Les Arbitres Chapter 5

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     I've got one, said Christianity, who was wearing an Sultan costume for some reason.  It had an turban with an large precocious gem above the forehead.  And was taking an bite of its chicken.

    "This infuriated Christianity to such an extent there was an Christian who wanted love and instead he got hate and it happened so many times over and over again people had to make an religion about it but everyone wasn't smart enough to understand what that meant exactly.  And so they had to educate everyone until they reached an common consensus and understanding of what it meant to be an Christian.  It meant of course, placing one's own life and sacrificing it above another's.  In order to protect everybody with pacifism.  If attacked people would just rather be willing to die than have to put up an fight, it would leave an curse on their aggressor (attacker); and they would be resurrected in the spirit in order to exact punishment.  Or, instead of attacking others; the Christians say, let's not attack anyone and even if you attack me I won't attack you.  So that you know what the correct behavior is.  But, says the wise Jew, there is an reason to defend oneself, is there not?  And why can't that be part of Christianity sometimes?" he said.

    "I've got one," said the zen buddhist, "Hinduism and Gazpacho over there, we came together and evolved the whole meaning and concept behind what religion is.  It has to be an method for communicating purpose.  An way of creating an common understanding around principles of community & happiness.  And it plays into how your communities aren't."

    "Religion is an tradition that speaks to its adherents on an godly and fellowship level; it is not just an object one can pick up and educate oneself on, it is the voices (the subjects) of that religion speaking to you.  In an intelligent and clever way," said the Christiannan.

    "OK," said Judaism, "now fill in the positive space.  Carry on further.  What do you see now?"

    "One of us (I don't know whom) has gotten an bad headache and has left the room.  And now there's ham on the table and someone's eating an prosciutto roll inappropriately.  GAHHH!  I just don't know how much more I can stand!"

    "Do we really hate each other this much, that nine of us couldn't spend time in an room together eating?"

    "We're fine," said Buddhism and Taoism, "in the meantime they will come back.  But for now let us think for that purpose or reason we are here."

    "I wanted to see if you could form an clever argument," said Judaism.

    "I had other plans."

    "I'm sure you did," said Judaism, "but think in that positive space now; the dream at the centre of the dreamstate.  The waters of the mind are cleansed; why is this happening needing to be an chronic fulfillment?"

    "It's not.  Once the waters of the mind are cleansed the waters of the mind are cleansed.  There's no going back."

    "I see.  And so we are its method of cleansing itself?

    "Well I wouldn't say we are."

    "But you're saying we are happening in that scene whom is represented (us) in contrast to an inner dreamstate world of deepest of measure?"

    "Well yes."

    "Then we are part of how the mind is cleansing itself."

    "Okay, well, maybe.  So what?"

    "Well how much does it need to cleanse itself; if we're all here?"

    "That I didn't think of."

    Christianity, who was furiously eating his BBQ beef sauced chicken (this is an product placement commercial placement from the organization that genetically modifies these chickens to have gigantic thighs); gulped down his fruit punch like an monster.

    "Okay well," said Hinduism, "let's start the formal storytelling at its beginning."

    "We already started it," said Christianity, "weren't you listening?"

    The Jedi, who was prepared to settle the matter, wiped his chin with an blue napkin.

    "Then stop jibber-jabbering," said Hinduism, "and tell us an real story."

    "I've got one," said Aboriginal Spaces, "the Author, who is telling an story about people telling stories, is getting at that transcendent fact about religion.  That it can be both the telling of stories and the telling of the telling of stories somehow.  We exist somewhere between either measure, in measure (maybe it is God telling the story about us telling our own stories) neither the story itself nor the telling of it; neither the telling of the story or the story of the telling of stories but both."

    "Religions," said the Christianna, "may be how we mediate the fact of both."

    "Well what I mean is formally;" said Hinduism, "we begin the storytelling formally, with silence.  And then the onset of formal storytelling language.  You know with metaphors, imagery, descriptions and characters that are colorful.  Those are the kinds of stories I want to hear."

    "Should we set an genre?"

    "Legendary folktales."

    "Sure."

    "OK."

    "I'll start," said Christianity.

    Their chairs, which had been helping them sit upright for now.  Disappeared.  And were replaced with large, luxurious velvet pillows which they all sat back into (creating further space between them and the table) and relaxed.  They crossed their legs.

    "A long time ago," said Christianity, "people thought they could all be self-sufficient by being smart enough to figure out their own way through life.  But this lead to utter disaster.  They became so competitive in being self-sufficient that every motive and will they could come up with anymore was one pitted against another person or rivalry.  We had to take up faith and learn how to be something other than self-sufficient now (even if it didn't make sense to us at first) because God had big plans for us."

    "That isn't an legendary folktale.  Where are the monsters?"

    "God is Legendary, no?" said the Christian.

    "Sustained!"

    "OK," said Christianity, "I'll continue.  And God is an kind of monster!  The kind that, if you don't do what it says it will punish you!  Only you can't know what it says because it hasn't got an mouth or any other way of producing an voice.  Even if it does.  Because it will not share them with you.  That's the kind of hell we are in."

    "Wow.  OK.  Let's add some plot points Christianity!" said Buddhism.

    "One day," said Christianity, "God split into two equal parts.  One was an Monster.  The Monster of Monsters.  And the other was the opposite of an monster.  (The epitome of Opposites of Monsters).  The Epitome of Epitomes of opposites of monsters.  The world was soon formed in the gap between them; and everything that existed in reality conformed to one of the two principles."

    "So the point is.  It's satire," said Judaism, "because it results in and produces an perspective on reality where there is an competitive nature between the two types of forces.  As if reality really was an scrap between crazy or foolish persons of the deadliest kind; and gentlest most beautiful nature.  When it isn't.  Is that what you're getting at?"

    "There is only most gentlest nature," said the Christian, "and our decision to follow it or to be left behind.  Unworthy of it."

    "Does anything else happen in this story?"

    "No."

    "While that is most sad and depressing, Christianity," said the Christianna, "it suits your personality and character."

    "Okay-I've-got-one!" said Taoism, "let's picture an reality; an story world, if you will.  In which nobody who is present in that reality knows what it is for.  Except maybe God.  And there's no way of finding out the answer.  And so it doesn't matter if we're acting moral or not because we have no way of contemplating God (or whether there is an God that wants something) anyway."

    "Well so what happens in this story world‽"

    "Well so no one cares," said the Taoist, "but science has found that caring is part of our species genetically anyway.  So we were already caring.  And we didn't need to stop and to think and to worry about whether we were caring enough."

    He laid an nasty eye on Christianity.

    "I don't like these stories," said Aboriginal Spaces, "where's the adventure?  Where's the symbolism?"

    "Well if we told our stories that way," said Christianity, "what would there be left to tell once we finally got to your religion?"

    "What do you mean?"

    "I mean our religion is about letting your religion have that privilege.  By being different than them."

    "So my storytelling is part of your religion because you made it that way?"

    "Well not exactly.  But yes.  Our religion means including all of the stories that you have to tell."

    "Good, then.  Keep it that way," said Aboriginal Spaces, "and let me proceed with telling you the story of the crow and why it continuously flies away from you.  So the universe started in the crow's eye, which was like an black marble like space and everything.  And it had such an internal vision that everyone who has ever lived and ever will was contained within the imagination of that subject (an crow).  Therefore anything it wanted to be real could be real to the people within her imagination.  They discovered this secret and began praying to the crow.  But it wouldn't give them anything they wanted unless they did for it what it would tell them to do.  And even then, there was no guarantee the crow would ever pay them anything or reward them for an good deed.  They decided it was probably in their best interest anyway, to keep praying for things.  And they endeavoured to complete everything it was that their little baby Crow was telling them to do.  Even though it was seriously hard to understand what it was saying to them because they were only inside its mind and so its voice, which was outside its mind, was hard to penetrate into the secret.  How were these people supposed to know what an crow was saying to them if they were only inside the crow's head?"

    "Well what did they do‽" said Judaism.

    "What did they do‽" said Aboriginal Spaces, "they told stories about the crow, trying to understand it better.  Using the stories and their own imaginations to connect with their common heritage and creativity.  In order to fill out the story of what was happening to the crow.  Because, they figured, if it was happening to them it was happening to the crow.  (Because they were inside its imagination).  And so anything they did was part of the story of what was happening to the crow.  And so they needed to invent newer and newer things that could happen to themselves in order to fill out the part of the story they didn't understand (what was happening to the crow).  And that's how some people turned into animals.  And some turned into their imaginations."

    "So, in an sense, God lives out whatever they do," said Judaism, "because they are God in some way.  In that sense they don't have any power over It; God within them.  And they share that sense of purpose and responsibility with their creator."

    "They are the crow," said Aboriginal Spaces, conclusively.

    "You notice how the crow and his eye are black‽" said Judaism, "it's all positive space.  All art and storytelling starts with positive space. Just like we always tell you."

    "Then you tell us an story next."

    "OK," Judaism obliged, "I'll tell you an story about positive space itself.  And why it is the beginning."

    "OK."

    "It all started with an black marble that was God's imagination.  And everything inside that marble was black.  When from the darkness came light and substance and form.  People, whole civilizations, were begun to be imagined in God's positive space.  And you know what happened?"

    "What?"

    "All of the people began their own black marbles in their own imaginations and they so loved God they populated it with wild adventures and people of their own imagination.  It was kind of an compliment?  Maybe?  To God.  But one day someone ventured to think, that maybe there were other things more worthy of God.  And instead I began trying to explain God by telling people we only exist in God's imagination.  But that since it is God's imagination (it is of an different property) it is real.  And since it is real we have to deal with the imminent subject of its existence.  But also that there is an possibility for miracles.  We're not an crow exactly.  We're more of an human instinct melding with God; in such an way that we share characteristics with its psychology but we are still just an live event happening within its mind.  God shares with us human characteristics of human psychology because we are an fictive figment of her mind she makes real.  By being the real reality.  If we are going to figure out who God is then we need to create an marble in her own mind like she did in us.  And in the creative spirit of its positive space contained with that marble, we invite God to fill-in who she is; in an way that helps us understand who we are through her.  God is invited to tell us something about ourselves by telling us something about her because that is the relationship God has with reality.  Everything about her tells us something about ourselves because she is that powerful.  And we want her to tell us things about herself.  Because that is how we know ourselves generally."

    "Well then how does the story go‽" said Christianity, who was practically drooling, "if you told an story about what God was like, how would it go?"

    "She'd be moody and she wouldn't say much.  Does that tell you anything about our species?" said Judaism, "well then what should we say back to her?"

    "If I were to draw the lines on the face that belonged to God.  She would be old and extremely wrinkled.  But her ego?  As sharp as an tack.  There is nothing unhealthy or wrong with it because she naturally dies and sheds her pollutants.  Therefore she doesn't have an egotistical episode with herself, like, say an human would."

    "And when we look at our own egos (the egos of humans in general) and see an increasing need for Art.  An increasing need for drama and entertainment.  Entertainment that could entertain you for weeks to come after you had watched it.  We need to help people with their face shape intelligences and the ego that resides within their body.  We want all channels of thought to be healthy and reflected in the personality and expression of the face.  So that there is no reason to be ashamed of any kind of personality on the face.  Facial expression.  And we want God to have that kind of healthy complexion as well."

