Friday, July 19, 2002

Did the Big Bang create Paul J. Leahy ?

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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