A Riff on Riffing

Or, "Man made it up!!!"

Why is it so very difficult to understand, that everything you've heard or read regarding the life of man - becoming a better man, an enlightened man, a more conscious, loving, civilized man - including the 3, the 7, the 10, or the 135 commandments, and the larger books of which they were most likely a central part, was, at the very core, made up by man. And, further, it was made up by the mind of man - and that man absolutely had a brain between his ears at the time it was made up.

His other vital organs did not make up these instructions, his mind made them up - not God, not the gods, not the trees, not the rivers, not the mountains, not the birds, not the bears, not angels, not devils, not demons, and not insects -the mind of man made it all up, just like the mind of man (who, remember, had a brain between his ears at the time it was made up) made up children's stories, fantasy stories, myths, legends, religions, philosophies, all attempting to explain, shed some light upon, and make reason of his life on this planet, and to elevate one group of stories above another group, is simply to miss the point - it was all made up.

Now - pretending for the moment that any of that actually "made some sense" -what do you imagine the brain, in direct connection with language (they being partners in the business of Life after all) is talking about - virtually all the time - at the core of all this talking?

Language is forever and continually wiring, rewiring and re-rewiring the brain's neural map with one "goal": to transfer electrical energy into higher parts of the nervous system - the brain itself - especially where conscious thought occurs, in a kind of "self-preservation" activity. After all, if the body dies, language ceases for all time in that container, and extrapolated far enough, if all human bodies were to die - in some cataclysmic war or other environmental calamity - language would have nowhere to live.

Humans are able to get along - at least enough to keep from killing each other and stealing all their neighbors "property" (livestock, food stocks, family members) - necessary for the growth and cohesiveness of the larger group, because ONE GUY had the foresight/insight to make up a law, and state it OUT LOUD in WORDS (giving it the necessary gravitas such that it be taken "seriously"). He didn't just say, "you should love your neighbor as yourself", though he may have and it might have gone over like a lead balloon, so... he revised it and said, "I SAY UNTO YOU: you should love your neighbor as yourself". And, to add even further gravitas to his realization, he might have revised that to, "GOD SAYS UNTO YOU (oh, by the way, I saw him and he told me to tell you this): you should love your neighbor as yourself". And, in case he noted some resistance on their part to do this, he might have added: "And if you fail at this, you will be damned and go to hell, a very bad, bad, superbad place."

ps- remember, this was just a riff, off the cuff, and the story can be told countless ways, but now you've read it, so it's up to you to write the next version, "I say unto you."