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The Gun Was Loaded
And God should have known
Planet Earth is the poster child for God hadn’t a clue the gun was loaded. This is also known in these parts as an experiment gone terribly wrong.
In His defense, though, He was a little bored and was casting about for some fresh entertainment. Also, this day was not one of His think-ahead days, more like one of His go-with-the-first-impulse days and there’s no telling where such a day that might end up.
God had been messing about with a couple of new energy frequencies that held much entertainment promise. One he had called pain, the other he had called sex.
His critters would not like pain, and so they’d run away from the threat of it as fast as they could, but they would like sex, and so they’d run in the opposite direction, as fast as they could. A lot of critters running back and forth should be fun, He thought, hurting from the one and hurting for the other. God felt really clever about that one.
Now to show and teach them what these frequencies mean and to make sure they really would feel both the pain and the sex, and but good. This was an important aspect of His experiment for sometimes His creations dared to develop a will of their own and would then disagree with Him, you see, and might not like to be shown and taught to…
