"Something and Nothing"

It is amusing to me to hear scientists and physicists talk about "before the Big Bang." Newsflash, guys and gals! There was no "before" the Big Bang because time did not exist "before" the Big Bang. Everything that exists (with the exception of our immutable Creator) is in motion, and time is a function of speed and distance.

"Before" the Big Bang there is only "The One." and the absence of "The One"—or, if you will indulge me, the "Not One." The reason that I used "is only ​​The One​," instead of​  "was only The One​," is from the Bible. In John 8.58 Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham ​came to be, I am.” ​In Exodus 3.14 ​"God said to Moses,​ I AM WHO I AM.” For simplicity, let's call them The One and the absence of The One, "1" and "​0." We can't call the absence of "The One" nothing, because "​nothing" is ​"something​"; hence, there was no chaos to draw anything else from.

When (speaking from our time frame) "The One" created the universe, "The Nothing" was born, and so the Universe was created from a combination of Something and Nothing. Again, let's call them "1" and "0." Everything is made up from a combination of somethings and nothings: the binary code.

We are introduced to it the minute that we are conceived in our mother's womb, and the "Something and Nothing" is infused with the "Élan Vital" (ref. Henri Bergson), which is the Holy Spirit of God (the impulse behind evolution). While we were gestating in the womb, we were lulled by the Spirit of God through the beat of our mother's heart: something...nothing, something...nothing, something...nothing.

Anyway, after about twenty years of searching for God and the nature of time and space, this is where I am, and you are welcome to it. I did not come to this state of belief alone. I followed an ancient trail worn smooth by the steps of other sojourners. All I can say to you​ my fellow seekers is "Bon Voyage" and "Godspeed" in your own search for wisdom​, understanding​, and salvation.

(Bob Mrotek 2025) 

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Nine Meals Away

 "The average American is nine meals away from acts of desperation."

This saying is usually credited to Alfred Henry Lewis (1855–1914), a U.S. journalist, novelist, and political Commentator. One early version appears in his 1896 writing in the New York Journal, in which he wrote: “the only barrier between us and anarchy is the last nine meals we’ve had.”

The meaning of this metaphor (or aphorism) is that if people go without food for some number of meals, their desperation might push them toward crime, unrest, or breakdown of social order.

The generalization “nine meals from anarchy” is not a precise scientific law. It is a vivid rhetorical device emphasizing how fundamental food is to maintaining social order.

Of course the desperately hungry people have several options:

1,) They can just take up the slack in their belts and "tough it out," until the good times roll.

2.) They can pray for the marvelous Manna from Heaven that God delivered to the followers of Moses in the desert, according to the Bible.

3.) They can "liberate" food from the hands of their neighbors by force if need be.

4.) They can turn to cannibalism as prudent and necessary.

5.) They can put themselves under bondage or slavery by kissing the butt of some dictator for food.

(Bob Mrotek 2025)

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