An Extragalactic Colloquy {Original Sketch & Colloquy!}

Do you see them?
Yes.
What are they doing?
Some are running, some creeping; some laughing, some weeping; some living, some sleeping; all are exhausting their lives.
How many are there?
The line starts at the beginning of Time and goes on to the End.
Where are they going?
Nowhere.
Now what are they doing?
They're running, and creeping, and laughing, and weeping, and living, and sleeping, and all are dying.
That I can see...but... what else are they doing?
They're raising their hands and yelling.
What?
They're raising their hands and yelling.
Why?
They have to.
What do you mean?
They must manifest their belief.
Belief? In what?
What they seek.
What do they seek?

Truth.
Truth?
The truth they desire.
Oh.
The truth they think most fitting.
Oh.
The truth they invent.
Oh... and they believe it?
Yes.
Why?
It is their nature.
Oh... but... why do they raise their hands and yell?
They are praying.
Praying?
Yes.
What's that?
A means of manifesting belief.
Oh. How?
Communication with their god.
Their what?
God.
What is god?
God is what we commonly refer to as the Primal Essential Universal Energy and Chemical Affinity Quintessence.
What? Do they actually communicate with P.E.U.E.C.A.Q.?
Of course not. They only think they do.
Why do they think they do?
They want to.
Why do they want to?
They want to be important. They want to think of themselves as important entities.
Important? How?
In the eyes of god.

NO? REALLY?
Yes.
Oh come now... no being can be so utterly lacking of reason as to profess a direct relationship between itself and P.E.U.E.C.A.Q.
THEY do.
Incredible! And you say they raise their hands and yell in order to communicate with this god?
Yes.
Fantastic! There is absolutely no reason, no logic, no apparent thought, in their actions.
True.
Then why--?
I really don't know.
And they--
Haven't the faintest idea.

for Dad