i wanted to bring up the book Stranger In A Strange Land by Robert Heinlein. This is an amazing book and though there are a few things i don't completely agree with on the whole it puts form to a lot of the theories and questions and thoughts about human nature and religion etc etc. The main focus of the book is "thou art God." I'm not gonna tie this in with Christopher Moore's Lamb with the explanation of the "holy ghost" aka "the divine spark" which resides in all of us. God is everything, in everything, a part of everything right? right ok. so that would logically make him part of us. So what's to say that we aren't him completely? Who's to say that we have control over everything that surounds us? and in saying that i could possibly be justifying our flourishing while we kill other species because they don't have, what is it? imortal souls? something like that. which is not my point. bringing in another book, a comic book actually, Neil Gaiman's Sandman i don't remember what issue or book but there's a part where Death (a cute little punk girl) tells one of her siblings that we KNOW everything. Past, future, present. We have all the questions and answers (no answer is 42, damn what's the question kinda thing) but the reason we don't know/acknowledge that knowledge (god i hate words sometimes) is because there's no way to handle that, it's easier to "forget" rather than be swamped by so much. Kind of like how in Stranger In A Strange Land the main character (a human man raised by martians and brought back to earth) "groks" humans and why they laugh as being, "They laugh because it hurts... because it's the only thing that'll make it stop hurting." shit this is long. ok there are my ideas and thoughts for the moment. out.
annie
