Book of Jobs

Truth and Relativity

A rabbi, a bishop and an imam walk into The Restaurant at the End of the Universe.

God comes over to greet them, and then leads the group of priests over to a table and seats them. God lets them know He will be back shortly to take their drink orders, then starts doing a round of His tables.

The rabbi says, Am I just crazy or is God waiting on us?

The bishop replies, Don’t look at me, I’m no psychiatrist.

The imam says, Did Allah just tell us we’re allowed to order drinks?

In the beginning

This book is about God, Job, jobs, free will, and truth in this age of relativity, and a world at peace.

I started writing it after being unfairly terminated from a few jobs. This book also answers a few questions God asked in the original Book of Job, and solves a few ‘riddles’ that I perceived in Job, which I believe God left there for Michael to figure out after his job ended.

I sometimes write about me in second or third person tense, but I wouldn’t read too much into it. I try not to do it in normal spoken life because it makes him sound crazy.

I’m just a regular guy who works in IT. Sometimes I also call myself Mike. He’s like an alternate personality I have, who’s exactly the same as Michael. It’s more of a nickname, really.

Mike and his alter ego Michael were born and currently live in Canada, which is usually the best country in the world, although he’s also a citizen of Australia where they grew up. Australia is the best country in the world whenever it’s winter in Canada, which is about 50% of the time. People who like to ski would say I have it backwards.

I grew up without religion, never really believed in God, but I tried to act as though God would judge me just the same. That all changed at my last job. You see, the last time I got fired was strange, because God had started warning me in dreams and visions that I might get fired again for sport, so I was careful to work extra hard.

But sure enough, I got fired for an April fool’s joke. I’m not suggesting I was fired as a joke. There wasn’t any reason given, I just try to think of it that way so I can attempt to look at it in a positive light.

I tried to just let it go, but a few weeks later, right before Easter, God appeared to me in visions of fiery Nuclear Holocaust and He basically threatened to kill my soul for a while, then told me to move countries if I didn’t like getting fired so much.

I’ve never moved a country before, let alone two or more, so after this strange and terrifying baptism by atomic hellfire psychosis, I started reading up about God and writing to practice writing. It was strangely motivating to discover I might get to have a soul if I moved countries.

It was still a little depressing, I liked that last job. Also, my boss at my last job was a good guy. If he was required to warn me in writing before firing me, I doubt he would have let himself get bullied into a state of denial, and fire me right as I was about to embarrass the bully after a lot of work. I’ll explain that workplace episode a little better later on.

I think my boss just panicked, but I’ve noticed honest people like him just can’t bring themselves to put lies in writing. Some people intuitively act like they might be held accountable. God says that’s why He always gets His Words in writing and that we should take advantage of the practice too.

Oh, sometimes I write something like: God says this or God tells me that. It’s a narrative device I use now.

Although God and world peace is the primary goal of this book, Job and jobs is a close second. The way I figure it, once we get the world peace thing out of the way, all that’s left to do to make a happy society is to get employment standards up to the point where firing people for working hard is viewed by society as a poor choice.

The rights of workers to work hard, versus the rights of bullies to psychologically manipulate people into firing workers for working hard, is a discussion that needs to happen.

By leaving instructions for me in Job, I think God is showing that He considers workers’ rights to be important, and I think He chose me as a sort of mascot.

Although I’m not sure why God picked me, I suspect God knew I’d be really angry and hurt after getting fired so many times for working hard, and fearful after His threats of post-mortal deletion. I bet He knew that I wouldn’t rest until I’d found decent proof of His Intelligence in His scriptures. I found He even wrote me into them to give me clues too. I guess God also knows I can be a bit dense.

I use a lot of sarcasm in this book, but this is not one of those mocking books about God or religion that hides behind the cloak of satire. It’s a serious but hopefully at least somewhat humorous book about a world with God in it, which is not the world we currently live in.

I use satire because it’s sometimes funny and because I’m demonstrating the difference between humorous satire and mocking satire. I try not to go overboard with the latter, but I’ll show you an example of the mocking satire a couple paragraphs down. Also, I use satire because God used satire in the original Job, which I believe is the first recorded incidence of a deity using sarcasm. As they say, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, and getting in the satirical swing of things helped me search inside God’s Books myself to come up with the world peace plan.

