uhm, Al? The invisible sky fairies? The ones who call themselves "god" or whatever?

Sorry to break it to you, but they don't exist

Figment of your imagination, poor child rearing, I don't know.

Sorry about your loss, but making up fictional scenarios doesn't make the boo-boo better.

Oh lighten up Jim. I don't even like Ayn Rand and I found this entertaining and largely something I agree with.

Nice job, Al.

Yes Jim, I know, but try telling Her that.

Oh, great, so I have to mediate between the voices in your head.

I didn't ask for this gig / I'm getting too old for this shit / I'm not even supposed to be working today / Who the hell left this tuna sandwich in the fridge / Do you have any gray poupon / Wipe your feet / Use sunscreen / Well, it wouldn't itch so much if you didn't scratch it so often / It hurts when I pee / Check out that rack / Oh crap

Jim, I don't think you want to get in between the voices in MY head. They don't always play nice.

Funny, I was on the hotline to God myself just now and He/She said that you made all that up, Al.

And that the person you were talking to was very likely Ayn Rand but it sure wasn't God and He/She can prove it.

We had a little chat and He/She said to remind you of an old saying:
An eye for an eye makes the whole world go blind.

I had a hotline from ghod once, wow. Blew my, uhm, socks, off, yeah, that's what she blew, my socks.

erm, where was I?

Oh, yeah, in the Matt Ruff book "Sewer, Gas & Electric", the avatar of Ayn Rand is realized as a genii in lamp. About the only thing she's useful for is some light, but it is fitful, unreliable, and mostly a pain in the ass.

Oh, the additional thing about "Sewer, Gas & Electric" (published in 1997) is that an airplane destroys the Empire State Building, and an architech builds a Newer Empire State Building which is taller than the WTC. And there's giant alligators in the sewers.


If you can find a copy, it's a great book in part because it so funny and skewers the pretensions of Ayn Rand fans. (I originally called them "twats", but Eric wants us to be civil, and calling people who like Ayn Rand, "twats", is, on reflection, not nice).

"Judge, and prepare to be judged" - Ayn Rand

Augustine, I must disagree as regards An eye for an eye makes the whole world go blind. That is to say that EVERYONE is guilty. I am not. I have not poked out anyone's eyes, so my sight would not be hindered.

Also, my God can beat up your wussy God.

A Message From God To You

cc: The World.

I convey this message to you whom I have stirred with the sound of my voice. These words are my signature. You may bring your doubt, your fear, your faith, or your courage; it matters not, for you will be touched by the rhythm of my voice. It moves through you like a beam of light that sweeps - if only for a moment - the darkness aside.

I dwell in a frequency of light in which finite beings cannot uncover me. If you search for me, you will fail. I am not found or discovered. I am only realized in oneness, unity, and wholeness. It is the very same oneness you feel when you are interconnected with all of life, for I am this and this alone. I am all of life. If you must search for me, then practice the feeling of wholeness and unity.

In my deepest light I created you from my desire to understand my universe. You are my emissaries. You are free to journey the universe of universes as particles from my infinite womb with destinies that you alone will write. I do not prescribe your journey, or your journey's aim. I only accompany you. I do not pull you this way or that, nor do I punish you when you stray from my heart. This I do as an outcome of my belief in you.

You are the heirs of my light, which gave you form. It is my voice that awakened you to individuality, but it will be your will that awakens you to our unity. It is your desire to know me as your self that brings you to my presence so perfectly hidden from your world. I am behind everything that you see, hear, touch, taste, smell, feel, and believe.

I live for your discovery of me. It is my highest expression of my love for you, and while you search for my shadows in the stories of your world, I, the indelible, invisible light, grow increasingly visible. Imagine the furthest point in space - beneath a black portal, cast in some distant galaxy, and then multiply this distance by the highest numeric value you know.

Congratulations, you have measured an atom of my body.

Do you realize how I am unfathomable? I am not what you can know, or see, or understand. I am outside comprehension. My vastness makes me invisible and unavoidable. There is nowhere you can be without me. My absence does not exist. It is this very nature that makes me unique. I am First Cause and Last Effect connected in an undivided chain.

There is no supplication that stirs me. No prayer that invites me further into your world unless it is attended with the feeling of unity and wholeness. There is no temple or sacred object that touches me. They do not, nor have they ever brought you closer to my outstretched hand.

My presence in your world is unalterable for I am the sanctuary of both the cosmos and the one soul inside you.

I could awaken each of you in this very moment to our unity, but there is a larger design - a more comprehensive vision - that places you in the boundaries of time and the spatial dimensions of separateness. The design requires a progression into my wholeness that reacquaints you with our unity through the experience of separation. Your awakening, while slow and sometimes painful, is assured, and this you must trust above all else.

I am the ancestral father of all creation. I am a personality that lives inside each of you as a vibration that emanates from all parts of your existence. I reside in this dimension as your beacon. If you follow this vibration, if you place it at the core of your journey, you will contact my personality that lives beneath the particles of your existence.

I am not to be feared or held in indifference. You are my blessed offspring with whom I am intricately connected in means that you cannot understand and therefore appreciate. You must suspend your belief and disbelief in what you cannot sense, in exchange for your knowledge that I am alive and real within you. This is my central message to all my offspring.

Hear it well, for in it you may find the place in which I dwell.