Five minute free write - health - and a random religion rant

Three shells left...he counted them out slowly.

Hands covered in blood, dirt, and stuff he'd rather not think about. At the door, pounding. The couch he had thrown up against it to bolster the strength shook at each knock. Just feet from him ten, twenty, hundreds of flesh hungry undead groaned a welcoming cry. 'Join us....' Though, the words were a bit unclear through their destroyed and molded flesh.

'No thank you,' thought John...three shells. That means he could take some with him...and still have one for himself...if he had to. But that wasn't his first choice. He'd lived through the last several months hanging on by his nails. How many times he'd been in this exact situation he'd lost count of. Everything about his life had turned into a farce...or a tragic irony, he wasn't sure which. Starting with being attacked by his angry now ex-wife who'd been cheating on him.

His feelings had been mixed about her, from the start even.

If he was going to be 100% honest. But, when he saw that dead look in her eyes that morning over coffee as the virus landed home on her vulnerable DNA, that mix had flipped to a straight shot of Reposado tequila. Not anejo...that stuff was usually too woody.

The first shot he'd fired had been almost a pleasure. Years of anger, frustration, had come out with it. Sure, not exactly the most civil way to deal with a domestic step-out. But, when the person who'd made you're life a living hell for so long suddenly turned undead and went for your jugular, how else could you answer but in kind? He'd never been the tit-for-tat kinda guy...until the zombie apocalypse.

Again the sturdy couch he'd move to block the door shifted. Just a bit inwards. But, he knew it was the start of the next part of his day. From fleeing, to fortifying, to fighting.

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So, never mentioned the prompt, Health, but it's where the inspiration for this little aside came from.

Another idea just struck me...might write another one on a slightly more serious bent about health since I feel like gettin some deeper thoughts out.

The vague connection between this man and the prompt comes from him wanting to keep, well, healthy, during the zombie apocalypse. I mean, who wouldn't? Dying probably really sucks...well, maybe. From how I understand death and it's affect on the mind...you'll probably be the only one who doesn't know about tit. I mean, your lights shut off, which would make it kind of hard to observe your lights being off. Or am I wrong? I guess that also pre-supposes that there is no afterlife, and in that afterlife you can look back on what was once your previous life.

I've always found the concept of an afterlife appealing, but not really realistic.

Sure, religions love them, but of course they do. Most current religions are set up in a slave mentality appeal, where you get your rewards in the after since the now is so crazy difficult and the rulers who control the religion don't want any revolts. Tell people that this is the only time they'll exist as who they are, and that once it's done it's done, and they'll be a panic. Not the, 'hey, let's live a good and full live being good to ourselves, others, and our planet.' I mean, that would take a lot of work.

Religion has acted as a control method, a relief valve, a way for certain to people to retain power for so many generations but now is finding itself faltering in the modern era. Before we knew what made things happen, we needed to find reasons why certain things happened. Why did rain fall, what was lightning, earthquakes, birth, life, death, blah, blah, all the different stuff that comes with living on this planet and being alive. I mean, we didn't have microscopes way way back, and modern technology is so new in the grand scheme of things that we're still trying to catch our feet again after realizing what we thought we knew what was going on isn't what really what's going on.

You can see churches trying to catch up, as they realize they need to employ the same tactics as any major business out there.

Want to get people to your church, to buy your way of thinking, get good at marketing and sales. I remember saying that to a friend but they disagreed. People will come because they want to believe, because they know it's the Truth, was the thinking...but the thing is, people don't want to believe anymore, people know that it's not the Truth. At least not in masses. There's too much proof in front of them telling them it's plain B.S..

Argue with me if you will, but, seriously, people who believe in god are believing in a hyped up Santa Claus.

There may be superior beings out there who seem like gods to us, but some all-powerful, all-knowing, super deity that controls the souls of all living beings and decides their eternal fate? Seriously? I mean, that just sounds made up. Like the plot to a bad Hollywood movie. Any time someone gets pissed at me about disproving their religion, I ask them to disprove Santa Claus, or some other fictional character, because, they embody the same aspects. Books written by humankind, no physical proof, lots of people believing, and the defense is 'faith.' Sure Santa didn't create the universe, but he delivers presents every year to children. Oh, wait, that's parents, my bad. ...so, when was the last miracle you prayed for granted? Huh...not answered...must be a lesson you need to learn. Who was the last person to see an angel? Better check that book you got up on the shelf.

I mean, I was just reading about how the Catholic Church is rethinking it's concept of hell...if that isn't convenient and long overdue. Gotta keep up with the times, and eternal damnation doesn't fit into the scheme very well, especially when most peoples lives already resemble what was described in Dante's Inferno. How much of our world population lives in abject poverty again? Have to check that out.

How a prompt for the Five minute free write turned into a talk on religion I have no idea. But, as always, that's the fun with prompts and my random writings :)

Hope y'all have a great Sunday!
Michael

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