john rah essay

Death to Dualism
"If evolution exists, why are most humans stupider than apes."

"If God exists, why the fuck did he give us TV and despots."

"If evolution exits, where are we."

At the point where we jump start our brains, disregard the paranoid mad beliefs of our ancestors and save the planet from us.

A couple Mormons came to visit one day. I like Mormons. I always tell them I won't believe their pitch but they are welcome to come in and give it. It always amazes me what people can be guided to believe.

I was shown a picture of the 12 elders. 12 old, rich, white men.

Alarm. No women. No youth.

Never mind that they were all from one family.

"Joe Smith wrote a book. Not very good. Anyone can do that, given a few years of education. All the religions start with words. In the case of Joe's book, I think he was actually taking the piss out of the bible."

I typed Zion into the world's search engine. And the elders of another bunch had a page. It was hard to imagine it was real. It looked like anti-Jewish propiganda by making them, the Zion clan, look like despotic conspirators wanting to wipe out all non jews and make someone ruler over all.

The possessed writer failed to mention who would be given the Job.

No one has contacted me yet.

I'm not certain if I'm Jewish enough.

From belief, not at all. From name and blood I'm much too mixed. Hell, many of my ancestors were puritan Christian mad men. Raped and suppressed women. Some of the savages that we failed to slaughter got in there somehow as well. I'm a mess.

At best, I could be antikult. I enjoy Christ too much to be anti him. Mohammed or Joseph Smith. I admire them all. They had at least the courage to go up against.

Against the nailed down belief structure. Throwing wrenches into the cogs of the despotic dualistic lie of god granted the wealthy power over all. The poor suck and should suffer.

I wouldn't go so far as to say we were created equal.

Because we were not created.

We are evolving. It might appear slowly. But only because we look so quickly.

80 years is nothing. 1,000 is a little more. Not even twice as much.

This nailing down of reality into a belief system by impotent old mad men with the lust to power and luxury.

It's new.

A brief interlude.

We'll get over it or not. Like the last 2 billion years of evolving.

So far we've got this far. And except for the media and the war mongers, we are quite a bit farther than one celled sulfur eaters.

We have to let it be. And take and embrace our part in it.

It is not for us to nail down.

It is not up to us to stop it.

This Dualism, belief in good and evil. God and Satan. Up and down. In and out. Them and us.

It's ignorance.

Even a two sided coin has three sides. One, the one we ignore, is infinite.

There are never two sides in a three dimensional world. And we perceive in the forth. At least we could once we drop the lies of the ages made by mutant idiots too myopic to see past 2 dimensions.

Absolutely no one is absolutely right.

We have taken a running pace for the race to the cliff.

6 billion primates must change their direction.

Not by burning all the religious books. Cult. It all has something.

Just none of it was ever written by any creature other than humans. We are speculating.

Guessing what might be.

In it.

And it is big.

And we could be a big part of it.

If we turn off the oil pumps and get serious about being in the dimension where we are and be what we can be.

And what can be is limited only by physics.

Physics is still a big mystery.

We make a difference. Maybe the difference. We have become magic. Angels. Gods.

Don't believe anything less.