I was recently watching a TV sitcom where a character had been deeply offended by her friend. After a full day of nursing her resentment, the character realized the rude event never happened she had only dreamed that it had. Like the flip of a switch, her misery vanished.
It reminds me of the parable of the man walking outside during twilight. He shrieks at the sight of a coiled snake and runs, tripping on a stone and breaking his leg. A neighbor overhears his cries and comes out with a lantern. Holding the light up, it reveals not a serpent, but a pile of coiled rope.
Christmas is actually in March, the star of Bethlehem was an alien spaceship and Jesus was an extraterrestrial being from Venus. If you find yourself nodding your head in agreement, then you’re probably a member of the Aetherius Society – a religion based on those and many other unusual and disparate ideas whose Executive Secretary and chief public relations person, Richard Lawrence, upended the traditional Christmas story recently for MyLondon. How did these beliefs originate and what kind of carols do they sing in March – Holodeck the Halls? ET in the Manger?
“I wouldn’t call him an alien, I’d call him a great cosmic intelligence. But yes, alien if you’d like. I believe he came from Venus.”