Choice

Contemporary

Written in response to: "Write a story that ends without answers or certainty." as part of Stuck in Limbo.

it doesn’t matter. I know you think it matters, but it doesn’t. It doesn’t matter. It doesn’t matter. Get that through your head. God is love, God is the Universe, God is energy, God is alive, God is dead. It doesn’t matter. None of it matters. You don’t know how the ignition works in your car, but you turn the key and it turns on. All that matters is it works and it does work so let it go. It doesn’t matter. You don’t understand HVAC, but you enjoy the heat

You think you have it figured out, but you don’t. You know you don’t. Remember the parable : “The more you know, the more you know you don’t know”. The big bang theory, Genesis, you don’t understand any of it and you never will and that’s ok. Fine, go over your bullshit theory again and I’ll prove you don’t know anything again but . . Fine. We’ll go over it again. Remember I say insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results and you say if at first you don’t succeed try try again and both of these cliches can’t be right. Fisherman do the same thing and get different results? Fuck the fishermen, you’re not even a Christian. Pray to Popeye, right? “I am what I am.” Fine, moron, let’s go back to Byrne

Were bodies made up of organ systems, blah blah bullshit, tissues, cells, atoms, protons, electrons, neutrons, and what make up subatomic particles? Energy, maybe. Maybe God created this energy and this energy is love and love made the universe. Ok, then why do some kids get cancer if God is love? I don’t know either. Why are some couples able to have children and others aren’t? Isn’t everyone made of the same energy or is the God in some people different than the God in other people? How do the cells in the zygote know where to go to form a baby in female animals? Why did God create thieves, murderers, etc? Ok. Then why give evil people free will? Hitler had free will and look what happened? Why did love create mental illnesses like schizophrenia? Why did Zeus lose popularity and Jesus gained popularity? Was Jesus’ energy better than Zeus’? Are Zeus and Jesus the same god or different gods? Is the answer “42”? Why does any of it matter? Who, other than you, cares? Why did God make disabled people? What if they were good people? Then is God love, hate, fear, or what? And who fucking cares other than you?

Why don’t you make a new scientific religion? Because there already are many of them: Scientology, Christian Science, etc. Then the morons come and fuck everything up because that’s what morons do. If you’re smart, learn about one thing well instead of trying to learn or understand everything. Let things be. It doesn’t matter and no one cares. Everyone’s reason for being here is different. There isn’t one thing to figure out and solve, there are 6 billion. Why does one person win the lottery or the Publisher’s Clearance House and others don’t? Are they praying wrong or it it random? Is it because of karma and reincarnation? Why do some dogs get cruel owners and some loving owners? Nature versus nurture? Some animals eat other animals. Which animals’ prayers will God answer and why? Who’ll win the Superbowl? Whose prayers will be answered and who cares? God is dog spelled backwards. Who cares? Why is there evil in the world? Is Earth Hell? Who cares? God? What if She doesn’t care? Why? Men have more domestic violence than women so why would God be male? Who fucking cares? You do. You’re going to figure it out. What do you call someone perfect? God. God is energy. Ok, who made the first energy? That’s right, you don’t know and no one else does either. Just live your life the best you can and forget about all this bullshit. Because it doesn’t matter in the long run. We just got to live life the best we can like everyone else. Simple. Everyone’s fucked up, everyone fucks up, so just be human and do what human animals do. Make money, fuck, have kids, die, and let the goddamn cycle continue, because who gives a fuck?

You don’t care? There must be answered to your questions. There are: What’s the meaning of life? The meaning of life is the time between birth and death. Just ask Webster. Starve, then see how much you care about life’s meaning. You won’t, you’ll just care about food. Get COPD and you’ll enlucido care about breathing. We were engineered for survival, not philosophy, so quit thinking and start working. Earn a living, do what your imaginary God designed you for and quit asking stupid questions. Just do your matrix.

Why did this band make it and that band didn’t? Why are there dictators? Why are there so many races, languages, etc. None of it matters. Just be you and do you. Don’t control by helping. Just be you and survive.

Care for you and your family until your family grows old and you’re sandwiched in. Earth is Hell. Maybe this is the place of punishment, but it doesn’t matter. “Rule 62,” “The World’s 16 Crucified Saviors,” and a billion other books, one for each fuck up on Earth, right? The Bible says “South of Heaven”; that’s Earth. So maybe this is Hell from our life before or maybe there are levels of Heaven and Hell? You have a bad case of GOK: God Only Knows

Why you/why me? Why not? Just do you, get married, get an abode, curse your God for your kids and die. Easy. Don’t focus on the fuck-ups, don’t fix the fuck-ups, just live the best you can and die easy. No one knows anything. No one cares. Just ask Silverstein. We all snap do snap your fingers and sing because who cares?

Posted Dec 26, 2025
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