God, the Father (An Origin Story)

Again this blog is about thought experimentation. Please read it with the enlightened tone I meant it in, and not a harsh one as I think it can be easily misinterpreted, especially with the last sentences - which I kept only for strength of message.

I wrote this to posit the logical certainty that God creation is inevitable.

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Our fathers are people who we learn from, who show us the right way to live - but what happens when we transcend them or have their flaws revealed to us?

Our superheroes topple. And how does one keep moving forward when before there was an objective and idol, and now there is none? 

I will create one.

He will be all knowing - where my mortal father failed to advise, He will have my answers.

He will be eternal - where my mortal father succumbed to sickness and age, He will live on to support me.

He will be beyond my understanding - where I transcended my mortal father, He will always be able to teach me something.

He will be sovereign - where my mortal father's justice failed, He will be perfectly lawful to all parties.

He will be unchanging - where my mortal father had inconsistencies, He will be my fortified rock and always dependable.

Now that I have created my new Father, I will share him with all my brothers so that they may have what I have and share in the joy of His antithetical perfection.

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Could this all be the mind-games of a man who couldn't understand his own father's mortality and imperfection?

The Statued Girl - Dream Addition?

I never dream and when I do I never know that it isn't reality. As with all dreams we start in the middle of the story...

I am at the bottom of a hillside with a corner grocery store at the top. 

There are many sets of stairs with flat between. The stairs are sturdy but not solid, in that you can see through each one as they are just 2 by 12s inlaid in rising beams. The setting is a tamed forest. All manner of vines, ivies, and other creepers populate the hillside with trees interspersed. The sun is setting and shadows are growing.

Someone or something compels me to reach the top and retrieve an item from this grocery store. There are many sets of stairs, 7 to 12 at 12 to 20 wide steps each. No two sets of stairs are laid out the same as each takes a slightly different path and grade up the hillside.

My first ascent I take each stair one at a time and after a time I reach a girl just one short staircase away from the entrance. She stares oddly unmoving out towards the open air. She is the only person I notice on my approach. As I pass her on the inside of the stairs I am called away and distracted from entering. She looks at me as I turn.

On my second ascent I am not upset with having to go back, but it is the second attempt and so I take some sets of stairs two at a time. I am winded slightly as I reach the top and find the same girl in the same position. As I pass her on the inside she looks at me again. I am distracted again from my goal. I don't remember her face.

On my third ascent I take all stairs two at a time because I am just trying to complete my goal of retrieving the grocery item. I am winded at the top and encountered no one again except the statued girl. The hair on my body raises. This time she is not looking out but directly at me though I can not see her face, only a blackness somehow masked, though there is no hood or cowl to conceal. 

I try to hurry past her. I feel a pull. I whip around to see her outstretched arm which has contorted her body unreasonably. In my turn and realization I fluidly backhand her. Her face feels solid as wood and my hand bounces off her with a sharp pain. Terrified, I turn and run. I throw open the door and run inside the grocery store. As the door swings shut behind me I find myself in an decrepit garden shed hardly 6 by 8. This is how it ends.

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This is a mostly unedited version I wrote at 3AM before I could go back to sleep. 

Victory and Defeat

Life brings many matches, games, and arguments which place you against another, where a winner and a loser will be decided. Oftentimes outcomes are neutrally beneficial (like in the case of a convincing argument) or there has been no great investment from either opponent. 

But sometimes...

Sometimes a match will result in a clear victor rewarded with spoils and a loser with an ongoing disadvantage. 

To win...

Never announce to your opponent that they are defeated in any way even when you (or spectators) are confident in the outcome. 

Announcing draws a line in the sand and can hurt your position. Drawing this line yourself can only hamper your efforts and ability to close the victory. To your opponent, this announcement may cause one last hail merry. 

If the fight was lost and won through great effort (which it logically has since you can't consider the opportunity to announce unless there has been struggle) then great victors know the strength of those they've defeated, and therefore know not to test their fight or flight mechanism with a final victorious announcement. 

Smart victors make sure their opponents fade away silently into the background, disallowing them the opportunity for a final defense.

Every tv/movie/drama that brings a victor to stand over the defeated to showcase their victory is teaching poor tactics.