shampain socialist wrote on Sep 4
th, 2010 at 11:02pm:
Unlikely; but whoever did it is an incompetent idiot.
If there's a God I wouldn't blame it first.
Once upon a time, an elephant was trampling through the dense jungle when his left front foot splashed in a puddle sending some tadpoles flying through the air and ending up in the centre of a giant bromeliad. The tadpoles grew up to be tiny (but strangely sentient) frogs who gained nutrition from the plants and insects that grew or were trapped by the bromeliad.
Generation after generation lived in the centre of the bromeliad, speculating about the nature of the universe, which was defined by bright red and green walls and a sky which varied from blue to grey depending on the seasons. Some speculated on how life originated in their universe, and how they were always supplied by food and water. They speculated that the universe would some day come to an end. They speculated how God must be benevolent, but some who were less content with their lot, speculated that God must be incompetent. Either way, they agreed that God must know everything and must be capable of anything.
Then one day, the Elephant happened to come back and for a moment, the little frogs saw the face of their creator god, but only for a moment, because the next moment, they saw the elephant's back leg rapidly descending on their universe.
For a split second, they considered how on earth God could be so evil as to destroy the world. Then they stopped thinking, because they were dead.
Meanwhile, the Elephant found a nice rich patch of grass and started munching contentedly, oblivious to the fact that he had just destroyed a sentient civilization.
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