This is actually pretty nifty. I felt so good about it that I wanted to share it with a few friends, so I figure if I put it on the Internet, maybe a few friends will see it.
I sent a message to X the Unknown this a.m. X sent me a message back. Then a few more messages went to and fro. Then over a period of a couple of hours, the meaning of the messages kinda soaked in.
Let me preface what happened with a little background. I was raised in a religious household. We went to church every Sunday. I attended an elite prep school on the east coast for part of my high school, but kinda flunked out. Not really flunked, but didn't make it. I have what is considered a "genius" IQ, but I think the test is rigged a little. I have 2 college degrees. I spent some time in college hanging around what turned out to be the wrong crowd and got into a bad career (professional musician) when I could have easily become a professional artist like a whole bunch of people I knew did. I got out of that career in about 1982, but really I got out of it in 1978, when I stopped doing dope.
Then I got into the "professional" ranks as a mortgage broker, and moved around on the ladder to real estate investing and other stuff. I've pretty much gone to church for my whole life.
I can count the times that I heard the word "Satan" or "devil" on one hand. I never got into anything even remotely resembling something vaguely related to the subject. Never liked the "devil" movies, never watched one, never read the "devil " books, TV shows, none of that . Nothing.
Then about a week ago, I read on SI some tripe about ordinary people that I like being branded as evil, etc. Since I have seen a lot of evil up close and personal (trust me, I've seen enough for all of us) this kinda pissed me off. I have pretty strong convictions in the area of good and evil. It took a while to understand the concepts, but I can debate the subject with anyone. (I'm not talking about the "devil", I'm talking about good and bad.) I felt like my friends were being falsely accused, and I decided to do something.
I'm leaving out a lot of this, but the bottom line is that people attacking my friends unjustly really pisses me off in a major way. (I've been attacked unjustly myself more than once too; that's how that goes I guess.) And this particular attack made me feel bad.
Well, X the Unknown said a couple of things, and I then thought, you know, that is totally correct. X is right.
Then later, I got a post from the "Calling All Satanists" thread. This was like a very weird thing. You get the idea? It's kinda like it could be "Calling All Ax-Murderers" or "Calling All People that Blow Up Small Animals with Explosives and then take LSD and Laugh About it."
That's not the group I'm in, that's like a way different bus. Different zone, different dimension. Not me, not even close. (This was a feeling more than something I could explain to myself logically.)
Then, I got 2 MORE messages! I got a weird feeling like I was real confused. Not happy or sad, just confused. You know that feeling? I got the same feeling one time when I went into a real strange bar in Los Angeles one time by accident. A REAL strange bar.like I was in the Twilight Zone.
Then it was like a light bulb went off! I know you are gonna laugh at this, and it's OK. I call it a "Forrest Gump".
It's a joke. The "Calling All Satanists" title is a joke. It's an extremely clever way to make sure that anyone who takes that s*** seriously will NEVER be a part of the conversation on this thread. Which was essentially all that I wanted to have happen when I stepped in the watering hole; "ah, s***, I got my good shoes all dirty, OK, I'm out, where is the soap." Now, I know you all knew that already, and I know you know I am a sharp guy and all that, but there it was! And then I had a really nice thought. I thought about what X the Unknown had said in that post, and I realized this:
I never think about that ca-ca! NEVER! Never have! I don't mean I never feel lousy, but I never ponder that stuff. These other people spend their whole lives submerged in that [choose a word]. They are real serious, and they take things very literally. The whole area is so very very important that it demands their attention all the time. The example I think of is a person who mentioned "Satan" in every single friggin' post! Man, that is some serious torture! I started laughing when I thought how much less "Satan" would be around this person if she just stopped paying attention to whatever it is she thinks that is and started looking at flowers and babies and aunts and uncles and clouds and drawings and paintings and sculpture and and and and.
And then I realized that X and I were on the exact same wavelength!! X understood this from the beginning, that's why this thread is here. It's just a really really artistic way of saying, "Hey, this is for regular people; the kind that most of us are". The other ones see this word "Satan" and they get real solid and heavy and thick and miserable and freak out.
The yapping is creating the exact effect that they are yapping about stopping because there is so much yapping!! Talk about irony! Can you say "bad guy"? I knew you could. It's like they are bleeding from seeing a friggin' WORD!!! (And then we have the next step, causing others to bleed for the same word.)
And here is something else: I know that I am spiritual in nature, I KNOW I am basically good, I KNOW that all the other people are too (whatever their friggin' religion or not religion or whatever is) and I don't need to change somebody else's mind to know that, or to live my life and be an example of what I know!
And that is fine with me!
Is that cool, or what? And no people were injured or distressed in the making of this post!! AND TAHT IS THE WHOLE POINT ! ! |
