Re: a comment on cat by Dental Panic	ALChemy 24.74.101.159	13-Jan-06/5:53 AM
Well thank God you stopped before the popular atheist "If we got rid of religion there'd be no more war" saying came out. What you say has merit. Now if only we had a good example of it working in practice.
Re: regret by FreeFormFixation	FreeFormFixation 70.225.165.248	13-Jan-06/3:15 AM
read this in a hurried manner.
Re: angst of the saints by calliope	calliope 70.225.165.248	13-Jan-06/3:11 AM
come on... zondervan? or even... guttenburg? yes, i know i spelled that wrong.
Re: levity kiss by skaskowski	skaskowski 70.225.165.248	13-Jan-06/3:00 AM
okay, so everyone knows, there was wordplay involved... levity kiss... leviticus... i wish i didnt keep having to explain myself, but go from there, okay? i wont dissect the rest.
Re: a comment on The copper man and Labrador by Caducus	Caducus 172.213.134.2	13-Jan-06/2:22 AM
I used to do that when i was a prick in my beginnings here, not anymore votes mean jack shit to me but your comment does but i can see why. People I live with, work with, read my stuff but if you look as i have i've not just been tenned. I cant blame you for thinkin it however.
Re: The Prayer Vendor by Enkidu	Enkidu 172.192.144.154	12-Jan-06/10:31 PM
I despise using dictionaries and thesauri unless I'm looking up the spelling of a word. By the way, a deprecation is a sort of prayer. Also, I used deil's (the devil's) smiles as a metaphor for the people who the Vendor makes suffer.
Re: a comment on cat by Dental Panic	ecargo 172.132.214.225	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."
Re: a comment on cat by Dental Panic	Dovina 69.175.32.104	12-Jan-06/6:35 PM
Yes, in the same way that Quantum Mechanics has turned switches in my brain. Granted, it's a long shot that such an all-inclusive theory will ever work well enough to gain wide acceptance among scientists.
Re: a comment on The Prayer Vendor by Enkidu	Dovina 69.175.32.104	12-Jan-06/6:31 PM
Could be, but martyrs don't usually have mischevious (deil's) smiles.
Re: a comment on The Prayer Vendor by Enkidu	zodiac 209.193.9.107	12-Jan-06/6:22 PM
That or because he's offering them up for sacrifices, for persecution.
Re: a comment on The Prayer Vendor by Enkidu	zodiac 209.193.9.107	12-Jan-06/6:20 PM
I think he means like, "That dress becomes you."
Re: a comment on cat by Dental Panic	Dental Panic 84.27.6.94	12-Jan-06/6:08 PM
I don't think there will be a 'we'. Just a very small group of scientists will be able to understand such a theory, some godlike elite. Or do you think that when they'll explain it to you, some switch will turn on the 'Godmind' inside your brain?
Re: a comment on cat by Dental Panic	Dovina 69.175.32.104	12-Jan-06/6:04 PM
I know neither Hawking nor DA, but I do appreciate Gentleness, and know him well.
Re: The Prayer Vendor by Enkidu	Dovina 69.175.32.104	12-Jan-06/6:01 PM
How does a smile become a martyr? "craven deprications" Did you use a thesaurus for "cowardly blames"? Not that it matters, but simpler language goes down easier. Still, I like this.
Re: a comment on cat by Dental Panic	Dental Panic 84.27.6.94	12-Jan-06/5:55 PM
In the interview, they asked him, after his 'no': why not? and he said that he couldn't imagine a Cosmic Creator that was concerned with the fate of a some stupid and cruel ape on a very tiny planet, circling an insignificant star, somewhere in the back alley of a small galaxy in this unimaginably large universe, filled with trillions and trillions of stars.
Re: a comment on cat by Dental Panic	zodiac 209.193.9.107	12-Jan-06/5:51 PM
I'm not trying to start an argument, just commenting on how I could stand to learn gentleness.
Re: a comment on cat by Dental Panic	zodiac 209.193.9.107	12-Jan-06/5:50 PM
You know -=Dark_Angel=-,P.I. knows Hawking.
Re: a comment on cat by Dental Panic	Dovina 69.175.32.104	12-Jan-06/5:40 PM
I love Hawking because he is both intelligent and gentle in his presentatioin. "So God does play dice with the universe. All the evidence points to him being an inveterate gambler, who throws the dice on every possible occasion."
Re: a comment on cat by Dental Panic	Dental Panic 84.27.6.94	12-Jan-06/5:25 PM
When you cheat, there's no chance. Joke: suppose they create a supercomputer that knows all the answers. First thing they'll ask: is there a God? Now there is, it'll reply.
Re: a comment on cat by Dental Panic	Dental Panic 84.27.6.94	12-Jan-06/5:11 PM
I think I'll write my next poem about the second law of thermodynamics. In the meantime, I'll send this to Hawking - he is noted for having said that every time he hears about the infamous cat, he's going for his gun.