As bloody and horrible a murder story as can be found in any
film noir or 1950s pulp fiction detective story : " The trooper who
arrests the suspected killer of a 30 year old Newport woman wishes he
had arrived sooner " - where the Burger King employee, Paul J. Leahy,
was washing the blood of Alexandra Zapp off his hands .
One with an an interest in moral philosophy never runs out
of examples of EVIL to reflect on. " I lost it " , the killer said.
( front page, Providence Journal, July 19 ).
Let me briefly try to connect the latest findings in cosmology
with the everyday evil of this world: It seems that an imbalance in the
VOID, little bubbles in nothingness suddenly inflated and THAT gave us
the violent beginning of the universe - The Big Bang. And the universe
has been unbalanced in favor of violent chaos ever since. EVIL was
there from the very beginning: the destructive forces overwhelming the
creative forces. Entropy - the power of disorder - always triumphant in
the end.
For millions of years the Lovecraftian gods - the Old Ones -
amused themselves hurling asteroids at larger cosmic bodies we call
planets. A greater thrill was seeing stars blow up and galaxies collide.
Closer to home the local gods amused themselves for a 100 million
years just watching the violent daily battles of the nightmarish dinosaurs.
Then they made MAN in their own image. While the individual of
the species can do very little good in his short life, he can do a lot
of EVIL. A late example : It took years to build the World Trade Center
but only minutes for maniacs -inspired by the local god Allah - to destroy
it.
It took centuries for the Jews to become a population of
millions. But the German god Woden only needed a few more years to
complete the Holocaust. The " imbalance " in the universe sometimes
works against the cosmic imps of the perverse: sometimes GOOD wins
the day. But never forget that EVIL began with the very beginning of
TIME. And it will be with us " until the end of TIME ".
And just a bit of medical truth : every cell in your
body HATES the whole YOU - and is trying every minute of its existence
to become CANCER !
Does this absurd cogitation explain the daily headlines ?
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