This is so interesting, because this is the last day of Earth Month, and I found myself watching the famous 1951 Sci Flick "The Day the Earth Stood Still," on TV. Think "Gort. Klaatu barada nikto." And as I'm now listening to the beginning of the podcast, Rainn asks what the world needs now. Maybe it needs to stand still. Maybe it needs to just stop everything for half an hour like it does in the movie. Of course, in the movie, the halting of every machine on earth by Klaatu is a show of power saying that if we don't knock off the violence, then the unified council of planets that have learned how to get along will blow us the hell out of the universe. But is it possible that if we all just stand still at the same time and everything stops for 30 minutes, we might all experience what and who God is?
Maybe the human race actually needs a unifying existential/fate-determining common cause; so much so that an Earth-impacting asteroid threat or, better yet, a vicious extraterrestrial attack launched from our moon's dark side may be what we have to collectively brutally endure together in order to survive the longer term from ourselves.
Humanity would unite for the first time and defend against, attack and eventually defeat the humanicidal multi-tentacled ETs, the latter needing to be an even greater nemesis than our own formidably divisive politics and (mis)perceptions of irreconcilable differences — especially those involving religion, nationality and race.
Yet, maybe a half-century later when all traces of the nightmarish ET invasion are gone, we’ll inevitably revert to those same politics to which we humans seem so collectively hopelessly prone — including the politics of scale. And, yet once again, we slide downwards.
... In the meantime, everybody panic — there's no reason to stay calm!
Many institutional monotheists create their Creator’s nature in their own fallible and often angry, vengeful image. Really, if the Divine is as vengefully angry, even blood-thirsty, as He is generally portrayed, is anyone — including supposed ardent followers or conservative believers — truly safe or really ‘saved’? It could be theorized He’d be especially peeved by those self-professed Godly believers that He had (likely rightfully) deemed as fake or frauds.
In the case of institutional Christianity, Jesus, as God incarnate, was about non-violence, genuine compassion, love, charity and non-wealth. His teachings and practices epitomize so much of the primary component of socialism — do not hoard gratuitous wealth in the midst of great poverty. Yet, they are not practiced by a significant number of ‘Christians’, likely including many who idolize callous politicians standing for very little or nothing Jesus taught and represents.
This is so interesting, because this is the last day of Earth Month, and I found myself watching the famous 1951 Sci Flick "The Day the Earth Stood Still," on TV. Think "Gort. Klaatu barada nikto." And as I'm now listening to the beginning of the podcast, Rainn asks what the world needs now. Maybe it needs to stand still. Maybe it needs to just stop everything for half an hour like it does in the movie. Of course, in the movie, the halting of every machine on earth by Klaatu is a show of power saying that if we don't knock off the violence, then the unified council of planets that have learned how to get along will blow us the hell out of the universe. But is it possible that if we all just stand still at the same time and everything stops for 30 minutes, we might all experience what and who God is?
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Maybe the human race actually needs a unifying existential/fate-determining common cause; so much so that an Earth-impacting asteroid threat or, better yet, a vicious extraterrestrial attack launched from our moon's dark side may be what we have to collectively brutally endure together in order to survive the longer term from ourselves.
Humanity would unite for the first time and defend against, attack and eventually defeat the humanicidal multi-tentacled ETs, the latter needing to be an even greater nemesis than our own formidably divisive politics and (mis)perceptions of irreconcilable differences — especially those involving religion, nationality and race.
Yet, maybe a half-century later when all traces of the nightmarish ET invasion are gone, we’ll inevitably revert to those same politics to which we humans seem so collectively hopelessly prone — including the politics of scale. And, yet once again, we slide downwards.
... In the meantime, everybody panic — there's no reason to stay calm!
Many institutional monotheists create their Creator’s nature in their own fallible and often angry, vengeful image. Really, if the Divine is as vengefully angry, even blood-thirsty, as He is generally portrayed, is anyone — including supposed ardent followers or conservative believers — truly safe or really ‘saved’? It could be theorized He’d be especially peeved by those self-professed Godly believers that He had (likely rightfully) deemed as fake or frauds.
In the case of institutional Christianity, Jesus, as God incarnate, was about non-violence, genuine compassion, love, charity and non-wealth. His teachings and practices epitomize so much of the primary component of socialism — do not hoard gratuitous wealth in the midst of great poverty. Yet, they are not practiced by a significant number of ‘Christians’, likely including many who idolize callous politicians standing for very little or nothing Jesus taught and represents.