From: Snow Leopard <juliet784@hotmail.com> To: virus@lucifer.com Subject: Re: virus: Repeat of Myth, magic and mysticism Date sent: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 10:05:58 PDT Send reply to: virus@lucifer.com
> I don't trust any statistics that add up to >100%.
>
> Besides, your source makes no point. Now, I know people who believe that
> science and faith are incompatible. Let me ask you somethin':
>
> Do you believe in the accuracy of the following:
>
> Every single thermometer used in scientific labs
>
> The "awakeness" of technicians recording that data that basically "supports"
> your beliefs... your Bible if you will...
>
> The accuracy of every telescope, the rate of decay of elements whose half
> lives will outlive your great-great^1000 grand children? The "spontaneous
> generation" of a living thing (the idea of which, we disproved 200 years
> ago) that already had enough intelligence that it, in a /short/ few billion
> years created communism that actually worked....
>
> And these bacterial colonies grew, and the screw-ups were better than the
> original, so it grew a tail, and then it got beached, but didn't die... so
> it went back into the water (where the opposite sex found this "survival
> story" very attractive, so it multipled... more than the others that didn't
> have to feed these extraadaptaitions. Then, miracle of miracles, all of the
> correct changes added up, and an amphibian came into being.
>
> A few 100 generations later, a few of them became incapable of water life.
> This disadvantagous mutation survived, land animals.
>
> Then, one of them jumps in a tree, stays there a while, jumped down, put on
> a suit, and became a lawyer. That's your grandfather, who married "Lucy."
>
> Faith, hmm?
>
Rather, a sick and sadistic god decided to create a weaker devil to
beat up on, and create people to play with, condemning a bunch of
them from the beginning of time, regardless of their behavior or
belief (since he decided from the beginning what those would be as
well), to infinite torture under the auspices of the aforementioned
subordinate devil for his amusement, and then decided to rip a
chunk out of himself, implant it in a human female by means of an
astrally perpetuated adultery, and kill it for shits, giggles and a
meaningless redemption (remembering that the saved and lost
were decided from the beginning), and have the hopelessly
preordained plaything-people wear the tortured body of this chunk
around their necks, and consider symbolic cannibalism of it a
central ritual.
This is the alternative you offer? Excuse me while I vomit.
>
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