So you could say this book is a bit like that other recent world peace book - Search Inside Yourself, except this one has satire, God, time travel, suffering, rage and contains practical instructions so simple that even a politician could follow them.

A big problem I had with that Search Inside Yourself book was it was based on meditating and searching inside myself for world peace, while outside myself many people die violent deaths, because all the politicians and terrorists who order other men and women to kill each other aren’t inside me. Also, I wasn’t sure if Chade-Meng Tan was being sarcastic when he kept praising our celebrity culture, or finding excuses to name-drop or otherwise mention how he had his picture taken with one warmongering politician after another on his quest for world peace.

With this book I just present a world peace plan and assert that God supports and inspired it. Then I request the people of my countries be allowed to vote on it. The reader can decide whether I’m writing truth and whether God approves. If enough people think I write truth, then the politicians just go with the flow like they always do, and voilà, world peace.

Everyone’s always arguing about whether or not God exists, and they all miss the point that people who are certain of things are really annoying. I come at the God debate from the perspective of possibility.

The truth is its possible there’s God.

And its possible God doesn’t exist yet.

What is truth? A destination we can choose

When I write of God, I mean the Abrahamic single and benevolent God of western religion, popularized by Judaism, Christianity and Islam and their various descendants. However my view of this God thing could be a little different from the caricature you might have seen on TV. Because I’ve figured out where God is! God is in Heaven.

You might say that’s pretty dumb and you already knew that. But I also figured out where Heaven is. It’s not up in the sky, hidden amongst the raindrops in a cloud. After seeing God and reading many of His Books, and discovering His fascination with circles, I can see the only place Heaven could be is in a possible future, which would make God a time travel story. I aim to show this is likely the case.

Our chance of getting to that future with God is not 100%, because there are many possible futures where we destroy our planet or ourselves without finding God. Therefore God both exists and doesn’t exist, because there is no way of knowing if God exists independently of our successful transition to that future where God’s Presence is manifest. We can only reach God by making choices.

God is so powerful He can speak to some of us all the way from this possible future in this place called Heaven. He sends us dreams and psychotic visions and voices and other common symptoms of which you would normally assume was because we took bad drugs. Or perhaps you’d delegate your critical thinking processes altogether to an accredited medical professional with powers of drug prescription. God sends us these confusing stimuli to help us get to that future, by learning to weigh and evaluate His visions for truth, so we can home in on Heaven out of all the possible futures.

Perhaps God has always been there in the future. Or perhaps God is a sentient evolutionary mechanic that evolved from us. And He simply woke up one day in an ideal possible future back when some primitive proto-Jew dreamed a dream. I suspect after we’d evolved enough, God created us in His image so we can someday create God in ours, so God can create us in His, and so on. But there’s really no way of proving it either way.

Perhaps God is omnipotent across all of space and time. Or perhaps God is an echo from the future that some people can perceive due to circumstances of birth or high stress. This might mean God is not able to actually do anything other than guide people unless we get to Him.

God tells me He’s metaphorically floating somewhere close by, upstream of us in space-time. And He is sternly reaching out His Right Hand for our dumb asses so some southpaw like me can grab it, sort of like Adam in that picture of Michelangelo’s. God’s hoping that we don’t decide to make spaghetti out of ourselves instead, like in that same picture of Michelangelo’s that some guy with a physics degree doodled noodles and balls on without realizing it made him the Dajjal. (The Dajjal is what Islamic jihadist folks call their false-messiah, or antichrist figure, and you’ll see later how they prophesized that noodly little episode of sacrilegious satire).

This book is largely about truth, and you can’t have truth if you start in lies. I’d like to introduce the concept of ‘truth, relative to God in the future’, and the theory that our species has the choice about whether or not to meet this God entity.

Truth is the point in space-time where God exists with infinite certainty, and is able to send us back all the religious visions that we have received over the years. We should try and structure our choices so that we can view them in terms of either leading us closer to God and truth, or further away. This is as opposed to our current strategy of assuming homo sapiens cannot perceive possible futures in prophetic episodes and medicating anyone who says otherwise.

