6.1.26 - 11 - Epiphany

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This year... well last year... that was awful. Most awful that the suffering and injustice in Gaza continued. But it was a prefiguring. A prefiguring of the idiot children - the boomers. I honestly cannot WAIT to see the likes of the strange plastic people melting. They are so odd. Please let them all melt.

They would have you believe that being a good person is a waste of time. Instead their idea of a good use of time is being a strong person - but their version of strong is total dominance. They are all psychopaths. I'm pretty sure they are all psychopaths. And their possession is total. 

I don't want to only talk about this though. I also want to talk about the epiphany I had yesterday as I served mass. I was just overwhelmed during the transubstitution part of the mass. I always have my doubts about how much this monomania around the entire eschatology of these Abramic faiths. Instead of paying attention to life and how life should be lived, they are OBESSESED with death. And somehow can conflated that with being the number one person ever. This entirety of the Chosen People is so moronic. Imagine creating an entire mythology around thinking of yourself and your peoples as daddy's favourite child? How pathetic is that? Then the entirety of existence is about how to demonstrate you are daddy's favourite child. It's mental. That is an entire existence which is blighted.

Anyway, I was thinking this and how Jesus fits into all this shit, when I listened, for the first time almost to what the priest was saying. And it was - Jesus came to say look, all that crap - about original sin is gone now - you are free to live your life as it is. And yes, I know this, I have always known this, but for the first time I understood it as - stop beating yourself up. I don't know how people can say they are Christian and still believe that mortification and predestination can mean anything. We are all equal, we are all forgiven and we are all new in this world. That is the true message of Christ. And YET, the part of the bible which these asshole patriarchs insist on going back to is the OT. 

I reject all that crap. It is a toxic abusive ontology. Human beings not only are pattern recognising entities, we also need to tell ourselves stories. We need stories - narratives - and we need ones which enable us to act. If we do not have this, then we end up becoming lost. 

We are so desperate for any stupid story that we will adopt stories which are even harmful to ourselves. It's insane. 

That was my literal Epiphany at mass yesterday. That Christ is liberation. He has come to truly free us, to bring us choice. 

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