2:52 pm
Eureka! Come in my darling, the water’s fine. The tub is small, but we’ll get comfortable. Watch that displacement! Oh well, what’s a little water on the floor. Is that your foot? Shove over baby, make some empty space. We must have space independent of things. Get that matter out of the void! Can we do that? Create from void? Creatio ex nihilo? The Greeks believed not. Most of their creations come from water, although Heraclitus prefered creation from fire. Imagine a tub of that! No, this is much nicer. And cosy too, eh baby? Come, let’s fingerponder the materia prima a little. Honey, you are filthy! Look at that sheen forming on the water. All those layers of belief you carry around. Here, have some soap, nice citronlemon. Get behind those ears. Wash every nook and cranny. Especially your cranny. Want me to get that for you? Not yet? Now, where does everything begin? Well of course, it begins with me. I am God. Yes. Yes. Wait, you don’t believe me? Well you should. And don’t worry, you can be God too. You are God, ok? God. Oh I see. You believe in a different God. Well you show me yours and I’ll show you mine. Go ahead. He’s a he. Ok. White guy. Yup. Seated, gotcha. A throne? A king of some kind? When was the last time you listened to a king? Ok, ok, it is your belief. Keep going, rinse it out of there. Facial hair. Old. A light. A heart. An eye in the sky. Well now, you’re just riffing. Tell me, have you ever seen God? Ok, I get it. Faith needs no proof; you do not need to see to believe. But what about unbelief? That is so much harder to accomplish, you know. What will it take for you to unbelieve? What do I have to do to wipe away that God stain marring your vision? You’re putting a sticky film on the surface of everything. Ick. Smells too. Wait, what did you say? What about my stains? My sheen on the water? Do I believe my own theory? No, of course not. I neither believe nor disbelieve. I need help too, a nice push one way or the other. Want to take care of it for me? Tell me, do you push both ways? Now relax a little baby, roll over and let me get to that cranny.