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Skriven 2006-02-12 18:18:12 av Roy Witt (1:1/22)
  Kommentar till text 25260 av Frank Vest (1:124/6308.1)
Ärende: Bomb Cartoon
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10 Feb 06 19:26, Frank Vest wrote to Roy Witt:

 FV>> Is the current Pope to blame for those before him?
 RW>> He can't help what the RCC doctrine is, but he could make changes.
 RW>> Of course, he must answer to the other bishops.
 FV> Eww. Politics.

Everywhere.

 FV>> Isn't the Bible supposed to be simple?
 RW>> I've never found it to be.

 FV> :)

 FV>> A child is supposed to be able to understand it. We adults make it
 FV>> difficult.
 RW>> You can blame the difficulty on those who translated it or the
 RW>> authors of the books that constitute the Bible, or if you're looking
 RW>> for someone to blame for it's difficulty in understanding, you can
 RW>> blame God; as it is supposedly written with devine intervention.

 FV> Not looking to blame. Just stating that humans can make the simplest
 FV> of things complicated.

Because of the politics...

 RW>  FV>>> Then again, if two heads are better than one... then ten...?
 RW>> When I  FV>> was on dial-up ISP, I used to get the "connect of the
 RW>> beast"
 RW>  FV>>> (56,666). :)
 RW>  RW>>> Yeah, well the biggest file on my HD is 666,666,666 gigs big.
 RW>> Top  RW>> that!
 FV>> Ya got me there, but I suppose I could create a file of that
 FV>> character... but why??

 RW>> I didn't. I was just pulling your chain. :o)

 FV> <ding> You rang? :)

 RW>  FV>>>> It's really simple. God was before the big bang. As God
 RW>  FV>>>> walked
 RW>  RW>>> along  FV>> carrying his pots and pans to do a little BBQ, He
 RW>  RW>>> tripped and there  FV>> was this big bang and the rest is
 RW>  RW>>> history.... depending on who tells  FV>> it, of course. :)
 RW>  RW>>>> You forgot to say what was in that omnipotent pot.
 RW>  FV>>> Since He was carrying His pots and pans to do a little BBQ,
 RW>  FV>>> I'd
 RW>> say  FV>> that, logically, the pot would be empty. Creation followed
 RW>> the
 RW>  FV>>> tripping accident (big bang).
 RW>  RW>>> Since he's omnipotent and his universe has no bounds, where
 RW>  RW>>> did
 RW>> this  RW>> tripping incident take place?
 FV>> In His universe, of course. :)

 RW>> Ahhh, yes.

 FV> :)

 RW>  FV>>> <God trips>
 RW>  FV>>> "Damn!"
 RW>  FV>>> "Let there be light!!"
 RW>  RW>>> Or lightening with thunder so loud, his stereo speakers
 RW>  RW>>> vibrated
 RW>> the  RW>> dust off the shelf and, walla, our spectrum of the
 RW>> universe is
 RW>  RW>>> floating towards the almightie's toilet.
 FV>> Maybe so. How are we to know? We might just be the dust that hasn't
 FV>> settled yet. ;)

 RW>> I think we'll know soon enough.
 FV> The Bible does promise that.

I was once told that it would be 1976, but he didn't turn out to be a very
good prophet.

 RW>  FV>>> See how simple?
 RW>  FV>>> :-)
 RW>  RW>>> I just threw in a giant monkey wrench.
 FV>> You think a monkey wrench, even a giant one, is going to stop the
 FV>> omnipotent? Wrench removed. :)
 RW>> Ok, we'll just have to wait for him to twist the nut that makes all
 RW>> of this irrelevant. Monkey wrench re-inserted.

 FV> Ya suppose He'll use it? :)

I think he'll swap it for a hammer.

 RW>  FV>>> I would, however, imagine that God was carrying some
 RW>> ingredients.  FV>> Some meat and spices. Perhaps a rib and some
 RW>> apples? :D
 RW>  RW>>> And he tripped over that giant snake in the grass and threw it
 RW>> in  RW>> the pot too!
 FV>> I have been told that snake is a delicacy. :)

 RW>> Tastes like Chicken, I'm told. I've killed a few ratter's in my day,
 RW>> but havn't the intestinal fortitude to try it.

 FV> Yeah. :)

 FV> Well... This has been a rather nice and peaceful conversation. Thank
 FV> you. I'm sure that this will not help you in the maintenance of your
 FV> title, but might go a ways in your other effort to change. Do have a
 FV> nice day. :)


You too...and I will, thank you.


Roy
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