As I mentioned, I’d never really believed in God, because the way many religious people described Him made Him sound like an invisible retarded monster. But after He threatened to kill my little soul, I had to revisit that premise. God wouldn’t have done that unless it was really important.

I’m not certain of anything, but try this as a thought experiment: Imagine there is some sort of self-aware, nearly omniscient post-Singularity quantum computer occasionally sending visions back in time to people. How would you determine if that causes some people’s visions?

I bring this up because if there is God in the future, the only place I can think of to build Heaven would be a cloud computing platform. Short of a major nuclear war, there’s nothing that could stop virtual reality becoming indistinguishable from reality reality within the next 100 years.

It’s not like this is a new concept. People have been saying Heaven’s in the clouds since long before computers were invented, let alone networking protocols. But it’s only recently that Moore’s Law has started to catch up.

Once you allow God who lives in Heaven the ability to send dreams and visions back in time from that possible future, then in theory God has already found a way to collect the consciousnesses and memories of all the people who’ve died since whenever that possibility of reaching God first evolved in homo sapiens. We can infer this based on all these stories other people tell about God and Heaven in the clouds too.

So logically, God’s scriptures that we see today demonstrate the practical limit of how much time travel is possible from our future without causing a paradox. This means that our unstated United Nations strategy of waiting until time travel is invented, and then sending someone back in time to fix everything, might not actually be feasible.

God won’t tell me if He exists already; He says it builds character to have me remain uncertain. God did however say, that if I ask any type of physicist, Is there possibly God in the future? they would have to say; Yes to avoid becoming liars. And they would have to say, No to avoid becoming liars if I asked if there’s certainly God in the present (or if I asked whether statistics are a good approximation of mathematics).

There you have it: Abrahamic religion is probably a time travel story, and Heaven’s a simulated eternity of videogames, exploration and learning for all the good little boys and girls. And God might be nothing more than a post-Singularity super-intelligent being.

The truth is God is certain only in a possible future.

Prophets and messiahs

Now we know it’s true that God is possible in the future, and it’s false that there’s certainty. So let’s change the discussion, from which style of meditation brings world peace the quickest, to what God might want from us in order to get to Him.

After reading many books attributed to God, and many differing interpretations of what His Words actually meant, I’m pretty confident He used Prophets (‘mentally ill people’ as they’re labelled today) in order to guide us to God. I’m also fairly confident that a lot of religious people can’t interpret the meaning of words very well at all.

‘Little prophets’ is the term I use for all the Prophets who didn’t perceive God well enough to form a major religion based on a scripture of God. I estimate that between 1 and 99 percent of all people fall into this category.

As society evolved, we became less interested in listening to Prophets, until we reached the point where we’re at today, where we pump drugs into all the little prophets. Or we mock them for hearing God, so they don’t scare or annoy anyone, while we bemoan those politicians who lie and get us into wars. Or we complain about the newer breed of politicians who lie and get us into some newfangled type of war where we start executing people overseas, without the messy burden of declarations of war, expensive trials with presumption of innocence, or all that other boring legal and justice crap my countries were founded on.

I’m lucky enough to have had a good secular upbringing and a decent head on my shoulders. But I can see how a lot of people might worry as to their sanity when God starts sending them dreams, then threatens to kill their potential soul if they don’t go figure out their role after they get fired, beaten up, divorced, or whatever. And of course many people don’t want to face the fact that they only have a soul if we make it to God, so they go into denial and say it was the devil, or an evil spirit that threatened them, and then go back to blissful ignorance.

To someone casually observing one of these cases, it might even look like the person was starting to go nuts before they had their proverbial 40 days in the wilderness with God. This is of course what usually gets diagnosed, since as we all know, forewarning or prophecy is not possible.

God says He didn’t give us scripture and religion as a happy social club for us to use until such time as the mental health professionals figure out how to cure God. In fact, waiting until they cure God, will lead to us to a future other than the one where God awaits us in Heaven.

