Ralph vs OZ

 

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Ralph

Somewhat irascible, but a gentleman of the forests and streams. A thinker. Some might say a sneaky conniver. A trickster even!

He is a manlike person with a wife and a family, one supposes. Though any wee ones have been kept off camera. Ramona, we know.

He was born of a natural process. He had a mother and a father made of flesh with minds like his.

His desires are normal ones. It may be that he has extranormal abilities. But we do not know this for sure.

I am sure that he feels love. I am sure that he is able to act for altruistic reasons.

In a sense, he is bone of our bone.



OZ

Well, let’s think about him. What do we know if it pleases us to imagine that he exists or will exist?

OZ is a construct. His genesis was an artificial biological egg activated by a soup of some vitalizing liquid. No love was made. No parents awaited his emergence. He was hatched from a jug.

He is made of flesh, yes. But he is more like a radio or electronic receiver of some kind. His mind, if such it is, is a matter of 1s and 0s. He is programmable.

Is he a demon or is he an angel. It must depend on who programmed him.

Can such a creature be a servant of God, disguised as All Being in the fable?

Can such a creature transcend his origins? Perhaps some day we will have to consider such things.


So, if you were forced to vote to keep one of the two on planet, which would you vote for?

I think I would rather live somewhere where someone like Ralph could also live.

I feel only pity for OZ, to extent that he knows he exists at all. Perhaps Ralph is a person while OZ is a creature.

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Please forgive your storyteller. I have not yet read the whole shebang. I need to do that before I extend the plot.