Post by thecheat on Jul 2, 2009 13:11:05 GMT -5
This is something I put together in my spare time. It's not really done, but opinions are always nice. Anyways, Derrick asked for my opinion on God, and this starts to answer it. Go nuts.
Once upon a time the words “let there be light” were uttered. Some believe the Lord God above was the statement’s first orator. Some believe that a bearded old man with a chisel and a slab of granite contrived the statement. We’ll get back to that. Now I seek to perform an act of paradoxical similarity and difference. Let there be dark. Observe, even with that statement (and this one, for that matter) did I interrupt the pure white virtuosity of the page with the dark ink of knowledge. Isn’t it sweet? For those weak of stomach or faint of mind, I would recommend closing your eyes for the remainder of the text to guard against lost innocence and/or ignorance as well as general offense. I’ll let you know when the dark deed is finished.
Light preceded the invention of a lot of other stuff. This universal stuff was comprised of elements, which were comprised of atoms, which were comprised of smaller particles still. These elements, in turn, comprise molecules and mass alike. This stuff was ordered by its maker to obey certain laws of physics, which the obsequious matter observes to this day. The loyal matter we have to thank for the routine motion of the diverse celestial bodies the skies reveal even to the naked eye, hinting at the dwarfing size of the stars around us. This beautiful design started as mere smudges on a canvas which, left to the commandments set before them, drifted about according to natural law until planets and stars and comets and meteors and nebulas and galaxies and a lot of other fancy stuff was born. Something like that happened. Keep in mind that none of this stuff came into being until a big BANG rang out in the nothingness 14 billion years ago and impregnated the universe with itself.
The swirling elements formed spinning blobs rotating around bigger blobs in an even bigger hurricane named a galaxy by tiny specks billions of years later. About those specks…
That guy who turned the lights on wasn’t finished with the universe. He waited billions and billions of years for the universe to produce life and DNA. More patience still, he waited for life to diversify itself into various species. I will now speak for one planet, one that I just so happen to live on. You probably live on it too. Serendipitous, no?
The various forms of life on Earth possessed various qualities that pitted organisms against each other in some instances and begat harmony in others. A special few life forms reigned supreme is certain areas. Humanity, being among those few, had a brain of prodigious size. God picked two of these most intelligent of earthly beings and built a Paradise for them. The two he picked were the most physically perfect and childishly innocent specimens the human race had to offer. He named them Adam and Eve and they were children. They grew up in Eden, God’s Paradise, until the day came when the Fruit of Knowledge became too tempting to bear. They ate of the fruit and shed their innocence. In short, they grew up and started thinking grown-up thoughts. For them, Eden was no more. The world was no longer as big as it once was for the pair, and so they moved on. They left their blessed childhood behind to forge a new future out of a world that was now their own. Nothing was to be handed to them anymore.
They bred, and their ancestors bred, and their ancestors’ ancestors bred some more. There were many children.
All the while God watched. Mankind was grown, and thusly, had no further need to be parented. When Adam and Eve gained knowledge of the world around them, they freed themselves of more than just innocence. They freed themselves of divine intervention, if you will. God’s role as a parent was through, his job done, and he had retired. His universe born and raised, God saw it fit to merely sit back and watch. Through the years he laughed with us, cried with us, danced with us, mourned with us, sympathized with us, all with the uninvolved air of someone watching a television, the Great Clockmaker and Silent Watchman of Our World. Man strived for the heavens with prayers, crusades, and airplanes to be left unanswered by a God sworn to inaction. Words were put in His unmoving mouth and actions were carried out by the false semblance of His static hand. In short, mistakes were made.
Some say that there will come a day when trumpets will ring out from the clouds and hoof beats will shatter the skies. Some say otherwise, claiming that the clocks will keep ticking and the world will keep spinning until the sun explodes, and even then the universe will persevere as it has for the last 14 billion years. They also say that our sun is a second generation star, proving that life will go on even after the stars dotting the nighttime canvas enter the realm of chaos and oblivion. Some say God will end us all and some say he will preserve his own hard work. Whether creation halts itself by some heavenly decision or marches endlessly on, it will always be in darkness, the difference being the absence or presence of the occasional spot of light.
