Warning: Probably going to end up long, and probably going to make you think a little. Don't read if you don't feel like doing either.
As a person who feels that wisdom is everywhere, I have come to realize that messengers of God (or the moon or satan or Baphomet or that Sigma guy from the Mega Man games; which diety is not the point) exist, and have walked among us, and some are walking among us right now.
What do I mean by "Messenger of God"? Am I referring to the people who bang on your door every Sunday while you're sleeping late, and insist on pushing forth their message? No. I'm talking about normal human beings like you and I who, without even knowing that, are imbued with a usually-specific sort of divine wisdom from their higher creator, without their knowledge, and sent to share it with us all. They have no knowledge of their divine status, they don't know everything, they aren't perfect: They are still human. That's why not everyone understands their messages and why they sin and make bad choices like the rest of us. I feel that Jim Morrison is an example of one of these messengers: He, through his music, made us THINK - made us realize the importance of never taking things as they are, and seeking new learning, of opening your mind - The Doors of perception - and seeking knowledge and understanding and enlightenment. He also kept us grounded and made sure we knew he was still human, with songs like "Light My Fire" - but he didn't know he was doing that. Albert Einstein was another: He enlightened us, even though the things he tried his hardest to comprehend are incomprehensible by us humans: He made us realize that, and he did possess what was at the time knowledge we didn't know we could ever understand. Roger Waters and David Gilmour (Frontman and guitarist/sometimes frontman, respectively) of Pink Floyd - they have the ability to PERFECTLY exemplify emotion and, for me, emotional comprehension that I can never seem to word myself. It's a sort of divine empathy. Listen to "Hey You" on the Wall - the guitar solo: That, to me, is not just a guitar: It's a voice, a pained voice, a lost voice. How the fuck could they relate it so perfectly? Trent Reznor is another - he relates the same emotion, on just a slightly more "imperfect human" level: He gets pissed. He hurts. He gets lost. His music exemplifies that perfectly.
This is just something that is, for me, true. There's little tiny iterations of some higher diety everywhere; there's people he/she/it sends to teach us specific lessons at specific times, and makes sure we can understand them, because they are human. Just a theory. Does this make sense to anyone else? Who else do you feel is/was a messenger?
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