Brian Henson Speaks No-Nonsense

Below is a post by Autie Brian Henson of my Autismlist at yahoogroups to my wonderful helper Judith Lecuyer (Tink). I post it here because my boys (autie's) in "QIM Tunes" would want me to. The original post was titled "If Only I Had Known":

Tink wrote:

"Now if all is predestined, and we just come down to
walk some pre-determined fate - then what sense
would it make?"

Brain Henson replies:

When you asked, "What sense would it make?"
I thought to myself, "Now, come to think of it, all sense,
is, indeed, nonsense, as nothing "makes" sense... there
is no manufacturing facility, even the mind, that can "make"
sense out of pure "nonsense"... Therefore, nothing, at all
(even "nothing") makes sense.

Are we trying our damndest to fool ourselves into the idea
that something, whatever it might be, "makes sense"? Are
we so gullible as to believe that even a statement that someone
else wrote, be it a person from a few thousand years ago,
or another person on this list, makes any "sense", at all?
Where, in creation, did we get that idea from? From God?

As some fundamentalists claim, "ONLY God can create--no
one outside of God can create anything--He alone is the divine
creator of everything!" To which I ask (to myself)--did God create
"evil"? Did God create "beauty"? Did God create "baseball"? Did
God create Rhett's Syndrome?... The questions will never end....

Others, though, add a clarification, and that is that God creates
but man recreates (not "re-creates", ...as the preposition, without
the hyphen in English means "again", as in the word "redo"--not
"re-do", or in the word "represent"--not "re-present"). Therefore
all of our recreation is when we recreate what God has already
created, and if physics was Einstein's recreation, so be it. There
is nothing limiting recreation to "sports and leisure"... away from
"work" and "household chores", at all. If a person finds recreation
in mowing the lawn or cleaning the floor, so be it. If a guard at a
penetenary finds recreation in his work, so be it, and even if a
soldier in Iraq finds recreation in pointing arms at insurgents, that
is his or her choice.

Perhaps many persons on the autistic spectrum find recreation
in challenging all pre-cultural assumptions or axioms that abound
in their culture--wherever they live. For others to deny them this
form of recreation would be the same as denying all baseball fans
the "right" to watch a baseball game ever again, or for a devote
Catholic the "right" to worship in mass, or for an atheist the "right"
to challenge the words "In God We Trust" on U.S. coins.

There is still the enigma, though, of those who find recreation in
"evil" itself... Again, to repeat the question, did God create "evil"?

...And, who, if I could ask, "created" FC? That person must, himself,
or herself, be "God"... even if Tom finds loads of recreation in FC.