My following point here is not to prevent anyone to believe in god, but to stop people from indoctrinating others with their falsehood.

God is as dumb as a plank of wood — but we can use it to keep us afloat.

           Alphonso Moronicus

Misunderstanding the monkeyi sapiens condition is the privilege of the believer. Yes the Universe is big and we can imagine it to be an infinite cloud of godly substances. But the psychology of dealing with our angst and our wonder about the world should not rely on the invention of a supremo. The mechanics of thinking are quite clear and it’s up to us to understand the tenets of living. 

A dog will mostly prefer to be fed by humans rather than having to fight it in a wild pack of wolves. the payback also becomes companionship and survival in a weirdo world from home to the vet and pet-parlour. And we take that the dog loves us because we’re good. We’re good providers.

While most animal species rely on instinct and adaptation to immediate situations, the monkeyi sapiens has developed — by evolution of successive needs — an adaptation of thinking to counteract a general natural deficiency. As a species, we are animalistically unfinished and weak. This is our strength and foible. 

In climate change theory, one talks a lot about “tipping points”. these are less points than rapid changes of circumstances to the sum-total of events. In human thinking, the tipping points has been the development of a greater memory space, in which ideas could be germinated, wrong or correct. It came a point in which we had to assume (better) ways to survive rather than crawl…

One of the slow (tipping point) physical adaptation was a switch from prehensile lower limbs into feet. Probably unable to survive in the “jungle” where better adapted monkeys lived, and who probably chased from the trees, WE had to walk longer distances in open plains. Walking became the human experience that develop the foot. the pack also became a tribe. Grunt became language. Dreams often became threats and we fought these with the idea of soothing gods… 

Wanderings became settlements. Grasses became wheat. Our animal reactivity and aggression became laws. We had tame the unfinished beast into an evolving mechanism in which distraction and deceit became as much tools as a stick, an axe or a bow. 

We had to define our sapiens status. We entered various ages of industrial ages, but one common characteristic of human development has been the visual images of what we imagined and told. 

From the Lascaux caves, via the hieroglyphs to the Aboriginal overhang paintings, we can see that communication became an essential tool of what became social cohesion. The language of images lasted far more than words which over time could lose meaning.

It can be assumed than some individuals became smarter, some became more deceitful and a system of hierarchy had to be instituted to hold the group together. 

Gods had to be invented in order to demand obedience.

Humans still cultivate the ideas of many gods, though some groups have simplified the concept to one superior being being in charge of the universe… 

In the West we have been captured by the god of Christianity. In the Arab world, Allah is the word and in Judaism, YWYH is the controller of the brainwashed. 

In most aboriginal culture, there no gods, but ancestors who control the nature of where we are. 

As scientific knowledge developed from observation, we also grasped the contradictions of what we do and the modifications to our natural environment. 

The more we try to solve problems, the more likely we create future troubles in a loop that leads to understand the planet limitations. We are still fiddling and learning.

Despite the apparent sought cohesion of groups and within groups, there are many diverging responses to what happens. While leaders try hard to create “conformity”, the philosophical moires are many. The idea of god is a hard one to keep alive. Theologians and loony psychologists use the old sense of wonderment and the treatment of angst to pacify us with valium-like thinking. Hopefully we are smarter than this, but we’re not. We have moved very little away from Aristotle.

We may have regressed in the wrong direction… We elect morons like Trump and seniles like Biden. We declare war on ideology for profit. Rather than use commerce for comfort, money becomes the essence of greed. 

We try to smooth the corners and make us swallow the divergence bitter pill with “rights” and “inclusion”, but deep within us there is a latent incomprehension about who we are…

And god won’t appear around the corner. We have to manage our differences ourselves, within the messy break-up of muddy ideologies… 

We are still walking.

 Gus Leonisky

 Soup Kitchen philosopher and hors-concours cartoonist ....

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