A Conversation with God about: Love
Roger J. Burke
October 07, 2010
I have a transcript of a conversation I had recently with God about the above topic. I can´t actually provide a recording of the interview for one thing, I´d be regarded as insane for sure because God is not in the habit of speaking directly to anybody, except saints, as far as we know. Don´t want to wake up one day in the funny farm, do I now?
However, having woken from a deep sleep one morning recently with a clear impression, still, of my most recent dream, I thought I should share it with you, if you´re interested. It went like this, more or less verbatim...
Excuse me, Sir, excuse me can I have a few minutes of your time?
Yeah, yeah what is it? I´m a busy Entity, you know!
Well, you know there´s an old saying here on Earth. About you and love. It goes: God is love. You´ve heard that?
Sure! So? What´s your point?
Well, it´s like there´s something odd about that statement, don´t you think? Like, if you ARE love, then it would sound silly of me to say to my wife or lover, if I had one: I god you - you know, by substituting the word ´god´ for ´love´. Although, somebody with a funny accent might sound like that y´know, god instead of got, if you know what I mean.
That would change the meaning, though...
Are you some kind of nut? Look, love, peace, harmony that´s what it´s all about, okay. How hard is that? C´mon, already...
Well, yeah I understand that, but the problem is many think that love is forever, like eternal no beginning, no end because you´re eternal, right? Leastways, that´s what true believers think. I think.
Now you´ve god...got it! Is that it, then? Look, I really gotta go...
Wait, wait, please just a few more questions.
Y´see, I was reading a long treatise about yourself, love and the whole thing here. It´s a real brainful, and real painful too, I can tell you, and fascinating in a way. It´s peculiar, though: the word ´eternal´ appears only twice in that long, long document and it doesn´t really address what I´m getting at.
Because, look, being God, I can understand that you YOU are forever. To think otherwise results in too many paradoxes and inconsistencies about who you really are, anyway. Not that anybody can truly understand or know, no matter how hard we try, you know. Well, only when dead, according to some...
Get on with it, for Go...My sake, I mean, will you! And be quick. Hey you know what I do with fools, don´t you?
Okay, okay. Look, way back when, when you were all alone in The Darkness, nothing to do, nothing happening, cold, brrrrr, just YOU or Jawe or Jehovah or Allah, or whatever: there you are all alone so to speak...I´m paraphrasing from the bible here, y´know...
You´re telling me? Look, all that stuff was written by men, just like you but a sight more intelligent and appreciative and subservient and believing and...and...and faithful, dammit, than you are!
Well, mea culpa, I have to say guilty to all that, yes. But, back to my question: at that time, way back, did you just love YOURSELF then? After all, there was nothing just the Big Nothing, right? I mean, you were there, wherever There was, but Nothing Else. Right? And then, POW! All hel...HEAVEN breaks loose, so to speak, with all those angels. Come to think of it, so DID hell...
Well, if y´all want to think I was all alone, go right on ahead. Why should I change your mind about it? If there´s one thing I can do is keep y´all guessing for thousands of years! Hah!
Well, yes, but that´s not very helpful, is it? It´s all such a mystery.
Aaah, what´s life without mystery? C´mon, boyo, be daring!
But, but why, when you were all alone, if you indeed were, why did YOU need love? Wait a sec, hang on, I think I´ve got it! If God is love, then God is God and hence, you need yourself for sure, to prove your own existence. Is that it? Just a damned tautology? Have I god it right? Did Rene Decartes get it all wrong, then? I love, therefore, I am?
What a sap you are. And, watch the language, okay! Look, love is needed to make sure that people can work, play and get together, now and again, to...to...well, you know what, right? And, all the other animals, also, y´know.
Well, I don´t know. It just seems to me that I can love somebody anytime without the need for YOU to get involved. Love is love, after all.
Now you´ve got it: I am I. God is God. Love is Love! How easy is that?
Yeah, but what IS love, for Pete´s sake? I´m no further ahead. Circular arguments get you nowhere.
Who the heck is Pete? What are you looking for? Perfection? Have faith, boyo it can move mountains, as one of y´all once said.
That may be. But I just can´t understand why you, of all Entities, needed Love as a separate thing way back in The Beginning. It just seems so...superfluous, know what I mean? You, yourself, are Perfection. Isn´t that so? Hmmm, wait up: maybe you´re NOT Perfection at all?
Well...what can I say? You finished now? I´ve really gotta get on with things, y´know. Look after the world and all...
Well, you really make it difficult to understand it all. It´s no wonder I´ve come to realize that while you´re possible, it´s more likely you don´t exist at all. It's all just a dream, or a delusion. Much easier, also, on the gray matter by the way. But, look: do you still love Satan? Being one of your creations, you should, I guess, even though he´s Bad. Real Bad. In fact The Baddest...isn´t he?
Love Satan? To hell with that idea! Gotta go, boyo.
Hang on, hang on: it´s YOU...maybe you don´t NEED love...is that it? Now, that WOULD be unfair forcing everybody to love but having no need yourself!
You´ve got free will, right? So to hell with you too, boyo, and your damned questions. Bye for now...
But, but, there are other...
Never mind! And don´t call me. I´ll call you.
Well, anyway, I finally woke up, got back to reality and, after breakfast of coffee and donuts, I typed this out for you to read. Pointless, in a way, isn´t it? I have to say, though, that I hope to get into another conversational Dreamtime, at some time, and dig into other topics like morals and humanity and other stuff. How about you?
