| Atom: So, we waiting for what?
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| God: Excuse me?
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| Atom: So you sittin here telling me, this place is a waiting room, right?
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| What are we waiting for?
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| God: Rebirth
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| Atom: Rebirth? |
| Like reincarnation?
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| God: If that’s what you wanna call it
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| Atom: What the fuck you mean, «If that’s what I wanna call it?» |
| Either this is
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| what it is, or this is what it ain’t
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| God: Sure
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| Atom: Chu mean? |
| Ugh, this mothafucka
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| Atom: A’ight, lemme get this straight: every time I die, I come here, we talk,
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| and you send me back to earth to be reborn?
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| God: You know the last time we had this conversation it was in mandarin and you
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| were 13
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| Atom: Mandarin?
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| God: And a girl
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| Atom: What? |
| Nah, bruh, you fuckin' wit' me. |
| Like, Jesus Christ
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| God: He was here too
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| Atom: What? |
| Wait, wait, so the Christians got it right?
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| God: Well I’m about to reincarnate you, Atom. |
| I’d say everyone kinda got it
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| right
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| Atom: This is a whole lot to take in
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| God: I know. |
| Trust me, I’ve been there
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| Atom: So, how many times have I been reincarnated?
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| God: Many, many, many, many, many times
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| Atom: If it’s so many times, why don’t I remember?
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| God: If we stayed here long enough, the lives you have lived, and the knowledge
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| from each of them would return
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| Atom: What?
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| God: I’m actually about to send you back to 1736 as Bryan Fairfax,
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| the 8th lord Fairfax of Cameron
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| Atom: Word, ayy, that sounds important
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| God: Oh, yes. |
| You own 40,000 acres
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| Atom: Goddamn! |
| Oh, I’m sorry
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| God: Ha, it’s quite alright
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| Atom: Well, at least I’m not poor no more
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| God: Well, sure. |
| With all that land and the hundreds of slaves you’ll own
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| Atom: Slaves?! |
| Aw, hell nah! |
| No, no, no, no, look, look, look: how you gonna
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| take a black man, send him back in time, and now I gotta own slaves?
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| God: Well, if it’s any consolation, your son Tom, the 9th Lord Fairfax of
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| Cameron, sets them free
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| Atom: No! |
| That does not make me feel better at all. |
| Wait, hold up,
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| I just realized you said you’re gonna send me back in time?
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| God: Well, I’m not really sending you back in time. |
| That doesn’t exist where I
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| come from, only in your universe
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| Atom: Well, where are you from?
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| God: Honestly, Atom, even if I explained where I came from, or told you about
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| the others like me, you just wouldn’t understand
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| Atom: But if there’s others like you, how can you be god?
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| God: Atom, I said you wouldn’t understand
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| Atom: So what’s the point of doing all this?
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| God: Really?
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| Atom: What?
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| God: A little cliche, don’t you think? |
| Essentially asking me the meaning of life
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| Atom: Well, I figured I would ask before you send me back and I can’t remember
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| none of this
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| God: Atom, come here. |
| The meaning of life, the reason I created this place,
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| is so that you can grow and mature
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| Atom: Like the human race? |
| Like this is how the human race is supposed to grow
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| and mature? |
| Mature into what? |
| We can’t even get along
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| God: No, Atom, you! |
| It’s for you, you to mature
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| Atom: I don’t understand
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| God: I created this place for you, Atom. |
| This entire place was made for you.
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| Every time I send you back, every life you live, you grow and mature and
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| understand the grand meaning behind all of this just a little more each time
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| Atom: Just me? |
| Wait, what about everybody else?
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| God: Atom, there is no one else
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| Atom: I don’t understand
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| God: Atom, you are every human being who has ever existed since the dawn of
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| your kind on earth
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| Atom: Wait, I’m everyone?!
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| God: Ah yes, now you are beginning to see it
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| Atom: So I’m like, everyone that ever existed on Earth, ever?
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| God: Earth? |
| Ha, that’s cute. |
| Earth was just your birthplace. |
| Let us not forget
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| all the stars humanity will colonize over the millennia
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| Atom: Wait, that is so much. |
| Too much to take in. I’m every human being that
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| ever lived?
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| God: Or ever will live, yes
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| Atom: I’m Jesus?
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| God: And all of his disciples
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| Atom: I’m Hitler?
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| God: And the millions he murdered
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| Atom: That’s deep
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| God: You see Atom, every act of hatred and violence you committed against
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| another, you were committing against yourself and every act of love and hand of
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| kindness, you also extended unto yourself
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| Atom: God, why do all this?
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| God: Someday, long from now, you will become like me. |
| You will mature to become
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| what I am
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| Atom: I’m a god?
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| God: No, not yet. |
| You see, I was once where you stand right now.
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| It is not until you have lived every human life inside of your universe that I
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| may take you from this place. |
| Once you have walked in the shoes of every race,
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| religion, gender, sexual orientation, loving and hateful person,
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| it is only then that you will understand how precious life truly is |