After all, is it not written in the Black Book already, that "Man made god in his own image?"

Briar

"our pleas are heard"? Not much use when they aren't acted upon though! When all you get for your pleas, begging, offers of making a bargain that goes "if you do this I'll do that", is a dead baby in your arms.

This universe is so badly put together I want to shout "Unintelligent Design!" at all the black-cloaked magic-men who offer empty words but little else. "Creation" is a bad joke. One can only make sense out of it if one laughs at it.

If some "being" were actually responsible for this wretched world I would like one day to meet him or it (can't have been a She, a She would have made it with more sense of the need for harmony!) so that I could punch it or him on the nose.

Unfortunately, I know that there was nobody and I will never get the satisfaction of doing that.

Perhaps one of the reasons humans write and make up stories and tell them is that in so doing they are going off into their own corner and creating their own little universe, the way they think it should be?

Story telling is how we naked apes developed language, and language is what made it possible for us to think, and thinking made us sapient beings (or semi-sapient at least. Most of us don't think much, we just reiterate slogans most of the time).

If I sound bitter, it is because I am bitter. If I deserved to be punished OK, but why take it out on a poor wee baby? And all the "nice" people who kept saying platitudes like "time will heal the pain" were wrong. I feel it today like I have for 45 years already. I so wish I could give that punch on the nose to someone I could blame for everything.

Briar