Johnnymontana's blog: "Thoughts on the Sundry"

I am going to start a series of blogs this morning that will run for ...well I don't know how long.  Probably until I get finished.  I thought it would be interesting to look at where we are on this planet, our place in the universe and how we might take all those pieces and fit them together in this little puzzle we are doing called life.  Just some nice light reading with your coffee in the morning.  It really is, however, the very essence of what we think about deep within as we struggle with all that occurs in our lives.  The ups and downs, the loss and tragedy, the joy of our families and children and loved ones.  The necessity of gaining material goods and the need for love and happiness.  The disgust many of us feel at those who do not care about others even though they ride in the same cosmic boat and never seem to pick up an oar and give a helping hand.  Instead they want to hurt us rather than help us.  

Let me say to start with that I am not writing this to convert you to anything.  I have no agenda and no idea where this will take you because each of you have your own unique experience in life, circumstances and choices along life's highway that have led you to this moment.  I am not particuarly religious and do not belong to an organized church.  I am going to ask you to take much of what you have learned throughout life and put it up here on the table next to your coffee.  You can get at it and draw from those experiences as we explore this topic but try to open up a little and drop some of the preconceived notions you have had and take a moment to have a fresh look at the universe and our place in it. 

So with that serious disclaimer lets have some fun with this and maybe learn something along the way. I am not, as the title to this blog suggests, very thrilled with the idea that I evolved from monkeys.  Now it is not that I mind the idea either.  I just want to be able to climb trees a little more quickly so I am really not clear this is where we started. I do know I like bananas so that is a plus cause we all need potassium in our diet. According to scientists we started as some little one celled organism in the ocean millions of years ago.  Christians teach we were created and placed in a garden with plenty to eat and no work to do.  Awesome!  What the hell happened?? Something went off track there if that is true.  Others teach we appeared in random out of the nothing and then became something that returns to nothing.  Makes perfect sense to me!! There are those that say we are in a battle with nature and good and evil and if we are good we come back in another life as a celestial angel...if we are not we come back as a lady bug. I am going through this to come back as a grasshopper??  Get out of here....I need to have a better answer than that.  So do you.

The first thing we need to decide is what this place is we find our self floating on through the universe?  We are on a giant piece of matter that is moving at thousands of miles per hour on a set pattern, dodging and sometimes not missing huge rocks that come flying at us from all directions in space.  There are huge storms that create winds that destroy all in their path.  The ground at times shakes under our feet and if you live near water, that shaking creates huge waves of water that come washing up on shore and destroy a nice day of sunbathing.  We have mountains around us that spout fire and ash.  We have germs that infect us and make us sick and eventually end our life.  This is getting depressing and all I have to say to the creator of the universe if there is such a thing is thanks...nice job.  Forget the Christian concept of hell.  Sounds like we are already there if you ask me. God really did not do a very good job and we are stuck in a not very nice place overall.  Not to mention the things we have created and built that are a threat to us.  I am amazed more people just don't find a nice bed, pull the covers up over their heads and say I am staying out of this mess.

On the other hand we see all the beauty of the world all around us. For most of us that is an incentive to pull the covers off our head and go outside and have a look and experience the beauty and wonder that is all around us.  The glorious sunsets, the colors, the feel of life if you will. The feeling you get when you meet someone special that creates little butterflies in your tummy. The taste of coffee in the morning or a cold beer on a hot evening after you have been working all day in the sun. The cool breeze on your face on a hot day.  You can tell I am writing this in the summer when it gets very warm but things like the glow of the Christmas tree on a cold winters night and loved ones around us.  Or the smell of a beautiful flower.  All of these and much much more are signs of something good in the world.  

So the first thing we have to decide or come to a conclusion about is whether all this we experience, the good and the bad, is just random or is it something that is part of a design by something larger than we are.  The idea that we can not see this instinctively is irritating.  If it is part of a larger design than we have a design flaws of major proportions that would send most manufacturing engineers back to the drawing board. I liked the part about wandering around the garden with some scantily clad beauty and not having to work and having lots of great sex and affection.  That was a good design and needed no tweaking or fixing.  If it aint broke don't fix it!!!  Someone or something sort of messed this up a little it appears!

So tomorrow we will have a look at the basic facts and I promise to be a little more humorous in my view cause we are now at a place where tings are looking very funny to me and I will point those out.  Sorry to make you wait for the next part but since I don't have a garden with unlimited food on it, since someone tweaked the original design, I have to go out and earn money.  It is irritating but the way of the world.  Hope to see you back here tomorrow.