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- From: kalki33!system@lakes.trenton.sc.us
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- Subject: Re: Would you believe anyway ???
- Message-ID: <D0kDuB1w165w@kalki33>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 03:54:24 EST
- References: <1992Nov14.051219.1943@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>
- Reply-To: kalki33!system@lakes.trenton.sc.us
- Organization: Kalki's Infoline BBS, Aiken, SC, USA
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- esot@troi.cc.rochester.edu (Eric Sotnak) writes:
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- > .>> I hereby reach out to God with the desire to know him. God, if you exi
- > .>> please cure all cases of AIDS by 12:00 noon tomorrow (11-12-92). Since y
- > .>> are perfectly-loving, you will want to do so, since you are all-powerful,
- > .>> you are capable of doing so, since you are all-knowing, you will know (a)
- > .>> how to do so, and (b) that you are being offered this public opprtunity t
- > .>> prove your existence to all the unbelievers you so dearly want to convinc
- > .>> of your existence. Failure to abide by the specified condition will be
- > .>> taken as justification for disbelieving the proposition <God exists>.
- > .>
- > .>A list of demands and a threat. Yep, that's really "reaching out to God
- > .>with a desire to know Him" all right.
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- > Not demands, but a set of conditions by which God could provide rather good
- > evidence for his existence.
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- Nope. Demands.
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- > Not a threat, but a statement of what seems to be a perfectly legitimate
- > interpretation of a null result.
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- Nope. A threat.
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- > Besides, like many others, I've gone through the sincere questing and come
- > up empty.
-
- It is not possible that your quest was both sincere and unsuccessful.
-
- Sincerely,
- Kalki Dasa
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