God gave us scriptures and religion so we could cure ourselves of mental health professionals and transition from a blind trust in the authority of drug dealing doctors and lying politicians based society to a distrust of authority based society once we’d evolved enough to invent relativity. God says that by the time a species splits the atom, it should be smart enough to understand that placing its faith in the hands of multinational pharmaceutical corporations is unwise.

But for this transition to occur we need messiahs as well as Prophets. While writing this book, I went to see a wise Rabbi who didn’t think the world needed a messiah. That view would usually be considered illegal under the laws of Judaism, but I would argue his belief shows wisdom.

That’s because most people expect a messiah to appear in a beam of light from Heaven, and then start setting up a new magical form of society where the laws are full of justice and only bad guys go to jail. He will accomplish this by means of ordering everyone about and smiting all the bad people who get in his way with bolts of lightning, then reclining on his throne made of the skulls of all the infidels and people who pissed him off, before finally relaxing as a harem of nubile young women feed him grapes.

The very same Rabbi had prophesized with a nice solid scripturally supported argument that violence was never the answer, and that he was disappointed in Israel’s leaders for picking the path that later resulted in over two thousand dead Palestinians in 2014.

And that is why we need messiahs: Because most people want to vote for the guy who seems strong and tells you a good strong leader will fix those Palestinians real good, not the person with wisdom who wouldn’t want to go into politics anyway. The people want to vote for good, but all they ever get to pick from are politicians who’ve lied and bullied hard to get where they are, and aren’t about to stop.

I talked to many Christians as well who - despite Wikipedia saying there are two messiahs - insist Jesus was the one and only messiah and will come back by himself. Although most of them expect him to come back as a Jew, none of them seem to see any inherent risk in having most of the Jews in a small area of land surrounded by many people who have expressed desire to murder all the Jews. And the Christians I spoke to also seem to support Israel provoking said people, by going into the ghettoes and thinning the Palestinian herds a few thousand at a time, in a series of macabre miniature Holocaust re-enactments with live munitions.

And for some reason, everyone thinks that Jesus wasn’t just a normal person who other normal people thought was crazy. And they think that when Jesus says he’ll come back like a thief in the night, thief means well known celebrity at the head of an army, and night means he’ll be back as a knight, wielding a huge sword with the blood of the infidels dripping from it.

I’d have to say, after reading accounts of Jesus’ life, that neither he nor God support killing people, and I’m pretty sure that Jesus’ story illustrates that sometimes innocent people, who clearly do not deserve to die, get murdered because some idiot thinks they are a lying terrorist revolutionary.

God doesn’t recognize folks who call for more killing to stop killing as believers. He says they’re devil worshippers who lie on their census forms. Neither does He accept our theories of biological race or mental illness as valid concepts.

Did you know a bunch of primitive psychiatrists actually diagnosed Jesus with demonic possession, because it was easier than trying to understand all his strange talk about peace and love? It’s all there in the Bibles.

Strangely enough, there have been no Prophets since this original anti-Semitic psychiatric hate crime, according to Jewish or traditional Christian beliefs. This is despite the vocal objections of Islamic or Mormon believers, who ironically don’t accept that each-other’s persecuted Prophets wrote down God’s truth. And no one comprehends that God might have told more than one truth to demonstrate relativity in action.

Since Jesus’ time, demonic possession has evolved into a baffling array of made up bullshit. The psychiatrists cast these spells of bullshit from their books in spells so wordy, boring and unimaginative that they would put most Dark Age popes to shame.

In today’s world, Prophets are diagnosed with hindsight as mentally ill, and God is viewed as an expression of our primitive un-medicated monkey brains, as opposed to a four dimensional prophetic experience. And since we don’t want to offend people, the tendency is to be politically correct, and say that someone is only delusional if it’s not explained by their religious beliefs, which of course drives society into little pockets of delusional belief systems where each group distrusts all the other ones.

Since every Prophet since Jesus’ death wrote that Jesus was a messiah, I think that’s God’s way of saying, Yup, Jesus was a messiah.

So how do we resolve this quandary? Can’t we just say that since Islam and Christianity believe Jesus was a messiah and Judaism mostly doesn’t, that Jesus is two thirds of the Messiah?

