Artists and Creators

As an artist, I enjoy both the process of creation, as well as reflecting upon my creations. I try not to play favorites [but fail], and I want to share. Even more absolute, however, is that I don’t tend to create aimlessly. It is the aimlessness that puzzles me about Creationist thoughts. In such a vast universe, scarcely comprehensible to human standards, why would so much be created without purpose? Who would put forth the energy, effort, planning, et al., of compiling every fathomable combination of everything we know and don’t? No artist, parent, or any other creative and caring entity I have ever come across behaves in such a way. So why should we assume that any creator, of any scale, would be any different, especially since we consider large-scale creators benevolent and the embodiment of love and other related terms. Lastly, we do not commonly associate abandonment with good qualities and given our lack of obvious and direct contact with our originator, any thoughts of abandonment surely aren’t so farfetched.

If the news came out tomorrow that we, definitively, discovered life elsewhere [such as the moons of Saturn or Jupiter] how many people would be internally forced to reject the findings due to their inability to reconcile their religious beliefs with the new data?

Wouldn’t that be a preventable tragedy? It should be remembered that Galileo was once thought crazy for believing the Earth revolves around the sun. There are people alive today, who believe the Earth is flat. While we may commonly accept a spherical earth and heliocentrism today, how long would it be before the majority of the world as a whole could accept that life exists elsewhere? Perhaps even more dangerously, what would such a foundation-shattering discovery such as that cause*? Perhaps even MORE dangerously, is how long would it take before we outsourced our labor there, and opened up a McDonalds? Hmm…

I hope I’m alive to find out. If life is discovered on Io first, I wish to immediately purchase the domain name [http://]”u.io” so I can host a site called “You, I Owe” and dedicate it to people expressing appreciation and gratitude to those who helped them be who they are, perhaps anonymously. Therapeutic, that.

[P.S.: I’m aware that .io already exists, but it still sounds pretty.]

*I ask that, because an absence of faith across the species may result in catastrophe. Monotheism is a great source of fear, and fear is a great source of control. Remove the fear of a horrible afterlife, and the resulting mentalities may be self-destructive on scales larger than we could handle. We do not have to look far to see that ‘good for goodness sake’ is not reliable, fragile at best, and that is from a populace with said fears. Perhaps, in a lesser-of-two-evils choice, it is better we don’t know yet. In a display of abstract optimism, I will place my hopes in future generations – one that may look back upon acts such as condemning people to an eternity of pain for consuming a portion of animal proteins during incorrect chronologies, or failing to recognize the inherent equality of one life to the next, as a remorseful folly of a bygone culture. I emphasize abstract, as to accomplish such would mean a systemic shift from the current pattern, something that could only caused by a large awakening: perhaps the discovery of life elsewhere… wait… hmm…Perhaps, not knowing -isn’t- the lesser-of-two-evils after all. @#$% …