Taking a Right Turn at Eternity

 

 

 

Taking a right turn at eternity is something we all do. And it’s not a choice. As Bill Clinton so aptly put it, it’s what the definition of is is! I take a lot of suggestions as to my vernacular. Don’t say this, don’t say that. And the reason for this is my right turn at eternity. People don’t like to be called out. When religion gives no options, they change religion or fire God.  Atheism: Trying to prove a negative. “There ain’t no God!” Ok, Christopher, prove it.

 

Proving the existence of something other than ourselves is surprisingly easy. Jesus did it with one order of fish at a picnic. Five thousand people, all broke with nothing to eat. Kinda like a family reunion in Arkansas. Jesus does a little bait and switch and voila! Five thousand orders from Long John Silver’s with toys for the kids. How’d He do that?

 

Science has given us some amazing things. TV, cars, microwaves, COVID, well maybe not that, but it did come from a lab. Has your Chow Mein been tasting different lately? Anyway. Do you know what we can’t do. We can’t “make” anything. Oh, we can arrange stuff. Right down to the molecular level, but we just can’t seem to actually “make” anything. We can make a house out of a tree, but we can’t “make” a tree.

 

In the beginning. In the beginning what? God made. . . The theory of choice in the last hundred years ago has been The Big Bang. Everything came from one atom. No assembly required. Like a bicycle from Walmart. But the minute the scientist realized that the may be looking into the face of God the Big Bang blew out the window and they went looking for “The God Particle.” I guess they reasoned that if they minimized that original atom it wouldn’t pop so loud. Only problem is there’s smoke all over the universe and every time they launch another telescope the smoke gets thicker. Myself, I’ve known that scientists and doctors have been smoking something for years, but that’s just me.

 

Bottom line: we can’t create a thing. Scientists use huge accelerators to try to hit an atom just right and create a universe, and we pay for that, but they can’t create a fish stick. And what do they surmise when the money runs out. “There ain’t no God!” Ok! So who’s your wife screaming for when you’re alone? Caitlyn Jenner?

 

This is where we either take that right turn at eternity or we don’t. Oh, you’re going to make a turn. The choice is up to you. And there are only two. Let’s explore the left. Did you ever notice that liberal minded people don’t mind being called liberal? But use the word “left” and you may as well call them “The ‘N’ Word!” Why? Because “right is good.” Most people are right-handed. All good lobsters are right clawed. A right turn in America has the right of way and the Chinese train their kids to write with their right hand because Chinese was designed that way. When psychologists discovered right and left brained Einstein just had to be right brained while it was assumed Ted Bundy drifted to the left. Right makes might. It is ingrained in the primate mind and no “study” will ever change that. Even Ringo Starr, drummer for the Beatles played a right-handed kit even though he was left-handed.

 

So, what if you choose left. Well, there are two ways to do that. Either actually be left-handed or follow a left-handed life. A world of opposites. Guns aren’t made for you. Don’t believe me? Check out the loading gate on a Winchester! Or a Peacemaker revolver. And don’t tell me Billy the Kid was left-handed because he wasn’t. The Tintype photograph of him is reversed. Again! Check out his rifle. Winchesters don’t have a left gate in 1880!

 

But what we are talking about here is a left mindset. Opposites attract but not in LeftWorld. Like attracts like and men can have babies. Embryos aren’t human beings. Neither is your eighty-year-old grandmother stricken with dementia. Meat bad, yogurt good. Forget those molars we’ve had since Fred Flintstone was a corporal. Any new idea way out there in left field is just fine for some people. Ooops! There we go again. Left field. A high fly ball isn’t nearly as good heading for left field now is it?

 

Now don’t get me wrong. New, innovative ideas have their place. But when they don’t work you need to regroup, pull back and use the tried and proved way until the next big thing. But you can’t drive a nail through a pane of glass. Go back to using a drill. Men can’t make babies. Welfare does not instill a work ethic. It just makes you good at welfare. And paper masks can’t stop viruses. The holes are too big.

 

And someone or something put this thing in motion. Trying to explain your way out of it doesn’t work. We all have a God hole in our head. It’s empty when you are born. You fill it up all your life. You are on a highway. Toward the end of your life you come to an intersection. And all you ever knew or did is in the trunk. That includes old luggage left by others who rode with you along the way. You stop, think, and turn on the turn signal. What will it be? The choice is yours.