The World of Sheepdom... An entire Universe unto Itself. Nothing exists outside of Its fog covered roof which is referred to by Its inhabitants as "The Sky"...

Beneath The Sky, The World of Sheepdom, relative to nothing, is believed to be a massive, flat, manure-ridden rock that stretches for millions and millions of hoof steps. No Being in this world has ever been to all ends of this rock, which has led to speculation of Its true size and dimensions. Safe to say though, It's a big, flat, manure-ridden rock...

Long ago, at the beginning of time, which was either 5 billion years ago, or six-thousand years ago, The World of Sheepdom miraculously manifested itself from complete nothingness, into a big rock.

Way back then, in the "barbaric pre-history" of The World of Sheepdom, this rock was not at all physically similar to the way it is today, in the "civilized present." In fact, this world was not even known as The World of Sheepdom way back then. It was known simply as The Rock. It wasn?t known as The World of Sheepdom until a few billion years, or thousand years, after its miraculous manifestation, when a certain species called "Sheep" began to magically multiply.

Before the magical multiplication of the Sheep, The Rock was full of young, burgeoning life, of which the sheep were only one small percentile off. At that time, The Rock wasn't a manure-ridden rock at all, rather, it was a rock full of life and beauty and marvels.

Contrary to the Sheep's belief, The Rock was actually put here by the gods to act as a life-sustaining rock, not a manure-ridden rock. And when life is sustained for long enough periods of time, then that life will evolve into something new, something better.

Unfortunately for all life, right before the magical multiplication, the Sheep got together and reasoned that The Rock was actually here to sustain THEIR lives and only THEIR lives?

"But how can you turn a world of life into a world of manure," the gods asked the Sheep one day...

And the Sheep replied, "Well, don't get offended my good gods, but it is obvious that only the smartest beings will survive on this rock. And then those smartest beings will evolve into even more smarter beings. It's even more obvious that we sheep are the most smartest beings that this rock has ever seen. In fact, no form of life even comes close to being as smart as us. It's all too obvious that the whole 'evolution' thing was for us sheep. And hey, if it isn't, then who cares, we will evolve into something bigger and better soon enough."

And the gods, in all their wisdom and godliness said, "Ah, indeed. You Sheep are very smart, and all of these things you say about evolution may be true. Perhaps though, you should wise up to the many variables that allow evolution to proceed. In your quest for bigger and better and evolution, just remember these words: Contaminate your bed and you will one night suffocate in your own waste..."

[ Prologue | Part I -- Pre-Trial Accusation | Part II -- George the Lonely Sheep ]

-- Dave