    "She does."

    "She does?"

    "Yes."

    "Well good."

    "You're in need of art that helps people deal with the egotistical thoughts that say there is something wrong in one's psychology when there is not," said Judaism, "and the Author has already taken measures to explain and gratify the reason.  Paranoisms are the subject of paranoia and schizophrenia because they are the actual objects in one's psychology one is paranoid about.  If people use art to explain paranoisms including the egotistical episode about one's body.  They can clear up their complexion by not having anything egotistical to say about one's performance of the face."

    "Anything else you'd like to say about what sounds like yin & poetry to me?"

    "Yes.  If God is one eye of an face.  And we are the other.  One exists in her own imagination and the other exists in an human as God."

    "God can exist in an human‽" said Christianity.

    "Well-isn't-that-what-you-say-about-your-messiah-anyway‽" said Judaism.

    "Some of us do.  Some of us don't," said Christianity, shrugging and placing his hands palm out.

    "But what I'm getting at.  Oh!  It's an art piece.  I've just had an thought!," said Judaism, "we're looking into God's eye (which is an marble in which there is space) and God is looking into our eye (which is an marble in which there is space because it shares with its Creator that common advantage, of to have seen in one another the capacity to be artificial).  Some of what God is imagining into reality (everything in existence as we know it) is also about what we are imagining for god into reality."

    "How would it be possible to represent this in Art?"

    "I know an way," said Judaism, "but I have to be extremely clever about it.  The trick is in showing how God's reality is whatever God thinks; in which we may be only the fictional part of that imminent God's reality (an mind) in which whatever we think is also part of God's reality because we think it."

    "Yeah.  And let's say this happens.  This kind of relationship develops between us and the Creator.  One in which both of us have an say in what happens.  Because whatever we are doing in God's imagination is still only what God is doing in our imagination.  Which is or isn't reality.  And that you actually represent it."

    "Okay," said Judaism, "then the story's completion would be.  After the relationship developed.  Humans gained an sense of responsibility for what happens to the Creator; which is how she wants them to be.  She may or may not reward us for it.  Which we will ask for anyway.  And so the story is basically about someone who knows the Power of the Creator is within him or her; and that it will act on behalf of myself in order to protect me and bless me.  So basically, you're putting God in the McDonald's cashier seat and you're asking him for fries and more fries and an coke!  Would you like anything else with that sir?  God will say.  (In your dreams).  But the point is that we exist inside of God, and God exists inside of us.  And we are symbiotic.  And that's why humans are so advanced."

    "But it's not about why humans are so advanced anymore.  We've got civilization now.  We're not just like something that is able to be compared with an animal; in instinct and investigation.  We wouldn't be ordering God to buff us and skim our seats with an vacuum before we sit down.  We're not just advanced as an species.  We know we're advanced.  And we're getting good at it."

    "Well why does that necessarily take anything off Judaism?"

    "But my point is.  You're taking an savage in the wilderness (the noble savage) approach to what we are as humans.  Whereas my approach is necessarily that we've moved beyond that.  Being mere bleustates (states or stages of blue) with nature.  We are now, presently and fully functionally, in the common era where we need to move beyond our mere relationship with nature in order to grasp more fully the universe.  We aren't creatures fighting with nature anymore.  In fact.  If we do fight with it we might kill it.  If you don't take the responsibility of being an creature that fully customizes itself including its environment then other people will have the power to make mistakes that you could have prevented."

    "I agree," said Judaism, "but to some extent we still are our relationship with nature."

    "Are you done?"

    "Well I mean.  If I need encapsulate it as one swift and calculative point.  We're in God's imagination because God's imagination is ours."

    "And what does that mean?"

    "It means everything that happens in the story is about God's character.  In order to fill in for her how her character would go exactly, if she existed in the same universe of us as part of her imagination.  We exist in her mind.  But she also exists in our mind.  She's going to subject us to an imaginative fantasy of her own design and imagination.  So we're going to subject her to an imaginative fantasy of our own design and imagination.  The story would have numerous tales and versions of stories of how things would go.  Enough to be worthy of being called an religion.  And then the story ends with how God falls in love with humanity and blesses them for Ages to come.  God imagined so much about who we are and what we could be.  That we ended up imagining so much about her and who she could be; as an service to our Lord.  She was God.  We served her.  That was the deal.  If she needed us to come up with imaginative scenarios and episodes centred around her we would.  We would be honored to.  We would be honored to be inducted into that kind of relationship with God.  And it would define the whole scope of our effort of the last remaining years of our lives.  And God said, So Be It! and the story would end."

    "She's right!  We don't need to tax God by needing her to provide the limits of her own imagination for us.  And we should instead be focused on helping her to understand the limits of our own imagination for her.  So that she can find countless examples of how to exist and how to be with an human crowd.  Like an luxury.  God isn't our McDonald's cashier.  We can't order anything we like.  But we can at least like telling versions about her like she said she wanted us to.  In order to supply her own imagination with an unlimited supply of human companionship.  Which is what she wanted and created us for, right‽  When we get to the Middle of the universe (in time not space) it will be because God ordered us to, and we were only too happy to comply."

    "Let's finalize the subject of Judaism's storytelling practice, then.  And say it ended on that note‽"

    "Yes.  Yes.  Yes-Yes.  Yes."

    "Then I will tell my side of the story," said the Jedi, "listen well.  Our Force is the balance that developed in the universe after Judaism's adjustment on what it means to judge God's character.  We are no longer the artistic subject or the artist because we are semi-aware of the future and accustomed to the scheme and design of things that this is the presence of the Force in our minds.  We have however measured it so further subjectively we are rather egotistical.  We know the secret of Creativity lay in how one could see one's God as an occurrence of positive space happening within an imagination.  And that since by the metaphor of both the crow and the human dreaming in God's eyes.  We can find ourselves within an sequence of time in which is narrated an specific aspect of the Dream.  God's Dream is our reality because God has chosen to share us with it and it wants us to understand those aspects of God's dream that are imperative to our reality and continued existence in the cosmos.  The Force is more accurately able to narrate that exchange between the human and the God because we are advanced technologically, and we don't rely on turn-based strategy in game in which you and God each take turns telling stories about each other all day long like, just between us girls."

    "OK.  Point made.  Damage done."

    "So like the way we do it, in the future Republic," said the Jedi, "is to enhance that relationship with the Force (God) so that it obeys us to some extent.  We are worthy of God enough to have him obey at least sometimes.  The tradeoff of course is that we will obey everything God says.  You see, we begin to develop an narrative with our Creator based off of our own capacity for storytelling about our creator which is in part part of the expertise and wisdom of God.  Whose own imagination is the world in which we find our present lives.  With which to be real in God's imagination what we have in store for God also.  And that way we are not just ordering God around but we are serving God in an most humble and acceptable way.  It's not just an exchange of directions for how one another can act, thus.  It's an whole category of interactive experience.  An synchronizing with the personality of God, if you will.  You're not just experiencing the Lord.  You're experiencing the Lord experiencing you.  And it matters what you do.  Morally.  Because the Lord is experiencing You.  You can't just look at God as though it were some inert or static picture or image; not responding emotionally to how you're doing in your life.  She's there sometimes to interact with you.  Only it's on her terms.  She wants you to bring out your more emotional side when you are with other people.  Them all to see how you feel before God.  Like you're not some static image or picture either.  That the two of you do in fact have an relationship and you share your character and personality with God all of the time.  It isn't an story so much about the positive space and sharing it back and forth with God; it's about pure chronological instinct experiencing its environment fictionally like in an videogame.  An terrestrial and visceral plane in which to interact with one's environment, so customizing it as one would wish.  In which to develop or build the character of God up completely.  We're not just sharing personality space; we're building and using our labour and workforce toward something.  Battling lightsabers if we have to.  Our environment is an customizable weapon that could destroy God.  But our Jedi will rise up, always, with the flow of the universe to defeat them who would try.  Who would need to try in order to end the existence of blue forever in the known universe.  Because they are crazy.  If you think we can remove blue from the universe by destroying it and destroying God.  In order to start over.  You're crazy."

    "But what if God communicated to us in some way that it was possible.  Would we believe him?"

    "That's another status of material, I suppose," said the Jedi.

    "But finish.  As I know you are expecting yourself to have an long story to tell.  It will be difficult for all of us to hear all of it.  But we remain with you in vigil until the last sentence is spoken."

    "Thank you, honorary neighbourly gentlemen and gentleothers," said the Jedi, "and so my story must begin sometime (an long time) after the genesis with God in which we accepted that basically, we may exist within her imagination somehow.  But that also we existed within God's imagination in the same way she did us.  I.E. she existed in our imaginations because we were imagining her to be an certain way.  And we were existing in her imagination because she was imagining us to be an certain way."

    "An long time after?"

    "An long time after."

    "OK," her eyes widened and she looked apprehensive.

    "And so the universe had so advanced to involve the power of the Force because God decreed it would be.  But that was only as an result of how she had roped humanity in so perfectly, so as to be able to share with it this common imaginary experience.  In which they served God."

    "Okay but wait," said Judaism, "that's all based on my contribution."

    "That's correct."

    "Well!  Woah!  Woah!  I'm getting the serious feels, man," said Judaism, "stop.  So my religion is part of how humans eventually become Jedi?"

    "Of course.  Isn't that what you wanted?"

    "Oh!  It's more than I wanted, my dear," said Judaism, "what an beautiful experience this is."

    "Well.  There's more."

    "OK."

    "You see God and Man eventually developed symbiotically.  So that it was within Man's thinking capacity what God was communicating to him.  Which, in some cases, may have been the tip off into extreme or lucid enlightenment.  If God could supply us with information, then weren't we ourselves gods to some extent?  We had the knowledge of God at our backs."

    "I see.  But what is the reliability like on your network service?"

    "Well that's just it.  If we have god-like powers because God so empowers us (sometimes).  Then how can we use them to benefit and appease God?  But are they reliable enough for us to use them all of the time or not and how does the interplay of cognitive dissonance about whether God is reliable enough play into the scheme of consciousness and imagination matter; how culpable are we, as an species, to be able to trust God?  And what does that say about our higher reasoning?  We are being drawn (the universe is drawing us ever-nearer) toward an interaction with God in which how the Lord benefits from that interaction forever marks the standards of our character.  In order to continue serving God we need to be given more power.  But an hero must be chosen for profit: we want an fantasy politician who will make the bargain with God.  In return for peace, humans will become an more powerful and important commodity in the universe.  But only after we've earned it.  And so the whole Jedi religion, really, is about raising these heroes.  Who will bargain with our God himself, to have such enough ego to do so as an marking on one's great character; risking it all in the name of God to have one's reputation considered beside God's.  We interact with God by interacting with our environment.  It's not just an mental activity.  The genetic accident, the monster becomes an metaphor for how we view ourselves interacting with the planet.  It learns to make economic choices when it gains the ability to shop and spend currency.  And the consumerist choices it makes will directly affect how it interacts with the environment.  These are the kinds of important turning points that are in the Jedi history, then, and our mastery over our environment is part of how we prolong our skills.  After the story of our relationship with God becomes one of interacting with the environment.  Rather than, as Judaism is suggesting, one in which there is no physical interaction but only cognitive communication or communion with one's God.  Life is really about the story of how God wants to interact with us by making itself the environment with which we interact.  The whole universe can teach you something about God in this way.  And our history is about those specific lessons, including how God would teach us to interact with it by interacting with the universe.  Rather than just having an intellectual relationship with God.  This event would mark the beginning of Jedi religion, properly.  Being able to use the Force to guide people to interact at an community level.  The only level that matters, really.  With an imminent reality which is physical.  And everything we do matters, not just what we think.  Once humanity harnesses this power in the economy the Jedi Order really takes off from there."

