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This message has been a long time coming, waiting for me to bring it forth unapologetically.How many times have we asked or been asked, “Did you have a good time, did you enjoy yourself, was it fun?”
We all know good and damn well that even though we are asking the question as if we want to hear the truth, almost none of us want to hear the truth if the person did not have a good time.
After the person expresses their discontent, we will usually try to patch it up, fix it up, pump it up and get them to look on the bright side, be positive, and remain polyanna-ish.
Yet we don't do this when a person expresses they had a good time. We don't try to shoot holes in it to get them to look on the dark side, be negative and be Eeyore-ish.
Bottom line is: When we ask did you have a good time, we are asking a rhetorical question because we always expect people to say they had a good time.
We end up more upset at a person who expresses they didn't have a good time, when we should be mad at ourselves for being so goofy and loopy.
A good time can be had by all if there's alcohol involved or hooping and hollering, or anything in excess, that we don't get to do each day in our routine boring lives.
This then is really at the subconscious basis of us asking somebody else did they have a good time. We are asking if they were able to find some joy in life. We want to feel okay to have good times in the midst of otherwise dull times. We ask the question because want people to ask us. We want to share the intermittent moments of good times to justify the much more constant moments of dissatisfactions we are living.According to the (BB), The good-time is the periodic festival.
Har-Khuti, god of both horizons, is the deity of going round, the good or Khut god. The devil has the character of the goer round, and he is called the good man. The fairies go in circles, and they are the "good folk.” Going gooding is the same as going gadding round about. And in the customs of Valentine’s Day, catching and clasping of the person is a salute equivalent to the salutation “Good Morrow.” The going round from house to house to sing the “Good Morrow, Valentine,” is identical with the going a-gooding. One form of Har-Khuti, the god of going round, is Tum. Gooding is based on going round, making the circle as a symbol of a completed cycle of time. In this sense the last Sunday in Lent is designated “Good-pas Day;” the six Sundays being called Tid, Mid, Misera, Carling, Palm and Good-pas day. Khut-pesh is the extent of the circle-making. And the “Good” Friday is the Khut Friday.
It should be okay to acknowledge that we didn't have a good time.
This is still difficult because our notions of what is commonly accepted to be good, fun, enjoyable and satisfying is off kilter.
A good time is a god time because Khut is Ghod, thus God. God has multiple aspects and always manifests multiple aspects, so why wouldn't our experiences be multi-faceted as well, and not always all good in the manner we define good?
Yes it's all good in the optimal context, but not all good in the suboptimal context.
It's all good in the optimal context because it's gods doing what they do.
It's not all good in the suboptimal context because it's gods as humans doing miscues without a clue.
When “having a good time” becomes the primary concern that we must address to justify how we spend our time during certain occasions, we tend to create “good times” based on location and experiences, and get into a one upmanship with ourselves and with others to show proof that being in such and such a location and doing such and such things, equates to a good time.
Using our current suboptimal human context, definitions and meanings, do you think God is looking at the state of human affairs on this Earth and is having a good time?If so, then what are we praying for?
That's right, there's a whole lot of contradictions in our logic and behavior.Have a good day!
