God's Children (good one Dev)

[charlou]

I just had to repost this article by Dev here for those who don't visit RDF. He's created a very bleak and telling analogy ...

I was told when I was young that the human body was just a vessel which carried the soul (the real entity) through life until judgement day, when I would meet god my father.

I was thinking this morning about how this strange situation could be translated in to my life.

I reckon that the equivalent would be to father a perfect child with no nerve endings for pain and the possibility of a perfect life of pure happiness, then imprison my child in a restrictive box for up to 122 years (the human body seems to be extremely restrictive compared to a free soul), attach wires from the box to my child to cause pain and then cause its environment to wither and die while my child is still attached to it, so it feels the agony and decay.

Of course the box might also be burnt, smashed or smothered as well.

All I ask in return for this existence is that my child, from whom I have hidden for 122 years, worships me unconditionally, so that when (according to my plan) I chose to release my child from his restrictive box I can reward him with eternal happiness in my presence, worshipping and adoring me forever and ever and ever.

If, however, my child has been disobedient and ungrateful while imprisoned in his box, or if he has been injurious towards my other imprisoned children, then I will send him to a place were he will be tortured forever and ever and ever.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

And, of course, DOUBT will queer the whole deal.