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To: Alex MG who wrote (397073)	1/25/2019 12:43:09 PM
From: Sun Tzu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542861

From Terry Pratchett: No gods anywhere play chess. They haven't got the imagination. Gods prefer simple, vicious games, where you Do Not Achieve Transcendence but Go Straight to Oblivion; A key to the understanding of all religion is that a god's idea of amusement is Snakes and Ladders with greased rungs. The trouble with gods is that after enough people start believing in them, they begin to exist. And what begins to exist isn't what was originally intended. (p. 297) It was all very well going on about pure logic and how the universe was ruled by logic and the harmony of numbers, but the plain fact of the matter was that the Disc was manifestly traversing space on the back of a giant turtle and the gods had a habit of going round to atheists' houses and smashing their windows.

To: Alex MG who wrote (397073)	1/25/2019 7:51:40 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542861

Take heart, quantum mechanics alludes to the idea there is no time and once you live, you always live, some where and somehow. And as I believe life and intelligence is pervasive in the universe, there is a very good chance sentient beings know we are here. And if they are judging us I am sure it is on our kindness, and alertness, they will be interested in, those who question primitive religions, than those who blindly follow it and pray to a jealous god-lol. Gods would not be jealous, tribal chiefs would be, which is who the early believers think their gods are like. It the right wing Christians had there way they would turn us into a theocracy , and they are so devoid of logic , they are oblivious that is exactly what the middle east has, that they hate so much, Their thinking, like Trump's is an intellectual salad.