I reject the idea that any god or gods created the universe. I am, therefore, in search of a sensible cosmogony.
"Why?" you may ask, "what good will it do you?"
To be an animal means to be born with needs and desires.
To be born a human means having a sense of actions as good or bad.
To be caught between these two impulses, one for gratification of needs and desires, and another which acts to limit the actions which we may take to satisfy them, is a heavy burden.
As a human, we also have a sense of our own mortality.
It is a tick-tock in the background of everything we do.
It is also a burden.
I posit that to live well as a human it is required to carry these burdens well. A proper cosmogony will act as a wheel-barrow. Jesus and God have been no help. Their hand-cart seems to be all out of kilter. I honestly think they may be adding weight to my barrow and gumming up the wheel.
I'm going to try to construct a better one.
That sounds so precocious. Oh well. Here goes.
