Chapter 20 ghosts and gods

ghosts and gods Ghosts are people's common concern, and gods are people's common reverence.As soon as you walk into a chapel or other temple, your heart of reverence arises spontaneously.As long as a few people get together to talk about ghosts, they will all yearn for it and listen to it tirelessly.But are there ghosts and gods in this world?It is said that ghosts and gods are the products of the superstitious age in the past. In the age of science, ghosts and gods should no longer exist. There are reasons for this. I can't say from a distance, as far as I know, wasn't it still a superstitious era in the era of our grandfathers and even fathers?At that time, people really believed that there were ghosts and gods in their hearts.This matter is also very simple. At that time, most people still lived in the rural economy. The clothes a person wore, especially men's robes and women's jackets and skirts, and more solemn and luxurious dresses, almost had to be worn several times. Ten years or even a lifetime.At that time, there were not many kinds of diets. Whatever a person likes to eat, there are only a few flavors in his life.The utensils used at home, such as a table, a chair, an inkstone, and a long pipe, are often used by one person for a lifetime.The house you live in is the same for the rest of your life, the bedroom is always that bedroom, the study is always that study, walk up into the study, sit on this chair, smoke that long pipe, walk into that bedroom at night, and sleep on it. That bed has not changed for decades or a lifetime.Family gatherings have been like a day for decades.Neighborhood township, relatives and friends, graves and ancestral halls, everything is like this.The grandfather died, and the father took over. When he walked into the bedroom and saw the bed, he couldn't help but think of his father.His father was haunted, so the ghost lingered in the bedroom and clinged to the bed.Running into the study, seeing the desk and the chair, and thinking of his father, his father's ghost, lingering in the study and clinging to the desk and chair.Touching the long pipe and using the inkstone, his father's ghost seems to be attached to the pipe and the inkstone.Tasting new things in spring and autumn, he ate a few dishes his father loved during his lifetime, and his father's ghost seemed to appear faintly on those few dishes.Sometimes he couldn't help but modify his father's clothes, such as the long robe and mandarin jacket, and put them on himself. His father's ghost seemed to be attached to the long robe and mandarin jacket all the time, kissing himself all the time.Walking into the ancestral hall, or going to the tomb, or meeting relatives and neighbors that his father used to hang around, his father's ghost will always appear anytime and anywhere.My life at that time was because I was too close to everything in the outside world, and the outside world was too peaceful.In short, the son's world is still his father's world. It's just that his father is suddenly missing in this world, so his father is replaced by a ghost. This is a very natural thing in human psychology.This does not seem to be superstition. If you insist on accusing him of superstition, he will deny it.

Speaking of his father's career when he was born, or as a craftsman, he devoted all his life to this kind of work.Sometimes he is very proud of what he does, too exquisite and absorbed, and his whole life seems to be entrusted to these few tasks.Or he is a farmer, and those few fields and a plow ox are his life, and his ghost sometimes appears on the plow field and the old ox.Or a scholar, the few books he liked to read during his lifetime, or some of his own works, are all painstaking efforts throughout his life, and he loves what he loves. How can he just die?His enjoyment during his lifetime still exists, as does his creation during his lifetime, which means his life still exists.But his person has indeed passed away, so his ghost has come to replace him.

Up to now, the world has changed. We are born in the age of science, and live in an era of extremely active industrial and commercial economy.When it comes to what you wear, you change several sets a year, and never wear a piece of clothing for decades or even a lifetime.When it comes to food, we have a good taste, and we like a lot. I can't tell which flavor is my true hobby.When it comes to utensils, the new replaces the old, the trendy for the unfashionable.The stream is endless and emerges endlessly.Speaking of living, here this year, there next year, here today, maybe there tomorrow, thousands of miles away, often running around.Your son, who has entered the school since he was a child, runs outside like you, and travels thousands of miles away all year round.Even husband and wife don't always stay together.Moreover, there are frequent social interactions, and women know too many men, and men know too many women.If the mind is restless, the life of the husband is not entirely in the wife, nor is the life of the wife entirely in the husband.Not to mention the neighborhood township party.Relatives and friends are all indifferent.Tombs and ancestral halls are even less cared about now.May I ask, once you leave this world, what will your mind still cling to in this world?You will be at a loss as to what is right.Your ghost is gone long ago, where in this world will others remember you again?Therefore, people here will not only never meet your people again, but also will never meet your ghosts again.

Speaking of your career in this world, the workers are in the factory, which is a collective mechanical work, which one is made by you, which one is your original idea, and put your heart and blood on it And created?Your field is now mechanically cultivated, or high-rise buildings have been built on it.If you really have a ghost, if you sneak back to take a look, you will not recognize your land, and you will feel uninterested.It is said that the few books you loved during your lifetime have now been put into the pile of ancient papers, and no one cares about them.Moreover, you read and dabbled too much during your lifetime, and you yourself are confused, and you can't tell which books you really like and devote yourself to.Before you die, you will have forgotten them.When it comes to your thinking, times have changed and you are out of date.Your writings have long been forgotten.If you are a person in this world again, you will also feel at ease with everything in that world, and you will no longer be interested in it, and you will never be able to recall your memory.Therefore, your ghost can no longer rely on this sustenance to send out touching auras.Everything in the world is changing, becoming tense, becoming chaotic.Others crowd out yours, and you crowd out others.Today's squeezes out yesterday's, and tomorrow's squeezes out today's.So crowded, everyone in this world is crowded and drifting freely.When you were born, you were already too crowded to stand on your feet, like a wandering soul.After you die, how can you stand still and leave your ghostly shadow in this world.From now on, I'm afraid that the evil spirits who are only angry with grievances will still appear occasionally!

Putting aside the business of ghosts, let's talk about God.God is more vivid and powerful among ghosts.This world is too stagnant and peaceful, so we need God to excite, inspire, and enliven us.Today's world is changing with each passing day, and there is no moment without excitement and vividness.Soaring through the clouds and riding the mists, going to heaven and earth, all the things that were expected from God in the past, now people take responsibility and do it by themselves.In this age, gods can only hide and thank themselves for being insensitive. This is good, science has broken our superstitions, but science has also driven away some of the things we care about and respect.