Double Double—Six Sentence Story

Brian opened his eyes to the realization that reality wasn’t rational. True premises prophesying his doom like a curse of double double toil and trouble ran into the miraculous which flooded him with undeserved blessings that falsified the dreadful, but supposedly necessary, conclusions.

Although fond of a rational-enough universe that he could manipulate, what bothered Brian was that he didn’t know Whom to thank for the unexpected change of outcome. Who kept evil from winning when it held all the tarot cards in its hand as Brian failed to find solid ground in karma’s quicksand?

The problem may simply have been that Brian hadn’t completely awaken from his dreams which undermined a rational reality. But the miracle did occur and the prophesies over his life were voided and that left Brian overwhelmed with rejoicing.

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Denise offers the prompt word “double” for this week’s Six Sentence Stories.

A tangled web of rationality
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Author: Frank Hubeny

I enjoy walking, poetry and short prose as well as taking pictures with my phone.

22 thoughts on “Double Double—Six Sentence Story”

  2. When we are taught “rational thought” we tend to focus on deduction. What can you see? How do you analyze what you see? What can you conclude? What if we cant see all we need to come to a conclusion? What if the conclusion isn’t what we’re looking for. What if we need to also involve inductive reasoning as well? Induction makes things more difficult, because it’s like guessing where the next tree branch is going to emerge. That’s why many inductive projections are measured in ranges: ie. 20% chance of rain, we will run out of rain forest in 50-599 years, Climate change will sink San Francisco within the next 30 years. (Oh, but the deduction on Climate change is that humans caused it all. Og started using fire and the climate’s been going haywire ever since! Stupid Og.) The universe has laws put in place by the creator, but we don’t know all the laws. We have to deduce them and then induce what those laws mean on a grander scale. We don’t have the mental capacity to do that with any degree of accuracy. Further, we are time-bound creatures and God is not. He sees all time in a single glance, past, present, and future. Only a creature that is outside of time can see the relationships and the laws in play. We can see past and present at once (look into a telescope or close your eyes and remember that vacation…) but we cannot see the future except inductively.

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    1. Good points, Rebecca! I imagine Brian was thinking along the same lines until the miracle occurred. I think a logical system could be constructed to take miracles into account. However, to make the logical problems of deduction and induction simpler, many just reject the miraculous at the risk of missing a good part of reality. Blessings to you!

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  5. Thankfully, Brian “saw the light”. There simply are aspects of reality and the world that cannot be explained rationally thereby requiring a suspension of the rational or, in other words, the world as we know it.

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  6. …again with the synchronicity! In this case, I tried to anchor one of my early draft Sixes on the ‘Double, Double’ line from Hamlet… but could not find the story to put it under.

    You, on the other hand, have:

    “The problem may simply have been that Brian hadn’t completely awaken from his dreams...”

    excellent line/window into his mind

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    1. The first thing I think of when I hear the word “double” is that line from those witches in Hamlet. I don’t know if I ever read Hamlet, but I do know just that one line. Thank you, Clark!

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  7. Good one, Frank!
    I had also thought about ‘double, double, toil and trouble‘ with the caldron and stuff, but I did something else in the end. By the way, it was Macbeth, rather than Hamlet.

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    1. I must have read those plays (in high school at least), but I can’t remember them. For some reason that line is memorable. Good correction that it comes from Macbeth rather than Hamlet. Thank you, Chris!

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