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Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Terraform Analysis #2996

There is a solar system eight hundred light-years away from the Vouslair Nebula, the brightest nebula in it’s galaxy. Within that solar system is a terrestrial planet known to it’s inhabitants as Xetha. It revolves around two suns simultaneously. The first sun, which Xethans call Iso, is placed at the center of it’s system. Everything in the Iso system revolves around Iso, including it’s second sun which Xethans call Eso. The nature of this duel solar system prevents Xetha from being in shadow for most of their year. It becomes blistering hot on Xetha during this period of solar bombardment. The planet’s soil cracks from drought. Xethan life is plagued by poverty and starvation. Those, with the exception of very few Xethans, who have developed complex language and written communication call themselves Isotens. Like many other terrestrial forms of life that have developed written language, Isotens suffer from the fear of difference. Written language lays a foundation for understanding but also builds walls of prejudice. There is a period of time once every generation on Xetha when sun does not bleach the sky. Xetha’s moon, Oso, eclipses Eso and Eso eclipses Iso. The sky is blanketed with the serenity of the Vouslair Nebula, only eight hundred light-years away. When the sky is empty, light waves from the Vouslair Nebula activates compounds in the soil of Xetha that makes life grow. Isotens honor this sacred blessing of life with ceremonies praising the Vouslair Nebula. Food is harvested, poverty is forgotten, and in the presence of their God, Isotens dare not sin while the Vouslair Nebula is watching. A dialogue between the Isotens and Vouslair is formed that is only understood in the presence of their God. They pray for the blessings of Vouslair and it graces them with the gift of life and prosperity.
I am not God, for God births life. I cannot birth life, but being that I question whether I am living could I birth life? Can something that is not alive birth life? If one must be living to give birth to life than that must mean that God is alive. But how is it possible for a being that is eternal to be living? One must be able to die if it was ever to live. If God is truly alive, then he/she/it must have been born. And being that life must give birth to life, what living entity gave birth to God? The Vouslair Nebula is not alive, yet it gives birth to life on Xetha. Since it is not alive, the Vouslair Nebula thus cannot be God. Yet, according to Isotonian logic, Vouslair is God. Therefore, the only entity that can give birth to God is terrestrial life. God dies when terrestrial life dies.

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