Last
night there was a substantial earthquake (5.4
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-02/16/content_2584403.htm)
with the epicenter in Tokyo
at 4am in the morning.
I
don't know whether the houses are constructed this way on purpose, but with
every earthquake so dar the doors in our apartment start rattling before the
'moving' part of the earthquake begins, so that you have a bit of warning. The shaking was quite violent this time, so R
and I got up out of bed headed for the doorway to the bathroom, and it
continued to shake while we were standing there for some time.
Just
when we went to check on the kids, Pascale came speeding towards us, quite
upset. Saskia had only barely woken up
and was upset at Pascale for trying to shake her awake.
Lukas
slept through the whole thing, but I crawled into bed with him anyway, knowing
my place in bed had been taken by Pascale.
(R could feel her heart pounding away as she held her). As I lay down and Lukas made room he said:
'You can come into my bed any time Pappa' which was so sweet I wanted to hug
him, but he had already fallen back asleep.
Perhaps
the earthquake was connected to the conversation R and Lukas had the night
before?? R was in the middle of reading a book about Noah's arc with Lukas when
he suddenly exclaimed: ' Who made God anyway.'
Neither R or I had an answer to that.
I was pondering the quite logical causal reasoning that I presumed to be
behind the question: If God created the Universe, who created God? I remember formulating this kind of infinite
regress of questions of 'what was before' when I was young (typically ending
with me crawling into my parents bed being very frightened, horrifed at my own
insignificance). But Lukas seemed to
have been thinking something quite different.
He reformulated his initial question: Who made up God?' R started saying that sometimes people feel
frightened and perhaps when they did they may think there is a God. But Lukas was not paying attention. He said, 'They made up God and then say he
made people, but that's not true, monkeys made people!'
  
2:06:20 PM 
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