Papa's Ponderings

The Hereafter

The older I get the more spiritual I become. My mind is constantly wondering about the here after. Just today I found myself wandering from room to room thinking “what am I here after”? Usually I spot it and remember but sometimes I just give up hoping it will reveal itself again some time in the future. Eventually I will need whatever it was I was looking for and start in search of it again. That is not really so different from what we are talking about. Why on earth did God create us in the first place? What was the point, the purpose? We are pretty certain we have some things clear but there seems to be something eluding us that would tie all the pieces together, but what?

Reverse engineering what went wrong from God’s point of view, (and again assuming He is the creator/sustainer) should give us a good idea of what will fix our problems. The Big question, why am I here? Before we ask reverse engineer and ask God, let’s reason it out, what are the possibilities? The probabilities? Later we will contrast the reasoned ideas with the revealed idea.
Possibility #1 God made man to serve him. I hear a lot of really nice religious people say that. It sounds like what nice religious people should say and maybe even believe. My response: You’ve got to be kidding, ME? I am a lousy servant, and to be honest I do not like the idea of being anyone’s servant It sounds a little to close to being a slave to me and no thanks, I’ll pass. Our black brothers have not been slaves for 150 years and they are still ticked off about it and I don’t blame them one bit. It was a rotten thing to do, a really lousy idea that didn’t work out well for anyone. If my primary purpose is to serve God why can’t I do any of the way cool stuff his other servants do? He says he has angles, seraphim, powers, principalities and all sorts of really powerful and wonderful beings surrounding him constantly doing all his bidding. Some even keep track of us and protect us. I wonder if I have a special guardian angel assigned to me or do they work in shifts? Boy does he have some stories to tell! Gabriel and Michael are two especially powerful servants who even do hand to hand combat with the devil. While I may serve God because he is God and I am not, if serving was my chief end, I am really not equipped very well to do it. It just does not sound like my primary purpose in the greater scheme of things. (Did I just hear you call me a heretic again? I guess is should get used to it. If your gonna get upset reading my ponderings go brew yourself some nice tea and calm your nerves. I hear chamomile is good for soothing the nerves. I promise things are going to get a lot worse! If you are fond of the idea of slavery be my guest…but I bet your no better at it than I am. :)
The agnostics have a version that is interesting: They suggest that IF there is a god and If he did create us we cannot know it. He does not show it and he lost interest a long time ago the speculate.. We are on our own. If you ever ask one of these types over for dinner, don’t bother asking what he would like to eat, he will never know for sure. Just fix what you like, you would never make him happy anyway. I think these are the same guys who invite all the ants to the picnic. Like Eor, if their tail fell off, don’t bother putting it back on, it will probably fall off again anyway. My reaction: My personality just can’t go here. These people just drive me crazy. They are hoping that God will be like the local police and excuse them for speeding because they were not sure what the posted speed limit is so they made up their own. Did you ever see Ferris Buelers Day Off? The teacher is calling role, Bueler, Bueler, in the most deadpan, mind-numbing boring tone imaginable. He is the same guy who does the red eye beach ball ads on tv. Besides the fingernails on the chalkboard effect they have on my personality, these types have miss some logical stuff. He is the creator/sustainer. This place cannot be on total autopilot. We would have destroyed it a long time ago. It only makes sense to me that if God created it, he would be interested in it and see it all the way through. (if you happen to consider yourself and agnostic and I have not totally insulted you, please just consider that I am the one with the problem, not you. God Loves you just as you are. I want to love you too, I just don’t do as well with people who can not make a decision. In retrospect, all this seems a little hyper critical and hypocritical since the whole point of this blog is to try to figure out whatever it is that went wrong. You are fully entitled to your questions too. I was wrong. Sorry. Will you forgive me? I guess I could have just erased my judgmental tirade but God already read it and forgave me so I figured you might as well know the real me, not the edited version. Pretty scary uh? At least maybe you can feel free to be you too.

The Big Bangers see absolutely no reason for us to be here at all. We simply are the result of some quarks and or Higgs/bothems (they are sub atomic particles that make up an atom and just simply exist for no known reason) traveling through the limitless reaches of empty space an super collider speed with no know power source colliding head on (assuming something that small has a head) and exploding spontaneously creating all the matter that makes up the universe. Over eons of time on some cooler rock an electoral shock of unknown source and power struck a slime pit that somehow turned the dead slime into a living cell. Eons later the slime evolved, crawled out of the pit, continued to evolve, and my favorite part, decided that cellular division for procreation was no fun therefore separating into male and female with the appropriate and compatible paraphernalia and accompanying abilities to produce what we now know as humans. All this was a COSMIC JOKE. And yes, I am laughing but not at what they are laughing at and no I did not make any of this up, it is really what they teach in our schools…honest.

So why do you believe you are here?