You Know
I got to thinking about mortality. I was trying different tacks to get God to tell me something about the end of my life. When would it be? Would it be soon? Would it be of natural causes? Stuff like that. At first he was fairly oblique, just tried changing the subject or joking about it, but finally he just flat out told me that it wasn’t something I was supposed to know.
That popped an alert up in my brain, and I asked the next question without taking time to even think about it: Are there some things that mankind is not supposed to know?
Well, God came right back and told me, if there are things that man is not meant to know, then foremost among those things would be knowing if there are things we are not meant to know. Then he left.
So… There are things that mankind is not meant to know and among those things is that knowledge that there are things we aren’t supposed to know. Or there aren’t things that mankind is not supposed to know, but God didn’t feel like telling me that and dodged the question. Or the only thing that mankind isn’t supposed to know is that there isn’t anything that mankind isn’t supposed to know except that there isn’t anything that mankind isn’t supposed to know.
Somedays I think I should just stay in bed and watch cartoons.
Before you understand recursion, you have to understand recursion.