What Forces Rule the Universe?

Is part of Man’s so-called progress to go from vague anxieties to definite fears?

The church used to say, “Give us a child for his first ten years, and he will be ours forever.” 

Life does this also.

The Few must feel and exercise total control over unknown phenomena, or at least banish them to either:  The O.N.K.I File:  Of No Know Importance or, The L.F.Y. File:  Later for You or, The B.D. File:  Bad Dreams.  (There are other categories for those of a more religious background, but I’m on a profanity diet.)

On one of my numerous travels on earth, I once stopped for a while in a village of hard working souls whose would-be religious life was somewhat of a microcosm of humanity’s in general.  Sensing some potential in the mortals, I tried to show them that their ideas of a better spiritual state were all based on the assumption that Man had lost something in the past, and that

so-called religious efforts were an unusable attempt to go backwards, not forward.  Well, they had a fine ole time laughing and ridiculing this notion, and insisted that everyone knew help and salvation lay in the holy past.  I decided to try and offer them physical proof.  I produced an old Laundromat washing machine, talked six of the elders into climbing in, stuck a coin and sent them back to the days before Adam.  (And the result?)  After five furious minutes of tumbling, kicking and screaming, “Whee-e-e,” a voice from within cried out, “Stick in another quarter.”

A young lad once asked me, “Pray kind sir, what kinds of forces rule the universe?”  And I asked him what kinds he thought did, and he said, “I don’t know,” and I said, “There’s you answer.”

J.