Monday, 24 October 2005

RESET

Failing to deliver a perfect product, GOD Inc. (acronym for Ghost On Drugs Incorporated), just as any other major corporation that blundered but wants to keep a fine share of the market, apologised for not having included a reset button for the mental constructions Man produces for himself.

 

It was announced recently, around 8.000 years ago, when Man is reported to have begun his settled life, having mastered the art of growing edible plants in a favourable area for such, that there are some ways to achieve a reset.

 

The first is to follow any path one's already following. The final reset will come sooner or later.

 

Another available reset is to follow the path of GOD, a golden and toll motorway, and GOD's main area of business. “The instructions to achieve this specific reset were precise and not intended to be taken metaphorically,” said GOD. Confronted with the actual text of the instructions, also known as BIBLE (Brilliantly Irrelevant Book from Lost Eras), GOD reportedly mumbled, “Okay, okay.… We inserted some little stories to keep the client reading the instructions with interest until the end...” This sort of final reset will come sooner or later too.

 

For those in need of a reset before the final one, GOD proved that it is possible to question oneself. The reporter replied, “Can I?” and GOD said, “There’s the proof!” This soft reset is the most difficult to master, so GOD said that the sub-routine FAITH was created to help all of those who fail to achieve it. The reporter asked what FAITH stands for, only to be advised that those who ask that very same question have nun. *

 

Questioned about what GOD has been producing lately, the answer was blunt: “Why do you think we made things that can reproduce themselves?” The same did not happen when the reporter asked what GOD has been doing lately. GOD’s face shifted into a broad, paternal smile, when it said, “We’ve been entertaining our guests,” and gave the example of Oscar Wilde, who has been helping GOD with the corporation's last aphorisms.

 

“Let us tell you off the record,” GOD said, “that we think Oscar fancies us a bit too much, asking us all the time to show to him what we have in between our legs as a proof that we made him to our image.” As this comment was produced off the record and is here published nonetheless, GOD threatened the reporter with DEATH (Delicious End Available To Humans). A long debate then ensued on that mortal virus that came with the original package, ending only when GOD, in its infinite forgiveness, told the reporter that, “You might live a little longer if only you publish some of the aphorisms we and Oscar came up with.”

 

This article therefore ends with the above said aphorisms, for which the reporter denies any responsibility.

 

THE WORD OF GOD

 

When you think you finally found IT you will be already lost.

 

If you think games are for children then your game is over.

 

Part of the truth is that you will never be able to see that you are blind or understand that you are stupid.

 

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* Erratum et Addendum: GOD said, “none,” and that, “If it is to talk about women, after the manuscript we haven’t thought of producing any womanuscript, as we do not intend to get into an area of business that is doomed to fail right from the start.”