Honey…
Yes, what.
I love you.
No you don’t.
Yeah, I got it bad.
. Oh, that’s not love.
Well love comes in different forms.
I know. All mixed up together.
Love is still everywhere on the planet. Everyone is making love. The Earth’s choice is that we do this. The Earth put this Love into our bodies. Why?
The Earth is a fire-and-ice planet spinning in cold space and it insists that life continue here for the duration. And, living beings will be making love for more millennia and we are all just following directions.
Isn’t it amazing? This big watery ball is spinning every day and it’s covered with loving life and we are making life, we know that, but we don’t really know what life is… The Earth keeps life going and we do our job – we make love.
But now the Earth has changed her mind. We still have the go-do-it as to the love-making but the Earth is simultaneously greatly increasing the killing thing: Avalanches, droughts, out of control fires and floods, tornadoes and ocean cyclones, viruses and atmospheric rivers that lower waterfalls out of the sky on California, whole cities bursting into flames…. Damn!
Or no, I got confused. Did I say the EARTH is doing this to US? No, actually, we are the cause of it, all of it. We are doing this to ourselves. The Earth is wondering why we are doing this. Why interrupt the loving with all this killing?
Despite all, love is still everywhere on the planet. Everyone is making love. It is the Earth’s choice. The erotic path to another person is provided by the Earth. We walk forward through the days and years of our lives and we see arrows on the signs. We follow the Earth’s urgent maps and we keep walking or maybe we’re running now and what are we doing? …and then suddenly we are standing in front of a person who looks back at us. Why?
That person was running toward us from the other direction with his/her/their own series of signs and maybe what happens – we agree we are in love and maybe we stand facing each other for minutes or hours or decades….
It is the contention of senior philosophers in the Church of Stop Shopping that when we agree that we are in love with each other then we are also holding the belief that the Earth is alive in us. Religion and the state and corporate products will be promoting themselves, acting like best friend. They want to take center stage at the moment that our love is real.
Oh hell yes – the money people want in on this. We walk through canyons papered with images of beautiful actors and models on the verge of love, posing with purses and dating apps and shampoo and artificial intelligence billing itself as the miraculous brain of Jesus Christ.
But we know… the Earth did it. The Earth made us and created our love. The Earth got us going, arranged those erotic signs along the way on that path, and we followed.
Rev. Billy