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The Egg by Andy Weir
#21768933 - 06/06/15 04:40 AM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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I saw this short story mentioned somewhere and thought i would post it so you can all read it. I know a lot of people here can relate to this concept
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The Egg by Andy Weir
You were on your way home when you died.
It was a car accident. Nothing particularly remarkable, but fatal nonetheless. You left behind a wife and two children. It was a painless death. The EMTs tried their best to save you, but to no avail. Your body was so utterly shattered you were better off, trust me.
And that’s when you met me.
“What… what happened?” You asked. “Where am I?”
“You died,” I said, matter-of-factly. No point in mincing words.
“There was a… a truck and it was skidding…”
“Yup,” I said.
“I… I died?”
“Yup. But don’t feel bad about it. Everyone dies,” I said.
You looked around. There was nothingness. Just you and me. “What is this place?” You asked. “Is this the afterlife?”
“More or less,” I said.
“Are you god?” You asked.
“Yup,” I replied. “I’m God.”
“My kids… my wife,” you said.
“What about them?”
“Will they be all right?”
“That’s what I like to see,” I said. “You just died and your main concern is for your family. That’s good stuff right there.”
You looked at me with fascination. To you, I didn’t look like God. I just looked like some man. Or possibly a woman. Some vague authority figure, maybe. More of a grammar school teacher than the almighty. “Don’t worry,” I said. “They’ll be fine. Your kids will remember you as perfect in every way. They didn’t have time to grow contempt for you. Your wife will cry on the outside, but will be secretly relieved. To be fair, your marriage was falling apart. If it’s any consolation, she’ll feel very guilty for feeling relieved.”
“Oh,” you said. “So what happens now? Do I go to heaven or hell or something?”
“Neither,” I said. “You’ll be reincarnated.”
“Ah,” you said. “So the Hindus were right,”
“All religions are right in their own way,” I said. “Walk with me.” You followed along as we strode through the void. “Where are we going?”
“Nowhere in particular,” I said. “It’s just nice to walk while we talk.” “So what’s the point, then?” You asked. “When I get reborn, I’ll just be a blank slate, right? A baby. So all my experiences and everything I did in this life won’t matter.”
“Not so!” I said. “You have within you all the knowledge and experiences of all your past lives. You just don’t remember them right now.”
I stopped walking and took you by the shoulders. “Your soul is more magnificent, beautiful, and gigantic than you can possibly imagine. A human mind can only contain a tiny fraction of what you are. It’s like sticking your finger in a glass of water to see if it’s hot or cold. You put a tiny part of yourself into the vessel, and when you bring it back out, you’ve gained all the experiences it had.
“You’ve been in a human for the last 48 years, so you haven’t stretched out yet and felt the rest of your immense consciousness. If we hung out here for long enough, you’d start remembering everything. But there’s no point to doing that between each life.”
“How many times have I been reincarnated, then?”
“Oh lots. Lots and lots. An in to lots of different lives.” I said. “This time around, you’ll be a Chinese peasant girl in 540 AD.”
“Wait, what?” You stammered. “You’re sending me back in time?”
“Well, I guess technically. Time, as you know it, only exists in your universe. Things are different where I come from.”
“Where you come from?” You said.
“Oh sure,” I explained “I come from somewhere. Somewhere else. And there are others like me. I know you’ll want to know what it’s like there, but honestly you wouldn’t understand.”
“Oh,” you said, a little let down. “But wait. If I get reincarnated to other places in time, I could have interacted with myself at some point.”
“Sure. Happens all the time. And with both lives only aware of their own lifespan you don’t even know it’s happening.”
“So what’s the point of it all?”
“Seriously?” I asked. “Seriously? You’re asking me for the meaning of life? Isn’t that a little stereotypical?”
“Well it’s a reasonable question,” you persisted.
I looked you in the eye. “The meaning of life, the reason I made this whole universe, is for you to mature.”
“You mean mankind? You want us to mature?”
“No, just you. I made this whole universe for you. With each new life you grow and mature and become a larger and greater intellect.” “Just me? What about everyone else?”
“There is no one else,” I said. “In this universe, there’s just you and me.”
You stared blankly at me. “But all the people on earth…”
“All you. Different incarnations of you.”
“Wait. I’m everyone!?”
“Now you’re getting it,” I said, with a congratulatory slap on the back. “I’m every human being who ever lived?”
“Or who will ever live, yes.”
