same mindset but a different set of ideals on how he thinks I want the
formicarium to run. One ant religion says I opened the farm up and spoke to
a lone ant one day while he was toiling the field, while the other ant religion
says that I placed a special ant among them to whom I spoke to outside the
farm and gave it special instructions to carry out. Neither is true, I said no
such thing because quite honestly I have better things to do with my time
then to try to explain myself to an ant. Why would I care how an ant
chooses to live his life? As long as he is not killing all the other ants he can
do as he pleases; I am not so petty, bored and insecure about myself that I
would go out of my way to dictate what an ant chooses to do on his day off.
The only thing that would worry me is when these two arrogant ants who
think they know what the almighty James wants from them start telling
other ants what to do and suddenly we have a big ant dilemma. I can’t stop
it myself because it is not like they can understand my language; they are
after all, just ants. Even if I were to tell the ants what I wanted from them, I
would not have told one ant colony one thing and the other colony
something entirely different, I would have made sure that all ants
everywhere could hear my voice and my message to avoid any confusion. I
certainly would not have been all cloak and dagger, whispering in the ear of
a single ant.
It is only a matter of time before these two conflicting beliefs meet each
other and when they do no ant is going to back down because they are both
positive they have my holy word to back them up so they are going to end
up killing each other over nothing, which upsets me because I grew that
farm expressly for the purpose of watching them grow. I can go and get
another farm, they are pretty cheap and it is not a problem for me but I felt
something for those ants, they were special to me and even though they did
some things I didn’t like seeing, all in all I found them entertaining.
God Doesn’t Care What You Get Up To As Long As You Are
Interesting
I don’t think there is a “God,” but if there is, he is not an interventionist. If
he was, he would see the misery cancer causes and he’d simply wipe it out,
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