Meditation for May 29th, 2016
The Devil’s Letters
The Old Testiment God is the angry and vengeful God that shows no mercy. The guy is so pissed that he floods the earth to start over and then immediately gets pissed when his creations start making mistakes again!
So then he decides to try his hand at this compassion shit that is popular out east and fucks some little girl who then gives birth to His son. His son then preaches love and compassion and then gets himself crucified for questioning the temple’s financial habits. He dies and then doesn’t die, but goes up to the same place people go when they die after they are done living boring no fun lives.
The son of God should be the end all say all about this religion, right? Wrong. We now have the story of a carpet salesman from Tarsus, which is in modern day Turkey, who went from hating on these Christian Jewish rabble rousers to becoming one of them. Important note: Paul is not one of the disciples of Christ, that Paul is a different guy.
The biblical story goes that Paul was walking from Jerusalem to Damacus (not the city in Oregon) when Jesus pops up and is all bright and shit which blinds Paul, who is going by Saul at that time, for three days before being healed by Ananias of Damascus (again, not the town in Oregon and she’s not the woman who dated Henry Miller). He then goes on to preach the good news of Jesus to Jews and Gentiles alike all over the Greek Roman Empire and Europe.
In a letter to Rome about more rules he has come up with since he became the church maker, he denounces men on men sex, and assholes since then quote this book being in the softer, gentler New Testement how important it is for gays to not ever have a good time.
Here is where I’m going to blow your mind. There are two very huge problems with Paul. Actually three if you count the fact that he is not Jesus Christ and didn’t even know Jesus alive and isn’t saying anything that Jesus said when Jesus was alive.
Firstly, Paul was a carpet salesman. You know those beautiful oriental rugs that sometimes fly? He sold them. He was having a down time in his sales when he comes up with this idea of using this up and coming Jewish cult to become this fraternity to help sell his wares. By including non-Jews, he then opens up his market vastly.
He disguised his capitalistic greed with new found religious fervor and walks between Rome and Jerusalem spreading the gospels while at the same time asking if anyone needs a rug.
Other businessmen joins this Christian movement for the same purposes and spreads the good news as far west as Briton, as far east as China, south to Ethiopia and north to the frozen Scandanavian reindeer herders. Before being backed by the worlds biggest army, Christianity was spread by door to door salesmen.
The other problem is how did he change his mind about Jesus and his movement so suddenly?
“Jesus himself fucking blinded him, Dave! Duh!”
The other story is more sinister then that. You see, Saul, who becomes Paul, was down on his luck with his carpet business. The devil, not Jesus, appears to him at the roadside offering him financial, social and fame success with a stroke of a pen. Saul goes blind and wakes up as Paul and becomes the Devil’s corrupter.
Like the Satan’s Verses in the Quran, all the letters and books written by Paul were tainted by the mischievous malice of Satan himself. Steering away from the mystic gnostic beliefs of the early Christianity to a mortar and brick based church, Paul fell for what Jesus does not when Jesus spent 40 nights camping in the Judean Desert.
Paul begins what has become the modern church. It is a religion of bigotry, capitalism and hate rather than the celebration of nature, love and philosophical & spiritual growth that Jesus preached.
It was Paul who murdere Pan, not Jesus.
What if Paul were to not succumb to Satan’s temptations? Would the church of Jesus have survived? Would it have been as Jesus intended, a spiritual path that required no organized Church? Would the modern person be so desperately hungry for some sort of peace and comfort? Would the world be so full of hate and violence?
Who knows, Paul fucked everything up.
Prayer
Jesus?
It may have helped to be a little more clear in your message to your disciples.
You wax poetic and talk in riddles and parables,
And because the book is written,
Everyone can have their own interpretation with no one there to defend it.
Since your dad is busy elsewhere,
Probably tucked in the fetal position pretending to be a planet slowly orbiting through space while dreaming of being awake,
But you kinda left us with way more questions then answers.
I guess that’s where faith comes in, right?
But everyone will ignore your message for Paul’s
Because his was pretty straight forward in his post cards.
That’s why the organizations that represent your name is so shitty.
Come back and be a little more of a straight shooter than a mad desert poet.
Amen.
Craft
Wanna liven up your living room or dining room? Do you have nice hardwood floors, but you’d like to accent them?
You don’t have to buy carpet of a full rug to enjoy a little flair.
Buy or get left over squares of different kind of carpets and place them in cool designs on your floor.
You can make little ‘paving stone’ paths or join them together to make a rug. You can use them in your apartment so the neighbors downstairs don’t get annoyed with the clickity clacks of your pooch.
Have fun!
Goal
The devil is in the details, but the details is what seperate the sheep from the spiritual person.
God is Love.