Time Will Tell

An Expansion:

Once you've attributed two characteristics to a thing,

any third one you might try to add will appear irrelevant.

If the first two convey a sense of "we are important -- we are informative,"

a third will have the feel of "it doesn't matter."

On one world was once a race whose concept of paradisiacal afterlife was of a place, not only where no one could ever conceive of three possibilities, but where no one even ever thought about trying.

 Without the physics of two-armed deities,

the winds never blow, the tides come not and go,

and those who fail to slay the gods

ne'r know the serenity of the secret.

 While ordinary people (as they age) seem to either go through great change, or, else no change at all, mystics either apparently go through great change without actually going through all that much, or else seem to go through very little change while actually going through a lot.  So, come on gang, let's hear it out there for all the fine folks who keep our great rail system running.

People who say that "time will tell" are the same ones who won't admit they didn't learn a thing from space.

J.