Double Flee A

All right, the holy ghost.

There's god, which or whom is invisible and is assumed to exist because of an ever-shrinking list of reasons (thanks, science!), and because people have a problem assuming responsibility for the way they feel. A guy with the best intentions in the world once told me "you can't see the wind, but you can feel its effects." It's not nice to be smarter than other people, so I didn't tell him how ridiculous that is. Bob Dylan might have said: you don't need a clergyman to know which way the wind blows.

Anyway, god is fairly well understood. With one god we get oversimplistic notions of linear causality, so I personally think as long as humans have to blame and thank somebody for the way they perceive things as going, it ought to be a group of gods who argue amongst each other, and not just one who is responsible for everything. Since of course there is no such thing as the bogeyman, it's stupid to blame anyone for the things that happen in notoriously indifferent nature, but at least with a pantheon we wouldn't have one god which contradicts itself.

So there's god and then his relative Jesus. Jesus claimed to be the son of god and just generally shook things up by saying how people ought to be nice to each other, and how the merciful are blessed, among other things that right-wing radio infotainment jocks would drag him over the coals for. So they hung him up and waited for him to die, which he did, and then he came back to life later. Or so the story goes. At some point much later, he showed up in Utah, I think, depending on who you ask.

So that leaves the holy ghost. The holy ghost (or as I like to call him, "holy! yo, holester!"; we're friends) is a ghost who lives in the same supernatural dimension as Pop and Sonny, but the holy ghost can come out and manifest itself in us! So sometimes holy can get in your body and make you do really awesome righteous stuff! If you don't believe me, just look around this google search for the holy ghost. Who is that? Is it Jesus's ghost? But he's still alive! Did Jesus come back from the dead with only half of his soul, and the other half went on to enjoy celebrity as the holy ghost? Do they ever hang out together and play table tennis? Who wins? Does the holy ghost get inside Jesus and make him order extra anchovies, and then later Jesus says, "Oh, you big kidder you!" and then they high five and go surfing like in some mentos commercial? But seriously, a ghost that is holy. Of all the doodge.

posted by dale @ 12:08 PM