# The Little Guy #fiction #fav

The Tiny Gospel
Cosmic Truths from The Little Guy

1. Introduction 2. Spatiometaphorical Illusions and Achieving Fractal Awareness 3. Megamicrography, or The Holy Science 4. Together-Apartness and the Physics of Empathy 5. The Friendly Wave 5b. The Nanoinformatics of The Waves 6. Does Size Matter? Ritual Sexual Practice and the Multililliputiaphilia Heresy 7. Polylilliputianism, Lilliputheism, and Fractility 8. Omnipotence With Tiny Arms: A Distributed Deity 9. The Unfathomably Smallness of Reality 10. Death and The Wave Goodbye ## Introduction Since the discovery of The Little Guy, scientists, academics, religious leaders and laymen alike have speculated about His significance. Obviously, His mere existence has radical implications for our physics, metaphysics, and understanding of our place in the universe. But what exactly those implications are has never been agreed upon. After the public's initial reaction of jeering disbelief, the most common response to knowledge of The Little Guy has been confusion. Most human beings have spent our whole lives thinking of God as a gigantic force of untold power; the very language we speak reflects the notion that bigger is better, bigger is stronger, bigger is "on top" (note here another spatial metaphor) and more important. Perhaps this stems partly from our understanding of sets: if a set contains a thing, we think the set is "bigger" than that thing, even if the set consists of only that thing. A bag must be bigger than the things it has in it, after all; the set of all sets must be the master set. In any case, our cognition is guided by spatial metaphors which are incompatible with The Little Guy; it's little wonder we have had so much trouble coming to grips with Him! All that is about to change, thanks to Rev. S. Rev. S. — previously Dr. S. — was a practicing nanobiologist at the top of her field when the megamicrograph was first developed and The Little Guy was found. She was among the first outside the megamicrography working group to see Him with her own eyes, and is now the first to offer a coherent framework for Little spiritual practice. In these pages, she relates her own transcendent experiences communing with The Little Guy and shares the conclusions she's come to as a result. It has been my privilege to see the development of this text over the course of many months, and it is my honor to be the voice who introduces it to you. — Dr. Wayne R. Grooby ## Spatiometaphorical Illusions and Achieving Fractal Awareness ### Part A: Practicum 'Fractal awareness' is what Little scholars have come to call the recognition that our reality is self-similar at any scale. For years, a means to convey the full truth of this revelation was unavailable to us, and my recommended spritual practice was to meditate on a Mandelbrot set screensaver. However, recent advances in megamicrography have revolutionized the teaching of fractal awareness, essentially by just increasing the magnification. Now, even a child can achieve full fractal awareness in a matter of minutes. This awareness is vital for any Lilliputheist to advance to a deeper understanding of and integration with the unfathomably smallness of reality, so it makes an ideal starting point for anyone new to the study. First, you need access to a third-generation or better megamicrograph (ie, one capable of at least 23 fractal units of magnification) — you can find this at any up-to-date Little Shrine, university theology department, or nanophysics lab. Start by finding The Little Guy. To do this, point your megamicrograph at anything and increase the zoom to 5 FU. Now, through the optical display, you should see a simply dressed, simple-looking man looking back at you with a faint smile. If this is your first time seeing The Little Guy, you might be a little bit shocked and overwhelmed at what you're seeing. The researchers who discovered Him certainly were! Now, depending on how long you spent reading this paragraph, you should see The Little Guy wave at you. He typically gives The Friendly Wave within 2 ⅓ minutes of a sighting. Take note of whether he used his left hand or his right hand. Now, you need to be patient. Keep looking at The Little Guy, and at some point He will stop smiling at you and take a seat. Very rarely, He will lounge or even squat. In any case, wait until He seems relaxed, then increase the magnification to 5.5 FU and focus on the thumbnail of the hand He waved with. This is called The Tiniest Thumbnail, and it is one of the most revered parts of The Little Guy's body. You'll see why in a moment. Now, with The Tiniest Thumbnail in the center of the viewer, increase your magnification to 23 FU. Readers with epilepsy are advised to look away. There will follow, depending on your megamicrograph, about 30 seconds of beautiful aurora-like lights flashing rapidly through your viewer. Don't worry! This is entirely normal zoom-related artifacting called cosmophotopsia and can be safely ignored. Once your graph reads at 23 FU, look back through the viewer. Notice anything odd? Nope, that's not the back of The Little Guy's head you're seeing. Try raising your hand as if you were giving a Friendly Wave of your own. Okay, now you are hopefully putting things together. The person you're looking at is you! By increasing the zoom to 23 fractal units, you have traversed past The Little Guy and all the intervening scales of reality back to your own scale — our reality. You might now be shaking, hyperventilating, or even having a panic attack. These are very common reactions to