Even if We Lived Like the Jetsons...

Tao Te Ching, Chapter 1 by Lao Tzu




translated by Gia-Fu Feng and Jane English (1972):



The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao.

The name that can be named is not the eternal name.

The nameless is the beginning of heaven and earth.

The named is the mother of ten thousand things.

Ever desireless, one can see the mystery.

Ever desiring, one sees manifestations.

These two spring from the same source but differ in name; this appears as darkness.

Darkness within darkness.

The gate to all mystery.




Names, religion, and consensual reality are the product of language, time, place, and culture. All of which are relative. The human condition, the infinite, the eternal, and the absolute, and God are not just found only in the minds of men...they are hardwired in, though dormant. For us to be living life like the Jetsons would not change that because we would still be the same species that discovered fire, domesticated the wolf and revered women (Venus of Willendorf.) Change is the only constant and as it says in the song, "Change is who we are."(Puscifer, "Sourgrapes") Everything changes, but the eternal verities never do because they are, by definition, absolute and beyond language, time, place, and culture. They are HUMAN.


Puscifer - Sour Grapes


And the angel of the lord led me

Into the belly of the holy mother

A chamber black as pitch

But I felt no fear, only comfort,



For I was as a child in the womb

And she begged me

"Hear through yonder portal

Which looked upon the heavens,

And behold! a morning angel"

[Hal-le-lu-jah!]



She ascended slowly from far beyond the horizon,

Her light like a heavenly finger pointing the way

And on yonder wall she traced for me a path

Which led me five directions, eight winters to east,

[Hal-le-lu-jah!]



And behold!

As my feet landed firmly

Upon the vital winter of the second storm

There appeared before me a heavenly star

[Hal-le-lu-jah!]



A holy virgin, the bringer of life and breath

And she spoke unto me saying

"Fear not the movement of the heavens above or the earth below

For change is what we are, my child.

[Hal-le-lu-jah!]



Righteous are those

Who look up and sway with the wind,

Who look down and dance with the shifting of the soil,

Who swim with the movement of the tides

[Hal-le-lu-jah!]



Who seek the truth around them

And discover that we are

And have always been in paradise.

The reflections of heaven on earth. Amen!'

[Hal-le-lu-jah!]



And she spoke again saying

"Know, my child,

That there is no devil seeking

To cause guilt nor harm to men.

[Hal-le-lu-jah!]



No evil, save blind faith, ignorance,

And the desire for the unprepared

To blame others for the devastation

Left in the wake of change

[Hal-le-lu-jah!]



Change, my child

Change is in the heavens

Change is on this earth

Change is all around us

[Hal-le-lu-jah!]



And if we

Are reflections of the divine

We must roll with these changes,

For we are these changes.

[Hal-le-lu-jah!]



Eyes wide open,

We must look upon

The heavens as a mirror.

Wide awake, aware, deeply breathing

[Hal-le-lu-jah!]



And when the s*** comes down, my child,

You will be there,

A true and holy survivor

To inherit the kingdom of god.

[Hal-le-lu-jah!]



You will rise above the rumbles of the unprepared

To greet the new day,

To drink from the sweet fruit of the vine,

The water of life, the blood of the risen Christ, my child.'

[Je-ho-vah! Yah-weh!]



'Go now, son,

Tell them all.

The ignorant, the blind paw by dogma,

Blinded by faith, the doubters, the nay sayers.

[Je-ho-vah! Yah-weh!]



Tell them all, child,

They can not see

The kingdom of God,

They can not see paradise

Unfold before them

[Je-ho-vah! Yah-weh!]


They can not drink

From the chalice

Which holds the blood of Christ,

The water of life,

Until they get right with Jesus.

[Je-ho-vah! Yah-weh!]


Until they get right with Jesus.

It's always gonna be

Sour grapes with you, boy,

Until you get right with Jesus. Amen!

[Je-ho-vah! Yah-weh!]
fin


The Truth is NOT OUT THERE.
The Truth is EVERYWHERE.
Even in the words of a rock band who's avatar is a stocky and curvacious 7 ' succubus. [Puscifer ROCKS!] 







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