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and down with glee.
    So God jumped
up and down too. He was beside Himself with pleasure at His new
creation. He spent all the hours that He had (so all the hours)
watching it develop. And it got bigger, and bigger, and
bigger.
    He lost
himself in time while it grew, and it grew, and it grew.
    Then something
alarming happened. It grew differently. It stepped out of the
framework it had started with, and diversified. God bent down and
watched, fascinated. This was even more exciting, this
dysfunctional aberration. Then the aberrations got aberrational,
and out of those by now multitudinous aberrations, life was formed.
Imagine your first sight of life, man or God.
    At some point
He must have asked himself “How do I control this?”, and then He
thought “Let's put it off for a few centuries. Let's leave it be
and see what happens.”
    And what
happened happened quite quickly, at terrifying speed over millions
of years, which wasn't long for God. And the more it happened the
more He let it happen because it was so fascinating, so many
ramifications and speculations. He tried to work out what was going
on. He became a philosopher. He became a mathematician. He became a
scientist.
    He gave things
a little nudge from time to time, and provoked new outcomes. Was He
interfering for the better or for the worse? For good or for evil?
What was good and what was evil? It started out as what He liked
and what He disliked; what He wanted to see happen and what He did
not. After a while God, as a philosopher, examined His own
motivations and decided that they were not enough. There had to be
an objective basis for good and evil. So He travelled the path all
later philosophers travelled down. It is difficult to entertain a
thought that God has not pondered with great seriousness first.
Except that He took a much wider view. He was concerned for the
well-being of all creation, all materials, all formations, all
substances, all life. Each element of His universe got a vote. He
had some complex calculations to make. Did the benefit of 1,000,000
beings that lasted no more than a day outweigh the interests of 100
beings that lived 100 years? How does a life equate to a square
metre of earth?
    To answer this
He decided that He had to create an objective for His universe, a
vision (He did not bother to tangle himself up in too many
definitions, worrying Himself over the differences between visions,
missions, goals and objectives. He took an empirical view - was it
over here or over there that we should be striving to attain? He
did not allocate random timelines, milestones and deadlines either.
When He first heard people using these terms with great
earnestness, He roared with laughter because no corporate plan ever
laid down that such and such an objective would be achieved in a
million years, which was often about its realistic timescale.
People laid down tiny timescales - next week, two weeks' time, next
month, by the end of the year, in five years' time - then randomly
hit them or missed them. However, He did notice that applying these
timescales motivated people to do more than they otherwise would
have done. Was that “more” for the better or for the worse? He
could not answer that without His vision).
    And this is
where He got stuck. The world was created without a vision. It had
no original purpose. It was a fidget. God tried to superimpose a
purpose. He considered that good was whatever was in the best
interest of the continuation of the universe. You could ask why the
universe should continue, that was a valid question, but
unanswerable. It had to be considered a given. Now He got to the
calculation. How do you calculate whether a tiny activity over here
(say an ant's breath) benefits or not the continuation of the
entire universe in some sustainable fertile form? When you think
that there are more stars in the sky than grains of sand on a
beach, you begin to grapple with the enormity of the
problem.
    So God gave
up, and decided that