The Mundane Condition of Everything

    Nothing really really matters, though things can matter, and they can really matter; but they cannot really really matter.

     Things can matter to one, and things can matter to many, hell, things can matter to *all* things which things can matter to. But a thing cannot truly and purely matter.

     The main reason for this is that there is no god beyond what humanity can think up; and don't get me wrong, there *is* a god, in fact, it's possible for there to be many gods, but those gods don't matter either.

    Now, I am taking for granted that you, the reader, aren't too opposed to the position that nothing in our understanding is sacred anymore. Things can matter and be beautiful, but they are not really capable of a relevance beyond what exists within the collective human wisdom-dome at any point, i.e. anything that matters, matters within human understanding.

   Many gods do pretend to exist beyond what humanity can think up, but this is just not true, it's a common illusion that gets reinforced through spiritual insight.

    When a Sufi master enters a state where he reaches some of the utmost divine revelations offered to man, he has understood some great and fascinating things. But most people cannot understand what the Sufi master experienced, and the Sufi master cannot communicate what he saw to them, because what he saw was an experience outside of thought or word.

    It is in this vein that many gods tend to argue for their transcendental existences: "If I don't exist beyond human thought," writes Artemis in a 1955 article, "how can my priestesses reach states of being beyond thought? It is absurd to doubt it; I either exist in part far beyond the human noösphere, or I am an idol representative of something far beyond the human noösphere."

    This may seem like a sober point, especially to those of you who have attained heightened states of being yourselves. It makes sense to think that something exists beyond thought if you've seen it yourself, and it makes sense to find it particularly sublime.

    I have nothing against the idea that things exist beyond human understanding, but I do think we are confusing ourselves when we think of what people encounter outside of normative perception to be of great significance. It seems entirely acceptable to me for there to be sources of wisdom and intelligence outside the ordinary, and for this to be a mundane affair around the same level of extracosmic significance as love, but we run into a problem when we cross the boundary of human understanding.

     Because, we don't really cross the boundary of human understanding, ever, what we cross into is another state in which we can understand other things, and come back while preserving as much of the insight as possible. We tend to find things in places beyond thought that seem so much more important than these *icky mental habits* that we lose track of the fact that the things witnessed in *different states* only matter in relation to our ordinary, painful existences back home. 

   The Buddha reached Nirvana in order to help the ordinary sufferer, not to attain an ethereal quality of divinity.

 So yeah, Artemis is boring.

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     So, let's say I am right AND the above text makes any sense whatsoever, what does it mean for god not to matter? And what about the one god I said definitely did exist?

    Well, god not mattering doesn't change much, god can matter to you or all mankind, but he cannot matter in and of himself, because mattering itself is a human affair. God doesn't have special importance in today's cosmos, he is relevant as far as he can help you, and sometimes he can offer you great divine insight, but that's really where it ends. Nothing matters that which is not within *yinz*, is a sentence that should summarize this text.

   And writing this text was fun, and it gave me an idea for a  god I think the current generation might appreciate.

    What if we revered the concept of "nothing mattering outside of the things that can kinda matter", I think that'd be pretty cool. We would say "nothing really matters" and it would be a life affirming statement, because things kinda mattering transiently is the closest things get to mattering at all.

    It would make *the mundane* parts of life stand out in their capacity to matter at all at any point, you know, *the mundane* reality we live in would be divine in virtue of the lack of anything more divine. In fact, why don't we name this "god" something ominous, preferably with a definite article at the beginning? 

Any ideas?  

-Mal-9