No, I'm Not High...

I think I told you about my revelation that the world gets saved for personal reasons, right?

Nobody does anything heroic for some abstract "principle". It's for fellow soldiers, or family, or lovers, or friends. Soldiers don't die for my freedom. I mean they do, but they don't mean to. They're too busy dying for their honor or their buddy. And I don't mean this as an insult to soldiers. We do what we do because we're humans.

And it's all good.

I love humans. Granted I love some humans a lot more than I love others...but still, humans are my favorite species.

Unlike Liberals, I think Human Beings are the most amazing creatures ever created (or evolved, take your pick, I'm not fussy.)

Here's the deal. Unlike angels. Yes, for the moment, let's stipulate the existence of angels. Unlike angels, humans are not "spirits". We're corporeal...material. We have bodies and senses. And the world is a riot of stuff just waiting to assault them. The world is sensation. From food, to scent, to sight to sex...you gotta love the variety, the glory and sheer amount of deliciousness available...

Now, imagine how somebody strictly made of "spirit" would act if suddenly they were thrust into a material body right here on the good old material plane.

I'll tell you what you'd see:  a whole lot of  Greed, Sloth, Lust, Envy and Gluttony.

The lion's share of the Seven Deadlies.

Obviously, being human has serious challenges. And the temptations are enormous.

And you know what? Considering, we do great. We're gentlemen and scholars.

We'd certainly have to be chaperones and babysitters for any "spiritual being" who would go balls-out crazy just trying to cope with what we deal with every day. It's our element. We're good at it. We're the BEST at it.

Sure, animals are corporeal, but without our big brains, clever minds and imaginations. They cannot transcend instinct the way we can. They are not like us.

And angels (the stand-in for all things, beings and states "spiritual") are incorporeal. They might have minds and imagination...but have no senses like we do. They are not like us.

We are both corporeal and spiritual. Unique. And considering our potential for cataclysmic disaster...overall, I think we do pretty damned well.

But hey, maybe that's just me.

Look, humans need to fight, to strive, to conquer, to want, to succeed, to get and then want something else.  That's the nature of our beast. Utopia is impossible because of the innate nature of Human Beings. That's why the universe is so big...lots of room for kick-ass humans to explore and conquer.

And surely our souls are only separated from our bodies at death temporarily while they acquire new ones, because we would no longer be "human" if they just wandered off by themselves.

What is true for a human body without a soul, is just as true of a human soul without a body.

We're a package deal.

And I like it fine.

The Gunslinger