God Is An Absentee Landlord!?!

One of my favorite actors is Oscar winner
Al Pacino.

I am spellbound by his high voltage rhetoric in many of
the movies like Scent of a woman, Glengory Glen Ross,
Any Given Sunday or the subject matter of this blog,
"Devil's Advocate".

In “Devil’s Advocate",
Mr.Pacino depicts the character of the satan or evil.

In one scene he talks about God. It goes like this,
“God..., likes to watch. He's a prankster.
He gives man…instincts.
He gives you this extraordinary gift,
and then, what does He do?
For his own amusement,
For his own private
cosmic gag real;
...He sets the rules in opposition.

It's the goof of all time!

Look,
but don't touch?!
Touch,
but don't taste?!
Taste,
but don't swallow?!
And when you are jumping from one foot to the next,
what does he do?
He is laughing his sick f.....ing a.. off!
He is a t....a....!
He is a sadist.
He is an absentee landlord!
Worship that?
....Never!”

Some high voltage stuff, there!
Hard to digest, yes?

But think about it, for a minute.


Who is ruling the earth? The Satan or God?, I would say
most of the time, the Satan!


The Satan in that scene was talking about the
contradiction between our instincts
and the rules of society.

The Satan Claims there,

I have nurtured every sensation man is inspired to have!
I cared about what he wanted and never judged him. Inspite of
all his imperfections, I am a fan of man!
Who, in their right mind, would argue, the 20th century was entirely mine? All of it, it is mine

Can you argue that.
Scene 1:

Some idiot neandarthal cowards come from Pakistan and kill so many people.
What we do? we are still talking even after 2 months!?

Scene 2:

The owner of Satyam Computers destroys lives of million people,
in one shot.
We don't have the weapons to punish him.

Who can argue that the whole world is ruled not by God, but by Satan?

Or at least, for the time being, Satan has the upper hand!

Majority of us want to do certain things
which the society considers taboo.

I have got my share of satan and God in me.

It is the conflict between short term evil and long term good.

But it is hell being good sometimes,
because I have to go against my instincts.

The good says sleep less, evil says sleep more!

The good says work hard, the evil says goof off!

The good says be faithful, the evil says that isn’t a big deal!

It is an eternal conflict.

God says give, satan says take!

Having said that, on any given day,
Giving is good and taking is rotten!
Giving makes you feel very good and taking makes you very small in your own eyes.

But to give with abundance, you should have it first.
To have it, you must pay the price!
Paying the price is to be focused while doing what you are doing, till you reach it.
And
Rejecting the temptations.
Working hard and making it happen is the price.

And the rewards?

You can go on giving for the rest of your life!

Giving is divine;
Taking is hell!

Once you have the luxury of giving with gay abandon,
you are taking the place of God, to so many.

In one other scene in that movie,
The satan says,”Life is a bitch”.
I say “Yes” to that statement sometimes.
“No” majority of the time.

Because life is, most of the time, patient,
forbearing, forgiving, forgetting.
It is like your good wife!

You can make mistakes, commit sin, reach out too far and fall on your face, fail after fail,fall after fall, make a fool of
yourself, test the patience of a dead man.

Bur Life forgives.
Provided;
You can get up, dust off and ready to fight!
Because if you get up every time you fall,
failure fails and success succeeds. Period.

For that to happen, you have to defeat the satan inside you.
How you defeat the satan?

By promising him the sky and make him wait.
And go on your way to achieve anything in life,without the demons bothering you.
And when you have fulfilled your dreams,
you can entertain him or reject him.
You have that luxury then, not before.

As far as I am concerned. I will be there at the top.
And when I am there, I will give in!
Why?
Guilt is like a bag of bricks. All you have to do is, set it down.
I want to set it down, because I am
carrying it for too long.
That is the promise to my satan.
If he is listening, that is!