Envious God?

I believe in God.

Now that that's out of the way...

This whole "making life simpler" thing has really been getting me to thinking about something...

I could see some people making the argument that life is simpler for animals. Flies. Puppies. Ants. Kitties. Insects. Whales.

That they all just act on impulse. Their natural, animal instinct. Billions of years of evolution being engrained into each animal to act the way it does to survive and to live. This I believe to be true. Animals don't "think" the same way we do. They don't "analyze" each situation the same way we do. They don't take into account all the different things we do when we act.

I've always believed that humans are interesting 'cause we can take the natural things (eating, breathing, sleeping, drinking, mating) and DECIDE to not do them. Decide to not eat when hungry. Decide to not breath. Not to sleep when tired. Not to drink when thirsty. Not to mate...when...wanting to mate...

We can just NOT do them. Animals don't do that. They feel a need, and go for it! Hungry? They try to eat. Sleepy? They will try to sleep. Want to mate? They will just go ahead and try to find a mate! Simple, right? What a simple life they have?

Things don't go well? They don't get sad about it...they don't talk it out with another puppy...they just keep trying and will eventually succeed. Or they die. But they don't fear death, at least not the same way we "worry" about death. They just do what is natural, what is instinct, and do it!

We think.

We analyze.

We over think.

We over analyze.

We hesitate.

So let's try to be more like those animals! Make life simple!


Doesn't work. Obviously. This works for the rest of the animal kingdom 'cause the rest of the animal kingdom works this way. A handful of humans trying to do this wouldn't work. But an entire human society acting like this, WOULD work (in theory).

But I would argue the way we over analyze...the way we think...the way our conscious works...IS our animal instinct. It's part of how humans are. But like I said earlier, as humans, we can also choose not to be that way. It's our choice.

Personally, I choose to be that way. 'Cause it's what is so great about us!

Okay, now that that is said...

A lot of people look at those insects and animals in an envious way. "Oh! To be a puppy...where you don't have to worry about bills!" or "Oh ants...look at you, just digging away, not a care in the world! Not looking for love...no heartbreak..."

But those animals aren't "aware" that we exist the same way we are aware that they do. They don't see us as humans, they see us as something else. I don't know what it is. But it's not like they can think "oh look! a human foot!" It's more like "ouch! Pain! Run away! Or be killed!"

So it makes me think of it one step beyond us...a higher being above us...which would be God. An existence we know exists (at least the ones who choose to believe) but can't fully comprehend or understand, but when looking for it, we can see it (at least I believe so).

So, in the same way we look at these "lower" beings (yes that sounds a bit arrogant...) and envy their simple mindedness...does God look at us and envy our simple mindedness compared to Him? We have things we can't comprehend. "Infinity" and "nothing" are up there for me at least. We can't see the future. We don't have all the knowledge in the world.

So I wonder is God like, "Oh, look at those humans! So much happier than I am...not understanding infinity! The pain that comes with knowing all things that will ever exist!" or like "How lucky they don't have to worry about blergubloping!" ...Sidenote: Blergubloping is a pain 10x worse than heartbreak and your best friend stabbing you in the back combined while the IRS audits you...it's from an emotion we don't even understand and could never called "Gublop." And "ing" doesn't make it an "action."

Is God envious of us? 'Cause we can't see the future? We don't know all? We don't understand infinity and nothing?

Just interesting to think about...