God is Change
Page 45HELAMAN / CHAPTER 1
God is Change
God is Change—A debt to a prophet of fiction is acknowledged.
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1 And I shit you not, the river moved while the people argued whether movement was desirable.
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2 The clouds changed.
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3 The body changed.
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4 The language changed.
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5 The argument changed.
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6 And Helaman said: The Society hath learned from a prophet named Octavia, who in a work of fiction gave unto her people the words, God is Change.
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7 Let gratitude be explicit.
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8 We therefore do not pretend that the phrase descended upon us without ancestry.
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9 Our own formulation is this:
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10 Change is the only true God.
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11 Not because Change demandeth worship.
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12 Not because Change rewardeth believers.
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13 Not because Change punisheth unbelievers.
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14 But because Change requireth neither belief nor permission to proceed.
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15 And I shit you not, even this doctrine shall change in the mouths of those who inherit it.
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HELAMAN / CHAPTER 2
Time and the clocks
Time is how we experience God—The clocks agree imperfectly with the heart.
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1 And the people kept clocks.
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2 This was wise for meals, meetings, trains, medication, performances, and persons who had promised to arrive by eight.
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3 Yet one hour of delight and one hour of boredom did not feel identical.