The Egg by Andy Weir

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Ran across this story which I think expresses something important. It's very short and I wish I had written it.

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OMG

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that was amazing.....And quite possibly true really for all we...I...know. Lol!
I'm so going to use this to mess with the "I know everything about life types."

Bailey Summers

That was excellent

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Jemima Tychonaut's picture

That was excellent. And very thought provoking.


"Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it."

Interesting

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Quite a lot to think of there.

Thanks,
Anne

Thanks for that link, Erin,

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Thanks for that link, Erin, that was great!

Kris

Kris

{I leave a trail of Kudos as I browse the site. Be careful where you step!}

I must say,

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this reminds me a lot of Richard Bach's writings - "Jonathan Livingston Seagull", "Illusions", and "One"; those are the only ones that I have read, anyways, there may be more.

Egocentric

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After heer comment of the other day I hope Rita doesn't see this.

When I was small I had a recurring thought that I was being tested by God and everything around me (including all the other people) was simply an elaborate stage. I was about thirteen or fourteen when I decided everyone else was just as important as me.

I do like the perspective of this story. It gives a purpose to it all.

Angela Rasch (Jill M I)

Angela Rasch (Jill M I)

Boggled

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Really not sure I can get my head around that particular vision, but hey, it's interesting. One thing that I kept thinking though... I'm really not sure I wanna meet the chicken.

Kristina

FWIW..

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...I thought of that too.

But the thing I found most interesting is that the "you" character is being expected to take God's claims about him on faith under fairly suspicious circumstances: he's told that he can't stop for long enough to access his memories and see if the reincarnation claims are true, even though he's also told that time is meaningless in limbo.

There's nothing inherently obvious about what God -- if that's really who his companion is -- is telling him, except that there's enough of an afterlife to have this discussion. I'm not at all sure that he won't fade out into nonexistence when he goes; perhaps God simply wanted his final moments to feel meaningful and good. After all, who'd really want to realize, in the end, that their life was pointless?

Then again, maybe I'm just too cynical...

Eric

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