Even we gods have limitations, no matter what we might like to project as being the case. I for example have an atrociously bad memory. The only time something like that would be a problem would be if I happened to be an official ‘Memory God’ at the same time. That would then constitute serious professional misconduct and you’d get struck off for it. It’s rather like saying you’re the ‘God of Humour’ when the truth is that you’re the single most boring deity in the Pantheon. There’s no end of examples you could give, I suppose – you could be a God of War who runs away crying every time he runs into any opposition (which – given the nature of the job – is something that’s bound to happen sooner or later). Or you could be a ‘Creator God’ who never actually created anything – anything like that would do. Any kind of a thing like that…

When you lie unhappy things happen to you. Unhappy, sad things. You know this on some level of course, but you won’t be able to stop doing it all the same. Sometimes you’ll try to stop lying and sometimes you won’t try. Most of the time you won’t try – most of the time you’ll believe your own lies just as soon as they pop into your head!You’d believe them before they pop into your head of you could. But we shouldn’t worry about it, that’s the point I think I’m trying to make here. What else can we do, after all? We just have to carry on lying and then having sad and unhappy things happen to us as a consequence. We’ll have to put up with it. I don’t really see any alternative, do you? And the dismal way we all waffle on and on about ‘improving ourselves’ all the time is so very annoying. At least I find it so.

In case you’re wondering, I’m The God of Small Places. Small places in your head, that is – very small, very claustrophobic little spaces in your head. You’d run away screaming if you could, but the whole point is that you can’t. Anyway, enough of that. Enough of the ‘small talk’ (if you will excuse my feeble attempt at humour). If you’re anything like me then you probably spend a lot of the day trying – in a perfectly futile way – to transcend the harrowing limitations of your false ego-identity. It’s a pain, isn’t it? Why do we bother, I wonder? Why do we keep on putting ourselves through it? (That was meant as a kind of ‘philosophical aside’, by the way, but it didn’t quite work).

If – like me – you spend most of the day brooding angrily on the Enigma of Creation then you’ll know what I mean when I say that it can sometimes get to you. You will feel fed up, sulky, whiny, irritable, frustrated and all that kind of thing. You will feel like throwing your toys out of the pram. You want to lash out viciously, with murderous intent. I guess we can all relate to that one, right? I know I sure as hell can. You hate that awful old Enigma – you loathe and despise it with a passion. You’d poke it viciously in the eye, if you could…

I’m just trying to reach out, I guess. I do that kind of thing, ever so often. Every few thousand years. ‘Trying to connect’ – isn’t that what they call it? The trouble is that all my ‘attempts to connect’ are ‘stabs in the dark’. I can’t connect with anything, not even myself. I can’t even connect to my own disconnected efforts to connect with my own chronic disconnecting. ‘Trying to reach out, trying to reach out!’ Yes, it’s all a Grand Joke really isn’t it? We might as well give up and stay disconnected.  It’s a grotesque farce, so why persist with it? Why do we continue participating this soul-denying parody of all that is good and wholesome? That’s another philosophical aside by the way, just in case you missed it. Like in those old-style plays where someone off-stage says something for the audience to think about between the acts.

Deities often try to help people out by telling them how to act it and what NOT to do and important stuff like that. Sometimes there’s a book involved. It all comes down to the same thing though, it all comes down to “Don’t do the dumb thing guys – do the smart thing!” Do yourselves a favour, for God’s sake… The key point to note about this however is that humanity never benefits from this Divine Guidance because they just keep on doing the dumb stuff over and over again anyway (because they can’t help it, as we’ve already said) and yet now they know that they shouldn’t be doing it. Now they know they’re ‘doing wrong’ and that God is judging them for it so there’s this new whole ‘internal conflict’-type thing going on.

You get what I’m saying here of course. Of course you do. I know i don’t need to spell it out, but I will anyway – it’s all just ‘another level of torment on top of the level that you’ve already got’. You’re suffering but you’re not suffering enough so some ‘higher being’ comes along to screw things up even more than they were before. Don’t think it doesn’t happen like that because it really really does. It happens like that all the time! We all know it too – we just pretend we don’t. ‘Keep on doing the dumb stuff,’ the voice in your head tells you – ‘keep on doing that good old dumb stuff’ it tells you, and so you do! You’re keen to win the game you see and so we can’t blame you! We can’t blame you at all. You’re looking for your slice of the cake. You’re looking for that lovely warm super-cosy ‘social-acceptance feeling’ you get when people no longer think that you’re a frighteningly loathsome creep. We’re all the same that way, of course. All the same when it comes to basic stuff like that. That’s my experience anyway. If you say one stupid thing then you might as well follow it up with another! That’s also my experience…

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