A Short Dialogue of Autonomy
A Short Conversation between Myself and Kenneth Branagh on Autonomous Beings...
This piece is a dialogue that took place within my head not long ago…
I am Playing myself and Kenneth Branagh (In usually every Shakespearian movie, but has an occasional exceptional one outside of that genre) is playing a Southern Aristocrat in the fashion of Yosemite Sam. Ha! The setting is taking place in my Jacuzzi on the deck at my parents house. And, GO!
Michael: “Are we autonomous beings Kenneth?”
Kenneth: “Shit son, just cause God made us free, don’t mean he can’t make us do what he wants.”
Michael: “What do you mean?”
Kenneth: “Well, why don’t you take a look at poor Jonas there from the bible…? God had his path picked out for him to take a journey to Nineveh, and when Jonas didn’t wanna go… Well you know the story.”
Michael: “So you are saying that God made Jonas go to that place—you said—out of force? Then are we autonomous?”
Kenneth: “See you’re getting it all wrong boy. Of course we’re a bunch of crazy mixed up free livin’ souls. But the fact is that like with Jonas, if we don’t do what he wants us to do, he’ll make it really piss poor place to live. The choice is ours if we want to live in that setting or not. It is always better not to make decisions that will piss off God.”
Michael: “So is there a master plan or isn’t there?”
Kenneth: “Why you still on about this master plan boy?”
Michael: “It’s just that if God is supposed to be infallible, and if we are autonomous, then God simply could not punish us for not doing what he wanted us to do or not do.”
Kenneth: “I’m not following you…”
Michael: “Let’s just say that if it were true that God could do no wrong…”
Kenneth: “I know what infallible means…”
Michael: “Okay, also if he made us free from him and what he wants, then why would he try and force us to do it even though we didn’t want to it?”
Kenneth: “That’s not the point boy; you could keep on living in that whales tummy all you wanted if you wanted too. But that would also be your prerogative not his.”
Michael: “Well, so you say, but it is also his prerogative to keep us there until we make up our minds to do what he wanted in the first place. Look all I am saying that if he had a master plan as you say, and he can make us do what we want, then we cannot be autonomous.”
Kenneth: “Look and listen boy, I told you once before, that if you would like to be happy living in that tummy of the whale go right on ahead and do it. It is all the same to him.”
Michael: “So then is God fallible or is there no master plan, or worse are we not autonomous beings? Cause if he wanted us to do something and we did not do it, having our own free will, it would mean that if there was a master plan to things that God knew we were not going to do it in the first place so why would he put us through the hell to change our mind. Since God obviously had a master plan in hand, as in with the story of Jonas, that means if we were to turn him down then God would be in fact fallible. Since it is most obvious that there in no way God can be not infallible then we are to assume that since God has a master plan and he is infallible, then we are not autonomous creatures. But since you also say that we are, then there is something completely wrong with everything. To me it seems like we are nothing more than mere puppets for the Lord. And right now he is telling me to dance mother fucker dance.”
This piece is a dialogue that took place within my head not long ago…
I am Playing myself and Kenneth Branagh (In usually every Shakespearian movie, but has an occasional exceptional one outside of that genre) is playing a Southern Aristocrat in the fashion of Yosemite Sam. Ha! The setting is taking place in my Jacuzzi on the deck at my parents house. And, GO!
Michael: “Are we autonomous beings Kenneth?”
Kenneth: “Shit son, just cause God made us free, don’t mean he can’t make us do what he wants.”
Michael: “What do you mean?”
Kenneth: “Well, why don’t you take a look at poor Jonas there from the bible…? God had his path picked out for him to take a journey to Nineveh, and when Jonas didn’t wanna go… Well you know the story.”
Michael: “So you are saying that God made Jonas go to that place—you said—out of force? Then are we autonomous?”
Kenneth: “See you’re getting it all wrong boy. Of course we’re a bunch of crazy mixed up free livin’ souls. But the fact is that like with Jonas, if we don’t do what he wants us to do, he’ll make it really piss poor place to live. The choice is ours if we want to live in that setting or not. It is always better not to make decisions that will piss off God.”
Michael: “So is there a master plan or isn’t there?”
Kenneth: “Why you still on about this master plan boy?”
Michael: “It’s just that if God is supposed to be infallible, and if we are autonomous, then God simply could not punish us for not doing what he wanted us to do or not do.”
Kenneth: “I’m not following you…”
Michael: “Let’s just say that if it were true that God could do no wrong…”
Kenneth: “I know what infallible means…”
Michael: “Okay, also if he made us free from him and what he wants, then why would he try and force us to do it even though we didn’t want to it?”
Kenneth: “That’s not the point boy; you could keep on living in that whales tummy all you wanted if you wanted too. But that would also be your prerogative not his.”
Michael: “Well, so you say, but it is also his prerogative to keep us there until we make up our minds to do what he wanted in the first place. Look all I am saying that if he had a master plan as you say, and he can make us do what we want, then we cannot be autonomous.”
Kenneth: “Look and listen boy, I told you once before, that if you would like to be happy living in that tummy of the whale go right on ahead and do it. It is all the same to him.”
Michael: “So then is God fallible or is there no master plan, or worse are we not autonomous beings? Cause if he wanted us to do something and we did not do it, having our own free will, it would mean that if there was a master plan to things that God knew we were not going to do it in the first place so why would he put us through the hell to change our mind. Since God obviously had a master plan in hand, as in with the story of Jonas, that means if we were to turn him down then God would be in fact fallible. Since it is most obvious that there in no way God can be not infallible then we are to assume that since God has a master plan and he is infallible, then we are not autonomous creatures. But since you also say that we are, then there is something completely wrong with everything. To me it seems like we are nothing more than mere puppets for the Lord. And right now he is telling me to dance mother fucker dance.”
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