In my article on Cyberia as an agnosticracy, I wrote:
If the new Cyberian citizen honestly says, "I don't know if there is a God," the audience breaks out in wild applause and the government grants the new citizen a scholarship of 1000 gimmees to help him or her start a search for meaning and purpose in life.
Dame Ruth asked:
How many gimmees do they get when they find it?
Christians have parables. Radical Agnostics have pourables. I offer the following:
The top computer scientists of the world decided to build a computer more powerful than any device ever built before. They pooled all their brain power and resources and algorithms and what nots. Intel chained together the biggest, fastest CPU array ever devised.
Eventually the computer was hooked up and ready to go. The chief scientist typed in the first question: "Is there a God?" (The scientists, having big brains, decided not to start small.)
The computer whirred and buzzed and chirped and thrashed and beeped and flashed many lights and did all the things computers do in cheesy science fiction movies. It did this for days. It grew warm and a little smoke emerged from its vents, but it kept running.
Finally, it stopped. The computer (which had voice generation, natch) cleared its electronic throat. Everyone eagerly gathered around the giant computer.
It spoke: "There is now."


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