Genius

BLM:90 WHM:90 SMN:90 THF:90 WAR:90 DRK:90 RNG:90 PLD:90

So I just finished reading Emerson's Divinity School Address and it made me think of the Pope and Bill Maher. It takes a while to read it and to understand it and perhaps it takes several attempts because, well, it took ME several attempts.

So he said in it that the use of religion as a form of tradition is profane, I think, and he said that the use of religion as a form of looking into the soul is the true miracle.

I believe it to be true that the razor mind, cuts, through BS and he did that all in front of Harvard seniors. Such is what it means to be a true artist. A Genius.

The word Genius comes from an old belief that people with "odd" thoughts both transformational and rebellious were possessed by a genie or a demon as your preferance goes. The fact is that talking above your peers is sure to summon their fear and as their understanding of you wanes or lessens, you can expect their sense of duty to take hold.

Their duty to put you out.

Such was Emerson's fate as an invited speaker to Harvard. And so it will be to all people of "genius". So you must choose but choose wisely for as the wise choice will grant you everlasting life, so will the wrong choice be the end of you.

In the third installment of Indiana Jones this is what his choice was. He had to choose the cup of Christ. The villain went first and even exclaimed as he drank that "surely this is the cup of kings". And then he died. Thereafter Indiana has to choose and he chooses the cup of a carpenter's son. A small wooden cup.

So what is the lesson? What did the great risk-taker and America's greatest philosopher teach us? What did Christ teach? Working with others, gives everlasting life, trying to be a king leads to certain death. Because it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than it is for a rich man to reach heaven, he said.

And that is the lesson because rich people are not at peace. It is by their riches and methods that their souls are left tainted, burdensome, and with wens. Heh.

So work with others and be happy with your riches (count your blessings and that makes you holy ) but take care to not find yourself talking down to others. Don't be a church-goer in a bar. Don't be an 18 year veteran working next to rookies. Don't be a white person in a black neighborhood. Don't be the two story gated house at the end of a road full of trailers.

Don't be a Genius. 

ps. POOF, whaddaya need?
pss.  Bill and the Pope have in like fashion diverged from center.  Even the Republicans wonder what has happened to them, and it's this.  So if you find yourself a Republican and wonder why you are talking like you know something about rape or about illegal immigrants... QUIT THAT.  Just check out Ann Coulter's blog you will find someone that is not losing her relevance.