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

To: Solon who wrote (16381)	2/20/2004 8:15:32 PM
From: Solon	Respond to of 28931

tompotter.us Re: Given one, what physics question would you ask God? sporacle@iway1.iw.net (Don Burnap) wrote: If one had an interview with God, why ask a limited question? Why not go for the big one? "God, is there a single set of operations by which everything takes place?" Tom Potter (tdp@ix.netcom.com) wrote: And God would answer, "Yes" or maybe, "No" and then what would you know? virdy@pogo.den.mmc.com (Mahipal Singh Virdy) wrote: Me personally? OK. Slapping him/her/it/whatever... silly in the face. You God damned stinking good for only torturing piece of utterly moronic crap...I spent all my LIFE pondering and wondering and that's all you stinking fucking have to say???????????? Baam, slam, hit, slap, on and on.... Of course, "God" would probably find all this amusing. ;-). Then asking for forgiveness, and naturally being granted it, I'd ask him which way to the beer and babes. I actually believe there are no ultimate answers, only questions. The nightmare is never asking these questions. An ultimate physics formula to explain everything? You mean a small set of physics/math equations that would write Shakespeare without any reference to calibrate by? Nah... Will never happen. To say it mathematically properly without conceding, it's HIGHLY improbable. << Some of an interesting post snipped. >> And Tom Potter (tdp@ix.netcom.com) wrote: Virdy, I'm getting worried! I'm beginning to understand you. :-) I do think God would be amused by your response, and I think he would join you with the beer and the babes. There is no ultimate answer, no ultimate formula. Thank God for that, as it would ruin the game, and the game is so much fun. All we can know is the shape of the dice, and what we are playing for. Everybody wins, because they're playing for different things. Perhaps Jesus summed it up best during his "Sermon on the Mount". "Happy are those who play for money, or power, or peace, or order, or sex, or beer, or ego, or prestige, or creativity, or martyrdom, etc. for they shall all get what they play for." Or as Monty Python put it, "Blessed are the cheese makers." Of course, it's not the game that's important, or how you play the game, it's what you are playing for. The biggest winners of all are the children. "Inhibit them not from their childish pursuits, for such is the Kingdom of Heaven." J.C. ( about 28 Current Era) And if you got it all, what was worth getting? What was the name of the little sled in Citizen Kane? Rosebud?