Little Hawk's sterling exegesis deserves a counterpoint, which he has most egregiously omitted in his haste for brilliance. Viz., although he provides a brief but adequate dissertation on the ramifications of the inspiratioanl perception of the Carrot God, and its self-constraints by reason of deivine identification with other carrots, he completely fails to examine the path not taken -- that of the Greater God, Stick.

The God Stick seems to many to be a passive God, one who lies along the paths of men providing merely occasional coloration, or a camouflage model for certain bugs.

But that is just His way when he is benevolently inclined.

Do not doubt that when the Stick Sin quotient of this poor species rises to too high a level, we shall all feel the wrath of the Geat Stick. Just ask those who suffered through Katrina what the sticks of Louisiana did to windows, doors, eyeballs and stray animals throughout New Orleans.

There are many ramifications to this new inspirational doctrine. One teleological question is the end state of the GGS in his own self-created universe. Some argue it is to be incorporated into a higher and more magnificent construct, following the implication of the Testament lesson, "In my father's house are many sticks". Others feel that the True Path leads to Divine Compostation, the reunion of all sticks with more elementary particles such as leaf mulch.

Of course it could be argued that leaves themselves are merely Divine Stick Principle in a subtle form, and the same argument has been extended to analyses of the Ultimate Nature of bones, rocks, mountain ridges, thruways and other manifestations of Stick Will.

The question of the relationship between houses of worship dedicated to the pursuit of Divine Stickness and those houses of worship dedicated tothe contemplation of The Golden Globes (or as some have called it the Temple of the Divine Curve)has been likened by some scholars to the dialogue between Republicans and Democrats.

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