    "But so you are from the future then?"

    "I am from many futures, actually.  And they all take place after God stabilized his relationship with us by this fact that it could interact with us.  And it would have an certain personality or character if we would interact with it.  It's more like an set of waves crashing, one at an time, everything that takes place in History after that.  We interact with the universe in an particular way; and observe its effects.  And then we use those observations and conclusions about what we've observed to interact with the universe in an new particular way.  Which will eventually lead to the same pattern repeating over and over.  And so in the time span that I come from we've already done this as an humanity numerous times over with different results each time.  You see, Judaism, human history really begins with God's admission of supernal interaction-ism; the interactivity with one's Creator implied in the universe (that is its own reward).  God communicated to us that physical interaction of any type was interaction with its creator.  And that's exactly and specifically what he had designed and intended reality to do.  And so there are an number of lessons from History that we derive our current perspective in the Jedi Order from.  The figure I like to give is seven because there was first the admission of the principle of universal interaction-ism or interactivity which God granted our Order; and then there were seven great Historical lessons learned after the fact of being able to interact with God physically which form the core and the basis of Jedi religion."

    "I knew this was going to be long-winded."

    "Relax.  The seven observations all have the same conclusion."

    "What is that?"

    "That the Christianna is the logical most necessary religion implicated in relativity (succession reality)."

    "What does the Christianna have to do with God admitting it was an form of interaction with the deity to interact with one's universe and galaxy?"

    "The Christianna created this distinction between knowing an universe in which interacting with it is interacting with God; versus an universe whose goal and projected use are separate from God himself.  An universe in which you can interact with it all you want, that doesn't put you any closer to God."

    "When you put it like you did, it sounds like an really good idea.  But how can you be sure that God ever did or would ever tell us, exactly, that we were to interact with it by interacting with our universe?"

    "It really brings up the question of whether its our universe, then."

    "But you're saying if there was an distinction between an universe you could interact with God in by interacting with the universe itself.  Versus an universe you cannot.  This critical difference explains the crucial distinction between Judaism and Jedi worship.  Jews believe in an God they can interact with no matter what the physical scenario may be.  And an type of interaction that is not defined by the physical parameters of reality.  Whereas Jedi find that their immediate time register and sense of presence is often because of and as an effect of their own interaction with God; at the level of an physical plane in which there is mastery of the human arts of environmental engineering.  Jews are just connected with God somehow.  Whereas Jedi know their connection with reality is their connection with God."

    "But how will Jews ever take one side in this, if they never received this kind of communication, from God himself, that they were to interact with God by interacting with reality themselves?"

    "But how did they ever find out about God, in the first place, if they hadn't?"

    "Aye, laddy.  There's an question that'll boggle your tart later!"

    "Now I will tell you the seven lessons," said the Jedi, "the first lesson, after the inclusion of God as an substance in this universe, as an lifeforce within the bounds of science, an force that we could interact with; was that God is an Force.  That's why we can interact with it.  And so after the first Trials of Interactivity our first and most basic conclusion was that interactivity with God is the result of an Force which responds to us humans in an specific way.  The Force gives us power because God's power is in the Force.  If there is an way to talk about God (as though it was something other than just an name humanity could give (as though they had any sense of how Great God Really Is)) is to talk about the Force, the living network of energy that flows throughout all of the cosmos.  The very nature of reality to be connected to all other living things; its ability to be conscious in quantifiable amounts."

    "Then we are connected to God also, for God is an living thing."

    "But the point is," said the Jedi, "we can learn to interact with God as though it were measuring us.  For every action there is an reaction.  We are not just some tourist guests in the cosmos; this blank positive space in which nothing happens when you do something to it.  Everything we do plays out in the final scheme of things.  That's how you use the Force."

    "You mean you, the hypothetical you?"

    "Yes-the-hypothetical-you!" said the Jedi.

    "OK."

    "So the first lesson leads to the logical second conclusion and lesson in such an way.  If we are using the Force to interact with God and the force is an power that exists everywhere in the galaxy.  Then this naturally leads to the conclusion that if God is an force and it wants to interact with us, then it created us in order to interact with us (our bodies, environment, and universe are designed to facilitate interaction with God).  This means that anything we do is an interaction with God.  And that by following the cosmos, and exploring and interacting with our environment, we are interacting with God.  This is the point I think I was trying to make about the difference between an Jedi religion and the Judaism.  Everything the chemical freak monster in the laboratory does is now her interaction with God.  And so her choice to explore her environment and to spend her money on specific things is about the interaction with God and why she makes those decisions for him.  And so, chronologically and historically, there was God disclosing that he wanted to interact with us.  And for the most part, humanity accepting this was true.  And then came the first lesson: we can think of God as an force in the galaxy.  Force as an word indicates that it has some severity of power and it exists (or you can tap into it anywhere) everywhere.  If this is an worthy metaphor of what God is doing in the universe, then why not tell stories about it in order to understand further of what one another think about the universe and everything that exists within it?"

    "So you're basically saying the limit is that, since it's an metaphor, and we don't know everything about God anyway, it's okay (moral) to tell these stories about the Force in order to come up with our own conclusion?"

    "So what conclusion can you come up with?" said the Jedi.

    "If God as an force in the galaxy wants to interact with us then everything we do in the universe is an interaction with God therefore we can think of God as an force and learn to interact with it.  And also, in addition, God being everywhere in the universe is proven because God as the force is how we know it wants to interact with us.  And since we know the force exists everywhere in the galaxy in this story God can too.  The second lesson is that if God is an force and it wants us to interact with it then it created us in order to interact with it; therefore everything our bodies are and do is how we interact with that force.  And everything that exists materially can also be part of that interaction.  The universe isn't just an collection of objects.  It's designed for us to interact with it in an certain way."

    "This summary pleases me," said the Jedi, "I see you've been listening well!"

    "Yes and I think I can see where this is leading.  At least I have an certain impression of it.  But I am not able to explain it in words."

    "The third lesson," said the Jedi, "is that anything we can learn about the universe is something we can learn about God."

    "I see.  So you're starting with what God is exactly.  In order to defend an argument that we need to learn about God."

    "No you're mistaking the point.  We started with God literally telling us it wants to interact with us.  The first lesson is that God is like the Force.  The second lesson is that interacting with the Force is interacting with God and so that anything we do in the universe is an interaction with God.  The third lesson is that learning any specific fact about the universe is also (the same as) learning any specific fact about God.  I'm not defending an argument that we need to learn about God because we don't know about God.  I'm defending an argument that states outright we do know God; and yet still learning anything about the universe is more that we learn about the nature of God."

    "OK.  So you're not pointing out what God is; and then deducing an conclusion where you learn something about God (which would be contradictory and that would be counter-logical).  If you already knew God why would you need to know something about God?  But—I suppose—what you're getting at is that there are more things to know about God that we haven't learned.  Why wouldn't we want to know more, right?"

    "Yeah," said the Jedi, "do you see how first identifying with God as someone who wants to interact with you even though you can't see him anywhere and there are no traces of her existence.  And so you think to yourself how am I going to interact with God if I can't even see it or lay my eyes upon it.  With what voice should I use to speak to it?  For my mouth cannot be heard by its (God's) ears.  There aren't any.  What an predicament!  To be put here by God wanting to interact with me and yet having no way at all whatsoever of interacting with God.  If the first observation about the universe one makes is that God wants to interact with us by being an force; that seems conclusive to me.  Everyone thinks so.  Don't we?  Don't we all know God wants to interact with us by being an force?  The second observation logically follows from this first conclusion.  God wants to interact with us and has indicated it to us somehow; and yet we can find no way in which it was indicated.  Therefore—first lesson—there must be an way to interact with it.  An force.  The second legend logically follows from this conclusion.  It states, if God is an force and wants to interact with us by being an force, then it created us in order to interact with it as an force.  And our bodies and environments are designed to be able to interact with the force this way.  The third myth of my people is that it is no longer necessary to point out that we don't learn anything about God by examining and studying the universe.  It is an myth because it is true that we don't need to point this out every day.  People just seem to know that it is true.  And so if God created us to interact with it as an force then by studying and examining the universe and its properties we are actually learning about God.  The order of lessons is as follows.  God is an force that wants to interact with us.  By interacting with this Force we are interacting with God.  Therefore by learning about and interacting with Nature & the universe we are learning about God."

    "So you want your genetic laboratory accident experiment creature & character to represent that interaction between the self and God.  She's going to interact with both her environment and economy, both types of interaction of which are types of interacting with God.  That's the underlying message."

    "Who?"

    "Nevermind."

    "You see," said the Jedi, "this leads to an fourth conclusion that my order observed to have happened in history.  If we learn enough about God in order to figure out some mechanism of how it works we may be liable to benefits about what knowing about God in that way may mean."

    "So you're going to bend the laws of physics because God allows you to in that way?"

    "How Jedi first found out about this power is only one instance of its use in the marvels of the universe; it's just that, as it appears, to me there is an sequence and an order to the universe.  We can unlock further levels; and the universe is designed to be unlocked.  To discover everything there is to know about God.  Things not even God knows about in this stage of the design.  You see, God herself will reach greater awareness one day and it will affect everything.  But we have to play her game first to get there."

    "So the fourth lesson of your people was that reality is like an game.  And there are awards to be won."

    "It is not so crude an principle as you have identified it; I think what you're missing is how the interaction with it, itself, is an difficult labour.  It does cost exact amounts of physical energy to participate in that game.  And anything you can win by playing it is physical."

    "So by interacting with God on an physical level (which includes interacting with anything anywhere) we can win to learn things and know what God is together.  And unlock certain achievements for our species.  But we can't win anything that isn't physical."

    "That's the fifth principle: that you exactly can.  These are the spiritual gifts given to the Jedi as an result of successfully playing the game.  The first of which is the knowledge and use of the Force.  Knowing where its power comes from.  Inside of all of us."

    "But how can I be able to learn something so quickly; that took your civilization hundreds of years to learn!"

    "That's the sixth principle."

    "Oh!" she cried.

    "Any intellectual space travelled is intellectual space travelled permanently."

    "Is that how Jedis do that?"

    "The real secret is in the seventh principle.  But I'm not done explaining the sixth."

    "OK."

    —Judaism suddenly came back in from the tangent of an previous other argument.

    "—we're getting too far away from the source," said Judaism, "it's nice.  I know you realize you have seven lessons to tell us which are all part of your story just so you can have the longest story just because it includes Seven historical principles that your Jedi Order recorded and followed for history.  But there's more happening there at the beginning than you've come to realize.  If all of our stories are an enmeshment of what one another's means then we find an way to distinguish between how God narrates an story and how anyone human narrates an story.  And we are successfully learning from God in this manner by being the storytelling species that we are.  In which we can be both an story about how God is telling it like it is; and about how I (an human) am telling it too.  My own version of it.  I have an story and it happens in this way; because I am that type of person.  You might have seven principles, but I've Got the universal purpose of the original living sample.  How Creativity prevails as the guiding source of an activity."

