On 26-4-2011 21:05, Patrick Elliott wrote:
> On 4/26/2011 10:19 AM, andrel wrote:
>> On 26-4-2011 0:50, Darren New wrote:
>>> On 4/25/2011 14:16, andrel wrote:
>>>>> That's weird to me.
>>>> Oh no, not again!
>>>
>>> I wasn't planning to discuss it further. I just wanted to be sure I had
>>> understood your objection was to a deity, rather than a particular deity
>>> interested in the doings of mankind.
>>
>> It is not so much an objection. The point is that being an atheist has
>> become so much part of me over the years that a God in any form is not
>> compatible with being me. Or to put it more technically, we are mutual
>> exclusive. Either a God exists or me, not both at the same time.
>> Part of the discussion with Jim was also that I think this sort of
>> philosophical ideas creeping into your being is more common that you
>> might expect. If they do they, become undiscussable. You and me notice
>> that in religious people, but without really being aware of it, it might
>> happen to you too, and it probably has. That also implies that we are
>> less rational than we like to think.
>> Although our level of irrationality is nowhere near that of some
>> religious people. (But they might say the same)
>>
> Twain once stated something to the effect, "You could house all the sane
> people in one asylum, but if you tried to house all the insane ones, you
> would run out of building material."

The appropriate Adams quote would be about Wonko the Sane, but I'll 
leave that to someone else.



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Apparently you can afford your own dictator for less than 10 cents per 
citizen per day.

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