"So - what should I call you?"
"Let's keep it informal. I'm going to try to be frank with you. So why not call me Frank."
"Okay -- Frank. So - how come your creation's such a mess?"
"My creation? You mean the Universe? Or did you have something more parochial in mind?"
"I suppose I meant the world. This world mankind lives in. It's pretty screwed up in case you haven't noticed."
"Well, that's really not my fault. If you did like I asked you to do, things wouldn't be in such bad shape."
"Okay, okay I know, not everybody follows your commandments an' whatever but look, Frank, you can't just hand down some ancient laws an' expect sophisticated beings like humans to just obey them, for Chrissake...oh, sorry...I..."
"Forget about it. Go on."
"Well it's like I was saying, you must have known we'd outgrow that stuff. You're supposed to be omniscient after all. Omniscient and omnipotent. If you're so damn smart and powerful, why the hell didn't you just make us so we'd do the right thing all the time? It's like you deliberately sabotaged the whole thing, like you put a virus in your own computer program."
"I wanted to make you just like me -- in my own image as they say."
"Well hey, I can understand why you might want to do that but couldn't you have done a better job?"
"I thought I'd done pretty good."
"But we're screw-ups. We screw everything up, Frank! Why couldn't you make us so we'd just do what you said and get the masterplan done right?"
"I wanted you to have free will."
"Free will? Why! Why for...for Pete's sake! Isn't it obvious that that's the fucking problem here. What's the big fucking deal with free will, Frank?"
"I didn't want you to just obey me. Just doing what I told you wouldn't have meant anything."
"Why not? Not obeying you has been the source of all the problems, right? That's the goddamn virus, isn't it? How difficult could it have been to organize it. What the hell did you expect to happen, Frank?"
"I guess I expected you to love me. Pretty dumb, huh?"
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