The Underdeveloped Brain

We of the Forum have spent time reading about, mulling over and trying to make sense of the Humans preoccupation with destroying that which they most value. Why did they complicate matters so? They certainly didn’t seem to derive any pleasure from of it. We have concluded, upon extensive study, that the behavioral manifestations resulted from a psychiatric affliction. More specifically the UNDERDEVELOPED BRAIN SYNDROME. Those poor victims of this seemingly innocuous condition couldn’t see “the forest for the trees” so to speak. Their perceptions were skewed, they placed meaning where none existed and they created issues to increase self-importance and worth. A particularly virulent strain reached nearly pandemic proportions during the 21st Century. We include the article below by way of illustrating our point.

Euroswydd, Reiki Clown and Mort


The Underdeveloped Brain

It’s another birthday to celebrate! That was the way of it all my life. Excitement overwhelmed and sleep was elusive the night before a birthday. So what if that meant being another year older, it meant getting fun stuff.

Celebrating other people’s birthdays was fun as well. The anticipation of their happiness upon opening their presents was almost as much fun as opening personal ones. Whether going to the store or making things by hand, there was a certain satisfaction in doing something that would bring a smile of delight to another’s face.

The giving of gifts was a way of celebrating a birthday. Preparations were made, time was set aside to remember and honor, respectfully, the sanctity of a specific birth. No one expected that birthdays would become tools used to further political or religious agendas.

Many people, women and men both, have throughout history been recipients of spiritual messages. These people garnered followers who understood and believed in the enlightened one’s insights. Oftentimes certain followers took the situation one step further and, usually following the death of the spiritually enlightened person, created a religion. Both Christianity and Buddhism are two such philosophies.

Yes, they are philosophies, not religions. Christ didn’t leave any writings behind, St. Paul took it upon himself to change the spiritual messages Jesus Christ espoused, turn them into divinations, then write them down. A similar scenario transpired with Siddhartha Guatama. This Buddha received his enlightenment after much effort and maintained that he offered the wisdom of empirical observation not divine decrees. In spite of that Buddhism is perceived, by many, to be a religion.

When I was younger, celebrating Jesus Christ’s birthday was like celebrating any other birthday, albeit on a slightly grander scale. We decorated, gave gifts, discussed the birthday boy, and ate a really special meal. Just like on any other birthday. To me it was a chance to celebrate the birthday of someone who was really special and to honor that. I spent most of my life under the apparently deluded impression that that was what Christmas was all about.

Then, finally after years of operating under such naïve delusions, I too received enlightenment. Christmas isn’t about celebrating the birthday of a special person it’s about control, who has it, who doesn’t and perhaps more to the point, who wants it. How else to explain the preoccupation of religious and political representatives with the nomenclature describing facets of the holiday? Or should I not use the word holiday? Surely there’s some derogatory connotation involving that word as well. I do apologize to whomever I have unknowingly caused mental and or religious anguish. It’s just so hard to keep track of all the subtle nuances holding sway these days.

And as for my reevaluated perception of birthdays….