Without question, then,
since we reside in neither
side, we must live in
the synthesis between both.
Purgatory’s the only
other clear option.
My perception, therefore, is
that heaven, hell and
purgatory are levels
of conditions of being.
I no longer use,
with any frequency, ‘good’
or ‘bad’ with any
accuracy for moral
judgements. More often I muse
on the correctness
or incorrectness of acts
employed by humans,
accounting for their reasons,
when assessing behavior.
Yet, there’s a major
immense defense against my
moral assessments.
I lack omniscience as does
every other human.
Some such humans who
seek total obedience
speak with absolute
secular and/or sacred
authority bequeathed by
some higher power
sheathed by any who’d refute
their final judgements.
As consequence I’m content
to keep my council private.
I must pilot my
own course to be a zealot
or a hermit, but
I can’t be static in a
dynamic reality.
I must always choose.
The first order of business
is not what to choose,
but how to choose, correctly.
“What standard shall I abide?”
first rides upon: “How
should I choose a good standard
which anchors that choice?”
Conundrum and Dilemma ! !
The chart of Reality’s
Complexity gives
insight that might right your ship’s
course through rough water.
The thesis/antithesis
juxtaposition conjures
the choice between two
systems in which to anchor
the course upon which
to traverse your journey toward
Earth’s last ride in your black hearse.
With great certainty,
I choose a fate anchored to
the Uncaused Cause of
the First Cause which pauses me
to reflect upon what that
exact choice entails.
Lacking omniscience leaves me
adrift once again.
I am anchored to what I
can’t completely, truly know.
Enter the rising
of institutionalized
religions’ holy
castes of men, women, prophets
who audit our choices.
Take note: scientists
missed inclusion in the mist
of wonder workers.
Even worst, all scientists
resist lack of any proof
when making statements
about definitive truth.
Hence, a great divide
would ensue to hide the fact
that all language encodes and
decodes all human
perceptions, speculations,
decrees and reprieves.
Therefore, unfortunately,
I must rely on my self,
my soul, to know what
I should bestow upon the
Uncaused Cause of the
First Cause’s natural core.
My ship is stabilizing
by realizing
my belief that the Thesis
sources creation,
not utter devastation,
and my faith that I’m correct
that I should reject
the Antithesis without
a hint of regret.
My ship’s now on course toward the
source of my creation with
satisfaction that
the Creator can be known
by what is shown through
evolution’s slow progress.
In conclusion, it is true
I lack omniscience,
BUT, I have intelligence,
diligence, and a
learned conscientiousness that
are fine characteristics
bequeath by my source,
the Great Creator, whose force
brought forth the state of
being purified by real
concrete learning infused through
experiencing
tangible consequences
from the choices made
via exercising one’s
free will’s function to fulfill
our creator’s
natural tendency to
instill the power
to improve that behooves us
to choose to learn that will turn
one’s naïveté
into more penetrating
comprehension that’s
more genuine acceptance
and appreciation of
creation’s order
be it random, precise, tense,
bedlam or placid.