Antics Roadshow: Omaha
I really think I've found something all people agree on. Like, all people. Everyone. Even Bill O'Reilly.
Everyone willingly shows love to the people they find most deserving.
Yes, it's a really obvious point--so obvious we forget it most of the time.
No, it's not going to change the world. Unless we can figure out how to all agree on the person to love. There are a couple of ways to make this happen. Plan One is to eliminate everybody except one person, but I'm pretty sure I want to be that sole survivor and I haven't perfected my death ray yet. Besides, the top of the totem pole is pretty boring when there's nothing under you. Alternatively, we could just choose one person to love and all buy into that. We try that every fourth November, though, and so far, we can't agree. [It doesn't matter if America ignores the rest of the world in this one because we're popular in a lot of places and the President can exercise a modified version of Plan One regarding those countries that don't agree with us.] As a Christian, I think God is the person we are all supposed to love because He made us that way. In fact, if we all loved God properly, we would have world peace and total happiness and true equality and all the other things people have been fighting about throughout history. But we screwed that all up with sin, and sin hasn't shown any signs of leaving anytime soon.
Here's something else we all agree on--we are that person who deserves everyone to love us. Most people call it selfishness. When I think everyone should just love me, I expect everyone to make me happy. When I'm not happy, something's wrong. Every detail of life must please me. I'm willing to allow others to be happy if it doesn't counter my plan for happiness. It's Nirvana--everyone gets exactly what they want. Ultimate selfishness.
At some point I realized selfishness is just active pride, so, knowing pride is wrong, I gave up selfishness. Just knocked it off cold turkey one day. It was fun for a while. I always had plenty of people to make fun of because they weren't as altruistic as I. The fools wallowed in their bourgeois lives missing the fine points of selfless living. I knew I would become a legend.
More seriously, it only takes a little selective memory to point out I always chose the option that was better for someone else. I honestly and with some regularity tried to relegate my preferences to positions of insignificance and harmonize everyone else's preferences. But I always got mad at others who weren't as mature as I was and were still selfish.
Some of you are snickering right now, thinking to yourselves that I'm just a poor deluded freak trying to deny my own selfishness. I hate you people--you see through my act better than I choose to.
I have finally come to terms with my modified strain of selfishness and decided it isn't worth the effort any more. I was still wanting my own way and just getting ticked off at the people who didn't give it to me. It's weird being ticked off at yourself all the time.
So now I'm looking for the next step--the way to be rid of my selfishness and still get everything I want.
Karl Marx was a genius.
Everyone willingly shows love to the people they find most deserving.
Yes, it's a really obvious point--so obvious we forget it most of the time.
No, it's not going to change the world. Unless we can figure out how to all agree on the person to love. There are a couple of ways to make this happen. Plan One is to eliminate everybody except one person, but I'm pretty sure I want to be that sole survivor and I haven't perfected my death ray yet. Besides, the top of the totem pole is pretty boring when there's nothing under you. Alternatively, we could just choose one person to love and all buy into that. We try that every fourth November, though, and so far, we can't agree. [It doesn't matter if America ignores the rest of the world in this one because we're popular in a lot of places and the President can exercise a modified version of Plan One regarding those countries that don't agree with us.] As a Christian, I think God is the person we are all supposed to love because He made us that way. In fact, if we all loved God properly, we would have world peace and total happiness and true equality and all the other things people have been fighting about throughout history. But we screwed that all up with sin, and sin hasn't shown any signs of leaving anytime soon.
Here's something else we all agree on--we are that person who deserves everyone to love us. Most people call it selfishness. When I think everyone should just love me, I expect everyone to make me happy. When I'm not happy, something's wrong. Every detail of life must please me. I'm willing to allow others to be happy if it doesn't counter my plan for happiness. It's Nirvana--everyone gets exactly what they want. Ultimate selfishness.
At some point I realized selfishness is just active pride, so, knowing pride is wrong, I gave up selfishness. Just knocked it off cold turkey one day. It was fun for a while. I always had plenty of people to make fun of because they weren't as altruistic as I. The fools wallowed in their bourgeois lives missing the fine points of selfless living. I knew I would become a legend.
More seriously, it only takes a little selective memory to point out I always chose the option that was better for someone else. I honestly and with some regularity tried to relegate my preferences to positions of insignificance and harmonize everyone else's preferences. But I always got mad at others who weren't as mature as I was and were still selfish.
Some of you are snickering right now, thinking to yourselves that I'm just a poor deluded freak trying to deny my own selfishness. I hate you people--you see through my act better than I choose to.
I have finally come to terms with my modified strain of selfishness and decided it isn't worth the effort any more. I was still wanting my own way and just getting ticked off at the people who didn't give it to me. It's weird being ticked off at yourself all the time.
So now I'm looking for the next step--the way to be rid of my selfishness and still get everything I want.
Karl Marx was a genius.
At 12:04 AM,
Thankfully, Justin, that will happen...one day. "We shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is (1 John 3:2)."
At 3:08 PM,
You're working on a death ray? You never told me that.
I hear you on the selfishness thing. For me, I get even more frustrated when I realize that I'm trying to convince myself that I'm not being selfish about people not doiing what I want them doing to ensure my selfishness. No, that's not selfishness. Thats me trying to make everyone happy because I'm happy.
At 12:04 PM,
Nice nice nice. I posted on my blog. It is now updated!!!!!!! Now before you have a stroke and collapse, ya wanna know how selfish of a person you can be, wait until you get married! Praying for you as you travel.