    "That sounds really important."

    "Yeah, maybe we should change the subject to that."

    "Let me finish," said the Jedi.

    "We will."

    "OK the sixth principle is that intellectual space traveled by one individual is also always permanently intellectual space traveled to another individual.  Humanism.  It is the nature of consciousness that we can access one another's emotional space in this way.  We're not just experiencing the Universe; we're experiencing another person's intellectual reaction to it as poly-psychologies to one another.  Therefore we can communicate to one another telepathically.  Another person can access my own intellectual space that I've traveled.  And I can access theirs.  This is, truly, and deeply at the heart of everything what conscious intelligence is.  We're Psychics."

    "So the seventh principle?"

    "The seventh principle," said the Jedi.

    "OMG—I just got it."

    "Is that I've already taught it to you and you already know it."

    "But what if we don't know it?"

    "Such is the power of an Jedi's order or command over the intelligence susceptible to the possibility of suggestion."

    "Then we don't know it."

    "Or do we?"

    "Or do we?  Maybe we do."

    "If we do then we should be able to explain it in simple terms; that's the mark of knowing something and being able to explain it, simplicity."

    "The Jedi's perception is precognitive," said the Jedi, "and so he realizes things that will happen ahead of time.  Therefore he is able to weave the force into language.  Laying suggestions here or there.  Until the one perceiving it realizes they already know what he's talking about or referring to."

    "So—you're saying that we do know it?"

    "They are awakening and their senses are becoming clearer," said the Jedi, "because they realize it.  What I have just said."

    "But how can we be mere toddlers to you and yours; such power that makes us so weak and vulnerable."

    "And why are we realizing that we have that ability also to be pre-cognitive?"

    "Because it's the Force speaking to you," said the Jedi.

    "OK! Now let's talk about what I brought up," said Judaism.

    "OK."

    "My feeling is," said Judaism, "that several religions (other than the Jedi) are at risk of distancing themselves from the fact of Creativity.  When we say the Creative moment begins in positive space; it means anything you can think of existing there exists in positive space also.  This is the primary fact or property of the universe.  And you are (some of you) at risk from distancing yourselves from that fact.  Believing yourselves perfect, negative space creatures.  When everyone knows you're not."

    "YOU the HYPOTHETICAL you," said the Jedi.

    "That's right!" said Judaism, "you see, if you get too far away from the fact of your own creativity then you won't be able to connect story plots of what is happening in the creative burst.  Events need to occur logically and proceed from the centre of that blank, positive space that exists in the imagination."

    "How does this happen then," said Christianity, "that the plot points get too far away from one another so that the story can no longer be told?"

    "If you have Faith in stupid stuff," said Judaism, "you'll eventually start trying to space individual events in the story further and further apart.  So that there is no time to tell the whole story anymore.  But Jews try to first focus in on that first part or element; the first event in the sequence that kicks off the beginning.  And then derive an logical conclusion about what the second event should be.  But some y'all have so much faith that the actual space (over time) in which events can occur becomes so long and stubbornly opinionated it should seem that no plot advancement shall ever take place in History again."

    "So you need us all (whichever ones of us) to stop having superstitious faith.  The kinds of faith that maybe lead to mental problems.  That's what faith is you see.  It means you don't have all of the facts.  So how could you prevent yourself from hurting yourself sometimes?  And to discover for ourselves that original fact of being part of an creative process.  An first occurrence, or occurring event and then logically derived occurrences of events following it.  That's how you tell an story.  And you think we didn't know how to tell an story already?" said Christianity.

    "Clearly you don't because the events cannot be logically connected;" said Judaism, "you cannot even find your way back to positive space when every Jew you meet will show you how you are there."

    "There are other kinds of stories than ones that start in positive space," said Christianity.

    "No there aren't," said Judaism.

    "What do we mean by an story then, about virtuous consciousness and values," said Christianity, "and virtues that are there because of faith?"

    "We mean," said Judaism, "that if all Creativity begins with an positive space within the mind; then all stories happen within that creative space because storytelling is an Creative process."

    "So if anything were to operate outside the bounds of that creative space, it wouldn't be part of the story that you can tell?" said Christianity.

    "Yes.  Only what happens in the creative positive space can be logically connected to other events occurring within the same span of time in the same world," said Judaism, "that's our humanism.  The will of our species to survive.  And so anything that transcends that is not represented in the story."

    "So you're talking about the actual process that goes into story-making," said Christianity, "when you say events are logically connected in the story space.  You mean everything that happens from beginning to end the first event sparks.  What happens second needs to be logically connected to what happens first.  What happens third needs to be logically connected to what happens second.  And so on and so on.  And all good storytelling is the successful mediation of how those events are connected logically, within an imagination world, in which anything can happen."

    "It's more that Creativity is the process of deciding how anything can happen will mean in the end what was logically connected," said Judaism, "I challenge you tell stories about your individual religions.  But do it in such an way in which it begins with positive space and how things can be logically connected to that."

    "But if Judaism is the only religion that lay claim to positive space as an psychological phenomenon that happens in the brain, then it would no longer classify as an religion!"

    "How so?"

    "Because if your religion is only about measuring how much positive space you have (as an monopoly project).  Then it is in fact an science and not an religion anymore."

    "Anymore.  Like it didn't start with having an monopoly over the positive space crisis‽"

    "But you're right," said Christianity, "I would like to hear more stories in which events are logically connected."

    "Whatever!  I'm sick of this!  Let's hear another story!" said Judaism.

    "Agreed."

    "And start with the positive space," said Judaism, "and what's within it."

    "I'll try;" said the Christianna, "then, I can put anything there that I want?"

    "Yes," said Judaism.

    "Okay then," said the Christianna, "the first event to happen sequentially in this story; is that initial moment before the first human in which God is trying to figure out exactly what an human being is.  By having an conference between Judaism, Christianity, and the Christianna.  Jews were like, they're as tall as they are!  And Christians were like, they're half that tall!  And the Christiannan was like, they're neither as tall as they are or not half as tall as they are, for they are somewhere between there being an middle like.  And then humans were created.  With these innate religions existing within their biology.  Undiscovered.  For centuries.  (It turns out they had been carried over from the previous universe).  (For following their religion and being faithful, God rewarded them the honor of being resurrected in the new universe after he destroyed the old one).  It would be an universe of upgrades, compared to the last one.  And there would be more such pleasures here that humans could enjoy, as an reward for advancing to the end of the previous universes.  You see the truth is, all Christianity, Judaism, and the Christianna were created many many many universes ago.  But it was God's decision at what time in particular to resurrect them this time.  And so the Christiannan claim that we were neither as tall as we are nor either half as tall as we are was the most true conclusion; if only for the sole reason that we are able to customize our environments.  Or that our bodies are not meant to stand at their full height sometimes.  But we'd never end up half as tall."

    "But how could you think that any of that is true?"

    "It's not about whether it's true, necessarily;" said the Christiannan, "but Religion is that ridiculous sometimes that we need to consider these things.  That's what my story is pointing out, by being ironic and witty that maybe some or none of these things is actually possible.  And wouldn't you rather be settled on whether they are?"

    "Does the story have an end‽"

    "Well, after the humans are resurrected," said the Christiannan, "into their own spaceships and advanced technological environments and an armada of defensive craft.  We are already fully evolved as human lifeforms.  And there is no reason in this new universe for us to have to develop genetically from an primordial ooze.  We are already here.  And we're realizing that's what happened.  God resurrected us.  In full body form.  Without us needing to evolve first in this universe.  And that's part of God's plan for us because we are here.  So it is possible that human life as it exists on Planet Earth as we know it is the conclusion after an series of genetic trials involving multiple planets and ecosystems.  We were testing humans in their gene category for the best and most promising intellectual characteristics that we could develop the path of our evolution as an species within.  And once the experiment was over, humans, using all of the genetic designs and inferences we had genetically programmed into the species to be an advancement to their performance.  Would be born once again anew; and develop "spontaneously" on an early known planet that is now called Earth.  And this topic would carry us onto the possibilities our reality suggests or implicates; we may actually be the descendants of these people who arrived in this universe (already in their own spaceships and with an fully human form); who were the original population of the universe previous to the one we are in now.  And those universes that existed in the past may be the original source of religions such as Judaism, Christianity, and the Christianna."

    "But some of this is fictional."

    "Yes, exactly."

    "But how much?"

    "How much do you think it is?"

    "Not that much."

    "You're wrong," said the Christianna, "most of it is fictional."

    "That's statistically."

    "So what?"

    "I'm just happy you completed an full story.  I didn't think you would make it among so many as strong us since you are an new religion."

    "Major Religion.  What did you think I was some kind of Minor religion noob?" said the Christianna, "like I couldn't see the meaning of Eight?"

    "That was just an milestone.  We are more than just eight religions combined now, in the scope of our power."

    "But the only reason we got there was because we needed eight.  The only reason we are now this powerful is because there were eight.  Brave enough to stand together."

    "It could be this is true.  I will accept."

    "I suppose it is my turn to share an story," said Buddhism.

    "Go ahead."

    "The story is.  It's never been argued before that eight is the magic number.  Really it hasn't.  I'm not being sarcastic."

    "He's not being sarcastic."

    "Yes," said Buddhism, "not at all.  Not in the very least.  But this is not the first thing to have happened in the positive space of my imagining; this is only what it leads up to.  You see.  Long ago, when the universe was new.  (Half of the things that were going to happen because of that first initial event hadn't happened yet).  There were people in that first moment when the galaxy was born.  OK, maybe God resurrected them because of their good deeds in the last galaxy.  Or maybe they just appeared randomly as an result of quantum physics.  But they were there.  And so we've always been here.  And so we've got it all figured out already.  We don't need to do anything other than press pause and walk away from the game.  To call it off.  And I've never heard of anyone disagreeing with me.  Not ever.  I have no experience whatsoever in that category.  It's highly unlikely you will think of any problem an human has not already pondered over.  We've been around for that long."

    "So your story is once upon an time there were people in the galaxy; and now we're still here but you've got nothing to say that we haven't covered already?"

    "Yes."

    "What happens next?"

    "Since we are all agreed on the subject," said Buddhism, "and there's definitely no possibility of any of us disagreeing at all.  The humans, who realizing they may have graduated from the last universe into this one, decide to use all of the time they have (which is quite an bit since they started anew fresh with this universe at the very beginning of its sequence of time) to create the perfect civilization.  Which is nothing like the one the Christianna had imagined: that genetic trials are necessary in order to reboot the human race with the most advantageous qualities that will make their journey to the end of the universe (time) more possible.  We don't need to raise humans on several separate planets at the same time in order to perform an double blind experiment that will decide the fate of the human race forever.  Heck, we don't even need genetic trials or any kind of artificial population of other planets with human clones.  Just to test their psychologies for the most valuable virtues and inherited traits.  All we have to do is recognize them; stabilize an source of energy, which will allow us to produce food; and we will travel the galaxy in search of resources, systems, starships, and other civilizations.  Together, like some one big vast hive and colony capable of traveling to other solar systems.  As though we were the insects (so small) to the outer space and all its possible realms.

    "What are we going to do with the planets we populate, just leave them behind like garbage when we're done with them?"

