dingbat origami

If you've ever posted on Facebook or commented on blogs, you know the drill: for your post to go through, two strange words appear. Something like:

dingbat origami

You have to type them correctly as spelled or your Very Important Point (or Picture) won't be posted.

"Okay," you say, "I can do this." But it's not a slam dunk. Besides being strangely juxtaposed, both dingbat and origami are also strangely crinkled and warped so you can hardly read them.

If there is ever roadkill for words, they would look like these...

What is this all about?

Is it some kind of security check, just to make sure it is YOU posting, and not some other dingbat?

One thing is for sure: there must be some kind of random word generator in there, working overtime to spew out strange combos like:

halter breeze

simplicious gnarled

(Never: good grief).

Now, here is a question: What if we all got busy and started posting just to generate more of these random words? When do you think we'd get a series of words that make up a simple sentence? A sentence like:

Frankly I'd

rather be

in Philadelphia (?)

It might take a coupla days of trying, no? And how long do we have to try before our random word generator churned out ... presto!:

Shakespeare's Hamlet? -- the whole play, complete and unabridged.

You may have to pack a lunch; maybe several lunches. Many many lunches, my friend, before that will ever happen.

So how much longer for Shakespeare's complete works to appear by random shuffling?

How about the books of all the libraries of the world? How long?

And how about this cosmos: its orderliness and beauty ... its intricate organicism ... all the moving parts not only working, but reproducing each other so that each day is new every morning? How long would that take? How long would it take our random word generator to crank out the words:

Let there be light...

And there was light?

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John 21.25 Jesus did many other things as well. If every one of them were written down, I suppose that even the whole world would not have room for the books that would be written.

Job 38.32-35 Can you bring forth the constellations in their seasons or lead out the Bear with its cubs? Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you set up God's dominion over the earth? Can you raise your voice to the clouds and cover yourself with a flood of water? Do you send the lightning bolts on their way? Do they report to you, 'Here we are'?

Psalm 139.14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.

Genesis 1.3 And God said, " Let there be light," and there was light.