Dual
RIP Karl 1991-2014
I'm walking down the abandoned school thoroughfare, and two guys walk up alongside me, asking if I can spare five minutes. No. They tell me they just want to work on a survey project for their school, and I don't see any harm in letting them walk with me to the parking lot, so I'm like, meh, ok.
Tall guy asks this: "What's the one thing all living creatures on Earth need to exist?"
The love of Gawd? "I don't know, what's the one thing all living creatures need?"
"A mother. Think about it, everything has a mother. Without a mother, you couldn't be born! Can you think of anything that doesn't have a mother?"
"Uh... Slugs." Blank look. "Asexual reproduction... hermaphrodites. Algae."
"Ok, you got me there. But let's say like 99% of everything needs a mother, right?"
"Right."
"Have you heard of God the Mother?"
I blink. "You mean like the Virgin Mary?"
"No, God the Mother is like God the Father."
That was when I realised I was talking to some bonafide Christian heretics.
"So they're separate entities?"
"Yes."
"Not just different aspects of God?"
"Yes. Here, let me show you in the Bible."
"No thanks, not right now. So you're saying you believe in two gods?"
A quick look of horror flashes over his face. "No! They're both God."
"But you said they were separate entities, not aspects of one god."
"No... what do you mean by aspects?"
"They're two different sides of one being?"
Obviously not able to discuss his own theology on this most basic of levels, tall dude asks me to look at his Bible one last time, I decline, he thanks me for talking to him and scurries off like a good little zealot, his fat friend in tow.
Tall guy asks this: "What's the one thing all living creatures on Earth need to exist?"
The love of Gawd? "I don't know, what's the one thing all living creatures need?"
"A mother. Think about it, everything has a mother. Without a mother, you couldn't be born! Can you think of anything that doesn't have a mother?"
"Uh... Slugs." Blank look. "Asexual reproduction... hermaphrodites. Algae."
"Ok, you got me there. But let's say like 99% of everything needs a mother, right?"
"Right."
"Have you heard of God the Mother?"
I blink. "You mean like the Virgin Mary?"
"No, God the Mother is like God the Father."
That was when I realised I was talking to some bonafide Christian heretics.
"So they're separate entities?"
"Yes."
"Not just different aspects of God?"
"Yes. Here, let me show you in the Bible."
"No thanks, not right now. So you're saying you believe in two gods?"
A quick look of horror flashes over his face. "No! They're both God."
"But you said they were separate entities, not aspects of one god."
"No... what do you mean by aspects?"
"They're two different sides of one being?"
Obviously not able to discuss his own theology on this most basic of levels, tall dude asks me to look at his Bible one last time, I decline, he thanks me for talking to him and scurries off like a good little zealot, his fat friend in tow.
