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What is to be done?
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What is to be done?

Flaubie's Inferno, Introduction, part II

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Dec 01, 2024
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“But what should I do?” Asked God. Despite his frustrations with quanta, He himself can be very indecisive at times, due to all the distractions that arise when you are involved in perpetual creation and the everlasting, all-consuming task of emanating Divine Love which is way way harder than I’m making it sound here. I mean, it’s not like, “poof, Divine Love” you know. Heavy lifting is involved.

“Send someone.” The Universe folded its arms to signify firm resolve and authority.

“Like who?” God adopted a puzzled expression as though the idea of creating someone to help the situation was beyond even an Omnipotent Endless Uni-Being Creator entity.

“Send an avatar.”

“what-attar?”  

“Avatar,” said the Universe in exasperation. “A personal representative who can tell them how to straighten things out. Enlighten them, as it were.”

“AHA.” God pondered this for a second, which is nearly a thousand years in Heaven.

“Hurry up,” said the Universe in alarm. “The longer you wait the worse things are getting down there.”

“All right, all right,” said God. “I’ll create an Avatar. But how?”

Just then Satan popped in. It was tea time and he and God rarely missed tea together, although it was more challenging since Satan had started having kids.

“I’ll show you!’ He said.

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