We lock ourselves inside of office buildings and churches, in the worship of god and money, and hide from the Sun that seeks only to share its warmth and the breeze that wishes only to share its gentle caresses, like Adam & Eve hid from God after they had sinned against him.
We hang on our walls motivational quotes that inspire us to work only all the harder, over a picture of a landscape that looks like the heaven we believe we are working so hard to reach, even though it is right outside our window.
During the middle paleolithic era, we used to draw animals on the walls of caves.
Now we paint images of a "God" - who always only ever looks exactly like ourselves - on the walls of churches; hang pictures of our idols in our offices, our malls, and our homes; and plaster digital images of ourselves like a stark raving Narcissus, all over the walls of our cyber caves.
We hide from God by joining religions that convince us they alone can help us find god, just as much as we hide from ourselves by only staring at our digital reflection.
We hang on our walls motivational quotes that inspire us to work only all the harder, over a picture of a landscape that looks like the heaven we believe we are working so hard to reach, even though it is right outside our window.
During the middle paleolithic era, we used to draw animals on the walls of caves.
Now we paint images of a "God" - who always only ever looks exactly like ourselves - on the walls of churches; hang pictures of our idols in our offices, our malls, and our homes; and plaster digital images of ourselves like a stark raving Narcissus, all over the walls of our cyber caves.
We hide from God by joining religions that convince us they alone can help us find god, just as much as we hide from ourselves by only staring at our digital reflection.
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