As Jean-Paul Sartre so aptly put it, “If you are lonely when you are alone, then you are in bad company.”

And certainly, the “halitosis god” is far from worship-worthy.

But I wonder if the syllogism doesn’t break down even earlier — is emptiness really loneliness? All too often we hear of people falling into depression, fighting an apparent emptiness inside, yet these same people are always around others — think, for example, celebrities with psychological problems.

Then again, I guess it depends upon how one defines “loneliness.” Just as one could say while at sea, “Water, water everywhere and not a drop to drink,” so to could one be surrounded by people constantly without meaningful connection.

So my experience is that Lack of Cleanliness leads to Loneliness. Then, if I get too lonely, I’m apt to go on an eating binge, and wind up Over-stuffed, which is antithetical to Emptiness. I’m rarely clean, lonely, and empty all at the same time.

Thus we wind up at:

Bad Hygene is Loneliness, which leads to Gluttony, which is not Godly at all. Therefore God is not hampered by bad hygene.

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