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The Reader and the Black Hole

Dec 12th, 2022 (edited)
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  1. On stumbling upon this document, the Reader's universe had their world suddenly swept through by a wandering black hole.
  2. Dimensions of reality s l i p p e d away.
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  4. All that was left was the Reader, in a room with a chair and table, an empty journal and pen, and two of the Holy Books of the world they once knew; the Qur'an, and the Bible.
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  6. "Did an All-Perfect God exist in this Universe?" wasn't a question the Reader could leave unanswered.
  7. They knew there was time that they could pass, and a journal that they could fill.
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  9. They answered the question and filled the journal. Satisfied, they closed it, and stared towards those Holy Books once more.
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  11. Again, black hole wandered through.
  12. The room was stuck. Stuck, for so long, the Reader seemed to forget everything they put in that journal. Every reason they knew to fill it with, slipped from their mind. Every opinion they held before was gone.
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  14. The black hole must have left. The Reader still had their instincts, and peered around the room. The table and journal were there, and the room still, too, but there was a shift. The essential modern library of the scholastic history of these Holy Books appeared on shelves in the room; with books on logic and philosophy, too.
  15. On the table, locked-balance-scales; beside them, several journals.
  16. Was one of them from the Reader before? They wouldn't have recognized it if it was.
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  18. "There's still time to read."
  19. An opportunity the Reader did not let pass!
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  21. But what was with the locked-balance-scales? It had on one scale, the Bible; on the other scale, the Qur'an.
  22. On its body was a journal-sized slot, the locking mechanism: big enough for the one journal differently sized than the rest.
  23. A note on it read:
  24. "That new journal is empty. Fill it with one of the others, or as another that you choose.
  25. That will weigh the truth of the scales—if the journal is true."
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  29. How did the Reader fill the journal?
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