You’re Not Going to Believe It: You Better Believe It
Beliefs and behavior are the real chicken and egg–
One leads to another
And we have no idea
How it all started
Our name for that lacuna is God
And God is a storyteller who starts the action
In medias res
Putting us right in the middle of the action
Where beliefs are eggs
Hatching chickens who do the work of laying more eggs
And on it goes for as long as we believe
We came from nothing
And behave as if
It will all come to naught
On our tiny island of fear
In a sea of emptiness
That looks like a desert
But looks, of course, can be deceiving
And we’ve deceived ourselves into believing
That the high seas are indeed
A dry, deadly desert
Because the high seas promise one thing–
Risk
And believing we come from nothing
We behave as if nothing is worth the risk
Physicists tell us there is no reason
The arrow of time couldn’t move in both directions
i.e. The physics work in forward and reverse
And they have their fancy equations for stating the obvious
Just as we have a bottomless unconscious for ignoring the obvious:
At both the beginning and the end
Is God
Or you could say
Which came first, beliefs or behaviors?
God came first
Although what we really want to ask
Given the current trajectory of time’s arrow
Is
Which comes last, beliefs or behaviors?
We behave like we’re afraid of the answer
But if only we accepted the answer
We would come to fear God instead
For whichever direction the arrow of time travels
It always aims directly at our hearts
To pierce its armor
Like the beak of a chick
At last breaking and coming out of its shell of fear
Into real life
With all of its high risks
And infinite rewards
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