Friday 22 June 2007

Pic of the day: "Uhm, guys? There's an extremely powerful entity from outside our reality watching us."

"God is great (and so am I)"

or, The further adventures of a man and his nonlocal, extratemporal Ground of Being.

Today as I was about to leave home for work, big fat raindrops started splattering on the stairs in front of my house. I picked up my umbrella and set off for the commute bus, which is some minutes away. By the time I arrived, it was raining temple cats and St Bernard dogs. You know, tropical downpour type rain. If the rain had started a couple minutes later, I would not have brought my umbrella and would have been utterly soaked.
"God is great" I thought to myself on the bus, "to have timed it so perfectly. Just as I was about to walk out the door..."
"What you're really saying" interjected God, "is that you are a very important person, since God would time the rain to you in particular."
"Well,when you put it that way..."
"Your neighbor's wife, whom you saw scurrying to save the clothes from the clothesline, do you think I timed the rain to inconvenience her?"
"Well, at least the rain is good for the lawn."
"It would have rained even if there wasn't a house there."
"May I point out that I was trying to give glory to you, here?"
"That's the funny part. You're so used to being the center of the universe that you really thought YOU were doing ME a favor."

(For my concerned relatives, I hasten to add that I don't actually hear voice in daily life. It is more like a telepathic connection. And anyway, with the way these conversations are taking, it seems highly unlikely that the Voice of God will order me to slaughter my firstborn. Rather it helps me avoid having a firstborn in the first place. With a God like that, who needs a wife to keep me grounded?)