Judgment Days
Have come and gone
Judgment days
Will flourish and wane
In the infinity of the infinite
Days do not exist
(Save our heliocentric perspective
In a tiny outpost in the cosmos)
Let Alone “Judgment Days”
“One Thing For Certain……
Judgment Day
Will Not Be Rigged”
Is a Meta meme floating
Around the internet
Begging to be reposted
By religious fear fanatics
As a self reflecting cue of
How to live…..just in case
Disguised as a veiled
Warning for others to heed
Doubling down on Pascals wager
On the off off, so far off chance
Worse than the worst
Lottery odds chance
That some invisible
Santa Clause caricature dude
Has nothing better to do
Then, keep his eye on
Oh, let us say, 8 billion people
At a time, all the time
It was so much easier
When it was just two…..
“Judgment Days”
“Spooky language. Spooky language.
Designed to scare and control primitive people. In no way does superstitious mumbo jumbo like this apply to the lives of intelligent, civilized humans in the twenty-first century.”
– George Carlin
There is a guy, I’ll call him Steve, since that is his name. A coworker of sorts that drives to the same terminal I do, from a different direction. There, enough background story.
Steve seems like a nice gentleman, always helpful and kind. Full of wit and wisdom. Hmm, since I barely know you and will never see you outside of work, let’s be FB friends.
I rarely post anything. It is mostly to view family photos posted by family members, events children, and grandchildren participate in.
Steve likes to post, work grievances, religious themes, Trump support, and outdoor recreational side by side adventures.
I assume “Judgment Day” comes when one dies, on the presumption that if you spend a lifetime of “behaving” in a certain, assumed, perceived way, then you will get to go to “heaven”. Or ask forgiveness a few moments prior, then go to heaven. Hmmmm.
Who is making this shit up?
Judgment day: Ooopsie
The following is a complete editorialization and extrapolation of projections entirely for my amusement and perhaps yours.
God: Hi Steve
Steve: Hi God
God: I see you’ve been posting digitized colorful, cute memes that. “Judgment day will not be rigged.”
Steve: Yes, God, I thought that one was most clever.
God: Well, let’s get to it, seeing as how, just today, like yesterday there are 170,000 people* that died today and are, or are not “waiting” for their “Judgment”. Depending on how they were indoctrinated into their beliefs, or lack thereof.
* worldpopulationreview.com
(That is a million people, dead, in 6 days, to receive? Judgment? )
Steve: Thanks God. Go, I think I’m ready.
God: How do you think I should judge you?
Steve: With all your might, I am a good Christian
God: Well, I see you post many things about Jesus
Steve: Yes, always trying to help spread his message
God: Have you emulated his behavior, forgiving and feeding?
Steve: No, I’m a republican, just advising how great Jesus is
God: That’s not the purpose of his message, but okay
God: I see you support Trump
Steve: Yes, he is like your second son you sent to save us
God: Almost forgot, you watch Fox to get your information
If I had time, I’d let you explain how a failing businessman
Twice divorced, womanizing philanderer, lying grifter
Who hates the poor, mocks the infirmed and
Steals from a charity, who only helps the wealthy and
His narcissistic greedy self serving self is my son
But, thankfully, ME, I don’t have time
Steve: But, but he held a Bible once for a photo op.
God: Never mind, finally I see you and your buddies ride 4 wheelers
In the desert
Steve: Yes, er, umm, that’s when, I, umm, pray to Jesus on Sunday
God : I should send you to hell for lying
“His judgment cometh and that right soon.”
– Shawshank Redemption
– on the embroidered sign concealing the safe
God: Most of your behavior is a reflection of the echo chamber and
filter bubble you’ve placed yourself in. However, in your
willfulness to destroy the desert for your amusement, which
has annihilated the habitat of lizards and snakes, the descendants
of my dinosaurs, I shall cast you into a life of a lizard for thirty-four lifetimes, as recompense for the suffering,
that befell my lizards for shade and their home that you ravaged.
Ooopsie
My guess is that “Judgment”
Is not in his repertoire
Of perceived judgments
Without casting any aspersions to “Steve”, methinks it is incredible, that allegedly grown adults, feel the need to mentally manufacture a bogeyman in order to behave a certain way and perpetuate it to infect others. Especially when they could look within and realize they have the “God” power themselves to do incredible good, always, all the time without identifying with the hat wearing, finger pointing, perpetual and professional victim club and class.
Abstractly, they are presenting themselves, that they live in fear, aligning with a safety in numbers cowardice crowd for protection.
“I write to expunge the darkness so
That someday light may shine through”
– Angelo Devlin
So many ways for each side to claim that they’re the most “oppressed.”
Maybe we could just give up the pointing and blaming and just let everyone live in peace. Imagine if we were as proud of how much we love?
Thanks Angelo!
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