{"id":129728,"date":"2014-07-10T03:02:08","date_gmt":"2014-07-10T03:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jonrappoport.wordpress.com\/?p=6807"},"modified":"2014-07-10T03:02:08","modified_gmt":"2014-07-10T03:02:08","slug":"and-god-appeared-on-a-mountain-or-maybe-it-was-an-actor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/editorials\/and-god-appeared-on-a-mountain-or-maybe-it-was-an-actor\/","title":{"rendered":"And God appeared on a mountain; or maybe it was an actor"},"content":{"rendered":"

And God appeared on a mountain; or maybe it was an actor<\/span><\/p>\n

by Jon Rappoport<\/span><\/p>\n

July 9, 2014<\/span><\/p>\n

www.nomorefakenews.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

On August 4, 2074, God appeared on a mountain in Colorado. For some reason, he\u2019d failed to notify the networks, so they had to rush in drones and choppers with cameras and interrupt regularly scheduled programming and go live to the whole planet very quickly.<\/p>\n

He was tall and wide. He was wearing a white robe. His hair was wild and long and gray, and his beard was silver.<\/p>\n

The first thing he said was, \u201cI\u2019m from El Salvador and I need a place to stay\u201d<\/p>\n

Then he laughed and muttered, \u201cJoke.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBut really,\u201d he continued, \u201cyou people amaze me. Why haven\u2019t you been paying attention to artists for the past ten thousand years? What\u2019s wrong with you? Sure, I created the universe and laid down all the natural laws, but that was a provisional thing. It wasn\u2019t meant to be permanent. Space, time, energy, law of conservation, the basics\u2026but that was just to give you a place to live. Ever since, though, you\u2019ve been fixated on it.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe artists caught on soon enough. They began inventing their own spaces and times—ever heard of music?—but nobody took them seriously. I\u2019m really disappointed in you. <\/p>\n

\u201cYou were supposed to realize you could create worlds of your own by the ton, with different rules, any rules, but instead these priests came along and hardened the whole deal into religions.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat ever gave you the idea I was in favor of religions? Are you kidding? \u201cDo you really think I want people falling on their knees worshipping me? Why? What kind of a guy do you think I am? Some bloated preposterous dictator? I\u2019m an artist. Isn\u2019t that obvious? And that\u2019s what you should all be by now.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve got a good mind to uncreate the whole shooting match and force you to start over from scratch on your own, but I know that wouldn\u2019t work. You\u2019d just sit around in the void in a puddle of your own tears and whine and wonder and blather.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd I certainly don\u2019t want to watch that. The crux of the whole business is you\u2019ve got free will. You can do or not do. By the way, I didn\u2019t give you free will, you always had it. It\u2019s yours. Not mine. You were all homeless vagabonds wandering around and I gave you a place to stay. But not so you could screw it up. <\/p>\n

\u201cLong ago I told you, \u2018Here, a world, a hundred thousand million trillion worlds and space enough.\u2019 And the implied understanding was, you\u2019d make art, your best creations in all fields of endeavor. Because you wanted to. It wasn\u2019t my idea.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo there\u2019s no confusion, I wasn\u2019t talking to you as groups or collections or races or anything like that. I was talking all at once to each one of you. I really thought you were artists.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know who you thought I was. <\/p>\n

\u201cYou keep talking about me creating the universe, but it\u2019s apparent that most of you don\u2019t know what that means. You believe it means I have all the power. Wow. Where did you get that one from?<\/p>\n

\u201cTalk about fairy tales.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m painting in my studio. I\u2019m playing the piano. I\u2019m writing symphonies. I\u2019m inventing different kinds of science. That\u2019s what I do. I took a little time off a few billion years ago to make this universe, but since then I\u2019ve only shown up a few times to peek in.<\/p>\n

\n

\"Exit<\/a><\/p>\n

\n

\u201cThis planet of yours\u2026it looks like one big hospital now. Is that what you want to do? Play doctor for the next few thousand years? Diagnose each other? Pretend all twelve billion of you are victims? Where did you get that gig from?<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you\u2019re staging one grand play on that theme, I have to tell you it\u2019s a flop. It should have closed way back when. It\u2019s a dud. That\u2019s my review.<\/p>\n

\u201cMaybe I made it too easy for you. Invented too much space and time. Maybe I should have brought in monsters, real ones, not the ones in your heads. You know, created a threat from the outside.<\/p>\n

\u201cWho knows? But try to get with the idea that\u2026how can I explain it\u2026if this universe started out as an idea in my mind, you can see it as an idea in your mind, too. It\u2019s a temporary housing project.<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah, I made it with symmetry and harmony and balance and repeating ratios, but that\u2019s just because I was in a hurry, so you could get out of the rain, so to speak. I used simple blueprints.<\/p>\n

\u201cBelieve me, I can do other things.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnyway, don\u2019t get hung up on the housing project. And if you have any sense, you\u2019ll stop listening to those priests. They\u2019re petty little artists who also happen to be control freaks.<\/p>\n

\u201cI could take you on a tour of history and show you how they grabbed on to what some poets were writing and stole it and edited it and used it to found their cheap cosmologies, their religions.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut I don\u2019t have much time. I have a meeting with Vin Van Gogh—you don\u2019t think he\u2019d come back here for another go around, do you, after what happened to him the last time? And I\u2019m having lunch with Orson Welles. I wrote a script and he\u2019s looking it over.<\/p>\n

\u201cFigure this whole thing out, okay? Space, time, energy, they\u2019re butter. Melt it, freeze it, eat it, drop it in soup. Make some worlds. Get with it.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeace out.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jon Rappoport<\/span><\/p>\n

The author of three explosive collections, THE MATRIX REVEALED<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span>, EXIT FROM THE MATRIX<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span>, and POWER OUTSIDE THE MATRIX<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span>, Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29<\/span>th<\/span><\/sup> District of California. He maintains a consulting practice for private clients, the purpose of which is the expansion of personal creative power. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles on politics, medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe. Jon has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics, health, logic, and creative power to audiences around the world. You can sign up for his free emails at <\/span>www.nomorefakenews.com<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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