What a surreal trip to the kitchen.

Since my overhearment* the other day in town, I was pondering creation and various beliefs thereabout. We have a tame Jehovah’s Witness at work, so I thought I’d ask him about his thoughts on the matter.

His opinion was that the world was created, but creationism is probably too literal. That is to say that the world wasn’t literally created in 6 days, and that the word “day” really means “era” like “in my grandfather’s day”.

Another colleague came in while we were having this discussion and brought up the subject of non-celebration of Christmas, and rapidly moved on to the apocalypse. The general idea here is that there will be a judgement of individuals, not necessarily a huge apocalypse which wipes everone out in one go. (The colleague had been suggesting that if there was a sign of apocalypse, we should all rush to stand next to the JW, so we’d be safe).

So in the space it took the kettle to boil and to make a cup of tea, I was enlightened from creation to apocalypse. Not bad going.

* I insist that ‘overhearment’ is a real word despite the spell-checker trying to change it to ‘overgarment’ which is clearly incorrect