Or we can think of religions as capricious criteria, imposed on us by what I will call "gods," that we game pieces have to follow so the gods can have their fun with us.
We are divine creatures, and gods have to toy with us so we don't overthrow them.
I love the way you think. I can't always follow it, but I love it nonetheless.
Thank you :)
Your comment immediately provided me with questions.
If you were a god, how would you get the most enjoyment out of the game? Would you want to know all the cards or would you want to play a game after neither you nor the human already knew the entire deck? What would be fair, what would be entertaining?
Would you want sometimes you and sometimes the human to win? Would what you call overthrowing be the annihilation of your divine existence? What exactly would the human who accomplished this have achieved as a consequence?
Very interested in an answer, as I don't have one myself yet, but an inspiring thought is germinating in me.
Or asked again, on a second read through of your response. If we ourselves are divine creatures and we overthrow the gods, what would we gain, what would we lose?
The humans are not the gods' opponents. Other gods are. The gods and their human forms are not gods as we westerners have been led to believe, acting for human benefit through mysterious means, but more like the roman and greek gods (petty, cruel, jealous of each other, murderous, spiteful). They play the game of planet earth against other gods, a competition, like a vast video game, with humans (who are very unlike these gods) as mere game pieces. I see this all very clearly now. Religion is mind control so these fucking entities who wanna be gods can win their fucking game. It's time for humans to realize all this, and to take back control. Humans are the true creators - the gods have no power other that the power we give them by believing anything they say. Just say no to everything you are expected, by anyone, to assume as truth. Oh you get me on these wonderful rolls of thought. Where have you been?
You leave me somewhat perplexed with that.
Are you thinking of the sort of thing we mean by new world order?
I would think, however, that what you have commented on
falls precisely on the open ears of those who shoot every religion in the wind and denigrate it as a cult, while the communityless cult is sold as a moral and flawless and free world.
Behind my sewing machine. Time consuming (I produced videos as well).
Do you have/had any new engagements on stage?
what do you mean by communityless?
all communities, however they are tied together, operate on a specific level of the game, as single entities. As we rise in levels of the game (do you play video games? I don't) The dudes at the top, whom some might call gods, are also single entities (comprised of all the players down to we littles) battling with each other. The new world order fits into my fantasy here, in that it is simply a consolidation/federation of some of the gods who are currently playing in the top levels of the game. Someone is playing them though. Or maybe it's chaos up there, and nature is taking her course. We littles pay the price when the gods fight. Like downvote wars right here on hive.
I was thinking more of something like the community of local people, like the one I grew up in. Gatherings, like for my mum's funeral, which I wouldn't have missed for the world. If you manage to isolate those locals from each other, and it's of permanent nature, I describe it as "communityless". You see where I'm going with this...
Other than that, no, I don't play computer games of any kind. I play cards with my husband and his son and with my brothers when we get together, or other table top games. I sometimes visit the grannies or talk to the aging parents of my childhood friends when I visit home. I think it's important for Christians to gather and pray and sing at the funeral of a loved one because those are the songs and prayers we know (at least as I came to know them). The wake afterwards was always a comforting thing for me too. Things like that.
The union of the powerful is a separate topic, covered by me repeatedly in other places. I don't regard any of them as god or gods. They may have killed everything divine in them, who knows.
It is in those communities that we can break the game. Or so I hope. That's the level I am in the game, and I'm putting all my stake right here with my local friends, family, and neighbors. The few Christians I know well are apocalyptic. I hope I didn't offend you with my views on western religions.
Hey, have you read this. I don't know who wrote it, if it was Azzarello or this Crosby dude, but it captures what I have been talking about. I just this minute came across it. It's long, but a quick skim might give you a better idea of my vision of what is going on here. We are being played, and have been being played for centuries on end. It all escalated during WWII. Some of the upper players saw great opportunity and went for total domination of the game. They formed a federation (Club of Rome, CFR, that type of thing). Everyone is playing their assigned parts, and playing the game at their level. But the whole thing depends on us doing our assigned parts. We don't have to do that. We do, because life is easier if we spend our days doing paperwork, hoping we don't get financially screwed by, chiefly, by the governmental and medical cartels, which are the same thing via public/private partnerships/federations. Oh my goodness I have had enough of this vision I am having! Gotta run and breathe somewhere, maybe hug a tree to come back to the here and now.
Cannot open that website.
But I would answer that I am well aware of such things, maybe more than you'd assume.
So I am attempting to what I consider is sensible to do. My above in the post given interpretation was to find common ground of what I call my culture.
I am regularly being offended in that sense. The art is, from my point of view, to defend what I find is and was helpful to me.
So I am glad that the two of us did find that ground.
Count me among the Christians who is not apocalyptic. There are more of us :)
Oh! I auditioned just yesterday for the role of the witch in Into The Woods! Even if I don't get the part, I auditioned very well, another notch up in my performance credits - I didn't fall on my face at an audition for a musical! It was fun. I love to audition. I get to perform under very high stakes! Today I am morosely waiting, accomplishing nearly nothing, for their choice. I really want this one. It would be a shit ton of work, and might bring me out of a stupor.
Good luck for you. Having some hard work done, needs to find a place where it can unfold. Always good to do something out of the four walls to escape stupor, I agree. Do you find it difficult to remember your text?
I even have problems to recite poetry and never trained myself in doing so.
I have never tried to recite poetry, and learning lines takes a lot of work, using mnemonic devices to remember the next line, writing out by hand for tactile and visual reminders. Lot of work, which always seems impossible at first, then it gets to be fun, a challenge I welcome. Then there are the performances, which transport me elsewhere.