When i started this one i didn't have a subject in mind.
so here i shall sit untill something crosses my mind.
Cross the mind in the religious respect? Cross it like a T, put the finishing touches on it? Wander across it like a leaf on a breeze...
No way, thoughts fly around like gas molecules, they zoom at tremendous speeds until they find a hole and WHOOSH! out they go to Heaven knows what fate, facing astronomical odds at every finding their way back.
I imagine more thoughts go through than we're ever conscious of, it's only when they spark that we take notice. Today i was chipping ice so i could dig out the car that would ultimately fail to function for me, and a piece of said ice flew up and hit me in the eye. Aha, but mine eyelids were closed upon the moment of contact, leaving their tender ocular charges unscathed by the impending blunt trauma. I most definitely did not see the ice coming. I chipped, then instantly felt ice against eyelid. This suggest that my body sensed something coming and reacted to it, leaving me completely out of the loop. What else do we see that we remain uninformed of? Are our bodies actually just protectors of our minds, only letting through what they think we can handle? Maybe our fleshy guardians spend the day locating and warding off demons, fighting them with weapons we don't even realize we have. Let's say that the way to destroy an agent of the Devil is to blast it with a unit of Light, which come in various gauges. A little greed-bird zooms in for the attack, but is blasted into oblivion when our body/gaurd picks it off with a willpower round, and our simple clueless mind turns in the wallet to the police and goes about it's routine business.
Perhaps it's more symbiotic than that. Maybe our bodies will fight off all the situation-cloaked devils, but only if we keep it well-stocked with lovey-dovey ammunition. Good things are generally reciprocal, they earn you good karma points that your other half uses to buy ammo. If you save a kitty from being run over by a bus, you earn X number of bullets with which to ward off the cruelty-urge demons that might take a shot at you later that day. Wow, that's a real big incentive to be nice to everyone, love everything, basically carry on like a saint as much as you can. Because if you don't, if you're mean and cruel and greedy and rotten the ghosts and deviltroops will have free reign to siege your mind and corrupt you completely. It's a real downward spiral, and very difficult to reverse.
I guess that's why we have God on our side, God the Blackhawk helicopter that drops off vital supplies when you need them most, all you need do is make use of them. We can load up on armaments and then head out on our own and the great thing is that when you get a head start in fighting them off, they have no effect on you and can't stop you from being naturally good and earning more and more all the time and you're invincible! hooray! So not suprisingly, the only thing we really have to worry about is laziness. We're can get through this world, body, but then sorry i gotta go after that.
Hey i don't like that. If (and i hope this is true) i go to Heaven, what happens to my body? The Bible says i get a new one, a friggen super one that's dead sexy and perfect, but that seems like a pretty raw deal for my old body. It's the one that had my back, or rather, it's back.. whoo how does that work... the whole time i was on Earth, doesn't seem too fair for it to get thrown underground forever after that whilst i enjoy Paradise.
Or MAYBE my body's thinking the same thing right now. "Aww... after all these decades together i get to go to Heaven and get a great new hyperintelligent mind and this one just vanishes out of me? I don't think, no wait, it doesn't think.. wow that's confusing.. that that's very fair at all!"
I bet dear old intangible background thirdparty Soul is saying "wow, them's idiots. They get to poof into yummy delicious stress-free oblivion while I go to Heaven with a new one of each" and that jsut makes more sense to me, now that Mind thinks about it.
Cross the mind in the religious respect? Cross it like a T, put the finishing touches on it? Wander across it like a leaf on a breeze...
No way, thoughts fly around like gas molecules, they zoom at tremendous speeds until they find a hole and WHOOSH! out they go to Heaven knows what fate, facing astronomical odds at every finding their way back.
I imagine more thoughts go through than we're ever conscious of, it's only when they spark that we take notice. Today i was chipping ice so i could dig out the car that would ultimately fail to function for me, and a piece of said ice flew up and hit me in the eye. Aha, but mine eyelids were closed upon the moment of contact, leaving their tender ocular charges unscathed by the impending blunt trauma. I most definitely did not see the ice coming. I chipped, then instantly felt ice against eyelid. This suggest that my body sensed something coming and reacted to it, leaving me completely out of the loop. What else do we see that we remain uninformed of? Are our bodies actually just protectors of our minds, only letting through what they think we can handle? Maybe our fleshy guardians spend the day locating and warding off demons, fighting them with weapons we don't even realize we have. Let's say that the way to destroy an agent of the Devil is to blast it with a unit of Light, which come in various gauges. A little greed-bird zooms in for the attack, but is blasted into oblivion when our body/gaurd picks it off with a willpower round, and our simple clueless mind turns in the wallet to the police and goes about it's routine business.
Perhaps it's more symbiotic than that. Maybe our bodies will fight off all the situation-cloaked devils, but only if we keep it well-stocked with lovey-dovey ammunition. Good things are generally reciprocal, they earn you good karma points that your other half uses to buy ammo. If you save a kitty from being run over by a bus, you earn X number of bullets with which to ward off the cruelty-urge demons that might take a shot at you later that day. Wow, that's a real big incentive to be nice to everyone, love everything, basically carry on like a saint as much as you can. Because if you don't, if you're mean and cruel and greedy and rotten the ghosts and deviltroops will have free reign to siege your mind and corrupt you completely. It's a real downward spiral, and very difficult to reverse.
I guess that's why we have God on our side, God the Blackhawk helicopter that drops off vital supplies when you need them most, all you need do is make use of them. We can load up on armaments and then head out on our own and the great thing is that when you get a head start in fighting them off, they have no effect on you and can't stop you from being naturally good and earning more and more all the time and you're invincible! hooray! So not suprisingly, the only thing we really have to worry about is laziness. We're can get through this world, body, but then sorry i gotta go after that.
Hey i don't like that. If (and i hope this is true) i go to Heaven, what happens to my body? The Bible says i get a new one, a friggen super one that's dead sexy and perfect, but that seems like a pretty raw deal for my old body. It's the one that had my back, or rather, it's back.. whoo how does that work... the whole time i was on Earth, doesn't seem too fair for it to get thrown underground forever after that whilst i enjoy Paradise.
Or MAYBE my body's thinking the same thing right now. "Aww... after all these decades together i get to go to Heaven and get a great new hyperintelligent mind and this one just vanishes out of me? I don't think, no wait, it doesn't think.. wow that's confusing.. that that's very fair at all!"
I bet dear old intangible background thirdparty Soul is saying "wow, them's idiots. They get to poof into yummy delicious stress-free oblivion while I go to Heaven with a new one of each" and that jsut makes more sense to me, now that Mind thinks about it.
posted by seamus at 9:46 PM
2 Comments:
Your body already is perfect and sexy silly. Goodness.
-Linds
I get a whole new body after I die? I don't know, that seems weird. But then again, it wouldn't be very fair to keep the body I have when I die because by then I'll probably be very old. And if that was the case, everyone would want to die young so that they would have this perfect body for the rest of eternity. And if I get a whole new mind, how will even I recognize myself? You know I don't really understand a whole lot of the theology about what happens after we die; all I understand is that it seems to be something too big for anyone to understand. And I suppose that's okay by me.
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