We Need To Talk! You know something, I'm kind of fed up with you guys. You take everything SO PERSONALLY. It doesn't occur to most of you that I am ALIVE. Yes, I'm a living being just like you. I'm continually evolving, growing, changing, etc., and you are a part of my growth as you are a part of your own process. When I stretch, yawn, hiccup, sneeze or simply celebrate my Bat Mitzvah, you think it's some kind of collective punishment for your 'sins.' We Need To Talk! Your popular human religions have done you a deadly disservice by teaching you that I and all my other creatures are simply objects that were designed for your pleasure to use, abuse, exploit and destroy. Did it ever occur to you how arrogant that is? You worry about 'Earth Changes' -- no such thing except for the fact that I am continually changing. It's not an event. It's an ongoing process that you don't understand because of your fruit fly mentality. Last week some guy found fossilized footprints of a dinosaur which roamed the suburbs of Washington, DC. 100 million years ago. That was long before you were even a suggestive sparkle in the Creators eyes. Did you know that the total life span of a fruit fly is seven days? Seven days! OK, so lets say this guy John-the-fruitfly is born one Monday morning in late October. On Thursday, the first freeze of the season hits. John tragically freezes to death. Now one could take a fruitfly perspective and claim that this was some kind of punishment for Johns many fruitfly misdeeds or - taking a somewhat larger view of the matter - one could see that John had the unfortunate bad luck - or chose at some level - to be born four days before the first killing frost. John really doesn't understand time or cycles. His lifespan and genetic memory are too brief to grasp either one. Do you have any idea how old I AM? Your life span isn't much more than that of a fruit fly. Your whole species is created, thrives and becomes extinct while I'm enjoying a cup of tea on a lovely cosmic afternoon. It's just that you don't have an 'eonic' sense of time so you tend to take things personally. We Need To Talk! One hundred years from now, you and everyone you know will be dead.... and on to greater adventures. All the important people and events that you read about in the newspaper or see on TV... Gone, and for the most part, forgotten. I will still be here, yawning, hiccuping, sneezing and enjoying my afternoon tea long after your species ceases to even be a memory around this place. Put your daily petty dramas into THAT perspective. Why does it ALWAYS HAVE TO BE ABOUT YOU? Did it ever occur to you how much of your energy and money is focused on killing other species on this planet - and I'm not just talking about bug spray and chicken farms. You are spending over $175 million dollars a day to destroy Iraq while 14,000 children starve to death every day. That means that more children have starved to death so far since 12/26/04 - just from neglect - than all of those who died in the big wave. And then you applaud yourself for sending two days worth of war costs for relief. NOW THAT IS SOMETHING YOU SHOULD TAKE PERSONALLY! YES, I'M PISSED - BIG TIME. But God & I haven't conspired to punish you. You seem to do a fairly good job of that yourself. I'm just fed up with taking the blame - along with GOD - for just being who I am and doing what I have been doing for the last umpteen millions of years; long before you came on to the scene. And though I may not sound very compassionate at the moment, I do feel the pain of EVERY ONE OF MY CREATURES who suffers. Did you know that I sent a warning to let everyone know that I was about to sneeze? Did you see the news? The only ones who heard me were the wild animals in India and some 'primitive' tribal people on a remote island. They all went to higher ground just before the wave hit and none of them died. Why didn't the rest of you hear me??? So I let you know I'm about to sneeze, you don't hear me because you aren't listening, and it wreaks havoc. And then you have the audacity to blame GOD! Give me a break. Maybe you should just start listening..... Or even better, maybe you should ask yourself what you are doing that is so important that you aren't listening.... We Need To Talk
