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Again, the Absurdity.

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can you buy Gabapentin over the counter Another display of the universe’s fearsome absurdity came on October 9th, 1992, when a meteor streaked across the entire eastern United States, breaking up over Kentucky and being filmed in Pittsburgh and elsewhere while streaking to its destiny of knocking out a taillight on a parked 1980 Chevy Malibu in a driveway in Peekskill, New York.

The Peekskill Meteorite car remains the only car known to have had a taillight knocked out by a meteorite.  As such it has toured around the world and celebratory events can be expected this October, twenty years after the original event.

It does seem that Jesus might have had reasons for fucking with this man's car.

Jesus may or may not have had reasons for fucking with this man's car, but at least it's funny that he did.

When I hear stories like this, it becomes obvious that the only theological answers possible are 1) denial of all meaning and theology 2) an absurdist, comic theology.  Out of all the good uses of the smiting powers of Providence, sending a giant fireball across half a continent to rendezvous with a parked Chevy Malibu in – of all the cities of the Northeast – Peekskill (or the story of a meteorite smacking a fat woman asleep on a couch at a quarter to three in the afternoon in 1950s Alabama) must be the work either of a stupid Nothing or a Comic Genius.  The story does actually improve when you imagine Someone taking specific aim at that Chevy.

I can’t imagine what more important thing I had to do in October of 1992 that made me completely miss this story.  I think I was at a debate tournament in Monticello, not that far from Peekskill.  Why we didn’t cover this in theology class the next Tuesday I can’t imagine.

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