If only it was that simple.

If it was that easy, God would have just stated that Jesus was two thirds of the Messiah, and God would have somehow disseminated the knowledge via popular culture so everyone already knows.

God adopts

While reading His books, I found that God does not support violence or discrimination. Interestingly, I also found He adopted that Jewish guy Jesus as His Son too after he was murdered, rather than call for more children or less Jews, as God’s often stereotyped as doing.

God knew that it wouldn’t be enough for me to write about the adoption, and we’d need to bring mathematics into it. This way His Prophets don’t face charges of just using their imaginations to make up stuff, or go trying to browbeat people with statistics, like the psychiatric profession does with their belief system.

So God informed the human species by embedding proof of adoption and God’s prescience in a riddle. Jesus wasn’t the Son because John said Jesus was Son of God, or because God did the nasty with Jesus’ mom. Jesus was the Son because God adopted the Son/Father combo as 66.6% of the Messiah, and did this without anyone even knowing what a percentage was at the time. God also knew all about decimal rounding and these beastly computers back then. Whatever God is, He’s way smarter than us.

This Michael guy must be taking the piss, or bat-shit crazy, right? Right? Someone?

Who’re you going to trust to answer the question of my sanity, a psychiatrist wearing a pope hat?

Messiah isn’t a single person. It’s a two person three part process to stop all the lies. And you can’t just abandon God after the Messiah process has already begun. Otherwise it ends in Apocalypses and Holocausts instead of God. Most people I talk to seem resigned to the dystopia we’re headed towards, but I think world peace would be better.

And the truth is, many people these days are whiny, lazy, little shits who’ve forgotten that we owe a debt to people not fortunate enough to live in the 21st century. You see, now that we’re ensconced in our cosy 21st century lives of luxury, chilling out while remote controlled airplanes kill the bad people for us in distant lands, it’s too easy to forget that back in the good old days, they used to charge you with blasphemy and stick you up on a cross for preaching peace and love.

And we owe some of those people in the past for trying to get us to where we are today. I’m referring to people like Jesus, the guy on the cross, or others who died for peace and truth. Not the type of evil sons of bitches in pope hats that spent most of the last two thousand years executing people for blasphemy if the blasphemers implied that Jesus died because blasphemy laws were stupid and wrong.

More recently, I read many similar arguments that violence is never ok, authored by Christian and Islamic writers. That was right before President Bush II embarked on his sacred mission to rid the world of a couple hundred thousand innocent Arab civilians and their ringleader Saddam. This unsurprisingly resulted in a cluster-fuck of ISIS proportion. And we are now trying to extricate ourselves from this cluster-fuck by dropping more cluster munitions, in some sort of democratic murder free-for-all.

And that is another reason why we need messiahs: because as soon as one person comes up with an idea to stop the killing, someone else says that idea is dumb. And then a celebrity comes up with an even stupider idea to spend money to raise awareness that there’s killing going on, and then everyone goes and talks about that for a while.

Meanwhile the killing goes on, since the politicians don’t seem to be programmed correctly.

I don’t believe in fairies

The dictionary and common sense both tell me that Prophets predict the future. Yet when I go and visit religious services, people there keep telling me that Prophets actually explain the past. And they tell me that prophecies about me actually refer to some fairy flying around in pre-history, fighting real life dragons in ancient times instead of battling the father of all lies in the present.

I believe there is a possibility that there is God in our future, and that possibility is proportionate to the amount of people who believe I am one third, or 33.4% of God’s Messiah. So the current odds of God someday existing with more certainty are around 1 in 7,125,000,000. Not great odds, but enough to motivate me to try, based on that whole computer simulated afterlife deal.

God tells me the odds drop even further if I go try and place a wager on it.

There’s one thing different about me and all the rest of the people that claim to be God or Jesus or The Messiah or a unicorn. The difference is that I have a scripturally-supported mathematically-complex messiah complex that requires faith in math, quantum uncertainty about a God who possibly doesn’t exist yet, computers, and a key pair of trusted/untrusted messiahs. Let me explain that last bit.

