meanwhile, preparations for Jesus's birthday

Meanwhile life goes on and in Martin Place construction of a huge Christmas tree was taking place. Christmas just isn't christmas without 30 degree temperatures and 40ft high fake Christmas trees. I now feel far more festive than I did yesterday. Exercise du jour was the typical ride to and from work and after work a quick run lap of the park. I managed to miss one mother of a storm; real heavens opening stuff that blew in, blew out and dried up to the extent you'd not know it had been through at all. Weird.

So how about this for a bit of religious interpretation. I have had a theory, in truth more of a passing thought than a proper theory, that goes like this: All we are is the sum total of what others know and think about us. So despite being on the other side of the planet the guys in the UK they still know me and hold on to an idea of what I am. And that idea is what, to them, I really am. If they never see, hear or read from me again they will hold that idea and I will be real. Over time I will fade and that is the way life is. So here is the thing; if I move to Germany and tell no-one the ideas stay the same; I stay the same. If I move to the moon the idea of me stays the same. And if I die that idea will remain unchanged. Until, of course, they find out. It's all a bit tree falling in the woods. So the difference is not when a person dies but when others react to that. No one dies until all those who hold the idea of them let go of their ideas. So this Jesus bloke. My rambling theory is that the story of the resurrection is about that. Jesus dead, three days, Rolling Rock (heh!) and then he lives again. Well not really. Not literally. What it means, well, what it could mean, is what I was going on about. If you carry the idea of a person with you then that person is not really "dead". Sure you'd not want them sat at your dinner table, but you know what I mean. Or maybe you don't. Not even sure I do really. But that kinda came to me in the church yesterday.

So while I'm at it. God is all the good things we should do in our lives like not kill each other, theive stuff or worship Paris Hilton. "He" is a concept of the way life should be lived if we all want to get on and be hunky-dory. Jesus, well that is the embodiment of those ideas and those ideas should remain with us always. Lets throw Mary in as Mother Earth, just to kinda complete the set before I run out of steam. I'm off to watch tele, this stuff is much better discussed over Guinness.