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"So, Mr. Devil, is there a God? I would say there is. I would say that God doesn't sit on clouds, but is alive in our humanity which has endured and continues to unfold its wonders regardless of all the tricks and threats and barriers and impositions your armies of agents have been able to throw up against them. A human being will always be a human being, no matter what, and the freedom to be that, to the fullest possible extent, is always at hand."
The captain laughed at the miner, after he said this. "I really wasn't fair with you my friend."
"You've played with a loaded deck," the miner replied. "You knew that you would win before you even started. That's cheating!"
"No, I wasn't cheating," the captain defended himself. "I told you at the beginning that I you would give you an opportunity to prove me right, and you have. And so, my friend, since you have played your role so admirably, I really do owe you a lunch, the whole spread, drinks included. You should have known that God always has the last word."
I stood up from my chair after my story telling. "That's where the story ends," I said to the assembly. "We have come together here to explore the most leading edge global issues of our time. Universal love and universal sovereignty are the leading edge issues of today. Don't you agree? They are that and will be that for a long time to come, but not for the building of sky castles. They are the key issues for our development of love at the grassroots level, which has never been done before, for the building of a New World."
There erupted a great applause when I walked off the stage. The applause was enthusiastic. Still, I couldn't help wondering as I left the auditorium to take my chair back, if they would still cheer the next morning after they begin to realize what challenges I had imposed. I had opened for them Pandora's box, not of evils and plaques, but of an immense challenge. The challenge of universal love and universal sovereignty had never been fully faced in all of human history, at the grassroots level.
As it was, I had finished my assignment that Fred had given me, I had opened Pandora's box and left it open for Tony to dig into.
When I asked Ross what the ten-day project was all about that he was working on with Sylvia, I expected some long-winded explanation intertwined with hypothesis about advanced fundamental principles. I was wrong. He said simply he was planning to make a formal presentation on the scientific foundation for Tony's girl watching speech. He said that something more profound was needed than I had delivered.
"Tony's speech will likely hit the deeply religious communities like a bomb going off," he said. "That's inevitable. There are some countries on this planet were people would get arrested for saying the kinds of things that Tony will say, or people become excommunicated from their church or temple, or whatever." He said that Tony's speech would likely cut deeply into people's consciousness and raise a lot of questions, if it was done right, but ultimately it won't go deep enough to answer them. Ross added that this is extremely difficult to do. He said that some people might see Tony's speech as a gripe session against false traditions and defective axioms, which would make matters worse since gripe sessions rarely create a nobler platform that uplifts people's thinking and replace what exists at the lower levels with higher perceptions of truth. "Does this sound familiar?" he asked.
"For this you need a scientific session," Ross added moments later. "Many in the audience may find boring what I have to say, but I am certain that it will ultimately enable them to move to higher ground. It becomes my task as a scientist and researcher to pave the way for that to happen. It becomes my task to provide the necessary foundation for Tony's speech to become effective and become a useful tool for people to examine their axioms with."
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