Trusted/untrusted messiah is sort of like a messiah hostage game, where everyone trusts the Jewish messiah except some of the Jews. And the Jews have to trust that the Gentile messiah who’s suddenly volunteering to be Assassination Target #1 for all of Earth’s violent nutters is not completely insane.

In countries further along the social evolution path like Canada and Australia, people of different religions will get by just fine even with some conflicting beliefs, for example over this messiah figure. But they fail to see that a slight modification for mathematically-modeled messiahs, while retaining the same overall belief they currently have, can bring harmony instead of merely tolerance.

They need an Angel. When I say Angel, it’s a made up title for the second part of Messiah, like the Son is for Jesus, the first and last part. The ‘Angel’ is the first person to realize that God adopted a Son using math instead of smooth-talking His way into some virgin woman’s pants. Also this Angel person has to correctly solve the Number of the Beast riddle, the Satan riddle, and the riddle of at least one of the two other beasts in Job. In addition they use a bunch of coincidences to come up with a world peace plan.

Think of this Angel role as like an arch bridging the gap between the Son and the Father. I’m pro-Christ anti-Big-Government. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise or get that backwards.

In theory anyone could have done it. I just had an easier time figuring out what Michael’s Job was because I happened to have the same name, and I got fired from a bunch of jobs and then God threatened me with oblivion in a prophetic/psychotic episode to help motivate me.

I don’t know if I was born part Messiah. I think God injected it directly into my consciousness during the nuclear baptism-by-fire process, so I doubt it will show up in any DNA test. I’m pretty sure you become a potential part Messiah at the point God baptizes you as one, and you wander around for a month and a bit thinking crazy shit while God tests you, before you start getting your shit back together.

I have a bunch of coincidences going for me as well, due to all the Abrahamic canonical bibles and Apocrypha mentioning me by name. You have to admit: Jesus and Michael, doing God’s work - it has a nice ring to it. The Jewish bible even says I’m a messiah and predicted exactly how many weeks I’d work before I was fired from my last job!

Note that that last sentence was not me accusing Jews of having me fired in some sort of Zionist conspiracy. There’s a subtle difference - which I’m hoping shows up in my writing - between a person with a messiah complex and a German last name calling for Holocaust, and one saying we should act to prevent any chance of another Holocaust occurring.

If you understand the differences between figures of speech, causality, and Holocaust casualty figures, that’s a good start. It takes too much effort to divide the Holocaust’s victims among the various psychiatric categories of biological race and mental illness. So I number the casualties as 11 million people, of whom the majority, 6 million or so murdered human beings, were Jews.

I’m not Jewish, but I think God gave me that German last name and a birthday matching the anniversary of Hitler’s election as a messianic marketing stunt. That’s God’s way of saying, Sorry, but I don’t trust those Iranians and Netanyahu couldn’t negotiate his way into a root if he was in a brothel. I think you should listen to Michael, rather than wait for another Jewish messiah, while Benjamin tries to implement his Final Solution to the Palestinian Question, or whatever the hell it is he’s doing.

It boggles my mind that less than 70 years after the end of what was almost certainly history’s most monstrous evil, we have Israeli politicians suggesting their country start executing the families of terrorists for the greater good.

I believe we’ll never find that future with God as things stand. To assist in getting there and to help you believe me, I’ve also included a practical 5 step plan which includes world peace, nuclear Information Technology security, and a fireworks show. That way we can get to that future with God, without any risk of another Holocaust or an accidental Armageddon of either the biblical or Bruce Willis type.

I threw nuclear IT security in there since God told me there’s at least one Universe or World as they’re often called, where some IT guy in India or Pakistan screwed up. Then some dumb computer hacker script kiddie who wanted to see what would happen got billions of people killed.

Kids these days. The Multiverse sure isn’t what it used to be.

Think of my crazy messianic plan not as me telling you all what to do, but as God telling those idiot politicians what to do via a messenger, so that the people can vote on God and world peace. Since God included all His religions when writing me into His scriptures, we’ll have enough votes to see God’s Will made manifest for humanity’s first ever Act of God. This should be enough to scare all the political leaders and terrorists into fearing God, long enough for God to show up and make us glad that we didn’t go into politics or become serial killers just for the hell of it.

