zodiac9 Apr 2006

Look at it this way: Suppose you, human-Dovina, are kept in a cage. Suppose you ask your keeper "Why am I here?" and the keeper says, "Because I'm bigger than you so I'm going to eat you." Are you saying you wouldn't understand that?

Now suppose there is no farmer, or he's in the house watching TV. You ask, "Why am I here?" and you get no answer. Do you think, I'm getting no answer because there is no keeper? Or, I'm getting no answer because the keeper's not around? Or, I'm getting no answer because I'm not saying the question right? Or, I'm getting no answer because I'm really just a nosy hen that likes to ask pointless questions about everything?

NO! You think, There IS an answer, but I'm just too obtuse to understand it! O Wise and Powerful Farmer! And so on and so on. That's absurd. If you don't presume to start with that you won't be able to understand an answer, you can find - what? - at least FOUR perfectly reasonable answers to the whole scenario. And I don't start with the assumption that an unknowable God is giving unintelligible answers, so I do find all those answers. And that's why we can't be friends.