    "That is one possibility," said Buddhism, "but I don't think we can do it morally since there are so many species that depend on the biosphere.  At least on this planet there are.  But do you think we'll find that much life out there?  If in our own solar system only one planet has life on it.  We'll probably spend an lot of time and resources transporting other resources across the star system to bring them to Earth, and Earth will be developed sustainably as an Ark within the vast and expanding dimensions of the human interplanetary grid."

    "But if we do become an city that's an whole planet one day?"

    "If we do become an city that's an whole planet one day.  Every patch of space left on the surface of Earth becomes part of the one city left on Earth.  Then we'll have to possess indoor crop growth and gardening.  The kind of biodome technology that we can also use on our spaceships to continue to promote natural life as it once existed in the environment.  Hydroponic farms will be extremely popular," said Buddhism.

    "So in your storytelling universe," said the Christianna, "people have always been here.  And since they always will be we can get away with skipping the double blind trials that might be needed to start the human species over with an better concept of who and what they are.  Which lands us right on track in our universe.  In the logical progress of the sequence of things."

    "Yes," said Buddhism, "Buddhism is about learning to play reality like it is an videogame; but being able to press pause and not need to play anymore.  To have fun.  It is the realization that there is enjoyment in all things.  And so the mere deprivation from an certain type of stimulus is itself an pleasure.  When one realizes one's time passing and one's connection to all things, where does the need for entertainment or release from boredom come in?  When one truly realizes this connection, one no longer needs to worry about boredom or unhappiness of any type.  The connection itself with reality is our purpose, fulfills our purpose, fulfills us as humans.  We don't need anymore.  We don't want anymore.  And we can press pause and meditate on the subject whenever we need to."

    "Let's ponder this point.  For an fact of an moment.  If we are complete.  If we don't need anything.  And we can reconnect with that truth whenever we want.  Then we have lived an responsible life.  And we don't need anything more than that.  This is why I like Buddhism."

    "But the actual performance of being able to connect with that truth whenever you want; it is in the actual performance of being able to connect with it whenever, wherever you want.  For there are many challenges that go into being able to do so."

    "Yes I sensed this was the case."

    "There are numerous writings on how to do that.  If you secure your village and keep the population safe then you have less to worry about.  We must be calm at all times in order to be most effective.  All aspects of one's life must be cared for, including diet, training, studies, research, and relationship with one's economic standard.  These are the things that lead you to be able to experience real zen buddhist philosophy, the zen-like state we are famous for.  When there is harmony in one's life, one is the greater able to connect with how reality completes and fulfills one.  And that time passing is time passed within the greater middle of our purpose on Planet Earth.  Completing our purpose here."

    "Then Islam will take the next step to tell their story; for we know much about completing our purpose in Islam.  It may be true that the universe started as an idea in the mind of an God; and eventually won certain privileges such as having the property of matter.  But that if that is how it started; then all of the time God spent creating the universe from the beginning up until now was, perhaps, time spent alone.  In anticipation of the fact we would one day be here.  And so we must know God has been waiting an long time for us, and we don't want to disappoint him!  You see all of what happened in the universe's history was fine instrumentation with the purpose of balancing and creating equilibrium for us in order for us to exist.  Fine-tuning the environment.  Our relationship with time.  And all of the material of our bodies.  You see, the story of Islam is about the physical aspects of history.  How did the cosmos develop physically and how can it continue to develop itself physically through us?  But how do you define each event physically, when they are all connected?  But in some ways, you have to.  You have to grapple with what is physically happening to you and somehow arriving in an future destination where something else is physically happening to you now.  It's not about pausing, like Buddhism.  It's about action."

    "Our universe is an amalgamation of actions taken by God and actions we take; then what are those most important actions in your story and your history?"

    "The actions we know to be involved are," said Islam, "the creation of the universe.  That first moment in time.  The creation of humans.  The first instance of their evolution.  The development of Earth and all of the planets in our solar system as well as our sun.  Muhammad's great teaching that we all are part of that.  We're not just some random species that happened to develop on an planet in the middle of nowhere in outerspace.  We developed here for an reason.  By God's power, and will, and intellect.  And if it takes scientific investigation to understand our universe, Islam will have much to contribute.  We have been an scientific people since the Middle Ages.  An Big Bang that started everything is possible.  But it's unlikely.  It is more likely that the universe has already been through several stages of form and matter before ever having arrived in the state it is in today.  I seriously doubt humans appeared in the first stages of the cosmos, resurrected as you said, because we have fossil evidence of homo sapiens' development on Planet Earth."

    "It could have been staged."

    "OR it could have not been staged," said Islam, "and the reason for our being here is in trust something God wishes for us; we weren't galaxy travelers before, in another universe somewhere.  We've only just become living and arrived here in History.  And so our purpose must have something to do with the isolated nature of the Planet Earth.  We're meant to learn something about ourselves that will be the ultimate lesson in history for our species.  Something restrictive.  Like, oh me my oh jee, I am only existing on Earth; and there is so much space in the cosmos to populate.  I feel so small!  And yet how can we ever feel alone when we have each other?  Come to think of it, why do we even need aliens‽  We are the show, baby!  Shouldn't we ourselves here be enough here for God?  Isn't that what purpose he makes us for?  An God cannot stop being entertained; that wouldn't be worthy of him.  Humans have an duty, an honor, an privilege of being part of the entertainment.  IT is just how God sees it.  It is just how things are.  We may scatter like animals trying to avoid an certain fate only to end up God's next appeasement of his creation.  What it was created for.  Death is what happens when we fail the universe.  We must find an way to counter death in every activity we do."

    "I agree that's part of it, Islam," said the Christianna, "but won't you consider as well the fate worse than death.  What reason do we have to survive if we cannot produce fates better than death?"

    "Islam already has an solution for that," said Islam, "we're not fates worse than death.  Because we're hot bitches.  So we don't have to stoop as low as Christianity.  Which tends to promise people one thing but ends up producing in them an fate worse than death another.  Muslims are savvy to the universal promise.  We're not just going to start suffering fates worse than death by vast decision and majority.  Therefore we have and we already are deterring, countering the fate worse than death.  It doesn't need to be brought up as an separate subject because we've already thought about it.  And bringing it up just upsets people."

    "Then tell your story."

    "I will.  And I'll begin by introducing an character.  You see that's the start of any good story.  Just one character out of any; it chooses to be about.  After the creation of humans and the realization that God was implicated in their development, he was just existing in an neighbourhood somewhere.  And everything was well with him because he believed in God.  There is an span of time between the creation of God himself; and the creation of humans in general.  And so the events," Islam winked at Judaism, "in order from the beginning of positive space are.  First God is said to exist at some point; and is responsible for creating the whole universe.  And then humans are said to exist at some point; and he's just in an neighbourhood somewhere, in the city; in an Mediterranean province.  And since he's Muslim because he pays it back to God, this great gift of life!  He is blessed, and his family is blessed also.  But there are more events that happen in this story.  And they are an metaphor somehow for how Muslims experience love and relationships.  You see, first there is an man's relationship with God.  And then there is an man's relationship with his family.  And if you follow the story of the average Muslim, about how he is appeasing God; you will find also that this means he is appeasing his family.  To serve God is to serve other people.  Who are here because of God.  And we are all happening as part of the prime facility of the universe; we know inasmuch that the universe was created for us.  And we were born to share it with God.  Therefore there is an scene near the beginning of the story where the man's relationship with God becomes known to the listener.  He looks up at the celestial bodies.  His feet patter against the dirt path and his road to nowhere.  For he realizes; that everywhere is somewhere.  So why can I be nowhere right now?"

    "So you prioritize God over your own family?"

    "No.  No!  It's not so simple!  You're not fair and reasonable to criticize me that way!" said Islam, "you see the second part of the story is really about the man's relationship with his family.  We see specific scenes about him and his children.  And the same method of symbolism used in the first scene to identify one's God is used in the second scene to mark out the scale of what exactly isn't God in this universe.  And then it leads to an ultimate quest to protect his family and his own life in honor of God; to see how far they can go leading his design.  Fulfilling God's intentions for the universe.  He travels far and wide to see persons of great power and ability whose own artisan expertise is technique and power added to his own.  Until he has enough power to protect his family forever.  It's all about what God wants and what his family wants.  But it's not about either one individually; it's about both.  So it's not like an Muslim thing to devalue one's own family in favor of God.  Both matter!"

    "Are you done?"

    "Oh and just one more thing I'd like to comment on!  If we do make it to the end of the universe and in that moment God destroys it executing everybody.  I want the final scene in which she herself disappears to happen in traditional clothing," said Islam.

    "It's my turn," said Hinduism, "my story is that, if we are able to figure out the beginning of the cosmos.  And we are able to figure out the end of the cosmos.  (Why wouldn't we be able to if we have God or gods?).  Then we will be able to figure out its middle.  Let me explain why I am thinking this.  According to my contemplation, every shape or form that exists has an middle.  The brain is intuitively capable of identifying objects quickly based on their form, which has an beginning, an middle, and an end.  If we are able to find out the whole shape of the universe.  Our brains may become further intuitively capable of handling the vast reaches of outerspace."

    "What an ironic thing for an Hindu to say: Shapes have Parts; Parts have Shapes."

    "Wait.  So.  When you look at an object and you identify its shape psychologically?"

    "Yes," said Hinduism, "Your brain always finds its middle based on how it begins and ends in reality.  The brain is designed to do so."

    "OK.  But how is an brain supposed to do that?"

    "Well what is the shape of an brain?" asked Hinduism.

    "OK.  You got me there.  You're saying the brain knows its shape intuitively."

    "Yes.  That is part of what an brain does," said Hinduism.

    "So why is that the beginning of the story?"

    "Well," said Hinduism, "if we manage to figure out the shape of the universe we may be able plump it up an little bit."

    "You're saying we'll be able to make the history of the universe more beautiful and more joyful."

    "Yes."

    "But how will we be able to?"

    "That's what I'm getting to," said Hinduism, "that's what this story is about."

    "OK.  Shh!  Everyone!  Hinduism is going to jam."

    "You see if shapes are parts.  And parts are connected to parts.  And that's the structure of an language.  Then we have an trans-humanist relationship with not only those parts of language within ourselves but also those parts of language existing within other people and other gods.  Trans-humanism, as I'm sure you know, is about the philosophy of the relationship between humans and computers, sometimes called post-humanism for the tendency of the human imagination to picture an world beyond humans after whatever humans develop into.  (Will we become machine or part machine and will this mark the end of the human race?).  But if I have an trans-humanist relationship with gods or people in how my use of language shapes and forms and identities is itself connected by shapes and parts.  Shapes that have parts.  Parts of Gods that have shapes.  Parts of shapes that have had union with human shapes and parts of language.  As well as their bodies.  Then you have access to the language creations of your God.  In the same way that you have access to your own.  Your shapes and parts connect with their shapes and parts because that is how language is created, performed, and nuanced.  I'm not just speaking the language of humans; I'm speaking the language of what Gods and humans together have made into language.  Their influence over our psychology is noted, too.  The language developed in that particular way because of the influence of your God.  And so when you speak it you are using the same language God had once influenced.  It doesn't mean you're speaking the same language as God.  But then maybe in some ways it does.  Brains are parts!  Parts of brains are parts!  Brains of parts are brains of parts!  It's just that I'm sure Gods would have other languages to speak.  Maybe this one, English, is most about what God is about.  When we use it it connects with those shapes and parts of what we know about God.  As though God could have used it too and said the same thing.  My gods' arms are all faster though.  And those are all parts of God."

