Hell on Earth

I am hated for impersonal reasons. I am blamed for things I did not do. I am expected to be selfless by those who are selfish.

The reasons are insincere, always. When I am hated for my race, religion, nationality or sex it is because the haters want something… not because I did anything wrong. The grievances are excuses, whether legitimate or not. 

EVIL is never good because of a greater evil. The sins of another do not justify your own.

JEALOUSY never justifies. On the contrary: It motivated the first murder.

Right and wrong are not actually matters of good and evil. If you are wronged you have a right to do something about it… but you shall be judged regardless. The merciful shall be spared. The merciless shall be damned.

God is love. The wicked are hateful. The Spirit is friendship. The wicked are unfriendly. The Word is truth. The wicked are liars.

I am hated by the hateful, mistreated by the unfriendly and slandered by liars. We all are. It is why our world is miserable. Those other reasons have nothing to do with it.

Bringing Imagination to Light

Artists have always had to contend with sanctimony. This is only a problem because art can be kept out of the mainstream. It can be hidden from view. Art unseen is no different than never made.

I can see and hear whatever I imagine. I cannot show it unless I turn it into art. There is no point in making art if never allowed to show it, since I can imagine whatever I imagine without it.

The sanctimonious have always been dubious of anything sexual, religious or political. The sanctimony is inconsistent, however. What is perverted, blasphemous or subversive at one time or in one region may be wholesome, reverent and progressive in another.

Many artists aggravate the problem. They offend deliberately. Their art is insulting rather than inspiring. They turn the tide of the mainstream against freedom of expression.

As an artist, I imagine. I show what I imagine by writing it as words and rendering it as images. My themes are sexual because sexuality energizes my fantasies. They are religious because my belief that life is meaningful beyond the sum of its parts inspires me. They are political because art is social if shared and politics shapes society.

As an artist, my art is tasteful, secular and apolitical. The erotica is artful rather than vulgar. The spirituality is demonstrated rather than preached. The politics are nuanced rather than touted. Though I understand tact allows me into the mainstream, I have a better reason: I would rather inspire than offend.

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The Source

God is the Artist. Creation is his Art. I do not mean these things figuratively but literally. When you understand this, you shall know why God allows evil and suffering.

I hear the rhetorical blasphemy, “Where did God come from?” The answer is obvious… but a remark in the guise of a question is insincere.

I shall pretend to answer the false question by answering it truthfully: GOD IS THE SOURCE.

You do not understand? The obvious is beyond your comprehension?

A DERIVATIVE IS NOT THE SOURCE.

Are you still confused? Seriously?

If God is the source and a derivative is not the source then God did not come from anything but himself, by definition. Anything before him would be God instead… unless something comes before that. We know for a fact that there is always a beginning. To reach the very source, you must find the very beginning... something that always existed.

Take heed that time and sequence are derivative. We know this for a fact. There is no present without a past and there is no future without a present. There is no reaction without an action and no effect without a cause.

Why allow evil and suffering?

Why not? You are evil. You cause suffering. If you don’t like these things, then stop.

Death Imagined

Context is everything.

Death is inarguably a bad thing… but is inspiring if someone dies heroically. Death is a good thing… if it ends suffering… or is the end of a wicked life. Death is amusing… if uneventful and inconsequential.

We dream and daydream. What we imagine is our reality on the inside. We turn it into stories with words and images.

Death is a major theme in our fiction. It is the thrill of the horror and action-adventure genres alike. It is the sadness of a drama or the tragedy of a love story.

The significance of a death is the life that is ending.

People perish in droves and their demise is but a headline or a statistic. One person dies and everyone mourns. WHO dies is most important. WHY and HOW are secondary.

If a cause of death is impersonal, then it is either a simple misfortune or the victim is a nonentity. It must be personal to be significant. It is meaningless otherwise.

The people involved are what give a situation context. Their will and actions are the cause and effect. The situation is a happenstance otherwise, even if death.

Peace is Friendly

Wars are fought between people who would otherwise be friends… but they speak a different language or have a different religion. They may speak the same language and practice the same religion but their leaders are opposing factions.

Wars are fought by those who do not want to fight. They must because their home is invaded or they are conscripted.

