DoY 105

Who is us?

Some of us are U.S. citizens, but all of us are citizens of the Earth, the third planet from the Sun.  Isn't that a wee bit odd?  That we have names for many of the smaller stars in the heavens, but the biggest by far, the nearest, the one we depend on, we simply call The Sun.  Other cultures have named that star also, usually while imagining it a mostly benevolent god.  "Mostly benevolent" is about as good as a god gets.  After all, any god we can take seriously also has to be whimsical, vengeful, jealous, petty, amusing, and tormenting.  That's how we see the world.  It takes a lot of seremity to see the world as different.  An indifferent god would be pointless.  But all of that only addresses "Who s us?" from the side or at a slant.  Us apparently needs gods.  Us has created them for as long as us've left records of ourselves.  Well, that may be an exaggeration.  But for at least as long as we've left written records of ourselves, us have had gods.  If nothing else, the gods of commerce and of thievery.