Please, Not Another Mystery

Another Friday night the centurians meet, Danny is now very much a regular guest, and so is the wine. They have been discussing many odd things that happen in the universe, the evening is drawing to a close and Danny interrupts the sleepy eye with a simple but remarkably elucidating question. “Why are famous people famous?” If anyone should be able to answer that, it ought to be a centurian.

Habakkuk noted, “Ah, yes, why are famous people famous that has been the question hasn’t it?”

Danny, “Well I might sound a simpleton for asking it but be if so, it remains an enigma why some people are born rich, and why some people have the propensity to be famous, in some cases it seems no matter what those prone to be famous do, right or wrong, they always keep on stumbling into fame and fortune.”

“Well then very well, I think being a centurian I can answer that most puzzling of questions, but I should warn you that once I give you the response you will be greater disappointed for it, than when you merely did not know the answer.”

Defiant Danny crossing his arms either as imposition or defensiveness, “And why is that?”

Habakkuk, looking awfully smug, browsed the room so as to say, “I warned you.” But instead said, “Invariably some questions are never answered because it is not in anyone’s interest to know the truth. More often than not the case is that it is better for some things to remain complicated through mystification, curiosity and lack of definition, than it is to have answers; and also it is true that most of us don’t want to know many things because then we might get wholly troubled about our existence.”

Antoinette interjects, “Are you suggesting that it is easier for us to search for the meaning of the universe and to search for a god than it is to find their particular answers.”

Again Habakkuk had gotten more arrogant recently, hard to expect from the boy whose lineage was that of a snake catcher. “You got it, you got it just right, no one wants to know if there is a god, or how the universe was really created,…” stopping severely, “…clearly the universe was never created, but,” he pauses himself, intentionally forgets to follow that line of thought and proceeds with, “…well imagine all those professors hunting down the existence of god or the beginning of time, imagine all those professions based on service to god and science, imagine what they would do if we told them definitively that there wasn’t a god, or that there wasn’t a big bang, it would crush them wouldn’t it. Or put it another way, could a scientist see the end of science?”

Lauren, “I don’t think so, I don’t think it would crush them, as you say, I think they would be closer to whatever greater truth and that would please them more.”

“I see you haven’t noticed that people are hard to reprogram, specially professionals. But ok, say you were right, I don’t want to disagree with you, but say you were right, then what of it? Nothing of it, that is what, because we are not going to find the meaning to the question of God until god answers it by himself and without intermediaries; and he isn’t going to do that until he does it.”

Lauren again, “But he could do it conclusively through intermediaries, the Virgin Mary and Jesus were intermediaries, and they could prove the existence of god.”

“Lauren it surprises me that I am your friend; if they had proved it conclusively you and I would not be having this discussion.”

Lauren, “Good point.”

Habakkuk, “And so I was telling you that there are questions better left unanswered and I have presented clear evidence of a couple and now Danny wants to know what makes famous people famous even though knowing so wont solve any desires that he may possess to be famous himself.” He takes a few sips of his wine, “now then, everyone has lived many lives we all know that, pretty straight forward; that is not to say that people have to continue to reincarnate a thousand things have to go wrong and a thousand things have to go right for anyone to reincarnate, and people in general do not necessarily want to reincarnate but sometimes, even in the metaphysical, there are endless loops, which is not to say that that is why I am here, I might want to be here though I would prefer not to answer that to myself or to you.” More wine. Everyone expectant, “It’s all rather silly, you have the propensity to be famous because you have accumulated a lot of ergio within your soul embodiment. Before you go to question that, it means that you have lived a lot of lives and you have accumulated your multiple life’s energies which gives you access to having greater communality with your humanity. The greater association with your humanity the greater your propensity to have mass appeal, mass appeal comes from the associations that others make to you and you make to them, these will always be greatest with those that have had more lives, and the aggregate of all those lives in turn see more in common with each other which means that the most famous will have a communality not only with the average folk but a greater communality with those that are not average, which allows them to stay at the top of the heap with greater ease.”

The room was filled with exultation, this guy had panache, Danny grasped the answer and its consequences immediately, “you are saying that people depend on the number of incarnations which adds the energies of others and theirs through life times and this gives them a propensity to be famous as their energies recombine and recognize each other with those of the masses.”

Habakkuk, “A bit repetitive but yes.”

Danny, “Then your conclusion is that I will never be famous within this life time because if I had that propensity for it, it would have already displayed itself, your saying that I lack communality with the average person, or with the current humanity in general and so if I try to be famous it will be a wasted effort.”

Habakkuk, “Your grasp of the situation is surprisingly good.”

Danny too interested to pause, “Then politicians have lived many life times and that is why they get the popular vote?”

Habakkuk, “Everything has an exemption clause, politicians are precisely the opposite, they have lived the least of life and have the lowest ergio energy quotient. See politicians by their very nature are not complicated beings, they are simpletons, this is not because they are idiots, on the contrary, though to the universe as a whole they are indeed idiots, in their locality of being they are an impressive local force. There are a lot of local forces, witchcraft is one, forces that apply at the local level but have no cosmic significance, in that light it is that we see politicians; they are a local energy, which accumulates the local ergio desired consensus and expresses it. This is why a good and an excellent politician doesn’t have an opinion but rather they are servants of the mood of their times. To summarize it a bit, a politician simply takes up the belief that is most nearest him, and that has the greatest ergio mass units, so that it has a propensity for popularity. That is that politicians are not themselves popular as might be an Emily Dickinson, a first rate poetess that had obviously touched the universe too much, but rather it is the ideas that are popular and the politicians are just the carriers. This is why they must not be possessed by too much universal history or carry too many previous lives, the less the better, you can’t come to this world possessed with too much to be a politician, you must be pretty much running on empty and you must allow yourself the ability to populate your mind with the popular beliefs and ideas of the times. Others characters suffer this type of thing, critics, journalists, salesmen, these are types that come to life ready to be filled up with something, which is why they will have a tendency to be more satisfied than Emily Dickinson whom coming here rather full of stuff couldn’t take anymore.”

Antoinette gets up to get some more wine for the gang, lightly raising one arm and commenting on her way, “makes perfect sense to me.”

Otto adds, “It is so, and there is nothing wrong with that, we need politicians if we didn’t then who would express public opinion.”

Trocin gets in, “The chap is right, politicians are excellent explainers of the public will and have the ability to amass the ergio desires of the mass within themselves and use them towards constructive ends.”

Lauren, “Scary, if you are right then Hitler was mostly an empty vessel effectively incorporating mass will unto himself so as to acquire a following of believers in their own faith!”

Trocin, “You could not have gotten it more right, and depressing as it might be the general public is always most wise to blame their puppet leaders for the consequences of something which can only be carried out through mass will, mass participation and mass desire.”

Danny, “I better be going, this doesn’t solve the problem of why I have to earn a living, tomorrow is not going to be as glamorous for me as tonight.”

The guests all took their time leaving after that, Lauren and Antoinette did not make it to bed until close to one in the morning.