Copyright © Roger J. Burke, 2010. All rights reserved.
However, having woken from a deep sleep one morning recently with a clear impression, still, of my most recent dream, I thought I should share it with you, if you´re interested. It went like this, more or less verbatim...
Excuse me, Sir, excuse me can I have a few minutes of your time?
Yeah, yeah what is it? I´m a busy Entity, you know!
Well, you know there´s an old saying here on Earth. About you and love. It goes: God is love. You´ve heard that?
Sure! So? What´s your point?
Well, it´s like there´s something odd about that statement, don´t you think? Like, if you ARE love, then it would sound silly of me to say to my wife or lover, if I had one: I god you - you know, by substituting the word ´god´ for ´love´. Although, somebody with a funny accent might sound like that y´know, god instead of got, if you know what I mean.
That would change the meaning, though...
Are you some kind of nut? Look, love, peace, harmony that´s what it´s all about, okay. How hard is that? C´mon, already...
Well, yeah I understand that, but the problem is many think that love is forever, like eternal no beginning, no end because you´re eternal, right? Leastways, that´s what true believers think. I think.
Now you´ve god...got it! Is that it, then? Look, I really gotta go...
Wait, wait, please just a few more questions.
Y´see, I was reading a long treatise about yourself, love and the whole thing here. It´s a real brainful, and real painful too, I can tell you, and fascinating in a way. It´s peculiar, though: the word ´eternal´ appears only twice in that long, long document and it doesn´t really address what I´m getting at.
Because, look, being God, I can understand that you YOU are forever. To think otherwise results in too many paradoxes and inconsistencies about who you really are, anyway. Not that anybody can truly understand or know, no matter how hard we try, you know. Well, only when dead, according to some...
Get on with it, for Go...My sake, I mean, will you! And be quick. Hey you know what I do with fools, don´t you?
Okay, okay. Look, way back when, when you were all alone in The Darkness, nothing to do, nothing happening, cold, brrrrr, just YOU or Jawe or Jehovah or Allah, or whatever: there you are all alone so to speak...I´m paraphrasing from the bible here, y´know...
You´re telling me? Look, all that stuff was written by men, just like you but a sight more intelligent and appreciative and subservient and believing and...and...and faithful, dammit, than you are!
Well, mea culpa, I have to say guilty to all that, yes. But, back to my question: at that time, way back, did you just love YOURSELF then? After all, there was nothing just the Big Nothing, right? I mean, you were there, wherever There was, but Nothing Else. Right? And then, POW! All hel...HEAVEN breaks loose, so to speak, with all those angels. Come to think of it, so DID hell...
Well, if y´all want to think I was all alone, go right on ahead. Why should I change your mind about it? If there´s one thing I can do is keep y´all guessing for thousands of years! Hah!
Well, yes, but that´s not very helpful, is it? It´s all such a mystery.
Aaah, what´s life without mystery? C´mon, boyo, be daring!
But, but why, when you were all alone, if you indeed were, why did YOU need love? Wait a sec, hang on, I think I´ve got it! If God is love, then God is God and hence, you need yourself for sure, to prove your own existence. Is that it? Just a damned tautology? Have I god it right? Did Rene Decartes get it all wrong, then? I love, therefore, I am?
What a sap you are. And, watch the language, okay! Look, love is needed to make sure that people can work, play and get together, now and again, to...to...well, you know what, right? And, all the other animals, also, y´know.
Well, I don´t know. It just seems to me that I can love somebody anytime without the need for YOU to get involved. Love is love, after all.
Now you´ve got it: I am I. God is God. Love is Love! How easy is that?
Yeah, but what IS love, for Pete´s sake? I´m no further ahead. Circular arguments get you nowhere.
Who the heck is Pete? What are you looking for? Perfection? Have faith, boyo it can move mountains, as one of y´all once said.
That may be. But I just can´t understand why you, of all Entities, needed Love as a separate thing way back in The Beginning. It just seems so...superfluous, know what I mean? You, yourself, are Perfection. Isn´t that so? Hmmm, wait up: maybe you´re NOT Perfection at all?
Well...what can I say? You finished now? I´ve really gotta get on with things, y´know. Look after the world and all...
Well, you really make it difficult to understand it all. It´s no wonder I´ve come to realize that while you´re possible, it´s more likely you don´t exist at all. It's all just a dream, or a delusion. Much easier, also, on the gray matter by the way. But, look: do you still love Satan? Being one of your creations, you should, I guess, even though he´s Bad. Real Bad. In fact The Baddest...isn´t he?
Love Satan? To hell with that idea! Gotta go, boyo.
Hang on, hang on: it´s YOU...maybe you don´t NEED love...is that it? Now, that WOULD be unfair forcing everybody to love but having no need yourself!
You´ve got free will, right? So to hell with you too, boyo, and your damned questions. Bye for now...
But, but, there are other...
Never mind! And don´t call me. I´ll call you.
Well, anyway, I finally woke up, got back to reality and, after breakfast of coffee and donuts, I typed this out for you to read. Pointless, in a way, isn´t it? I have to say, though, that I hope to get into another conversational Dreamtime, at some time, and dig into other topics like morals and humanity and other stuff. How about you?
Copyright © Roger J. Burke, 2010. All rights reserved.
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