Evangelical atheists are often heard to scoff at the story of a great flood consuming the earth. They do so because it's in the Bible and therefore regard it as a biblical creation. But that's the problem with having an agenda: the truth gets in the way. The story of a catastrophic flood is a story predating the Bible (the Bible has even been accused of poaching it) and it is one recounted around the world, even among Native Americans.
It's hard to remember when our minds were completely open, back before we thought we knew how things are "supposed" to be. It's really quite funny the amount of knowledge lost to us by lack of belief. For example, if you were born to an alien planet in an alien universe and you told a mountain to move and it did, would you think anything of it? No, you would think: "Those are the rules here. Anything is possible." And because you believe it, it would be true.
Anything is possible here too. But facing that has a price: the knowledge we are answerable for our lives to a Greater Power, that our lives have been given to us in trust, and that therefore it is possible to betray said trust. These are all truths known but not directly spoken. But our conscience guides us inevitably home and on some level we know what that means and we fight the exposure of the true meaning of our acts done or not done, of rent paid or unpaid.
So in the early days we did not question what was or was not possible. We simply sought out the truth of the matter. But we twisted that knowledge to our own ends, committing many acts we'd consider beyond the pale now, but like a body having ingested poison racing towards a fatal end to the heart, it had to be stopped. In great sorrow we were washed clean and in that event came an understanding we were hurting both ourselves and our Maker.
That was our first step forward towards understanding our responsibilities - and our first step backwards in keeping an open mind. Who dare face was sort of an asshole they really are now? It's a scary question, especially when you consider this is not our first time at the rodeo.
Only two myths are universal. The first is the great flood, the other is Atlantis. Who were the Atlanteans? They were us but as spirit beings, in higher form. They too harnessed the powers of nature (what is science but understanding nature?) but not through what we call technology but through a greater understanding of life. Again, knowledge does not equate with morality and the Atlanteans self-destructed at the hands of their own power.
So now we are incarnated in human form. "Surely now that I've placed them in such vulnerable shells they will understand the need to protect one another and the absolute need for mutual cooperation. If they do not face this the price will be very, very high and the pain unbearable in human form." Well, we've sort of shot that theory of hope down and taken the path of human misery to our everlasting shame.
As an elevator rises an opposing counterweight sinks in direct proportion to its height. We love to proclaim the wonders of our technology (the ever rising elevator) but we ignore the equal amount of loss of the ancient beliefs. There was a time in human history where every "miracle" Jesus performed would not have been considered miracles at all. They only seem that way to us now because of our current perspective, just as a plane or TV would seem a "miracle" to an ancient ancestor.
It's not a miracle if you know what you know.
The presence of our Maker was made known through Moses, both to give us hope and so that we may no longer claim, "I did not know it was wrong to kill." But we have kept on our errant ways and eventually there came to be no point in Speaking to us anymore. After Jesus came, all that could be done had been done. Having killed our savior we descended into dark ages in guilt and remorse, killing one another to prove who most holy - and therefore least responsible for what happened to Jesus. But even that only lasted for a time.
Eventually, a few lights came back on, art being the new Word. Love long lost came back into our consciousness with the return of liberal thought. The guiding liberal lights blazed the way to freedom and faith - even as they too were murdered in broad daylight. But still they kept coming. The artists, the scientists, the inventors, the mothers of life showed us the wrongness of our ways. Lincoln, Gandhi, the Kennedys, Martin Luther King, John Lennon - we turned out the lights on all them. Now, they can come no more.
What we call the 21st century will be last of the counted centuries. Time is accelerating in an exponential fashion. Again, if we were to bring an ancient to our present time, they would be shocked by our technology but equally shocked that we voluntarily poison our land, water and air. To him that's an Unthinkable Act. (We too know it's bad, that's why we call our pollution "The Clean Air Act". Yeah, that'll fool nature!) And just as before, it has to stop.
The suffering we've set ourselves up for is beyond any we've suffered before or will again. It does not have to be this way, of course. But if so, there will be no higher power wiping us out this time, it will be all on us. The hangover of the bloody morning after will forever alter our knowledge of what is real and what is illusion, of that which sows death and that which sows life. We will be reborn. Halle-fucking-lujah!
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Stevie speaks of the same thing
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