the Hebrews, and, subsequently, of the Christians and Muslims, gave humanity those 10 rules so that we could moderate our behavior towards our fellow humans. That is the reason for those rules. However, modernists think the 10 rules deprive them of their personal pleasures, and their identity. So their life becomes all about themselves. They turn inward. The human race cannot survive with that attitude.

Madness, or mental illness, is about eschewing the human race, and to believe that self is all that matters. The craziness comes in when one buys into that premise, that one doesn’t need anyone else in their life. We learn who many of these individuals are when they walk into Walmart and begin murdering others. Or we know them as addicts, many of whom live on the streets. I suggest they have been abused in some way, and have had no one to champion them when they were young and vulnerable. Old wounds, when not addressed, fester, and an infection sets in. The modernist world washes their hands of them by giving them their “freedom” and their “pronouns,” and their “rights” to their muddled thinking.

No wonder the gods would destroy us. Especially the big one who asked Cain where his brother was. His baby brother, whom Cain murdered. Cain was a wise ass, and he has taught generations how to envy, and destroy. There is no doubt that envy is a sickness that eats poison for breakfast.

If the gods are to destroy us for our muddled thinking, it is for the purpose of resurrecting a new sort of human being. Ones who love with with their mind, and think with their soul. These advanced humans will study us, to learn from our muddled headed choices. As Solomon once said, “…wisdom is the thing.”

That is the solution. Learning is the search, and wisdom the gold, to be dug out of our experiences. Come, then, let us reason together, and commit to one another. When humanity stands together, no angry gods can touch us.

To hear the story of God Retreats to the Sky, go here.