Deed’s done, uncover those pretty little eyes now.
Once upon a time the words “let there be light” were uttered. Some believe the Lord God above was the statement’s first orator. Some believe that a bearded old man with a chisel and a slab of granite contrived the statement. We’ll get back to that. Now I seek to perform an act of paradoxical similarity and difference. Let there be dark. Observe, even with that statement (and this one, for that matter) did I interrupt the pure white virtuosity of the page with the dark ink of knowledge. Isn’t it sweet? For those weak of stomach or faint of mind, I would recommend closing your eyes for the remainder of the text to guard against lost innocence and/or ignorance as well as general offense. I’ll let you know when the dark deed is finished.
Light preceded the invention of a lot of other stuff. This universal stuff was comprised of elements, which were comprised of atoms, which were comprised of smaller particles still. These elements, in turn, comprise molecules and mass alike. This stuff was ordered by its maker to obey certain laws of physics, which the obsequious matter observes to this day. The loyal matter we have to thank for the routine motion of the diverse celestial bodies the skies reveal even to the naked eye, hinting at the dwarfing size of the stars around us. This beautiful design started as mere smudges on a canvas which, left to the commandments set before them, drifted about according to natural law until planets and stars and comets and meteors and nebulas and galaxies and a lot of other fancy stuff was born. Something like that happened. Keep in mind that none of this stuff came into being until a big BANG rang out in the nothingness 14 billion years ago and impregnated the universe with itself.
The swirling elements formed spinning blobs rotating around bigger blobs in an even bigger hurricane named a galaxy by tiny specks billions of years later. About those specks…
That guy who turned the lights on wasn’t finished with the universe. He waited billions and billions of years for the universe to produce life and DNA. More patience still, he waited for life to diversify itself into various species. I will now speak for one planet, one that I just so happen to live on. You probably live on it too. Serendipitous, no?
The various forms of life on Earth possessed various qualities that pitted organisms against each other in some instances and begat harmony in others. A special few life forms reigned supreme is certain areas. Humanity, being among those few, had a brain of prodigious size. God picked two of these most intelligent of earthly beings and built a Paradise for them. The two he picked were the most physically perfect and childishly innocent specimens the human race had to offer. He named them Adam and Eve and they were children. They grew up in Eden, God’s Paradise, until the day came when the Fruit of Knowledge became too tempting to bear. They ate of the fruit and shed their innocence. In short, they grew up and started thinking grown-up thoughts. For them, Eden was no more. The world was no longer as big as it once was for the pair, and so they moved on. They left their blessed childhood behind to forge a new future out of a world that was now their own. Nothing was to be handed to them anymore.
They bred, and their ancestors bred, and their ancestors’ ancestors bred some more. There were many children.
All the while God watched. Mankind was grown, and thusly, had no further need to be parented. When Adam and Eve gained knowledge of the world around them, they freed themselves of more than just innocence. They freed themselves of divine intervention, if you will. God’s role as a parent was through, his job done, and he had retired. His universe born and raised, God saw it fit to merely sit back and watch. Through the years he laughed with us, cried with us, danced with us, mourned with us, sympathized with us, all with the uninvolved air of someone watching a television, the Great Clockmaker and Silent Watchman of Our World. Man strived for the heavens with prayers, crusades, and airplanes to be left unanswered by a God sworn to inaction. Words were put in His unmoving mouth and actions were carried out by the false semblance of His static hand. In short, mistakes were made.
Some say that there will come a day when trumpets will ring out from the clouds and hoof beats will shatter the skies. Some say otherwise, claiming that the clocks will keep ticking and the world will keep spinning until the sun explodes, and even then the universe will persevere as it has for the last 14 billion years. They also say that our sun is a second generation star, proving that life will go on even after the stars dotting the nighttime canvas enter the realm of chaos and oblivion. Some say God will end us all and some say he will preserve his own hard work. Whether creation halts itself by some heavenly decision or marches endlessly on, it will always be in darkness, the difference being the absence or presence of the occasional spot of light.
Deed’s done, uncover those pretty little eyes now.