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cat (Free verse) by Dental Panic

it exists only where it happens, I said, pulled my heels over my head and moved like Schrödinger's cat around all that wasn't there the bloodthirst of my small regrets, the files I kept on piling up, the hooks I simply couldn't grab, the plastic-sheeted facts, and every night a spinning fleet of private jokes was airborn from my sheltered roof, and every day the garden bloomed a life full proof

ecargo 12-Jan-06/7:50 PM
Einstein, too (of whom the fundies like to say "even Einstein believed in God," as if that makes God a fact), said that he could not believe in a "personal god," who gave a rat's ass about the fate of tiny beings on an inconsequential planet in an inconsequential galaxy at the back of beyond (my paraphrase and bias, of course). In his own words: "It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously. I also cannot imagine some will or goal outside the human sphere . . . A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death."




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