Random Thoughts (a little miffed)

In every religion I can think of, the central figure is usually something/somebody of enormous power.  Yet it needs those it creates for some reason, usually praise and worship.  That's dumb.  Why would a god need that which it creates to fawn on it?  Think about it.  You draw something on a sheet of paper.  And, just like you planned, it comes to life and starts saying things to you like, "you're awesome."  Do you NEED that praise or prayer?  It might be nice to hear, but it's not like the drawing is telling you something you don't already know.  I'm pretty sure that whole Pray To Me and Love Me and Believe In Me thing is a construct of the folks in power who wanted to use religion as a means to control those who would let themselves be easily lead.  Or not so easily led.  It's hard to tell people today that you don't believe in their god-- or any god, for that matter-- for fear of retributions, some of which might involve death.  It's always been tough to think for yourself, I would imagine.

Also, gods typically separate themselves from those they create.  Mt. Olympus and heaven and the like are all away from the regular humans.  Gods up, humans down.  That, too, is stupid.  If you created a drawing, and it came to life (again, as you planned), would you go back to your room where you're just gonna masturbate and watch Netflix, or would you rather hang out with your drawings and be god-like to them? 

If I only get psychokinetic powers only in one room of my house, that is the room I'm gonna hang out in most of the time.

Gods of the underworld or demons or whatever are always placed in really crappy places.  Those gods don't scare me, cuz they can't even get themselves out of crappy places.  It's like a guy trying to get out of a bad neighborhood but just can't seem to save up enough money to get his U-Haul truck.  Not scary.

And all gods are, despite their extraordinary powers and abilities, ALWAYS bested by man. 

And you want me to blindly devote my life to a being that needs me to praise it, needs me not to put my penis certain places otherwise I destroy heaven (thank you, Mormons, for that one), and can be beaten by me and my buddies? 

Um... no.

I'm going to create a new way of thinking about these myths.

Gods win.  Period.
They don't need people.  They don't really care about people.  And they always win.
If a human goes up against a god, he dies.  Period.
Gods live with people.  And people don't know they're gods until the god decides to let the people in on it.
Gods might actually have been people at one point, until they learned to think for themselves and not blindly follow what others told them.  Like stories of false gods.
Gods don't like the name "god" when it's used as a form of praise.  Because gods don't give a shit about your silly little praise.
Gods don't die, but they do retire.  Like Norse and Greek gods.  They're not really first-string gods right now, but they're chillin' in the bar, watching these other gods, seeing what's gonna happen.

Shit's dumb, yo. 
Especially the dumb shit we come up with.

Laws are dumb.  Laws are dumb because they have no power other than what somebody else gives to them.  You can follow a law or not, but if you do it's because you agreed to follow the law.  So the law has no power, only the person who follows or doesn't follow the law. 

In our current society, we have collectively decided that there are people who won't follow the rules (or laws) of our society.  That's why we have cops.  And once we hired those people to make sure that there are rule enforcers, we gave them the power to not abide by those rules.  Police run red lights, speed, and carry weapons into areas where weapons aren't allowed.  Police routinely do not follow the rules in the execution of their duties as police.  And we, as a society, are okay with that.  We are also okay with elevating these people above certain laws while paying these people wages that aren't much above what fast food workers make. 

Our system is fucked.
And we did it.
We're so stupid.