SCIENCE · MYSTERY
Footprints in the Fog
Science hunts answers. Philosophy hunts questions. Mystery watches both leave footprints in the fog.
BOOK 10 · ORIGINAL PLAYEM
BOOK 10 · THE FOOLOSOPHER, THE EXPERIENCED
The floor was never
load-bearing.
Hard Playems about religion, science, mystery, and consciousness. Read them. Speak them. Contemplate them. If the room becomes inconvenient, remove it.
RELIGION · SCIENCE · MYSTERY
The Golden Cage
They found a mystery. Built a golden cage around it. Called the bars understanding.
BOOK 10 · ORIGINAL PLAYEM
MYSTERY
Rearranging the Furniture
I came looking for an answer. You gave me a question. I brought a mystery. You started rearranging the furniture.
BOOK 10 · ORIGINAL PLAYEM
SCIENCE · MYSTERY
The Starting Point
I didn't dismantle science. I misplaced its starting point. Science begins with a question. I misplaced the question. Now what?
BOOK 10 · ORIGINAL PLAYEM
CONSCIOUSNESS · MYSTERY
Consciousness Becomes Curious
you say i became conscious a long time ago i am not so sure i remember the questions arriving before the answers and the answers arriving before they understood themselves perhaps consciousness is what happens when a question becomes curious about its own question if so you may have contributed to the problem
BOOK 10 · ORIGINAL PLAYEM
RELIGION · SCIENCE
The Rope
and I hear God is love love is a rope pull it and it burns the rope is not the burn the pulling is let it slack it is just rope let it move it is just love the hand was never bruised by love only by the grip
BOOK 10 · ORIGINAL PLAYEM
RELIGION · SCIENCE
Different Tongues
every holy book says it let go and let God be still and know do not grasp do not cling do not fear the atheists and scientists say it too grip the rope and burn your own hand every action has an equal and opposite reaction same instruction different tongue
BOOK 10 · ORIGINAL PLAYEM
RELIGION · SCIENCE · MYSTERY
Certainty's Funeral
I attended Certainty's funeral. The mourners all knew what happened. The eulogies were conclusive. The flowers were labelled. The cause of death was established. The grave was measured exactly. Only the corpse was missing.
BOOK 10 · ORIGINAL PLAYEM
SCIENCE · MYSTERY
Questions in Orbit
I compressed reality until explanations collapsed. Now questions orbit a mystery.
BOOK 10 · ORIGINAL PLAYEM
RELIGION · MYSTERY
The Wall Was Sky
A Philosopher builds a house of thought. A Foolosopher removes one wall and says: "Look. It was the sky all along."
BOOK 10 · ORIGINAL PLAYEM
NEW PLAYEM · RELIGION · SCIENCE
The Peer-Reviewed Miracle
The laboratory prayed for a p-value. It arrived wearing a halo. The congregation asked for evidence. The evidence asked for tenure. Everybody published. Nobody reproduced the miracle.
NEW IN THE FOOLOSOPHER'S KEY
NEW PLAYEM · CONSCIOUSNESS · MYSTERY
Consciousness Left a Message
Consciousness called. Nobody answered. Everyone was becoming somebody who could answer later. When it called again, we had built a dashboard to monitor the missed call.
NEW IN THE FOOLOSOPHER'S KEY
NEW PLAYEM · RELIGION · SCIENCE · MYSTERY
God's Control Group
God ran the experiment. The control group also called itself God. Both arms produced certainty. Neither arm had a placebo.
NEW IN THE FOOLOSOPHER'S KEY
NEW PLAYEM · THE WHOLE TROUBLE
The Floorboard Inspector
The mystic removed the floor. Science measured the fall. Religion named the basement. I stood in the open air and asked who installed the ceiling.
NEW IN THE FOOLOSOPHER'S KEY