| If you have the reoccurring urge to prove to yourself that there is a God, you can do a simple experiment that will help you along the way: take a dry piece of pine wood and hang it on a thin thread into mid-air, making sure that the wind-chill factor does not exceed three percent on the Richter Scale. Now, if the wood tilts to the left, you will have to hammer a small nail onto the right hand side of that piece, so that it will now be in a state of perfect mental equilibrium; if –on the other hand- your piece of wood has a tendency of moving to the right, go drink a glass of Chardonnay wine and observe it again through the reverse end of the right side of your binoculars. Whatever is the result of your amazing experiment: You have just proven to yourself your very own point. And what is even more staggering, no matter how many times you repeat this test, the result will always come out to be exactly the same. With the one exception, of course, which is that the more you become involved in your own repetitiveness, the more your wine will get you drunk and ever more happy. Which is further proof that you should never have doubted your own beliefs in the first place, since spontaneity is the mother of all virtues, the best of which is always to reach out to your bottle when in doubt, so you can have peace of mind and of the body in order to avoid dirty tricks that are often not irreversible, such as any clown on a high rope will tell you (if he is still alive) after having performed his scary walk for a number of times. Yes, indeed, it is every bit as difficult to be a believer as it is to be a non-believer. Otherwise, there wouldn’t be any evolutionary theory… |