Best Comedy Around

If you are not laugh­ing, you are not pay­ing atten­tion. Real­ity is the best com­edy you will ever find. There is con­tra­dic­tion in every­thing out there. By com­par­i­son, we are, pound for pound, one of the weak­est crea­tures on the planet. Even the best Olympic weight lifter is no match for the aver­age ani­mal in the wild of the same size.

Sure, we have a lit­tle more gray mat­ter, but by pro­por­tion not much. We brag about hav­ing oppos­ing thumbs, but we will never be able to swim like the aver­age dol­phin — or even a pen­guin. Let’s face it, we are lucky to even be still liv­ing on this planet. We are just smart enough to cre­ate advanced weapons and just dumb enough to aim them at each other.

Per­son­ally, I find insti­tu­tions hys­ter­i­cal. They are “orga­nized” in the most unor­ga­nized way. Clue­less peo­ple send big egos to vote on com­plex issues they sel­dom even read. At the local level, deci­sions are made with lit­tle or no real research. What is com­i­cal is that we are still walk­ing around on the planet. We still eat. We still mul­ti­ply. There must be some­thing a whole lot smarter than us tak­ing care of us. It is a planet cov­ered in vil­lage idiots. Some­body is look­ing out for us.

I hon­estly believe that I could make a for­mal argu­ment for a com­pas­sion­ate God based solely on the stu­pid­ity of human­ity alone (and I include myself in that). How could any species this self-destructive con­tinue to sur­vive and thrive if they did not get a whole lot of help from mys­ti­cal pow­ers of the great beyond. We are not here because we are all geniuses. We are here because some­thing (or some­one) greater cares that we do.

Some­times I won­der if God had sec­ond thoughts about giv­ing us egos. Didn’t the Cre­ator know we would be stuck on our­selves and ignore the great­ness of Being itself? Oh well, here we are. I won­der if we can improve on our record.