Players

[poliphilo]

I think Spirit is like clear, untainted water poured out into earthen vessels.

Earthen vessels- that's Biblical innit?

I think this world is an experiment.

And not to be taken entirely seriously.

I like Shakespeare's insight- the one he keeps coming back to- "all the world's a stage/ and all the men and women merely players."

We are here to try on different roles. To find out what can be done with a certain set of genes and social circumstances.

Why?

Well, why not? Perhaps for no better reason than that it's an interesting thing to do.

Between lives we are subject to the judgement of our peers. They are not unkind. They will have made the same mistakes themselves.

Is this experiment devised by God? I think not. I hate hierarchy. I think the only God or Goddess that exists is Spirit- omnipresent, unstructured, playful- and that we're It.

Comments

[jenny_evergreen]

Some, though, are much more solitary than others, I have found. I would like to be less solitary; I would like to find a community with which I had enough in common; such a thing doesn't really exist for me, the best I can do is UU, and that is more a conglomeration of utterly solitary journeys than even a partially shared one, to my mind. So. *half smile*

What you wrote does resonate with me; it makes sense to me as an alternate idea to my general one, which is that there was no true beginning at all.
I can see yours; though, of course, what you call God and ascribe intention to, I do not call God and do not ascribe intention to; to me, that may be where spirit comes from and goes to, then. :)