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Skriven 2006-11-23 20:31:00 av LEE LOFASO (1:123/140)
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>LL>Everybody wants to be Perfect.  But there can be only One!

JO>You're into Creole-Juice again...

God/Satan is Good/Evil.  OTOH, God/Satan could be Evil/Good.

>LL>4. Who do you trust?

>JO>My mind. My Holy Guardian Angel.
>JO>My Daughters.
>JO>The Canadian Government.
>JO>Rudolf Bultman, Tilich, Aquinas, Socrates, my instinct.

>LL>None of whom have been perfect.

JO>So?

Only I am Perfect.

>JO>.....Barack Obama! And Westley Clark!
>JO>THE ticket for '08!
>JO>Get on the band wagon! Oh. Ok, when we get a bad-wangon, get on it!

>LL>Anybody who has a middle name of Hussein is in big trouble when it
>LL>comes to running for president.  Except in Iraq, where Hussein is
>LL>both loved and hated.

JO>What ARE you talking about?

Barack Hussein Obama.  But relax.  He's a Congregationist, not a Muslim.

>LL>Once you have answered the above four questions,
>LL>ask yourself the last two questions one more time -

>LL>Who do you serve, and who do you trust?

>JO>My own selfish self-interesdt, and that of my daughters.

>LL>Daughters.  They always get what they want.  Every time.

JO>You haven't talked with mine :-)

You'd be surprised what women will do to get what they want.
OTOH, maybe you wouldn't be surprised...

>LL>Then, and only then, will you know the true meaning of life.

>JO>Dang. You were goin' good there for a while...

>JO>Now it YOUR turn. YOU anwer those questions...

>LL>1. What do you want?
>LL>2. Where are you going?
>LL>3. Who will you serve?
>LL>4. Who do you trust?

>JO>C'mon. I'll think a lot less of you if you don't. Really.

>LL>1. What I want has no importance.

JO>Is this because you believe that you are of no importance?

Without Doubt, there can be no Belief.  Therefore, I must Doubt
my own importance, regardless of my actual importance or non-importance.

>LL>2. I am going where no man has gone before.

JO>You have a private bathroom.

I also have bushes.

>LL>3. I will serve only those who Doubt.
>LL>4. No one.  Not even myself.

JO>You start as Descarte did...and conclude as Homer Simpson.

In his Meditations, Descartes writes about a Happiness Machine.
The premise is if one were to enter the Happiness Machine, he or
she would be in a perpetual state of Happiness.  The question
Descartes asks is would one want to enter such a machine?  Why,
or why not?

In regards to Homer Simpson, there is one episode where Homer
becomes a genius by taking a pencil out of his skull.  Even though
Homer thought being a genius would make him happy, he later decides
it is not worth it, choosing to stick the pencil back into his skull
and thus returning to being the moron we have come to love so much.

JO>Bah!

Homer Simpson for President!  John Wilson for Vice President!
That is the Ticket for '08!  :)

--Lee


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