God (read: the universe)
hath taken all
my simple pleasures
and replaced them
with potent irony.
What was religious became mundane.
What is benign comes to malign.
God (read: the universe) is like this.
Like it's all some kind of game.
Peace,
Barry
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Deep thoughts Barry
Some say it is tumbling dice, others say god is subtle but not cruel.
I thought you might like this Kind of quantum mystical.
Some say it is tumbling dice, others say god is subtle but not cruel.
I thought you might like this Kind of quantum mystical.
Einstein and God Shoot Craps by Steven Fortney
God looks exactly like Einstein.
He is the CEO of a chain
of Casinos called
Happy Chance Heaven.
His Avatar and namesake, Albert
by name, engages Him,
shooting craps.
7 come 11 snake eyes
boxcars. God pitches
the dice against green felt.
(The house gathers at
the table, they are wide-eyed;
the stakes are immense!)
7 come 11 snake eyes
boxcars. God cleans
up. Albert is broke.
Albert cries O symmetry
asymmetry third order
interpolation, standard model,
string theory chaos: a GUT
and a TOE.
I can't believe, he says,
That you shoot craps
with the Universe!
God twirls his gray moustache
Poor guy, he says, I do; but here's
my little secret. Sometimes I shoot
straight, sometimes I don't. Either way
(here he takes Al's last dollar)
the Universe wins.
And both ways I throw dice
(Yes I do), just to see
what happens.
I know that upsets you,
but is this a comfort?
The dice we just played with?
They're loaded.
The Madison Astronomical Society
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