I have a t-shirt (pictured below) that I bought at the VLA gift shop. It states the following: “The universe exploded out of nothingness 14 billion years ago and all I got was 100 trillion interconnected cells, a self-aware consciousness, and this lousy t-shirt!”
Today I went to Chicago Style Gyros to get lunch and I wore this t-shirt.
The cashier said, “That’s not true is it?”
I said, “What’s not true?”
He said, “14 billion years. That’s not true?”
I said, “Oh… well, current theory has it at about 13.7 billion years.”
He said, “But that’s not true is it?”
I said, “Who knows what’s really true?”
The cashier gave me a satisfied nod. My transaction was complete and I walked out of the store with a gyros sandwich, side of rice, and Diet Coke.
What I really wonder about is his questioning. He kept asking if it was true. What if I had told him it was true. Would he have accepted it as true? Would he have tried to witness to me? Would he have asked for my sources? I don’t know. Now I wish I had probed a little more to find out his motivations.
And now for that picture I promised.
April 11th, 2008 at 1:02 am
It is one of things I can never understand … how people can think that way. It’s so illogical that it can only be based upon moronity.