h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

6/5/99 CE ESD- Well this is bound to irritate a few loyal readers (pity I dont have any) I have just figured it out! Just today , Just now, I have figured out what God wants. The Hippies/new agers say God wants(and is) love. The Fundemental relegions say that God wants us to be good and be unquestionly loyal. The rockers say that God wants war (they are close). Plato and aristotle seem to tell us that the gods want us to perfect ourselves. But they are all wrong! God wants us to be miserable. Not loyal, not suicidal, not anything other than to be miserable. Think about it, everything in the world is specifally designed to make us miserable. World wide people who could just be happy are condemed to miserble angst filled lives. God, as all powerful as he/she/it is could ease suffering with only the slightest effort. Yet we plod thru our lives being bombared with suffering. Miserable people make us miseable and insted of withering away and dying like the should they suck the life out of us and move onto some one else. Overly happy people make us miserable by showiung us how wretched we really are. Even the seasons are against us, Spring the only of the revitalizing seasons, is also effectivly the shortest. We have to get all of our strength from those breif months so we can survive the other three seasons. Here where I live winter isn't the biggest enemy, summer is. Nevertheless we go from pleasent to intolerable in just a few months. But I digress. If one steps back to take a look, the entire world is a giant machine for churning out misery waves. Perhaps God is like some sort Lovecraftian demon toying with the stuff of life just to create a race who would provide him with his favorite food:suffering. Now that I think about it, I guess this isn't such a new idea. What is the quote? "to live is to suffer, to die is to be born again, and suffer. Buddists: Ya gotta love em.