Are You REALLY this stupid?
Are You Really This Stupid?
Finding Waldo - The Agnostic Way.
I’m amazed at how complacent people can be about spiritual things.
Seriously.
“Well, if God exists, he would come down here and prove himself to me.” Right.. . .Makes me just want to slap my head, feeling like somehow I just became part of a Three Stooges movie. Or this one: “If God really wanted me to see something, he’d put it on that billboard next to the highway."
Sure. . . We all want things to be easy, especially important things. But how reasonable is it to expect every good thing that we want to just come walking in our door, and every good book to have a flashy appealing cover?
What would you think of me, if I said: “Until Queen Elizabeth comes and proves herself to me, that she is real, and royal – I shall not pay taxes or use her stamps?”
Sounds fair, yes? I could say I'm being logical, or that I have high standards. So, no respect for the Queen, until she comes and proves herself to me personally. Until that happens, I don't believe in her, and I don't respect her.
Things are so much worse now, in the Television Age, where children learn from infancy to sit and be served,and are constantly bombarded by commercials trumpeting to them that they deserve only the best, and they deserve whatever they want.
So, then, why put any effort into anything? . . . Why look past your own nose? Maybe because when every good thing doesn’t just come waltzing in the door with ease, well, that can be very depressing. It’s really not a good feeling, when expectations have been built up so high, then to come crashing down.
The most powerful people I know, have common boring names, and they don’t look powerful at all. And the most powerful books that I have ever read, have all been nondescript or worn with bland covers. Some of the most gentle souls I have ever met, look like brutes,and some of the softest and most frail feminine flowers that I've ever met, have been actual brutes. . .So, I no longer understand, the concept of a person relying on their own expectations.
"But that's not fair!" No. it's not easy, but it is fair. Fair, simply means giving a person a reasonable chance.
A friend of mine, said it this way:"People anticipate that great things are always loud and in your face, because they draw a lot of attention... they must be worthy and great.."
Yeah, well, I'm here to tell you, it's not that way at all. - No no no.
Another person put it this way: "All that glitters, is not gold."
It doesn’t work, for frozen dinners! – They never look like the package!
Yeah, it is easier to rely on your expectations, but, it is also lazy and illogical.
Plus, I get really bummed out when my frozen dinners look like crap, instead of the picture on the package. It really does help though, if you stir those frozen dinners, and slit the cover like they tell you to. I guess, if you put some effort into it, you have a chance, at least, for it to look like that‘serving suggestion’ image. effort?
--pshaw! Waldo should jump out and salute me any time now. I’ve had the book open all day. I think that’s fair. . .
(C) RLMcCormick
