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Almost Persuaded (Free verse) by Dovina

While we’re sleeping something’s keeping the world spinning uniformity winning While we’re dueling for knowledge drooling something’s ambling comfortably ruling Something sensible? Responsible? Reprehensible!

Dovina 11-Jul-05/11:10 AM
Some of the unpredictably fascinating aspects of your comments are the “connections” you make and don’t make. The world spins today just as it has for a long, long time. Its spinning follows the principle of uniformity, manifested in the laws of physics. How you find the former to be positive and the latter negative is beyond my imagination. But many things about your deductions defy my imagination. Like your recent comment to rbooey: “You're about to suggest Dovina and I are in some buddy-buddy poemranker-dissing incrowd. . . . For your information, no two people dislike each other more than Dovina and I dislike each other.” I think you exaggerate in statements like that for the pleasure of controversy. Please don’t tell me you mean exactly what you said.

Your question: “Does it take more work to keep an already-spinning world spinning or to stop it?” It takes no work (as defined in physics) to keep the world spinning, but it takes a lot of work to stop it. (Sorry, no diagrams or charts.) The interesting thing in regard to being almost persuaded to believe in God is that the laws of physics are uniform, unchanging, as if planned. It’s enough to make a person wonder.

Thanks for the comment.




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