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177. All the good stuff is God (And not the people doing it) and the bad stuff is nature

Reply to wryter2000 (Reply #27)

Wed May 22, 2013, 02:38 AM

May 2013

Sorry if I sound cynical, but that priest is just doing some Jack Handey deep thoughts shit. It's a formula; "Blah blah god, blah blah nice thing, blah blah, I made a profound!"

The correct answer is that nature is dangerous but people are helping the other people who got hurt.

God, if it exists, is probably vastly more concerned with making sure universal mathematical constants remain, well, constant, since even a slight variation would reduce the entire universe into a cloud of highly agitated hypothetical particles. Omniscience probably gives you a vastly larger scale where the minute interactions of one particular variety of tailless primate on a single world amid the billions of galaxies prbably matter even less than an ant fart matters to you or I.

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