Thoughts and Prayers

[dukealien]

Thoughts and Prayers

To whose God should we pray

when there is no answer-

yours or mine?

This puts me, oddly, in mind of a very old video game - one of the first computer D&D incarnations.  In a hopeless situation, with all equipment useless, confronted by a powerful monster and being a tech rather than magic user, you could hit the key for "cast spell" anyway.  And the game would reply, "prayer fails."  I wonder if, in, say, one time out of 32,767, prayer would be answered.

Ahem.  The implication here (in the poem) is that something else - maybe everything else - has been tried without answer.  Nothing from AIs, Google, texts, or even scientific inquiry.  The answer hinges on whether either or both of our gods is of the jealous persuasion:  if we were Romans or some other sort of syncretists, we could simply apply to both - Zeus and Odin, Hercules and Mithras.  Jealous gods, though, are likely to thunderbolt one for disloyalty... so we can each pray to our own, but should stand well away from each other.