our gods

Our gods are in us, they are small and weak and we feel the need to protect them. Someone who loves material possessions cannot jump up and exclaim. 'My desire to collect objects in meaningless' unless of course they've come to some great realisation. Because to them its not meaningless. To them it gives meaning to everything else. They cannot deny its meaning without being left directionless without feeling the pain of dieing inside. So we defend our gods because they give meaning to us, because they are us. And in order to leave the card game we need a God out there. One which is not us. Something external to ourselves which can draw us into a bigger world instead of our internal gods which draw us into an ever smaller and less satisfying world. This is why Alcoholics Anonymous makes reference to a higher power; someone going through AA is in the process of killing their god.