War is not the problem. It is the result of problems. It is not because people are aggressive but rather because they are selfish. The aggression is after the fact, always.

The few compel the many to war, but the many are to blame, since the power of the few is the many. As individuals, the leaders are only as big and strong as their followers, except by their authority.

Unlike storms and earthquakes, war is deliberate. People decide to kill other people. They fancy themselves righteous, of course; blaming the victims for the mass-murder.

If you are selfish, war is your fault.

Politics has few players and many pieces. War is a game and the common folk are expendable. Even the important pieces may be sacrificed. The players play to win… and are more likely to die if they lose than their pieces are. TAKE HEED: There is never peace for our sake. It is only because the mighty fear for their own lives.

If you are friendly, war is not your fault.

You are not friendly because you smile and flatter. The treacherous do that. You are not friendly because you look out for your own. Even the warmongers can do that. You are not friendly because you forsake your own in the interest of others. That is betrayal.

Be blind and deaf to the highfalutin so as to see and hear in all sincerity. Judge yourself with no one else in mind. If there is peace within, you are peaceful. If not, you are indeed the problem, no matter who or what is to blame. Solve the problem, not with activism, but as an individual living among others.

Mortal Trinity

When you are a child, the world is new and anything is possible. When you are an adult, the world is familiar but limited by harsh reality. When you are elderly, the world is changing and the end of you is near.

Fascinating how the same person is different people as the years go by. The similarities accentuate the differences.

Unlike mortal humans, the immortal angels are never children or elderly. They are adults from the beginning and do not end.

God created the angels with the Holy Spirit in mind. Like the Spirit, they would be true to what they are, no matter what. They would be powerful, relentless and immutable.

God created humanity with himself in mind. Like him, they would be curious and whimsical. They would be imaginative, creative and introspective.

The Holy Spirit is not merely powerful. He is all power. There is no power without him. The power of God is the Spirit. With this in mind, God made angels more powerful than humans.

The stages of life are based on the Trinity. Childhood was inspired by the innocence of the Spirit. Elderly was inspired by the wisdom of the Father. Adulthood was inspired by the Son, who is the Spirit and the Father as one and the same.

Dealing with harsh reality is the responsibility of the ADULT, since HE alone is wise and strong enough to do so. This was inspired by the life of Jesus.

Demons are because of the sins of angels, but would be impossible if not for the will of God.  That they were spawned of sin in itself is meaningful. God wronged the Spirit by humanizing him. This is because the Spirit was and is everything unto itself. Jesus was the Spirit brought to life, when Jesus was baptized. The demons as creations of God were inspired by his very own mortal humanity.

The “duality” of the universe is not God and the Devil. It is the righteousness of the Father and the goodness of the Spirit: FLOW and BALANCE.

The created did not create itself. It can only evolve or devolve or adapt or fail to adapt within the system provided. Every aspect of Creation reflects its Creator. The right and wrong alike, the good and evil alike are all from God.

The Unsung Villains

The action-adventure genre has always been humanity’s favorite, with horror as a close second and as horror-survival, the same thing.

Heroes and villains are the main characters of an action-adventure. The mentor, the damsel in distress and the sidekick are the hero’s traditional associates. The underboss, the seductress and droves of goons are traditionally the villain’s.

Unless an action-adventure is made specifically for children, characters are traditionally prone to die. It makes the action meaningful and the adventure especially thrilling.

Traditionally…

The mentor is prone to die when the hero has outgrown him. The damsel in distress is prone to be imperiled but with the understanding that she shall be rescued. The sidekick is not to die, and if young, is the hero’s successor.

Killing the villain is the final action that ends the adventure. The underboss is typically killed just before the final boss fight. The seductress either dies redeeming herself for love of the hero or is killed by the damsel in distress after rescue. The lowly goons are slaughtered with pathetic ease until the climactic boss fights.

The lowly goons are the least important characters… within the story. They are not unimportant as aspects of the fiction, however. Their deaths are not to be mourned. On the contrary: Their doom is typically inglorious so as to grimly amuse us.

The prowess of a hero cannot be measured by a boss fight. A standard of ordinary must be set. The lowly goons, especially as the anonymous cannon-fodder, set this standard. This is why these unimportant characters are actually important. They give the action of the adventure an objective basis of comparison.

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