RUMBLINGS ______________     As usual, I was thinking, between a sleep and the next one (I hoped). During this impasse betwixt, I heard my stomach rumbling and it seemed to tell me something. It did. It led me to this little essay.     Now I'm not a believer in a god that is external to me (such a god would be a controller and I'm very much against controllers and those purporting to be any sort of 'authority').     It's possible that there may be a god inside me but that is pure conjecture, (never any sort of 'fact' since it is unverifiable). I do not know and may never know. Frankly, I don't want to know.     However, it was the 'voices' that assailed me, both aurally and inside me that are my subject.     I do not eat very much; eating is a necessity for Life, not a 'god' to be blessed (i.e. eat to live; not live to eat). This sparcity of eating (or a vegetarian diet, with which I am in no way enamoured), causes greater peristalsis than eating a diet full of 'sturdy' food  (AS MUCH IN A DAY AS IS POSSIBLE). This is not a dieticians' way of putting things but what's a dietican anyway?     Peristalsis, is the natural mode of the intestines. The intestines digest the food we eat. They work with special muscles to move the food around the gut, thereby extracting the nutrients, putting on the fat (if we eat the wrong diet) and later act to remove the garbage from the system. During this process, they makes sounds that are audible to us in quiet moments. They also enables us to fart, thus removing unwanted gas from the system. (I will not be led to the conclusion that since politicians use their arses for a brain that a fart is their rhetoric, that's your conclusion.) This is a serious essay.     However, during the process of peristalsis, sounds are made, which, in quiet moments, may reveal themselves as words or sayings.     This is the notion of this essay.     I'm sure that last night my name was called. Was this a word from God? or was this a word from my bowels? I don't know. I'm sure that I heard other messages, as well. All seemed relevant to my particular situation.     Giving further thought to this (as is my want), I went on to extrapolate this:     Now, understanding that the diet of 'Saints' (or anyone else purporting to receive messages from 'God') was probably not the best and given that they may have not understood the notion of peristalsis (nor perhaps 'listened' to their bowels), may they not have been given messages by said bowels that might have contributed to their thinking that this was the voice voice of God?     Hmm, it leaves me wondering...

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