Sunday, December 20, 2009

We All Deserve An Apology

If it turns out that there is some sort of being running the universe that we all get to meet after we die, I want an apology from this creature. I want to hear "I'm sorry."

With feeling.

Any intelligent entity would not have come up with the conditions under which humanity has to live. For example:

- Constant need to eat
- Need for sleep (and daily, at that)
- Hiding
- Disease
- Religion
- Pain
- Greed
- Carnivores
- All evidence pointing to being's non-existence
- "Natural" disasters
- [Continue on your own from here. The list is endless]

These are not signs of intelligence. These are signs of a work in progress, a random set of conditions under which some life forms can exist if they try hard enough.

I want an apology if it's anything else. We all deserve it. Compensation can be in the form each person desires. An eternity separated from religious nut balls, lawyers, career politicians, greed-driven business people, and people who, in general, don't think would be a place to start.

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