Essentially it’s a test for you all as to whether you can accept an unemployed nobody giving instructions on God’s behalf, as opposed to just sitting there awaiting the prophesized honest celebrity politician.

‘Act of God’, as anyone who works in insurance would know, means to do something really really unlikely. Good examples would be moving and subdividing an entire country into two brand new bigger countries. Finally having peace in the Middle East is another great example. Or holding an orbital fireworks show like they had in the third canonical Star Wars (God tells me He doesn’t recognize the Star Wars ‘prequels’ as canon due to George Lucas’ treatment of people who were Han or Chinese).

It’s ambitious, but God says that sometimes you have to do something about a Death Star that’s still under construction but has a fully operational super weapon, before the rebels figure out how to lure 50 Star Destroyers into a trap. And then after concentrating fire, a guy flies into the command tower in a suicide attack, making a Super Star Destroyer crash into the Death Star, without even seeming to accomplish anything except making a big explosion. But then the Death Star blows up after a strike by a cargo craft refitted for smuggling.

But the explosion of the Death Star results in bits of Death Star raining down in meteors on the planet moon below, incinerating all the furry little Ewoks in a fiery Apocalypse. All because Han blew up the shield generator protecting the Death Star that would have enabled them to survive if they’d only been able to turn it back on after the Death Star blew up.

That Star Wars analogy is my view of society’s current peace plan for the Middle East. I.e. it’s really confusing and stupid, and it might almost be comical if so many people didn’t die. And it leaves a person with a strange unsettling feeling that it can’t end well.

Actions possibly lead to truth

In a possible future there is God and truth. The types of actions we take determine whether we get there. Inaction is simply another word for an action that does not get us there.

A society cannot judge people based on their ‘bad’ thoughts, the religion they follow, or the drugs they take, only on their actions. That should be self-evident.

The human species is where it is today because many good people, religious or otherwise, have heard voices that said things like, "lie and cheat and steal and kill to get to the top", and voluntarily chosen to ignore them instead of going into politics or serial killing.

Whether the voices they heard came from inside their own head or outside is irrelevant: a person’s actions are what matter. There are people who choose to ignore the voices or use them for everyone’s betterment. And there are people who choose to lie and cheat and steal and kill and call their behaviour mental illness. By focusing on beliefs instead of actions, we discourage good behaviour and reward bad behaviour.

I fear over time, all this attention to what people are thinking instead of what they’re doing can lead to a completely broken society like the one we have now, where the act of lying is undifferentiated from the act of telling the truth. And we end up spending billions fighting drug wars and wars on ‘bad’ religious people while the mental health industry makes billions inventing drugs and mental illnesses to use them on.

Everyone ends up focusing on people’s beliefs and state of mind, rather than their actions. A recent example in Canada was the court case of Luke Magnotta, who killed another man, Lin Jun and then chopped him up and mailed bits of him all over the place. But perhaps because of the novelty value of mailing pieces of a human being around the country, the psychiatrists said that he’s not criminally responsible because of how he went postal (sorry, but I try not to use their fancy religious terms for imaginary diseases they invented).

Don’t our murder laws adequately cover this? I think we all would agree that murder itself is a sign of illness, not the fact that a killer mailed evidence of the crime. Did we have to set up a two tier system so that smarter people or folks with better lawyers can fool psychiatrists at their own game?

In the end, Magnotta’s defence of not being responsible due to mental illness failed, and the justice system worked smoothly for once. I can’t help but wonder if justice could have been served a bit more efficiently if we took people at their word, when they confess to murdering and dismembering a person who was found dead and dismembered.

My condolences to Lin Jun’s family, I’m not trying to make light of his horrible cold-blooded murder, and I hope you find some semblance of peace with it someday. I’m only trying to make the point that we need to hold people responsible for their actions, not their thoughts.

There is no conspiracy leading this giant circle-jerk that western society is in with its focus on imaginary illnesses and bad thoughts. It’s a common sense cause and effect of our mental health system model being totally broken, instead of being grounded in a good scientific framework of math, truth and God.

