Some little people walk into a room and see tic-tac-toe markings on the ground, three circles all in a row, but there’s nobody else in the room. Someone says, “There’s no scientific proof that anyone else was here. Maybe it was just that way from the beginning.” You’re kidding, right?
Worse yet, when Someone comes into the room and says, “I made those marks.” The logical response would be: “Oh! So this sheet of paper is yours! Here!”
But no; by that time, others had gone in there and thought they could do better; they’d bent lines, got things out of proportion; and the majority took shortcuts to draw circles so ended up with funny shapes. They would have to admit to making mistakes they couldn’t undo, and apologize. So they smile, look back at him, and say, “Everyone smart knows this was here from the beginning. You say you made it, but you’re just trying to cause trouble.”
The One Who came back in the room to get the paper saw what had happened, and altho’ at first He opens His mouth to say something, He stops. He pats the speaker on the head and says, “I’m leaving.”
Then He notices a little person on the side, scratching his head, so on the way out, asks him what the problem is, and learns there were a few who saw those marks and felt they could not have gotten there by themselves, that someone must’ve made them. “It really was you, wasn’t it?” He nods in reply and whispers He’ll send communication later.
“And don’t worry; I’ll come back again someday and clean up…no, I’ll make a brand new drawing on a clean sheet—you watch!” With another pat on the head, He is gone.
The little man runs back to his group. Apparently, the other little man and his generation die off and so does the man that talked to the One Who made the marks. The younger generations that follow don’t really know what went on. All they know is that the smart scientific thing to believe is that the marks have always been there, and anyone who claims otherwise is a troublemaker. But there is a smidgeon of people who say there really was a Person who made those marks, and He’ll be coming back someday, to make a completely new drawing.
Of course, most people realize that doesn’t make any sense.
If those marks were there by themselves from the very beginning, and there is no person, he can’t come back some day, can he? Utter nonsense. Almost as foolish as the emperor without his new clothes. Now why did that come up?
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