The karma chickens are home
So what we have here is the proverbial chickens coming to the proverbial home to proverbially roost.
Short form - karma.
Longer form - God told you what he was gonna do if you were to do what you actually did, so, now, is he doing it? Or letting it be done? Or is this just the inevitable karma coming due?
Here's what I think. I think that having done what we did, it was eventually going to happen to us. All it took was the Perfect Storm. Fauci called it that the other day. And God knew that it was coming, because this is not his first rodeo. Or chicken roosting.
There's this thing in Chaos Theory, or at least I think it's in Chaos Theory, though I could have just made it up and injected it into Chaos Theory on my own, which I doubt, 'cause I'm not that smart.
Chaos Theory, for a quick review, is the Butterfly Effect, where every now and then, when things are just right, things go wrong in a remarkable way. A house of cards, delicately balanced, doesn't collapse one card at a time. It just all comes down. An avalanche of snow or rock might shed little tinier avalanches for awhile, but sooner or later, the mountainside is gonna come down on your head all at once.
All at once. When things are juuuuust right. Or wrong, as the case may be. In our particular case, as the case is, or was, or is still being.
What I think might also be a part of Chaos Theory is what physicist Brian Greene calls "clumping". The early universe was phenomenally homogenous, meaning that it had nearly the same temperature and density everywhere to an unbelievable degree, and then it started clumping into hotter and colder spots, more dense and less dense spots. Now, much later, lots of hot and cold spots, the cold places being where matter collected and became stars, planets, galaxies, you and me, the more dense places (and speaking of dense, Donald J. Trump), the hot spots being where emptiness resulted - no stars, planets, galaxies, or dense presidents. Clumping. Trump is a clump. I mean, we're all clumps, too, but we're not quite as Dr. Seuss about it.
My thought is that if we want to talk about good and bad things happening in life, they don't get evenly distributed around humanity, pretending as though humans are the only intelligent life forms and that there are no aliens (speaking of clearly being an alien, Donald J. Trump). The good and the bad things in your life and mine and everyone else's don't happen at exactly regular intervals inside a life. You get a few good things every now and then, and then you get a few bad things every now and then, which is when you want to curse God and die because WHY is this happening to ME?
It's happening to you because of clumping. Bad things clump. Worse is that good and bad things don't get distributed evenly between humans. Some people experience fewer bad things and more good things, some fewer good and more bad. That tends obviously to be true for rich and poor people, the rich sheltered from bad things by their money and getting many more good things, the poor sheltered from good things by their poverty and cursed with many more bad things. But even some poor people will suffer more than others. It's just math. It's just Chaos. It's clumping.
And the same is true for villages, cities, states, and countries. Some will suffer more, some less. Rich countries tend to suffer less, of course, and poor countries, more. It is an uneven distribution. Clumping.
As a side note, countries that are rich tend very strongly to feel as though God has blessed them for some imaginary, mythological reason that they make up to justify being rich and not having to help the poor countries, who are poor, it is thought, because they have done something terrible that really pissed God off. The real reason is clumping, but people tend to be bad at math and ignorant of Chaos Theory, and good at being smug.
You know, it's bad enough to be smug when you're right, but when you're wrong, smug is supremely irritating.
And smugness tends to clump.
Short form - karma.
Longer form - God told you what he was gonna do if you were to do what you actually did, so, now, is he doing it? Or letting it be done? Or is this just the inevitable karma coming due?
Here's what I think. I think that having done what we did, it was eventually going to happen to us. All it took was the Perfect Storm. Fauci called it that the other day. And God knew that it was coming, because this is not his first rodeo. Or chicken roosting.
There's this thing in Chaos Theory, or at least I think it's in Chaos Theory, though I could have just made it up and injected it into Chaos Theory on my own, which I doubt, 'cause I'm not that smart.
Chaos Theory, for a quick review, is the Butterfly Effect, where every now and then, when things are just right, things go wrong in a remarkable way. A house of cards, delicately balanced, doesn't collapse one card at a time. It just all comes down. An avalanche of snow or rock might shed little tinier avalanches for awhile, but sooner or later, the mountainside is gonna come down on your head all at once.
All at once. When things are juuuuust right. Or wrong, as the case may be. In our particular case, as the case is, or was, or is still being.
What I think might also be a part of Chaos Theory is what physicist Brian Greene calls "clumping". The early universe was phenomenally homogenous, meaning that it had nearly the same temperature and density everywhere to an unbelievable degree, and then it started clumping into hotter and colder spots, more dense and less dense spots. Now, much later, lots of hot and cold spots, the cold places being where matter collected and became stars, planets, galaxies, you and me, the more dense places (and speaking of dense, Donald J. Trump), the hot spots being where emptiness resulted - no stars, planets, galaxies, or dense presidents. Clumping. Trump is a clump. I mean, we're all clumps, too, but we're not quite as Dr. Seuss about it.
My thought is that if we want to talk about good and bad things happening in life, they don't get evenly distributed around humanity, pretending as though humans are the only intelligent life forms and that there are no aliens (speaking of clearly being an alien, Donald J. Trump). The good and the bad things in your life and mine and everyone else's don't happen at exactly regular intervals inside a life. You get a few good things every now and then, and then you get a few bad things every now and then, which is when you want to curse God and die because WHY is this happening to ME?
It's happening to you because of clumping. Bad things clump. Worse is that good and bad things don't get distributed evenly between humans. Some people experience fewer bad things and more good things, some fewer good and more bad. That tends obviously to be true for rich and poor people, the rich sheltered from bad things by their money and getting many more good things, the poor sheltered from good things by their poverty and cursed with many more bad things. But even some poor people will suffer more than others. It's just math. It's just Chaos. It's clumping.
And the same is true for villages, cities, states, and countries. Some will suffer more, some less. Rich countries tend to suffer less, of course, and poor countries, more. It is an uneven distribution. Clumping.
As a side note, countries that are rich tend very strongly to feel as though God has blessed them for some imaginary, mythological reason that they make up to justify being rich and not having to help the poor countries, who are poor, it is thought, because they have done something terrible that really pissed God off. The real reason is clumping, but people tend to be bad at math and ignorant of Chaos Theory, and good at being smug.
You know, it's bad enough to be smug when you're right, but when you're wrong, smug is supremely irritating.
And smugness tends to clump.
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