A Bit to Read

In case you missed it on Friday, Stumpy the Time Traveling Penguin continued her adventures on Friday. Check it out if you have the inclination!

Thank you to SOMEONE for a very welcome cup of coffee last week, with Stumpy’s day I didn’t get to thank you on Friday. Sitting here, in the sunny, bleak cold of a February that feels more like midwinter than the end of it, nothing could possibly be better. Thank you.

We’re back around again to Monday, in a chunk of time we’re not enjoying, to say the least. It’s cold, very cold, and yet the sky holds no clouds, as though it doesn’t have a worry in the world.

I have a worry in the world.

You likely have a worry in the world.

If we are very honest, I suspect more than one worry apiece.

I’ve been thinking lately about how the history of people is divided in to periods that are not horrendous for everyone and then horrendous for everyone, and then not horrendous for everyone.

There are some people who rarely catch a break, even between decades, even between centuries, even between millennia.

I cannot, for the life of me, understand why humans are the way that we are.

It’s why religion was invented, really, to get terrible humans to be less terrible, not because it’s the right thing to do, but because there’s a fear of consequences.

But those very same systems are used for justifying terrible behavior, and just like that, the immoral is moral.

And worse yet, the moral is immoral.

Who knew people with the right level of malice could turn right and wrong on their heads.

Well.

They did.

It’s not a new magic trick, it’s a sleight of hand as old as religion itself.

Do I have a fix for it? I don’t, here, on this frigid Monday. They’re only thoughts that bubble and surface as I look at where we’ve been and where we’re heading.

The truth, the unvarnished truth of humanity, is the real “god” has always been greed. Religion is a vehicle.

Greed is the evil rot that needs to be excised from our DNA; how we do that?

Again, I don’t know.

I only observe, I only see what we pretend to not see.

And with that, I wish you an insightful Monday.

Buy me a cup of coffee!

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Aunty Ida’s Full-Service Mental Institution (by Invitation Only)   
Aunty Ida’s Holey Amazing Sleeping Preparation (Not Doctor Recommended) 
Her Cousin Much Removed
The Great Paradox and the Innies and Outies of Time Management.
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