• Just because you find god doesn’t mean you get to keep him, (or her, or whatever).

• Having epiphanies doesn’t necessarily make you less of an asshole.

There are times, you know, there are times the epiphanies and realizations and Aha-Erlebnisse come so fast and thick that to god I must look like a toaster shorting out, sparks and smoke everywhere.

God: Aren’t you going to unplug it? It could start a fire.
God2: Hold your horses. I’m looking for my insulated gloves.

Just because you have an epiphany or a realization, or figure something out, that doesn’t automatically give you the rest of the day off.

A couple days ago I had had it. I was tired and needed a moment to do some Tarot cards. I have this deck of regular Tarot cards (Crowley) and this other deck of 0sho Tarot cards, which are more colorful and have this Zen bent to them. 0sho is the name people apparently call the B4gw4N Shr33 R4jn33sh nowadays. The B4gw4n was a guru whose followers tried to give townspeople s4lmonella p0isoning in the town near their 4shram in Oreg0n when I was a kid and living not too far away. We followed the case with a certain interest. It was rumored they had s3x on the 4shram grounds.

So I keep that in mind when I read the explanations of the cards in that set. I drew just one card, because this one card was yelling my name. It turned out to be the card for Experience, and the explanation mentioned experiencing nature directly, and looking into the eyes of a child and paying attention to it, so I put the cards away and played with Gamma for the rest of the day. And we invented the Game.
Last night I drew another card and got the Fool, which is the first card in that deck and a symbol that has accompanied me for the last 25 years.
The picture shows a guy holding a flower, stepping off a cliff.