IN A STRANGE LAND
The S.S. officer who'd said he thought Thomas was the only
sane one at the Embassy was in court, but no commies turned up
to press the trespassing charges. Charges were dismissed, and
the capitalists released Thomas from their jail.
"It was a pleasure to meet you, sir." The S.S.
officer said, shaking Thomas' hand as they left the courtroom.
"I really didn't think you should have been arrested. I think
you were right, but I had to do my job."
**** ****
Gobbled up by Hobb's Leviathan.
Holy Cow, swallowed up by a big flying whale, spit up on
the shores of Babylon? Was he crazy, or some kind of a modern-day
Jonah?
God told Jonah to preach repentance to the Ninevites. But
Jonah was proud. Those Ninevites are beyond the pale of redemption
anyway, they all deserve to burn up in their own wickedness, Jonah
had decided, and set out in the opposite direction.
But God, unimpressed by Jonah, made sure everything went
as planned.
Once in Nineveh, Jonah, impressed by God, got to preaching
and the Ninevites repented.
*** ***
Thomas figured that one could be an optimist or a pessimist.
Some ancients had said that "ignorance is the only
sin."
Perhaps that explained why they ignored the fact that nuclear
weapons are designed, constructed, and deployed for the sole practical
(mechanical) purpose of murdering the greatest number of humans
with the greatest efficiency. It all seemed to Thomas innately
evil, like the medieval doctrine of original sin.
And how then can the creatures which created demonic devices
be "basically good," and why shouldn't they roast in
eternal agony?
If they were building demonic devices, might "basically
good" people possibly be ignorant enough to miss the mark
and think that their devilish creation was actually averting some
greater evil? If the United States was missing the mark, the optimist
must think, its only salvation might lie in ignorance.
IN THE MIND ===================>>