the meaningless drivel of the universe

Matthew, one of our regular customers, was just enjoying the yellow ambiance of the store. He found a pair of brown Greet sunglasses, which resting on his nose, made him a perfect picture of a man walking straight and powerful out of the 70's. We talked about how every human being is closely related. Matthew said "white people are the first black people." I didn't quite understand how that worked, but I admitted that we did all come out of Africa. I just learned the other day that there is more genetic diversity between two chimpanzees in the same family group, than there is between any two human beings. Not that it really makes any difference. We are so closely related that we all seem utterly incapable of not acting like assholes. We are a most remarkable species, and we treat our fellow man like dirt. The more we can convince ourselves that he's different than us, the crueler we treat him. Mean monkeys walked out of Africa on our own two feet. Are we all Jews? That whole Israel area would have been a first stop on the trail out of our original homeland of Africa. Did skin get lighter the further north in Africa we went? Was Whitey born in Israel? Did that super volcano really explode 80,000 years or so ago, like they said on the History Channel, and kill all of us but fewer than 50,000. Those are our parents, All six, almost 7, billion of us. Yet we seem to easily ignore that fact, and amidst all the knowledge of our relation we have ourselves easily separated by race, religion, and sexual orientation. Oh well. We lock each other up and kill each other with impunity. Is there a God who cares? Or is it really so simple as the invention of God in our own image. The reflection of the observer. And so as we are cruel, but also gentle and loving, wrathful, as well as forgiving, so is our God. If there is a devil, he is inside all of us, just like God, but more than likely they are just two sides of one coin: us. Creation, destruction, creation, destruction. Om Nam Shiva.