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“Once upon a time…” It isn’t at all unusual for a writer, meaning those compelled to write, to begin a story without knowing how it will end. The way the world is going brought this to mind, especially since the history of our species seems to be more of a Rube Goldberg approach than anything well planned, let alone anything approaching the principle of parsimony. As a professional writer I have experienced the 1,200 pages of manuscript I have written that eventually turns into a 500 page book. In some cases this is somewhat like a Rube Goldberg machine, but one in which all that proved unnecessary, did not fit the purpose or was found to be superfluous to eventually be winnowed out. But I have also experienced beginning a story that seems to take on a life of its own, and one that compels me to continue writing just to see how the story will end. And I ask myself whether God may have done the same thing? There are many my age that recognize the destructive...

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