was the Word,
and the Word
was God, said John.
And in the end
will the word be the
Large Language Model?
Or will it all be gone.
Just blips and bleeps
of binary noise escaping
from Adam to atom
road dust to stardust.
Imagine the first moment,
like an astrophysicist
or a mystic prophet does:
Formless void, darkness.
Perhaps all existence
dwelling within a single
infinitesimal point. a speck.
Until a mind imagines
what if that grain of salt
explodes into being,
nothingness blooming
into everythingness?
Volcanos and icebergs
planets of frozen gas.
Crab grass. Alligators.
Orchids. Sonnets and
diatribes. Post cards.
Graveyards.
And God was pretty amused
with all those dinosaurs.
Like a 6-year old kid.
Must have been.
Because He kept them
around for a real long time.
Until He turned them into
hummingbirds and vultures.
Maybe He got bored,
(if God actually is a he, I don’t
presume to know, it’s just
the conventional formulation)
So in the last few minutes
of the sixth day He made
two creatures who looked
like the way He imagined
himself if He had a body.
Gave them a garden
to see if they could find
a way to be. Eden?
That is indeed, in deeds,
the essential question.
We have the ultimate power
to answer in the affirmative
or the negative. Or we could
just wait around to see
what happens.
The ironic thing to me,
is even if we invented God,
God will live far beyond
our own extinction.
In blips and bits and bleeps of energy
emanating through the universe.
Captain Kangaroo and Sixty Minutes.
Wheel of Fortune and the Game of Thrones.
Bible, Quran, and Bhagavad Gita.
until it collapses into a single
infinitesimal once more.
Smaller than the period
at the end of this sentence.
Meanwhile, we have
oceans, rivers, and forests,
the aurora borealis,
and roses. Coffee.
Mountains and music.
Violins and violence.
Poetry and atrocities.
Sonnets and bonnets.
Day still becomes night.
Eggs from sweet hens
who are happy layers.
Prayers. Moments of pain
and moments of bliss
and the Holy Kiss
remains the one
that always bestows,
Love.
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