a god’s story

One millennium, with less than normal to do, I again visited one of the most peculiar planets I have ever created, known by its most destructive inhabitants as Earth.

I am an amoral god.

I create worlds, I create life for no specific purpose other than to see what happens, to satisfy my aesthetic and scientific interests at the time.

My so-called Earth conceived itself as a simple water, ground, and sky experiment. The underlying physical and chemical start-up properties are of course complex but irrelevant to my main interest apart from the workings of the experiment itself which is Life.

Life in all its great diversity and complexity.

Now after a few dozen millennia between visits to Earth what do I find?

I find these little monsters who call themselves Human Beings to be systematically destroying my peculiar little experiment, planet Earth.

Unfortunately I cannot interfere, not chemically nor physically, for that would invalidate the nature and results of the experiment.

But I find I cannot waft idly by because these little monsters are effectively destroying my experiment, along with myriad forms of life I so greatly appreciate and admire.

So what to do about the little monsters?

I have an impulse to form a giant hand of GOD in the sky and use it to reach out of the clouds to strike down the leading monsters, the bankers and presidents, the CEOs and the idiot preachers of materialistic plunder.

But I fear the results would be equally destructive, or worse. I fear that the most ill-cultured power grabbers would launch into the breach destroying ever more of the world, and faster.

So, what to do about the little monsters who are so maniacally voracious that they are eating the planet even at the ultimate cost of destroying the very foundations of their civilization, one by one?

Who will stop the little monsters but the god who created the experiment they so stupidly and brutally devour?

In the interests of chemical and physical science, I cannot intervene materially.

Thus, I write to you personally, through this weblog, all of you, you little monsters. I am going to need some help to save the world. I am going to need the help of you all. More