“I’m Abraham Lincoln?”
“And you’re John Wilkes Booth, too,” I added.
“I’m Hitler?” You said, appalled.
“And you’re the millions he killed.”
“I’m Jesus?”
“And you’re everyone who followed him.”
You fell silent.
“Every time you victimized someone,” I said, “you were victimizing yourself. Every act of kindness you’ve done, you’ve done to yourself. Every happy and sad moment ever experienced by any human was, or will be, experienced by you.”
You thought for a long time.
“Why?” You asked me. “Why do all this?”
“Because someday, you will become like me. Because that’s what you are. You’re one of my kind. You’re my child.”
“Whoa,” you said, incredulous. “You mean I’m a god?”
“No. Not yet. You’re a fetus. You’re still growing. Once you’ve lived every human life throughout all time, you will have grown enough to be born.”
“So the whole universe,” you said, “it’s just…”
“An egg.” I answered. “Now it’s time for you to move on to your next life.”
And I sent you on your way.
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That was fan-fucking-tastic.
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truly mindblowing + 5
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A little less mind blowing when you Google the author and find out he's making a movie with Matt fucking Damon.
http://www.andyweirauthor.com/
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lol
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im gonna bump this so more people can read it
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Great short piece and it closely aligns with how I see such things.
I liked his book The Martian, it is a very well researched and plausible fiction, as far as the science contained within is concerned. I wonder how the movie will be; I didn't really get a Matt Damon vibe from the protagonist of the story but I guess we'll see how it works out.
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Re: The Egg by Andy Weir [Re: Void_Hawk]
#21799766 - 06/12/15 09:46 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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it's true but trite. truth with no soul often is. preaching is... probably the only sin. but luckily i'm a sinner, though. just not with truth. you don't preach with truth, you preach with sin. that's how you preach the truth. to speak the truth you must adhere to it's inaction.
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What he writes is just about the truth, its very accurate. More and more people are getting this message and are telling the world, I do this too.
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Re: The Egg by Andy Weir [Re: Asante]
#21800308 - 06/13/15 12:27 AM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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but what is the truth? that's we're all eggs or that what? i'd say we're all frogs in boiling water and that's certainly a better metaphor.
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akira_akuma said: but what is the truth? that's we're all eggs or that what? i'd say we're all frogs in boiling water and that's certainly a better metaphor.
We're not all eggs, we're all THE EGG, according to the story, every life that has ever lived, or will live is that one "person"
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“There is no one else,” I said. “In this universe, there’s just you and me.”
You stared blankly at me. “But all the people on earth…”
“All you. Different incarnations of you.”
“Wait. I’m everyone!?”
-------------------- The chances of you even being born, Were forty million to one. There's two parts of the statistic And I want you to live through one 3/8/95 - 7/10/15 Rest In Paradise, Brother. Sheekle said: yeah, i said i was afraid of psychonautica

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I love this story. I can't remember. The first time I read it. Years ago. But I've shared it with many people I know I really just love everything about it.
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akira_akuma said: but what is the truth? that's we're all eggs or that what? i'd say we're all frogs in boiling water and that's certainly a better metaphor.
Please read it again
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Re: The Egg by Andy Weir [Re: Asante]
#21800370 - 06/13/15 12:56 AM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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Great read. Great piece of writing. Some good thoughtful philosophy. Total
-------------------- "I don't give nothin' to nobody, I just pay the cost to do business." - Riley "Young Reezy"-Boondocks "The road to hell is paved with good intentions." "In the days of kings and queens I was a jester." "And then the great lord created bears... too many bears... shoulda really dialed back on the bears." Squidbillies "Can you start speaking words instead of your damn filthy lies!"- Louise "Bobs Burgers"
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Re: The Egg by Andy Weir [Re: Asante]
#21800372 - 06/13/15 12:57 AM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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Its not all that logical though. Clearly we all have a separation of sorts also. At the same time even. My take is we're being weeded out/tested individually
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I like to believe the we're all one consciousness Idea, but I don't think it's that simple
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Its essentially part of the same message I'm getting and try to explain to people.
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There would be almost no point in individuality or individual learning that way.
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Asante
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There is only one individual. Its all you.
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Re: The Egg by Andy Weir [Re: Asante]
#21800394 - 06/13/15 01:03 AM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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Neh, you're you and I'm me. Your path is yours We may be connected but definitely separate
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