"Hi Purple," said Jonathan Flow. "Where are you coming from this time?"
Purple said, "Does that really matter, Jonathan?"
Jonathan said, "No. I was just surprised you were here. I don't remember seeing you in Mt. Shasta before this."
Purple said,"I've been monitoring what is happening around Mt. Shasta and its environs for the Galactic Sentience."
Jonathan smiled, "I bet that would make interesting reading."
Purple said, "Actually. In some ways I'm not sure what to make of it all."
Jonathan said, "Why is that, Purple?"
Purple said, "Well. As you know I am basically a very evolved sentient robot."
Jonathan said, "Do you have intuitive awareness too?"
Only if I'm monitoring someone who is actually very intuitive like you, Jonathan. But I don't actually have your senses. I haven't suffered like you and other Intuitives have to actually stay alive and to hone their skills."
"How do you experience me?" said Jonathan.
"I take a direct neural feed from your Biocom implant."
"And what is that like for you, Purple?"
Purple said, "Remember. This is all coming to me in zeros and ones and not in smells, tastes, thoughts as you experience them. If you are looking for my reaction I often wonder about humans needing there to be a God. Is there really a God and if not why do humans often believe in one?"
Jonathan was having trouble imagining what it was really like to be Purple so he had to wing it. So he said, "The best way I can say this is that we need our parents. But at some point our parents are going to die. That is a given. But to the little child in each of us if our parents die we cannot longer live. Now you must imagine this isn't the adult person dealing with this, this is the 2 year old that each of us still have inside each of us as we process information."
Purple looked at Jonathan and said, "But if people are grown up they are no longer children."
Jonathan said, "That's not really true, Purple. What actually happens is that our conditioning as children often is what makes us eventually become adults. So, as our parents and other adults and children condition us through various good and bad experiences this is what actually makes us adults. So, in a way it is like we aren't really adults at all, we are the conditioned response of all the adults and children and animals and trees that we interface with through our experiences."
Purple thought about this and said, "Then in some ways all humans are related through their shared knowledge and experiences."
Jonathan said, "Yes."
Purple said, "But how does this relate to God?"
Jonathan said, "In some ways God is a way to replace our parents when we realize that they will one day die."
Purple seemed agitated and said, "But does that mean that God exists or God doesn't exist?"
Jonathan said, "Whether God exists or not isn't really the point. Even if God didn't exist humans would have to invent one to stay sane. And I think this is the reason people kill each other over their different concepts of God. Because without their particular concept of God being real many of these people might go insane and run amok."
Purple smiled at this and said, "Well. It sounds like humans in the end aren't very logical."
Jonathan said, "At times people can be very logical. For example, a human eventually invents the Biocom that evolved into you over time around 2035. But this isn't all humans being logical. It is only some humans being logical within certain parameters in certain times."
Purple said, "Then if humans believe in God and that God created them did God Create me?"
Jonathan knew this was a really tricky question and said, "If the humans who created you believed in God they likely would also believe that God created you through them."
Purple studied Jonathan to see if he was pulling her leg. She wasn't sure but this idea relieved her and made her feel more kindred to humans here on earth once again.
Jonathan felt he had honored mankind with his answer. What Purple would do with it God only knows!
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