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- From: machala@spdc.ti.com (King Mosher)
- Subject: Re: I Wish There Was a God
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- References: <1993Jan22.062633.18453@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 19:56:54 GMT
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- tullfan@leland.Stanford.EDU (Richard Thompson) writes:
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- >If there were a God, then he would just destroy everything now and get it over
- >with instead of dragging out this long and cruel joke--surely the joke would
- >have gotten old by now and God can only get so much entertainment value by
- >watching pathetic little humans trying to influence and order what goes on
- >in a universe that no matter how much we want to believe it, we simply can't
- >do shit to change anything and all that has to happen is a nice natural
- >disaster and we are putty in nature's hands to be molded into a cute little
- >mammal image and then smashed back into a blob; for either he (He) would have
- >to be impossibly cruel or just plain stupid.
- >--
-
- I don't want to start any blasphemous rumors
- but I think that God's got a sick sense of humor
- and when I die I expect to find him laughing.
-
- Depeche Mode
- --
-
- Just because I'm paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get me.
-
- Chuck Machala-Semiconductor Process and Design Center-Texas Instruments/Dallas
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