| Sep. 26th, 2008 @ 07:55 am How (from Nate May) |
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- How. I am from the twenty-first century, and I have traveled back in time five hundred years to deliver you a message.
- Your vessel is very shiny. What kind of wood is this?
- It is plastic.
- What is plastic?
- It is a material made of petroleum. We eat and drink out of containers made of plastic, and then we throw the containers away.
- Where do you throw them?
- We dig large holes and we put many containers in the holes.
- Do petroleum trees grow out of these holes?
- No, petroleum does not come from trees.
- Where does it come from?
- Holes.
- So the plastic in the holes turns back into petroleum.
- No, we dig different holes to get more petroleum.
- Do you bury the plastic as a dedication to your god?
- No, we no longer do such rituals.
- Why not?
- Using Science, we have proved that such rituals do not accomplish anything.
- What is science?
- Science is understanding the world and making human activities more efficient and effective.
- Did science tell you to put your plastic in holes?
- Yes.
- What else does science tell you to do?
- We have built roads that connect all parts of the land, and automobiles to traverse these roads.
- What are automobiles?
- They are like horses, but more comfortable.
- What do they eat?
- They are made of metal, but they eat petroleum.
- Where does metal come from?
- Holes.
- And the petroleum, can you make more of it, or does the earth make it?
- The earth makes it, but very slowly.
- Slower than you are using it?
- Much slower.
- How will your children feed their horses?
- Science is working on this, but it has not yet come up with a solution.
- Why don’t you use horses that eat grass?
- They are much less comfortable.
- When horses eat grass, they fertilize the land, and more grass grows. Do your horses fertilize the land?
- No, their waste goes into the sky.
- Does it bring rain during droughts?
- No. You see, with our waste we have put a hole in the sky, which makes the sun hotter. We also have more violent storms and the seas are rising.
- All because of horses?
- There are many other things which put waste in the sky.
- If you have holes in the sky and holes in the ground, where do the birds and the deer live?
- Listen, I came to deliver a message, and I am getting tired of answering all of your questions.
- What is the message?
- Embrace Science now, or your people will be extinguished.
- What did you say science was?
- Understanding the world, and making human activities more efficient and effective.
- We have already embraced that.
- Have you? Show me.
- Look down.
- Okay.
- Look up.
- Okay.
- Do you see any holes? |
