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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: E who wrote (2947)	10/29/2000 11:59:08 PM
From: cosmicforce	Respond to of 28931

I wasn't disagreeing with you absolutely, just relatively. :) This is a bit like the "angels dancing on the head of a pin", for sure. While any God could exist in the imagination, I suppose I was lining them up, tall to short, and saying which I though was more likely. None could be the answer, but if someone was going to suggest an omniscient God that could know but not act, or could know but not know completely, that the compelling arguments for such a beastie, IMO, were limited. I think there are enough strange coincidences that I don't rule out a consciousness. I suppose that if a consciousness like I imagine exists, it exists in a highly distributed form. Today on a hike with my friend I got stung by a yellow jacket. This happened, IMO, because my friend was messing with it. We were sitting on top of a hill drinking a couple of beers. The yellowjacket was drinking HIS beer and getting intoxicated (mine are non-alcoholic and it wasn't interested). The little wasp got so drunk it couldn't fly. My friend put it on a stick and he threw it down wind. A few minutes later, the yellowjacket sobered up and picked a fight with me. This causal chain was acted out over a 20 minute period. What am I to draw from this? That the yellowjacket had a memory and was belligerent enough to come back and mess with me in retribution.