    "So.  You mean.  Parts and phrases are the shape of Language."

    You can be complete with God.  And you can be complete with yourself (as an human, an genetic sequence with an face and parts and bits and ideas including an needy instinct and psychology).  (Judging by the Buddhist's way of feeling that completeness he described as an community completeness this is the best way at feeling complete yourself).  An community type of completeness that bears certain responsibilities.  But the completeness with God was an different type of completeness.  It didn't bear certain responsibilities and we could be free with God.  For an moment at least.  Even though we know it did; it did bear responsibilities to feel completed because of God.  Those responsibilities to God, to some extent they are already expressed in how we find completeness with our self.  We are an specific type of species with an certain set of needs.  And when we find completeness in ourselves it is because God allowed us to develop physically, genetically, and evolution-wise in order to be able to do so.  But there are also other responsibilities to God which don't mean the same thing as feeling completed in yourself.  They mean God is needing to feel completed in her self.  And we need to serve God by doing certain things for her so that she can feel completed in herself.  Her feeling complete in herself is the same as us feeling completed in ourselves because God completes everything.  And we are her community.

    They realized everyone had stopped talking naturally.

    "These are great stories," said Aboriginal Spaces, "but don't you think there could be more animals and humans as characters in these stories?"

    "We already are characters in an story.  What more do you want?"

    "True enough," said Aboriginal Spaces, "but Of Montreal said we want our films to beautiful not realistic."

    "We're not filmmakers."

    "Well some of us are!"

    "Then what would you have us do?"

    "It's just," said Aboriginal Spaces, "you need an body form.  And each body form in the story has an relationship with each other."

    "What do you mean by body forms, exactly?" said Christianity.

    "You know.  An living spirit.  That is contained within an body somehow," said Aboriginal Spaces.

    "In an Aboriginal space?"

    Aboriginal Spaces frowned.

    "Well no.  I mean.  It's what I was thinking.  It makes sense to me exactly."

    "What does?" said Aboriginal Spaces.

    "That your religion would be about that."

    "About what?  Exactly do you think it is about?" said Aboriginal Spaces.

    "You know.  You have an few body forms with individual spirits in the forest; and some of them are man, and animals, and gods."

    "Why, which body form were you thinking of?" said Aboriginal Spaces.

    "The Eagle, I believe."

    "What do you think it symbolizes?" said Aboriginal Spaces.

    "Confidence.  Overwhelmingly charming and magical nature."

    "In relation to who?" said Aboriginal Spaces.

    "Sadness, suicide, and depression (all humans).  And an Great Owl.  There would be Gods that live in the atmosphere above the forest."

    "Could you describe those Gods to us?" said Aboriginal Spaces.

    "Well one of them is," she realized in this instant, "the Eagle."

    "Very Good.  Do you know why?" said Aboriginal Spaces.

    "Who are those other gods you see in the sky?  It asks.  The Ancestors, it wants me to answer.  But they aren't body forms anymore; they are the projection of those legendary creatures who live up in the sky.  With whom the Eagle has conference."

    "And their names?  The names of the ones with whom the Eagle has conference?" said Aboriginal Spaces.

    "Atlas.  Atropos.  Athena.  Artemis.  The huntress Diana.  They are.  —They are within an Great City in the Clouds; like Olympus.  There are Chinese dragons flying.  There are legendary Vauthrils at the farthest reaches of their space.  And Great Birds of gigantic proportion, who appear to fly so close to the sun."

    "And what is happening in that city?" said Aboriginal Spaces, "is there any story you can recognize and identify the parts of?"

    "There's an legal battle.  Artemis is looking back over his shoulder as he's walking into the courthouse.  Realizing something.  He's completely uncertain about what the outcome of the trial will be.  He realizes he's looking at the Eagle.  He can see it as though through an telescope, which he realizes is part of its magic.  It is high up in the air and he can see it."

    "What kinds of lines in the face are you looking at, then, if you take an step back, mentally; and view yourself as an observer viewing an subject?" said Aboriginal Spaces.

    "Is that really the level that Aboriginal Art interacts with its observer?  That I could draw them all out (these lines) and it would look like an figure of an Eagle?"

    "That's what you put your face in, isn't it?" said Aboriginal Spaces.

    "But what I'm trying to get at! (says the Eagle); is that if you can look far away at objects with as great of depth perception as this then you may be able to see pixies in it too.  When you take the background and the foreground and everything between together and you do see an face.  That's called an Pixie.  It's also called an Standard.  So pixies have face magic.  I bet you're not even surprised to have found this out."

    "I'm not really (says Artemis)," said Aboriginal Spaces, "an dick is the most temperamental thing you can have.  And two balls is even worse.  And so right now I'm looking at all of these people I'm going into the court room with.  Like do I?  And you're the only one who really seems to care."

    "Then what?" said the Christianna.

    "What is the nature of the trial?  What kind of injustice has been done?" said Aboriginal Spaces.

    "The forest is too boring and nobody goes there anymore.  So people chop it down.  And nobody cares that it's not going to be there anymore!"

    "So they're holding humanity to be responsible for holding them hostage in the prisons of their minds where there is fear and terror because humans are destroying the environment too quickly.  Humanity is on trial for injustices enacted against/performed to/altered an environment."

    "But they're discovering they are creatures who customize their environments; so what's wrong with customizing our environment?"

    "You can't completely customize your environment.  Only to an certain extent.  If you say that—"

    "Maybe we have to."

    "—you can then you are what is wrong with the environment.  Your environment also obeys the laws of physics.  You can't customize that completely, can you?"

    "To an certain extent customization is necessary."

    "But," said Aboriginal Spaces, "if you agree with Hegel that there was an shift in introspection; when at one point we defined ourselves according to our environments.  We had begun, he observed, to define ourselves according to our internal individual identities, not strictly related in some way to an interpretation of the environment.  We were self-reflective practice.  Psychology."

    "When I do recognize this," said the Christiannan, "however extending that theory I add that I have observed that people are begun to use both, selectively.  And this represents an post-Hegelian era."

    "My theory," said Aboriginal Spaces, "is that we had begun that long before the settlement of North America by Europeans."

    "And it's only an theory?"

    "Well I can prove it.  I mean.  I can."

    "So prove it."

    "Well remember how I said there needed to be more shape forms to spruce things up an bit?  If you're telling an story‽   My Ancestors have been doing it for centuries.  Okay, Judaism.  So we get that you start with an positive space.  But I'm talking about narrating an whole story through the gates.  In your positive space, an scene is happening.  An Crow.  There is an particular place and an particular time.  We further identify the space by investigating its characters.  Who are.  Each themselves.  Shape forms.  With their own living spirits.  And that's how you become les arbitres.  We need stories about people in conflict with the police who have their own problems and are not ready to (owning guns doesn't make you an officer) accept there is an global metropolitan community in which they don't have to be gun-toting territorial-ists in order to feel secure.  Which they may have incorrectly identified themselves against.  This is how we inspire the Russians and all criminally governed territories to surrender to that type of government which would correctly define the boundaries between its officers and its civilian population.  We needed to show how love machines and love making actions were possible in an humane safe environment.  One in which you surrender your power over your territory to an actionable government, under the Rule of Law," said Aboriginal Spaces, "anyone who takes up the purpose of this book for themselves must become an Arbiter."

    The dream vision and dreamstate vanished.  She woke up in the bedroom that was adjacent to the laboratory.  Well I'm not an monster, she drearily concluded (still part ways asleep), because I just had a dream about peace between all of the worlds religions working together.  Or does that make me more of an monster since we know that they can't but I'm going to tell you about it anyway‽

    She was still sleeping and so she had time to think about it.  (Right?  Her monster character in the laboratory was part of her dream, right?).  She could still hold onto that semblance of sanity and lucid dreaming.  She could in fact command anything about the dream.  Continuing her research of the artificial boundaries we set for one another using specific objects that we use and buy in order to know our place in the economy.  Her whole life was about her being the mutated genetic lab experiment and an monster.  Why wouldn't she try to figure out how much it was worth in Capital?

    And so the day arrived.  She checked the season.  It was the first thing she would always do in the morning.

    Was she an monster because she checked the season?

    No.

    So she moved into the kitchen through an hallway that lead to the bathroom.

    She opened the refrigerator door and looked inside.  She had to write these stories, she realized, the ones she had been dreaming of; she knew it.  She had to.  All nine of them.  Because she got that she got all of them.  And she could explain it.  In the style that been put forward by their conclusions about their conversations.  And these shape forms, she suspected, would enable her to have an tighter grasp of the storytelling passage by the characters who gather there.  In my logical thinking.  She closed the refrigerator door, fussily, without having picked anything from it to eat.  She remembered there was an bottle of vodka in the cupboard.  It was one of those days.  So she drank it for breakfast.  Put on her mountain biker's bedazzlement pants and hit the trail!  Every person she would meet today.  Every person she would meet she'd sort out for the better!  She was gonna get it all right today!

    And then she returned to the little creeping cul-de-sac that she knew after being in public all day.  Knowing that she had achieved nothing.  And knowing that she would achieve nothing every single day.  Until she changed her plan or doubled her efforts—she didn't know exactly how.  Sure, an painting was one thing but actual social activism was another.  Even if that painting itself was the Artist's own type of social activism.

    So she asked God what to do.  God said nothing to her.

    She wrote in her journal, why do I ask for things from God; and then it don't speak to me?  So that I am able to reflect on what are the most important things and why should I have those from them that way from God?  God was an shape form (an fairy) himself.  Half fictional.  Half utterly present.  And so I will write my prayer tonight.  It is that important that it needs to be written.  But how do you write to somebody who is half fictional?  And you know that they answered; but you didn't know what they said.  And the point is I know that God is answering my prayers and communicating to me.  It's just that he's so damn selective about which ones.  And how he's communicating to me like this.  It's different every time.  Sometimes I think I know God; that I've pinned down something concrete.  Sometimes it's something I randomly heard one day.  It makes me have an afterthought.  I reflect so deeply on it I think it might have been an sign from God.  But my favourite flavour of chips is BBQ.  And I'm just an foolish Russian gal.  Sometimes it's the wind; and that dramatic barrage as it sweeps over me at such an moment an precise moment in time.  And I want to write suddenly, this happens.  Suddenly, this happens.  Over and over again; even though I was discouraged from using this word in high school.  Nothing ever happens, suddenly really (I suppose that was the intended lesson).  But I want to go outside in my grown-up coat and collect all of the things I could measure with science that were happening suddenly.  Like suddenly, God said this to me; in such an way that the environment and the temperature had managed.  I wish God would say, suddenly.  Something.  At least something, for God's sake!  But he never does.  Or she never do.  (And she would go on writing like this about anything; it didn't have to be perfect).  But I feel it in the way sometimes God does communicate to me.  And I am wise to pick up on how it is communicated every time.  It might be difficult to accept.  But I see what the Lord has thought of me.  Where we are now in History.  And I don't see much of what the Lord has thought of me also.  But insofar, as I do see; I understand my place in the human picture.  I know what is needed from me.  I know how to act that way every day.  And at least what I can do.  Is something.  Even if I don't feel the effects automatically.  (She wrote, critically).  I just have to keep trying.  For Mother Russia.

