Complex Conundrum

[Barry]

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

[stilltrucking]

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.

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

[Barry]

Yeah, Jack, I know you're hip to this...whatever comfort there is in that.

It's like Job, you know? Job was a bet between God and the devil.

Sometimes it comes to me...God's fallen off the wagon, taken up gambling again. It would make a cute story if you told it right.

Peace,
Barry

[stilltrucking]

I would be lost without God
I would have none to blame

[Barry]

Oh Jack...I thought you were hip.

Where art thou, oh brother?