The Supernatural

This week's topic is the Supernatural and it was my choice. Supernatural - certain things that some people believe are real but outside the realm of the laws of nature. That includes things like miracles, magic, souls, spirits, ghosts, demons, monsters, angels, devils, the reaper, religion and gods. One thing is certain - the Supernatural has made the entertainment industry  very substantial pile of money while entertaining and/or scaring a wide swath of the population. People like Stephen King,  John Carpenter, Anne Rice, JRR Tolkien, HP Lovecraft, Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker, Wes Craven, Alfred Hitchcock, Tobe Hooper, George Romero, M Night Shyamalan and Clive barker - among many others - have earned nice living writing and/or directing Supernatural, aka horror fiction. Yes - in the interest of full disclosure - I am a fan of the genre and have been since I saw the original Godzilla, King of the Monsters movie as a kid in Pueblo, Colorado.

So is the Supernatural real? I say yes it is - do you believe in God? If you do, then you are well aware of his foil Satan. At the risk of offending Christians, they are both part of the Supernatural. The existence of either cannot be proven or not by any scientific method yet people of faith are convinced there is proof of God in things by what they call miracles. A miracle is an event so marvelous that it seems like it was sent from above. Miracle - a noun meaning “amazing or wonderful occurrence," comes from the Latin miraculum “object of wonder."  The fact that the so-called miracle can be a random event is readily refuted by the faithful. 

I happen to believe there is balance to the universe. Physics tells us for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. Balance. So it is no  leap of "faith" to extrapolate that if you believe in "good" aka God them you also believe in"bad" - aka Satan. God  has his (or her) angels so Satan has his demons. And it is the nature of those competing sides to be in constant conflict with each other. Clearly the Catholic  church believes in the bad - as they sanction and perform exorcisms. 

One thing all people have in common is death (and maybe taxes) - setting aside for the moment life after death - when your time is up you are reaped. By whom or what? Why by a reaper of course. And it is no surprise that a religion based group wants its members to be God fearing folk would present a rather scary image of a reaper (see shutterstock.com).

 

Leave it to Hollywood to come up with a reaper in human form waiting to take your soul when your time has come - even if the individual to be reaped is a child (who knows what God's plan really is).

 

The above scene is from one of my all time favorite TV series called Dead Like Me. It is an outstanding series that takes a look at life, death and life after death.

I confess this is a somewhat tongue-in-cheek view of the subject matter but it is admittedly less dark than others would have us  believe, and in some eyes even blasphemous. But the net result is the same - balance. You can't have one (good or bad) without the other. And we are told we were made in God's image. Well here is an image -

I am clearly in the camp that says the Supernatural is real. That also means I have to believe in the other team for balance and I choose to believe there is balance in the universe. Karma. What goes around comes around. Is there really a God? Someone has to be in the control room behind the curtain. What

he/she really looks like is a matter of speculation based upon what that group (religion or otherwise)believes.

I did not intend to offend anyone with this little ditty so I apologize if that is what happened. I assure you I respect your right to believe whatever you choose. I simply ask that you respect my notion that the earth is round and that there is balance in the universe.

Please pop over to see Ramana's take on this week's subject at Ramana's Musings.

See ya next week for another 2-on-1 blog.