Isn't it easier to do evil?
I have a feeling that God is like the Sacramento based funk/acoustic/pop/fun band Cake. Every time I listen to Cake, I smile: I dance while I drive, a sing along, and I even play an air bass, which is even more dangerous to do while driving than air doing the trumpet parts. I turn all of my friends onto Cake, even though Cake is so natural to love it seems odd they don't already know about them. When Cake speaks, I listen. The message of peace and good living is easily understood, and the more obscure words Cake has to say are worth examining. You don't have to be rich, famous, or powerful to enjoy Cake. Even the moniker assigned to them, Cake, carries so much lightness and joy that it's difficult to think about without smiling.
After reading the passage, I started to see the similarities. God's message is simple, yet impacting. His reasoning is His own. Even when he hurts you, like never playing live shows nearby and instead playing them just beyond a rational driving distance, you cherish Him all the more.
That said, I have a few frowning faces to put on the chart. The idea of living a life devoted to naught but God is similar to the idea of living solely in the spiritual realization of the Atman and the Brahman, and I have some serious issues with this. Like stated last week, I feel we should enjoy what reality we have around us instead of ignoring it. If there is a spiritualism to be realized, why shouldn't go hand in hand with concrete, foliage, and mountain ranges? If God made us purely to serve in his name, why did he only give us 60-100 years? That's nothing! Doodles last longer than that. Wreckage lost at sea has a longer life span. Graffiti lives on more than we do. I have difficulty believing we were given a reality, but told to ignore it in exchange for something better. We show us the first fleeting offer? Why give us art, sex, passion, books, cars, cabinets, paper, microphones, glass, candles, pain, sadness, anger, happiness, ecstasy, joy, and self-realization if we weren't meant to embrace them like the passing things they are?
I know, I keep asking unanswerable questions. It's the problem of addressing a hypothetical problem.
All this aside, this was a lovely passage. It is inspirational, in a way, just not in terms I agree with.
I hope they play Cake in Hell.
Maybe some Bright Eyes.
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Cam, God is Love. Simple as that. The act of loving someone is God. Don't be confused by the differences in language or words. agua, eau, wasser, water they all mean the same thing right? different words same thing. I think God is inheritly in all of us. Think about it. If you can open your mind up to the concept of reincarnation-we don't have 60 or 100 years we are infinite. I enjoyed your ramblings and your poetry. I found your blog because we have a similar taste in music. I love Cake too! Have you read anything by Cormac McCarthy? Suttree, Child of God, The Road, No Country for Old Men? Have a good night.
Who could fail to smile at your light hearted comments about life in general and Bakhya ibn Pakuda and his approach to God? And after the frivolity you make some very interesting comments on Pakuda. I have the feeling from your writing that you are searching for something more serious which would give your life more meaning, maybe a concept of God?
hahahaha i love the first part.
oh and by the way, bright eyes IS hell.
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