HOME WORLD BOUND -
speculations on ... is there a god, what is god like,
who is god, what is the ultimate reality,
and how to make heaven on earth

an excerpt from

Those Amazing Women with their Flying Dreams
present
THE SEXE-TETES

Liona: It's my idea that, if there is a god, we're in the process of creating that creature: someone who takes care of things better than the survival of the fittest, natural selection, evolution. Animals hunt other animals – lots of cats even toy with the terrified creatures they're killing. Cancer eats up people, malaria kills millions, so do Aids, starvation, malnutrition. Cats have litter after litter of unwanted kittens – but until the past century, there was no way of stopping the overproduction. Women have so many unwanted babies, even when there's no love, no food, no home of any sorts. And some religions tell us this is the will of god.

Kay: So god, according to you, is a by-product of evolution?

Liona: I couldn't have said it better myself. Yes, the kind of caring god people like to imagine. Though if there is anything out there, anything that loves and feels, it wants us to do our damnedest to turn earth, for the first time ever, into something closer to a well-tended, well-protected garden, into as safe a haven as possible for all who live here – into a true home.

Kay: I believe you're actually saying more than that god is, at best, a by-product: you're saying we’re god.

Liona: Nooooo. We've made way too much of a mess for that. War, Mass murder. Genocide. Huge holes in the ozone layer. You know the list. Still, while people have done a lot of damage, we've done nothing – so far at least – on the scale of what's “natural.” Like, an all-natural comet smashed into earth, wiping out the dinosaurs, not to mention ninety per cent of all other species. Though with what we've become capable of – mass destruction of the everything on this planet – we're coming close to the natural disasters.

Kay:  At any rate, we didn't create childbirth.

Liona: And many of us are trying, in our own small ways, to make things better. We hurt when we see hurt, and we try to find out how best to help.

Kay: And maybe we need those some of those tools we've come up with recently - all that technology - to turn this place into more of a home place than it's ever been, if enough of us just keep trying. When I pay attention to the news, it’s overwhelming, for me at least, unless I do my little bit. Then the heart opens.

Liona: To make the world into what so many people have dreamed it could be, a safe place for all of us – that's our biggest project, the biggest human project ever undertaken, I'd say. Home-world bound.

And with that music starts.
Their song -
There's a World in My Arms

Elsa
2003

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the story behind the piece

To go from the Sexe-Tete vision of a true home world to
more speculation on The Ultimate Reality,
click here.

To go to what is home for the Sexe-Tetes -
playful fun erotic poetry and a show of their own -
click here.

How to Create a True Home World?
First, Questions About God and the Ultimate Reality:
What Is God Like? Are We God?
How to Make Heaven On Earth?

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HOW DID THIS GET WRITTEN?

Why are Liana and Kay talking about god, what is god, what is god like, are we god, how do we make heaven on earth? They're Sexe-Tetes, after all - women in search of sex, love and whatever else catches their attention.

Things come together in strange ways, with strange twists and turns often taking us to the things that matter most to us - or more likely, with us twisting and turning events to make them suit us better.

In this case, the Sexe-Tetes - like so many of us - have more than one side. They like light-hearted frivolous stuff. They like raising money for good causes, such as homeless children and animals.

I didn't expect them to take on the ultimate reality.

And then, out popped these serious pronouncements. It's the first time, as far as I remember, that I wrote my vision of the ultimate reality - and my belief about the only way I see we could actually get to that age-old dream, heaven on earth.

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How to make a home world, a world where people and animals are truly at home? I say, if there is a chance for heaven on earth, it's up to us - a much harder task than destroying the world.

How to make a heaven on earth? It's up to us to take every step we can, a million steps. What is the ultimate reality? If there is a god or if there isn't a god, we can figure out the universal laws - of life and empathy, caring and taking care. To make heaven on earth - it's the hardest task in the world, and utterly important, a huge challenge, a challenge worthy of the best in us.

A home world: everywhere we travel on earth, it would be home, it would be safe.

How could we ever get a true home world? We need to love it as our home, care for it as our home, protect it, defuse dangers. That will take every bit of human intelligence, human ingenuity, human ability, human empathy.

A world that is truly a home planet, a heaven on earth - this is a deeply worthy goal.

I don't know if we can make it happen. It's definitely worth it, giving it a try.

By the way, are we god? I don't know. There's an old saying going through my mind: the lord helps those who help themselves. So, are we god, what is god like, what is the ultimate reality? have no idea, and I don't think it matters. What matters is acting as if we were god, doing the things needed to make this a heaven on earth.

Elsa
August 7, 2009

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