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The So Called Time Traveler

Episode 2 Unlikely Superhero

 

By Arlon Staywell

 

Michael Cecil Lorenfrisch was known to most people simply as ""Mikey."  He was a small boy only five years old.  Some children also five years old were larger than Mikey.

Although so young, Mikey was allowed to operate an internet chat room.  Its purpose was just general news of the day as it might involve members of his chat board, or perhaps even the wider world.  Quite often it involved the political scene in the United States.

In its initial formulation it was mostly a gathering of friends and acquaintences and the name the "Village Gathering" seemed appropriate.  It was getting larger, but the name was still a good fit.

One of the topics on the board was when life begins.  A board member of the Village Gathering named Junie said that life begins at conception.  She used a quote from Jeremiah to support her opinion.  Jeremiah 1:5 says "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations."

Not everyone at the Village Gathering saw things the same way Junie did.  For them the verse did imply a soul was known "before" conception, but for them the verse is not clear how much before, or what exactly happens at conception, or when exactly the soul is implanted anywhere.  Most people by far on the board did agree with Junie though.  It was not necessarily because they believed in a soul.  Most of them were amateur scientists who did not believe in a soul of any kind to be implanted ever.  The "human" was just whatever mass of cells at whatever point.

Mikey decided that because he was only five years old it was not his problem when life began, or what exacty a "soul" is supposed to be.

Someone else at the Village Gathering said they heard about a camera that could take a picture of a "light," that must be the soul, entering the new product of conception.  Even at his very young age Mikey suspected something was not quite right about that story.  Again it was not his problem.