Book 5: Another Way
Episode 5
© by William Arthur Holmes“Coincidence and synchronicity happen, sure,” Dobie continued, “but if you’re not a conspiracy theorist these days, you’re just not paying attention. George Carlin summed it up nicely when he said, ‘Do I believe powerful people ever get together and plan for certain outcomes? Naw!’
“He was being sarcastic. Call it collusion if you prefer. Same thing. Something else he said is, ‘People compliment my honesty, until I’m honest with them. Then I’m a jerk.’ He used a different word, but there are women and children...”
“Asshole!” the 8 year-old boy in the audience shouted out.
Dobie glared. Was the kid heckling him?
“He probably said asshole,” the boy explained himself, shrugged and sank into his chair. His mother, next to him, was horrified. Everyone else laughed.
“Kids these days! Anyway,” Dobie continued, “I like alternative historians like the one who said the Great Sphinx is thousands of years older than mainstream academia would have us believe. Like him, I never blindly accept anything espoused by anyone claiming to be an authority, past or present.
“Question everything! That’s the scientific method, although too many scientists are not very scientific. They’ll come to whichever conclusion their bosses want, like the corporate accountant or election pollster who asks ahead of time what the result should be before they perform their algorithmic sleight-of-hand.
“And too many scientists who are scientific think the physical sciences alone explain everything, leaving no room for things that defy logic. For example, they explain the beginning of the universe with a theory called The Big Bang. Give me a break. I had to laugh when even the great Stephen Hawking promoted this. Who or what created the conditions and raw materials for this Big Bang, hmm? To this, they say ‘Never mind the man behind the curtain!’
“People say I have authority issues, and I’m okay with that, though I’d argue it’s more of a short-sighted-idiots-in-power issue. We should all have such issues! I do believe in some sort of Creator and intelligent design, but I’m not getting into that now.
