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violetpastille

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7. Why greed?
Fri Dec 21, 2018, 03:39 PM
Dec 2018

Why that emptiness inside of us that thinks it can be filled with more?

Why do even the richest feel driven by that emptiness?

When you look at a greedy person you are looking at a hungry person.

(I think religion is a cover story wrapped in metaphor. God said, "Just be cool. Eat the fruits and if you need more B12 have some bugs. I got you. Just chill. And we were like..but technology! We can make so much stuff out of this stuff! And God said, "Please don't go there!" And we said, "We're going there." And God said, "Well now you really fucked up. Didn't you?" And so it begins. Brothers killing brothers over..remind me what they were fighting about.?* Just eat the mango and sit down. But no. Now how get back to that Heaven?..hmmm..Circumcision? Pope Hats? Inquisitions? Am I getting warm?)

It's like the Wizard of Oz. We don't have to leave home. We are here. The whole time.


*Cain = Technology = Separation from Nature = Emptiness

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