this demonstration, but in the long run you will be glad to have seen it. Take a few weeks off for self-care before you come back and continue reading. ### Part B: Theoretical Grounding Now that you’ve achieved fractal awareness, let’s explore the implications of fractility. Foremost is the issue of scale: it turns out, scale is an illusion. Consider that The Little Guy is “smaller” than we are, and yet He is also “bigger”, since He is 18 FU “above” us. We are both “smaller” and “bigger” than ourselves. In fact, if we were able to magnify to 28 FU, we would again see The Little Guy smiling faintly back. What this means is that nothing is really any bigger than anything else; the entirety of reality is one single size. Everything in the universe is the same size as the universe. This is our central theological insight. Understanding this fundamental tenet of Littleism is typically the biggest hurdle new converts face in their journey. Since objects we interact with seem as though they are bigger or smaller than other objects, it is counter-intuitive to reject scale. Why certain things appear to be different sizes is known as “the paradox of scale” and is an area of ongoing investigation and debate. Many are confused by our continued use of terms like “little”, “small”, and “tiny”, since The Little Guy is after all also The Big Guy. Why not just call Him The Guy? In fact, this has been the cause of our only major schism so far; staunch Ascalists entirely reject the use of any size-related terminology. We reject Ascalism for reasons historical and cognito-linguistic: for one, it is traditional to revere The Little Guy as such and increases His brand recognition, since most people are unaware that His stature is an illusion. But the more significant reason is that the only way to address human spatiometaphorical cognition is to employ guerilla ontology. We don’t just speak, but think in terms of big and small. We are conditioned to give less consideration to things that are “small” and more to things that are “big”; consider phrases like “God is great”, “the universe is infinitely large”, and “that’s a good size refrigerator”. We are not wired to conceive of a God who is tiny, nor indeed of anything small as having goodness or significance. So when we employ the language that we do, it is to subvert our subconscious expectations, remind us to consider the “small” side of the size divide, and force us to grapple with the paradoxical nature of scale. Think of it like a see-saw with a great weight on one end: we think that by balancing out the weight, people will eventually stop believing the see-saw exists. At the least, we can keep it flat. From here on, we will not discuss the paradox in any great depth; we assume that the reader has experienced the introductory demonstration of their own nonscalarity and will be unable to get it out of their head even when the The Guy is constantly described as Little. This is the typical result of fractal awareness. ## Megamicrography, or The Holy Science > “Is- is that a little guy? What is he doing down there?” These questions, famously spoken off-the-cuff by an amazed Dr. Amoline Hart during the first successful test of a prototype megamicrograph, are amusingly prescient of the directions that scientific, philosophical, and theological inquiry would take in the following decades as the world tried to come to terms with The Little Guy. ### Part A: Is That a Little Guy? Surprisingly, it took nearly a decade for a consensus to be reached on this question: yes, He seems to be a tiny human male, albeit an unusual and not particularly bright one. Extended observations have shown that aside from faint smiles and enthusiastic waves, He mostly just sits around. His anatomy is identical to ours, from what we can observe; no one has yet managed to get him undressed below the waist, and in fact we only know his chest looks normal because one researcher took an MMG out to Death Valley one summer and caught Him with His shirt off. But there is broad agreement that, if not precisely homo sapiens, The Little Guy is a small man. The various petty heresies of the early days, such as degendering The Little Guy or claiming He is female, denying His humanity on the basis of His size, and accusing the megamicrograph’s algorithms of anthropomorphizing physics have largely fallen by the wayside; such positions are now shunned by all serious scholars. A more intractable issue is whether He is one tiny man who is everywhere at once or many identical men, or some other solution entirely. We will discuss this in greater detail in chapter 7. ### Part B: What is He Doing Down There? When Dr. Hart uttered these words, she was really expressing surprise at His existence. But literally — what does He do all day? This is one of the great mysteries to which we might never know the answer. We know what He does when we’re watching Him: smile, wave, and sit around, mostly. But what about the rest of the time? He might just continue doing nothing, but physics gives us reason to doubt this: The Little Guy is a fundamental particle. We’re made of molecules, molecules are made of atoms, atoms are made of protons, protons are made of quarks, and quarks are made of The Little Guy. If He were just sitting around doing nothing all day, our world couldn’t exist; His motions constitute our reality. Thus, most physicists believe He is hard at work when unobserved, probably rushing around all over the place. Why He hides His work from us is another mystery. *[archivist's note: the remainder of this text is lost media]*