Scilly Automatic - Ott

It took animals apart

It took flowers apart

It took rocks apart

And then, when they got it reduced

To its tiniest pieces

They tried to find methods of taking those apart too

So that we could eventually discover

What the very smallest small things were

And hoping that that would lead us To an understanding of how life works.

Man, himself, in all this was looked upon,

As a creation, something made.

Only, if you believe in the world

In accordance with the idea of the Fully Automatic Model

You’ve really got to admit that man, too,

Is fully automatic.

In other words, hes a machine rather than a person.

How do you do?

I’m a person, I am alive,

I’m sensible, I talk, I have feelings.

But you wonder

Do you really, or are you just an automaton?

Looking out at a world that is strange

And that is not me.

I am, therefore, a brief interval of consciousness

Between the darkness and the darkness.

And that isn’t too happy.

I would like to be able to believe

That it was more than that.

If I could so, many of us say,

If I could only still believe that there is an Intelligent and eternal god in whose eyes I am important

And who has the power to enable me to live forever,

That would be very nice.

But, for many people,

That’s an extraordinarily difficult thing to believe.