    But—and this is the part everyone seems to want to know about—I can see it in their faces.  Is whether we've had sex yet.  But we're not professionals, able to be named.  So I give us that category.  It doesn't have to go perfectly, the first time.  I mean, there's room for error.  And I want it to feel right when it's the right time.  Just picture me having an seat clutching my big purse in my lap.  It's shiny and fur-friendly (faux snake skin); I know.  Pink faux fur snake skin.  (Or it would be glimmering between green and purple).  You know where I got it?  At the discount and thrift shop.  And I'll stop clutching my purse once I feel safer.  And that's when I'll decide.

    I need to find that place where all of my histories and stories start.  The place somewhere between leaving Earth to go find aliens versus not leaving Earth for when aliens come here.  I find.  That's where all of my stories begin.  I thought to myself, there are so many histories I could tell that start with that beginning.  Humans needed aliens to come here and so they had to do something ridiculous that would catch their attention: how could we miss this important part of history?  There is an division of character types which drives the whole plot line home.  Thus.  There are those people more concerned with finding aliens by leaving Earth and exploring the galaxies by mapping out them.  And there are those people concerned with Aliens eventually finding their own way to Earth without us having to discover them.  The people concerned with leaving Earth are held to be more scientific and grumpy about the people concerned with not leaving Earth, who would accept anyone.  Who are in turn held to be religious extremists.  But the most important notion of this type of beginning of an story is that it finds its boundary somewhere between the Earth's atmosphere and our civilization; that's the imaginative story space I want to perform in.  The realm of giants.  Megazords.  (Robots that combine to make bigger robots).  And all industrial pollution.  Military and aviation sector monitor-ation.  As well as sea life and marines.  As well as the primary action of the occurrence of war.  We are capable of scorching one another's skies from the ground to the top.  And all imaginative force and effort takes place from this distance: there is somewhere between being able to leave Earth to go find aliens and knowing that one might not need them to be found by us.  That takes an prominent place in the human imagination.  That one could do or perform something so interesting that it would attract another lifeform from another planet.  It is partly about the aviation and interaction between Earth's atmosphere and ships that can propel themselves beyond it or return; all in one flight.  We want to be masters at that level of the environment.  We have to be.  Because one day we will; and if we're not ready for it.  We might not have enough resources to feed everyone.  Then we'll realize maybe we really did need to think about that imaginative space between leaving Earth and arriving at Earth.  Think in terms of an different subject for an while.  And if we'd done it sooner maybe we wouldn't be in this predicament we now are.  

    That's where the major contortion of the plot line comes in.  There are the people whose sole focus and outer concern is science and leaving the planet.  And there are people whose group or cultural majority focus is discretionally against leaving the planet; but making it so interesting and of the type of civilization to make most of their stay should they perchance want to visit our planet altogether.  

    But—and this is an point in the plot—the two types of people both think the other responsible for failing at their responsibility to humanity.  The scientists (fictionally, people who own an big airship that can fly for days if it wants to) against the religious fanatics (non-fictionally, the people who have to remind scientists that they are failing at their jobs because they haven't contacted aliens yet).  The scientists, of course, blame the religious fanatics for their failure.  The religious fanatics, according to the scientists, were so old-fashioned, and weren't young and hip enough to appreciate real science.  Which was necessary in order to contact aliens.

    You mean travel to them?  Religion would say (sarcastically, to point out she wanted them to go away)).  Why they would flee at you and end up back here.  Because of me.

    But our responsibility is to contact them, said Science.

    But our responsibility is for them to contact us, says Religion.

    How can one do something so strange for to want to attract them here?

    Can we just meet in the Middle, in that atmospheric space between coming and going?  Isn't that where I said all of these many stories began?  The scientist fanatics think the religious fanatics ARE fanatics.  But do they end up creating an sub-culture by global psycho-hegemonic pressure?  It turns out (the scientists) they are just worried and trying to help.  Because religious people tend to go hard.  And they can pick out actual characters corresponding to this religion that they don't like.

    It turns out most cliques and community groups on Earth form and are gathered around the subject of alien genetalia.  Young men and women form into their psychological developmental groupings through high school and then they separate into couples along the lines of which kind of alien genetalia they all agree on.

    And since this Larger Category of all those groups that are concerned with particular types of alien genetalia is occupied by both the Scientific-minded and the Religion-minded.  Further complicating the circumstances.  Thus, open conflict.  Religious Super Heroes.  Against Scientific Super Villains.  The plot begins because they recognize this difference between them.  In how they are perceiving the world; and the human capacity to develop and customize its own nature.  There can be an love story (it's necessary to have an love story).  That, because they recognized something similar that they held in common between them, even though they were on opposing sides; they loved each other.  And so everything revolves around how they cooperate outside of the allegiances they already have; how their love story manages to turn the tide of public opinion.  How peace is finally achieved.

    The conclusion that the religious subject is somehow demented; even when that religion itself says that you representing it this way is demented in itself; even for the reason that they were crucifyin'.  Scientists had taken an opposition deliberately and they weren't backing down.  Even when Religion was shown to have the higher virtue here.  They had claimed what Science was doing to them was like what humans had done to Jesus.  And since they would not stop doing it; even though the Religious had requested it that they do.  The Religion had in fact the higher power.  Morally.

    "But you really are all duped and deceived;" said the Scientist (she wrote the conversation carefully and literally, finding herself within her deepest portion of her imagination here), "You are demented freaks and it's because you do that to each other.  And what you do to each other is damn-worthy; that's why it makes you sad.  And you're sad so you have to need religion in order to feel like you need an purpose."

    "What exactly is it you think we do to each other?"

    "You perform various rituals and sacraments designed to close your bodies and your minds to the truth.  Don't you know, religion was an ancient invention of birth control?  People used it to damage one another's sexual instincts in order to have peace and order in society (not deviant sexual freaks of every kind especially gay ones)."

    "Wait.  So you're telling me.  That you're ordering me to perform crazy sex rituals‽" said Religion.

    "I didn't order you.  What are you talking about?"

    "You're talking about the definition of religion being something injurious that hurts us more so that we believe?  So you're saying that's what my religion is about?"

    "I'm not ordering you blatantly that's what it's about!  But it probably is anyway!"

    "Then don't tell me mine is.  Then don't tell me that's what religion is about.  Because if it's mine then it's not."

    "Fine."

    "Thank you."

    "But you don't tell me that all science is bullshit just because we haven't reached alien life then!"

    "But I have to, remember, to motivate you.  It's what religious people do."

    "Well then your philosophy is all wrong!"

    "My philosophy‽"

    "Yes."

    "How could it be?"

    "You want aliens to come to Earth because you're attractive to them.  Only you're not attractive.  You're not attractive to anyone.  And if you count your inner beauty and its attractiveness you are kind of ugly in that way too."

    "The only reason you say this is that you associate me with an religion."

    "Yeah, so maybe it is.  So what‽"

    "Religion is instinct and biological.  I'm not doing anything wrong in itself by having an religion.  There is no way to remove the instinct to have an religion from our species.  There is no way to remove the instinct to have one.  I'm telling you it can't be done, genetically!"

    "Then why are religions all so stooopid‽"

    "We're not perfect people.  We make mistakes and hurt ourselves and each other in the end, doing the bad things we do.  But that's who we are.  You can't stop that.  God knows we're prone to error and he's not going to stop loving us just because we weren't perfect at everything.  And by the way saying stupid is anti-psychological.  And if you really held yourself to be an scientist by any formal standard you would know it's not alright to use that word in public anymore."

    "Fuck you."

    (And it would go on and on this way).

    "Just because all of religions have their flaw doesn't mean we can't reconcile those flaws one day," said the religious one.

    "So you're basically agreeing to be immoral," said the scientific one.

    "We're not agreeing to be immoral.  We just can't help it."

    "It's the same thing.  You think you can't help it because you agreed to be immoral sometimes."

    "Look, I know you have so much against religion.  And I know there are real reasons why.  But I think the only way we're going to turn this around for the better is from within religion itself; within human instinct itself.  We know all of them could do better.  It's just an fact of life at this time in history on Planet Earth.  And we're not necessarily all broken up about it either.  But when we do feel broken up about it; I agree, I do feel that kind of helplessness.  Like when even Christianity cannot do anything to help you in your community even though they are supposed to be there for you.  The most gentle empire of the human species.  As I see it, the amount of religions we have on Planet Earth cannot help everybody and it's fair to make new ones.  And I'm about the business of changing the World's Major Religions.  All of them in unison.  So that we redefine the definition of religion.  It would be like an World Reset, as it were.  All religions would agree, together, to accept the scientific argument for homosexuality."

    "You're never going to be able to accomplish that."

    "Thanks but I don't need the kind of cheering on you call being negative.  I can give myself all of the cheering I need.  I have to try.  Wouldn't it be stupid not to?  It's the only road out.  All religions will have to change.  That's just how it is."

    "I admire your passion," he said finally.

    "I do too," she said, "that's what passion is."

    Of course the scientific community would end up plotting against the religious community (because they perceived within its inner society there to be the worst kind of religious fanaticism: hard chronic ruffians with mood and personality disorders as an result of their archaic rituals within the church).  And to some extent, it would be their own fault, that these fraught kind of people existed.  There might even be an subculture producing anti-science propaganda.  With the scientists themselves to blame for that happening.  And the religious community, which did have an few weirdos, it would be found to have flawed the inner design of their scientific research due to an toxic environment.  If they weren't finding alien life yet and no way of reaching them, then it was religion's fault.  They hadn't motivated them enough.  Or maybe they had motivated them too much.  (You can never expect an religious person to be gentle).  (So they might not know how much they are motivating or not motivating anyway).  The crucial characteristic of the conflict is that some people want to leave to find aliens; and some people want aliens to leave to come find us.  But how do we get that signal out there?  But we're not good enough for any alien to want to come to Earth to visit us (yet).  And so we feel embarrassed.  The religious person perceives they are improving conditions on the Planet Earth for the wary wanderer should it want to visit us on Earth (an culture that serves every kind of person).  While the scientific person perceives he is doing the same thing; except he wants to beat the aliens to us by reaching them first.  And so they clash, because wanting aliens to come to Earth and not wanting Scientists to stay at Earth were the same thing.  (It was the result of the poor attitude of the religious fanaticism whose humour, he had not realized, was not being picked up on the other end.  By the scientist.).  The reasons for doing things because we want the aliens to come visit Earth are the same reasons for doing things because we want people from Earth to go visit the aliens.  Except the two groups of people have completely different visions of how we want things to play out on Earth, then.  The religious people, Science accuses them, are too religious.

    And religion fires back, saying that's what the point of our religion is; that you do not accept us just because you perceive us to have an certain religion.

    It explodes.  (The argument).

    The religious people, Science accuses them, are too concerned with clothes of an matching color.  And have not learned the Virtue of Science.

    The only reason you have an Virtue of Science, says the religious fanatic, "is because it is based on all of the virtues we mined and repaired to be fine enough for the human species before Science came along.  And again, just because I have an religion, doesn't mean I don't have the Virtue of Science.  You might be an scientist, but I'm an community builder."

