The cosmic joke as a shaggy dog story

[Hojo]

I had a dream that contained a shaggy dog story and it reminded me of the cosmic joke.

Shaggy dog story - a long, rambling story or joke, typically one that is amusing only because it is absurdly inconsequential or pointless

also : of, relating to, or being a similar humorous story whose humor lies in the pointlessness or irrelevance of the plot or punch line

In the dream I am in class and we are doing cartoons. The teacher gives us an assignment where we pick flowers in a jar that make a tea and we are supposed to make a 15 minute cartoon on how to the tea is or tastes. Everyone picks their jar and the teacher says there's 1 left and I gotta drink that one and it's the worst one. I'll say camomile tea only because I cannot remeber what it was and wasn't told. 

So I get my stuff together and the dream fast forwards to the end of the assignment where we are presenting. I completely forget everything about the project and I am looking at the final product and as I'm looking through the comic for the cartoon I'm like I didnt write this, this is trash. I see words here that I would never use it seems like my teacher wrote this for me. The teacher said she helped me and I'm like good grief I hate it.

Then the cartoon for the project goes onto the projector and it starts off with a cop or sherif or captain and he's driving down a road. He's making turns and comes to a Cresent and stops in front of a house. A criminal runs inside and he opens fire on the house and kills the criminal. The police force comes and they give him a badge and ask if they should clean it up the scene now and he says not now to wait a few days to calm down. He gets his car and is escorted home. 

When he gets home his wife and child are being annoying. His wife is bitching at him and he's watching TV. His child is crying non stop and the scene turns very sad like he just wants some peace but he is surrounded by insane people. He quietly drinking alcohol by himself to drown out their annoyances. A day goes by his friend comes over and they talk about some things and go shopping or something and another day goes by and they decide to go back to the house the criminal was killed to clean it up.

They get inside and the criminal is shot up and there are flies and its stinky. They put gloves on and they get closer and almost puke. The cop sees liquid on the floor that looks like a mixture of brains and anal leakage. He sticks his finger in it and bring it to his tongue to taste it. His partner says whats it taste like captain? And the cop says camomile tea. I burst out laughing in the dream.

When I woke up I was reminded of the cosmic joke and the style of comedy that is the cosmic joke, and wanted to share the comedy of God. How your entire life seems like a drama until you get to the punchline and remeber that it was just a shaggy dog joke.

[Ramasta9]

The simplest way to express the cosmic joke is that we are all actors on stage playing our role, good, bad, ugly, as painful and gruesome as it can appear sometimes in this world and life, in the end, it was all part of the play, after its over, we are all friends, co-workers, family. My brother recently got stabbed to death, as hard as this has been, these insights keep me going. 

Edited 6 hours ago by Ramasta9