Stumbling (over)

Just read over a thread called 'Where is God in Fukushima', started by someone with quite a philosophical nick on a multi-interest platform.

Actually, I had similar kind of thoughts some time in life. Usually, these kind of thoughts fit well into the age of puberty where we question but usually get no satisfying answers. These questions go like: How can there be a God if children in Africa are starving? How can there be a God if people are making wars that threaten us underlyingly all the time? Where was god when upright people gave their lives for a better or more just world, being slaughtered away by those who have other plans (with us)? This is happening all the time throughout all times. Sometimes it happens more drasticly and obvious, and sometimes just more creepingly. These days we have more the problem to detect the creeping illusionists than to identify the straight baddies. Both kind certainly do no good - the first ones though are doing it making us or others believe they do good.

So then, where is god?

The question should much better be: Where is the good in us, in us humans who were given sovereignty over this our planet? Where is our access to our own consciousness so that we become aware of what we do, what we create - and what we just ignore to know?

Where were we to make this NOT happen? Where are we when someone is in need and we just go on with our daily business - oh, I have no time, I am under pressure to reach my public transport, to still go shopping as long as the shops are open, I must finish some work right now?

There are these kind of people who are standing up, who try to make us see. They exist.

They usually pay a high price just because putting energy into this kind of moving people and working against a stream is quite exhausting unless you find a niche where you gain merits for doing so, which is then at the same time also quite a dangerous game because you never know when you start being abused as a presentation gooder. So they perform a balancing act. Often they pay with their own forthcoming and depending on where they are, with their lives. Others who do not care at all for what is essential for our human and our planetary community and simply use their energies to themselves gain advantages, in the meantime also take the share of those who care for what is relevant for all.

We don´t have to complain about where god is. 'God' is not a single standalone entity.
'Good' is in everything and everyone.


Unless it is absent.
Philosophically, of course.


And yes, we could have known and done something. Tschernobyl happened just 25 years ago.
Indeed, the only conclusion is that good must be absent. In people, certainly.


An einem Samstag - Kinostart 21. April 2011