    "Community builder.  Community of sorrow perhaps!  More like demented repressed social closeted introvert who thinks they have some sort of status in society just because they attend religious gatherings.  Which do nothing to hide their cult-like attitude and super-slow intellect."

    "Yeah well," said the Religious Fanatic, "at least I'm not an measurement fanatic with no soul and no clear conscience or moral boundaries; to have failed to take on even the most basic virtues that people of many religions attained long ago.  And to fail to be better at being virtuous; even though you are scientists who think (claim to be more virtuous) that their method is better than mine.  By accusing and assigning roles for me like I'm in an cult.  Or that I'm stupid.  And so clearly I am in possession of the higher virtue: kindness.  If you would fail at being kind to me then there would be no more reason for us to attend one another."

    "But madame," he would say, "how have you been kind to me‽"

    "Getting enough people into the room is always kind.  When you intend to perform."

    "And you think you've done that?"

    "We are here.  There is two of us."

    "Then how are you wanting to perform?"

    "I just want to be free-er to be myself in public.  Even if that looks weird like an alien.  Why do you, as an scientist, have to be against me being about that‽"

    "Is that what your religion is about?  Acting weird like an alien‽"

    At this point they might start making out with each other.  It depends who is telling the story.

    "I just think, sir, that when you phrase an definition you do not put it like an order to someone.  Make sure it isn't interfering with your receipt of their orders that they are giving you.  Do you even realize that's what civilization is?  (Giving orders to one another?).  I'm prepared for you to do that; but you're not doing it right."

    "I take orders from nobody," said the Scientist, "I'm an Scientist!"

    "What if you took just one order, for now," said Religion, "that you listen to me and try to understand what I'm saying.  Then maybe it will be fair for you to have given an order to me."

    "But when you think, sir; be sure that you do gain an fashion sense.  And followers that aren't deluded out of their minds."

    "See.  There you again.  Defining what followers as an word means for me.  Now, normally, I would just call this mansplaining but I can see I'm going to have to spell it out for you.  You do not define my religion.  Therefore anything you say about religion doesn't necessarily apply to mine.  Therefore why say it in the first place?  It's just insensitive."

    "I'm sorry; I won't do that to you," said the Scientist, "I don't mean to define what your religion means for you.  It's just that so often, as it appears to me, religion is full of radicals and extremists."

    "Yes but I'm about the process or sequence whereby we change the whole definition of religion.  So that people will be better educated of what religion will mean."

    "Oh yes.  Yes!  I am all about that as well.  I mean.  What counts as religion anymore needs to change, right?"

    "Right.  How will you have an connection to the universe if all you care about is science‽"

    "I am the connection to the universe."

    "But an religion is your connection to the universe, silly."

    "Well there aren't any that I'd like to join."

    "Then make one."

    "Make one?  Make one‽  Why don't you try making one of anything that matters!"

    "Just explain yourself—mister—what do you mean?  Don't just stand there!  Explain yourself!"

    "Religious people don't know how to value objects.  It's like an game to them.  They get benefits that aren't material somehow and so they end up not needing to.  This is to blame for their atrocious relationship with the economy and the land.  If I had an religion, it would be an star-gazing religion.  I bet you can guess why."

    "But so how did they get immaterial wealth then‽" said Religion, looking shocked and surprised.

    "They forgot that things actually cost money.  Nothing is free."

    "You forgot that morality must come before wealth.  Otherwise you don't deserve to have wealth.  And since you don't deserve to have wealth, it isn't wealth!"

    "Is that what you think then is it?"

    "Yes.  It's actually what I think."

    "And so you're sent here from some hoodlum agency that ain't & doesn't know nothing about nothing?"

    "An scientist to use such slack-jaw language as yours is revolting enough; I suspect it is deliberate and sarcastic. But now you're claiming I'm from some agency?"

    "I'm not ordering you to be in some agency," said the Scientist, "I'm asking you if the agency that you're from—"

    "I'm not from an agency!" she staccato'd part of her enunciation like she was trying to prove it with sustained intonation.  Like it was the same thing as faith.

    "Okay but what materials do you use?"

    "Sacred writings?"

    "Yes.  What sacred writings do you use?'

    "The bible—"

    "Ah-ha!  So you're an fundamentalist."

    "I'm not an fundamentalist but the story of the whole bible is someone not being accepted for their good deeds and indeed, instead, being counted out among those who are worthy of love and affection.  Anyway.  It's just an relic from another Age.  With its own mythology.  Some of it is fictional.  I think we can all accept that.  But exactly why it is fictional surfaces as the most popular subject on my mind.  Why is it fictional, for example, that one could change one's direction of the course of events from the way it had happened; and something better would have happened as an result?  Society didn't work the way we wanted it to anymore.  We had to change the structure of the hierarchy."

    "You're talking about Jesus aren't you‽  Figures, you religious folk are all the same!"

    "Well.  I mean.  It is fictional.  Something better could have happened which is now fiction forever because of what ended up happening.  Just imagine where we could be in History right now, if we would just have learned that one lesson."

    "Which was?"

    "Your leader is the one who will end violence by absorbing its power until it kills him and then he will be resurrected after an while."

    "It was perhaps the most sarcastic thing which had ever been said," said the Scientist.

    "Now that I think of it," said Religion, "I agree.  It's totally about being the leader until you end violence by absorbing all of its power even if you need it to kill you in order to get your point across!  And then still be sarcastic enough to say I'll be back.  You can't get rid of me.  Because he actually was going to die.  And he wanted everyone to know what they were going to miss because they had treated him that bad way.  Realize now, then, with me what that was we lost that day."

    "No wonder they told resurrection stories.  They were all being sarcastic.  The Christian religion started because someone believed them. Someone believed in sarcasm."

    "No, sir—it's not so simple as that.  The resurrection stories are about the last thing Jesus said.  Therefore they were inspired by God; because Jesus's connection was so close with God.  Right up into those final moments."

    "So you're not saying it wasn't because some people started to believe them or thought it cool to pretend like they do because they were perpetuating the subject of that fantasy, an fictional sarcasm which transcended what was actually happening on the war board."

    "I know what is which scares you about us."

    "You don't scare me.  Now who is defining the meaning of words for the other‽"

    "Okay.  It's just that maybe there are so many of us.  And we all must seem weird to you.  Fanatics.  This is the language of the skeptic.  It's just that when we wear the robes of our order to cover up our sex lives.  (Which isn't what true religion is about in my definition of the term).  People tend to get skeptical about our overall mental health."

    "Yes.  That's why I don't like you."

    "But if you are not being kind to people with mental health issues, where does that place you?"

    "Where?  In the food chain?"

    "I mean.  How important an person can you be if you don't even know how to be kind to people who are less fortunate than you?"

    "But you're less fortunate because of your decisions."

    "Does that necessarily matter?"

    "You're right.  I'm not that mean.  I know it's not your fault, to some extent that you made those decisions."

    "I made those decisions‽  I'm not saying I made those decisions."

    "But I'm saying you did."

    "But I'm saying I didn't."

    "Does that necessarily matter?"

    "That's where you're wrong.  It does matter that I think I didn't make those decisions.  You see, to me, you are the less fortunate one.  Not me."

    "I'm the less fortunate one‽  How am I the less fortunate one?"

    "You don't know how to treat people who are less fortunate than you.  That means you have less virtue than me.  That means you are less fortunate."

    "But you're not more fortunate than me; you're the one that's being unkind if you think so!"

    "Unkind?  You think I'm being unkind to find that you are the one who is less fortunate?  Why, that is the reason and faculty of kindness.  To help those who are less fortunate.  You wouldn't want me just not to help you when I clearly see that you need it."

    "But I don't need it.  You're the one who needs it."

    "That's why you're the one who needs it.  You think I do.  But I don't."

    "Wait—what‽"

    And this would end the scene.  Years later, after an accumulation of Super Heroes and Super Villains in an fantasy monster City with urban legends and tears.  The conflict would commence.  An all-out bloodbath.  An siege on the human mind.  Which were we more like?  An scientific race leaving the planet to go find aliens.  Or an religious fundamentalism where the fundamental was the fact that we needed aliens to come here too?

    They were against each other; but there was an love story between the two factions; so how could they be against each other?

    This was the start of the brand-name franchise.  Anna-World; the place where people could use the knowledge they have learned from the Christianna to feel better and to know better with assurance the future is better too.  An world in which an city is inhabited not only by humans, Super Heroes, Super Villains, and other monsters' (creatures between the mental and physical material realm) secrets.  But the city itself is an vestibule for pollution.  And genetic experiments gone wrong are an normal part of life.  We essentially are an genetic experiment gone wrong.  Every nook and cranny of our city is infested with germs and trouble-causing bacteria.  And nobody goes there except to cause trouble.  But with Anna-World measures in place we can see that other world beyond what we have now (an place that is safe for everybody).  And we know it will require powerful intelligence to navigate our emotions and behaviors as individuals and communities.  Anna-World: an comic book franchise that sells stories about people encountering demons in Anna-World and knowing what to do about it because they are clever humans with an strong sense of purpose (supernatural).  Religious powers and roleplaying experience that transcends the bounds of ordinary everyday non-roleplaying activity.  Because that's what an religion does.  Just for creativity's sake.  And for the non-roleplaying generation (who perhaps have it most difficult because their generation associates themselves with non-roleplaying activity)—Like, how can you not have an role?  Biologically?  This is the best message in humanism to say we are roles.  We are types.  We are commodities.—we would tell them about the history of the roleplaying franchise on the Internet.  That priests (the kind who work in church service activities) were actually less valuable now than their roleplaying equivalent.  Healing spells were the main activity of being an priest and there would be no deviation from that norm.  The figure of the evil priest (roughly equivalent to the warlock class) has of course been around for centuries.  And so the core activity of Anna-World is roleplaying encounters.  Battles in which sets of demons, sets of monsters, or sets of characters and hybrid classes would duke it out.  And as an comic book franchise it would include colorful suits (not the tacky kinds worn by athletes).  As well as "animated" horror; pictures and literal decapitation of zombies, ghouls, ghosts, and goblins.  With an endless supply of werewolves, vampires, and ohhgunnhisthth.

    Why?  Because it's sexy!

    These Kings, Queens, roleplaying classes and behaviors; and strategies, are sexual roles.  They take turns.  It's an turn-based roleplaying environment.  Because they want to behave and be sexy.  What could be sexier than taking down an opponent‽  But you know what's even sexier (when it's not real)?  What could be sexier than not dominating each other.  Wouldn't that be kind of gay?  Well, what's wrong with that‽  Nothing.  So why not do it?

    So you are taking down an opponent but it's not real; it's only fictional. That's what the encounter means.  It's an fictional exchange.  You take one another down by being the object of one another's fantasy.  It being physical.  Without actually being physical.

    But if they're not prepared for it; or don't know what you're doing.  You might be an monster that doesn't know its own strength.  So be careful!

    The problem was that each of these characters (these Shape Forms) had to exist together in this fictional city; and knowing which shape forms each religion would use was necessary to the investigation.  And so she decided to suspend her judgement until all of the stories of shape forms had been told by each religion.  And then she would populate her universe after her final judgment of their character.  Upon when her dreaming mind she fell into the deepest slumber she had ever been in.  And everything she experienced from that point onward was vivid and colorful.

    But first there was an long, fulfilling, traditional pause and in between each of them.

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