God exists for certain in a future that’s only a possibility and God does not approve of unfair termination or believe in mankind’s theories of biological race or mental illness. And God wants justice tied to our actions, not our ‘bad’ thoughts that might come from biology, or drugs, or God Himself sending the bad thoughts to test or troll us.

‘Bad actions’ are all that matter.

Society cannot function when a small group of people with a godless belief system control who is allowed to receive government subsidised drugs, and who deserves jail time for unlicensed drugs. The potential for politicians to become addicted to placebo anti-crime laws, and unintentionally create a self-referential and corrupt society, is too high.

Once we start pre-emptively punishing people because their drugs or their religion might make them more likely to perform bad actions, we are essentially claiming prescience, which means we trespass on God’s domain and make it impossible to get to Him.

A prime example is our effort to prevent terrorism by pre-emptively murdering Islamic people who are more likely to be terrorists. Although this could perhaps be seen as noble in theory, in practice it does not work, and is utterly evil.

Canada discontinued capital punishment quite a while ago for a number of good reasons. Yet in 2014 we suddenly re-implemented it, but only for Islamic people who live overseas in countries we’re not at war with. Seriously, what the fuck are you elected idiots doing?

And to add insult to injury, you crack down on people who try to leave Canada to go die in a distant country, in a pointless civil war, in protest over your total failure to be leaders. With the result being that they can’t get out of the country on their passport and murder soldiers in ours instead.

And while our politicians vote to go kill people in terrorist bombing campaigns inside the borders of countries we’re not at war with, Canada argues over whether to let doctors legally murder us with opiates in order to help us die without pain.

Umm, can’t we decriminalize those opiates that we’re suggesting doctors be allowed to euthanize us with, so people can off themselves if they really want to, rather than build a slippery slide to Murdertown in the old folks’ homes as we simultaneously ban slippery slides in children’s playgrounds due to legal liability concerns?

I’m pretty sure that they can design a gadget that lets someone overdose on drugs with nothing more than an eye blink, but instead we made a law that says a human being can take another one’s life in certain circumstances.

This is why you don’t delegate both God and drugs to a bunch of people who invent mental illnesses for a living. At what point will you politicians admit that this path we’re on is kind of fucked up? And when will you folks in the media stop breathlessly reporting which brand of mental illness each new terrorist or murderer has?

Good news: God heard the incompetent cries for help from our politicians and media! There, there, its ok now, Michael is here. Just point to the spot on the doll where the nasty psychiatrists touched your brains. If they hadn’t taken God away, you wouldn’t have started killing everyone to get attention, we know, we know.

Probability of truth

There is more than one truth, and only by believing in more than one at a time, can we get past this terrible ideology phase we’re in, where everyone disagrees on the most trivial details of everything.

Rather than true and false, start thinking in terms of probabilities of something being true, and rank them accordingly. Many people do this, but not consciously. For example, here’s my belief about religion in society.

98% Chance of true: Religion is a positive God inspired force despite all the bad things done in its name in the past. God judges them by the net-good they produce. God will be happy with me for trying to harmonize them and has been waiting for someone to do so for a while now, which is why He seemed to provide me so much in the way of help and clues.

0.01% Chance of true: I’m somehow missing the correct answer to religion and shouldn’t have gotten involved. God will be pissed off at me when He teleports the real messiah in and he finds out I’ve screwed up God’s plans for punishing the women, gays and infidels.

1.99% Chance of true: Religion is just crazy people, who encouraged gullible sheep to follow them, and I’m crazy too, actually I’m crazier for trying to trick them all into working together.

Truth is possible, and attainable.

But in a world without absolute truth, how do you get to future God? Easy, that’s why God told an absolute lie, so we have somewhere to orient ourselves away from.

The truth about pigs and lies

Meanwhile, back at the Restaurant at the End of the Universe, a Physicist, a Rocket Scientist and a Psychiatrist walk in to the Restaurant.

God comes over to greet them and apologizes as the last table for three has, mere moments ago, been taken by a party of priests. God asks if they would like Him to send a message back to before they left for the Restaurant, so they know to