{"id":1574,"date":"2014-06-15T13:56:09","date_gmt":"2014-06-15T18:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/?p=1574"},"modified":"2014-06-15T13:56:09","modified_gmt":"2014-06-15T18:56:09","slug":"poem-big-bang-burrito","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/15\/poem-big-bang-burrito\/","title":{"rendered":"POEM: Big Bang Burrito\u00ae"},"content":{"rendered":"

Under a first rate inquisition<\/strong>
\nI mussed a test <\/strong>
\nI don’t know<\/strong>
\nIf God<\/strong>
\nCan make<\/strong>
\nA bean burrito so big<\/strong>
\nThat God can’t<\/strong>
\nEat it<\/strong>
\nSuch a peerless quest in<\/strong>
\nMay be<\/strong>
\nScorn points with sum<\/strong>
\nTo be little God<\/strong>
\nThough conceivably<\/strong>
\nA cause<\/strong>
\nFore the big bang!<\/strong><\/p>\n

This poem and joke is a mocking attempt to deal with mocking.\u00a0 Questioning is great, as close kin to curiosity.\u00a0 In any case though, the answers we come to are led by the questions we ask.\u00a0 Sometimes our questions just don’t rise to the occasion.\u00a0 This elementary school question about God’s omnipotence is such a question.\u00a0 To make my point, I would proffer that this poem is a complement to the question: Can people ask a question so stupid that even God would be forced to publish a comeback?\u00a0 Framing omnipotence as brute force, God’s purpose as some carnival showiness, and\/or insisting the God be able to be digested whole by human brains, leaves us with a limited universe of pre-ordained “acceptable” answers that are unsatisfying.\u00a0 Perhaps God has published God’s resume in a glorious splendor transcending what can be captured in the human mind and reduced to a scale or scoring system that would allow the employment of God.\u00a0 Perhaps God doesn’t even want to be “employed.”\u00a0 Perhaps God doesn’t demand authorship rights, but seeks only presence.\u00a0 “Seek and you shall find” has an unspoken sister phrase, “Don’t seek and you won’t find.”\u00a0 Many skeptics of religion and spirituality are rightfully wary of claims of authority, and how acceptance of certain authority squelches curiosity.\u00a0 Nonetheless, what if God’s presence in the universe is supposed to be an ever-unfolding mystery with intriguing clues and an irreducible amount of doubt to assure that the game is perpetually beguiling?\u00a0 Endless discovery of God’s fathomless presence.\u00a0 Sounds to me like curiosity may very well be a fundamental facet of true religion.\u00a0 Jewish tradition holds that the face of God cannot be seen by human eyes and live.\u00a0 Perhaps we would be torn from our human existence with such revelation, either dying as a human and\/or transmuting into a form of being which can adequately hold such knowledge and experience.\u00a0 There is an image in the Old Testament (Exodus 33:23), “Then I will remove my hand and you will see my back; but my face must not be seen,\u201d where it is held (beheld?) that Moses sees God’s butt (backside) as he departs the encounter, but Moses will not be allowed to see God’s face.\u00a0 In an endless game of curiosity and intrigue, this may just be one aspect of that relationship.\u00a0 Pessimists may just consider this God mooning us.\u00a0 Yet, since God’s son was a carpenter, should it really come as a shock that the Father is a plumber?\u00a0 Or, perhaps, God is otherwise occupied, maybe in a Big Bang Burrito\u00ae eating contest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Under a first rate inquisition I mussed a test I don’t know If God Can make A bean burrito so big That God can’t Eat it Such a peerless quest in May be Scorn points with sum To be little … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,15],"tags":[103,434,640,582,428,65,579,296,500,438,609,417,658,94,68,544,83,30,545,299,529,487],"class_list":["post-1574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","category-political-and-philosophical-musings","tag-acceptance","tag-authority","tag-curiosity","tag-employment","tag-experience","tag-god","tag-image","tag-jewish","tag-joke","tag-mind","tag-mock","tag-mystery","tag-poems","tag-poetry","tag-questioning","tag-questions","tag-religion","tag-spiritual","tag-spirituality","tag-stupid","tag-time","tag-universe"],"yoast_head":"\nPOEM: Big Bang Burrito\u00ae | Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings | Top Pun's Poetry, Funny Puns, Free Posters, Public Health Radio Show! 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