Re: Explain This Irrational Behavior To MU

From: Alan Mackenzie (acm_at_muc.de)
Date: 10/04/04 

Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2004 21:34:21 +0000

Dr. Andrew B. Chung, MD/PhD <andrew@heartmdphd.com> wrote on Sun, 03 Oct
2004 07:10:26 -0400:
> Alan Mackenzie wrote:

>> Hannah and Bob (real, or otherwise),

>> I think I've worked out who "Dr. Andrew B. Chung" is. Or, rather
>> what. He's a Vogon.

> Ouch. You may have at the other cheek.

Here you are: Whack!

>> Compare his latest reply to Hannah with this bit of Vogon dialogue
>> (from Fit the Ninth of "The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy" by
>> Douglas Adams):

> No thanks.

> (I prefer God's Word to works of fiction).

Hee! Quite a lot of people prefer God's word (however construed) to
yours. Stop posting, and people will have more time to read it.

> <fiction snipped>

And try getting out a bit more, Andrew!

> You will be in my prayers, dear Alan whom I love.

No, chum, you don't love me. If you did, you pay a bit more attention to
my feelings and sensibilities.

> May you accept Christ as your personal Lord and Savior, someday, so that
> you too will have eternal life and the incredible riches of His
> everlasting kingdom.

For what it's worth, I don't want "eternal life". Such would be the
worst curse imaginable. Again, from the aforementioned work: "The first
ten million years were the worst. And the second ten million, they were
the worst too. The third ten million I didn't enjoy at all. After that
I went into a bit of a decline."

As for the "incredible riches of his everlasting kingdom", learn a bit of
astronomy. In a short time, in as little as a few thousand million
years, indeed, the sun is going to swell into a red giant. The
temperature on the Earth's surface will rise to, perhaps 1000°C. A bit
later, the sun will burn out totally, leaving the Earth circulating a
slowly cooling white dwarf at the interstellar galactic temperature of
-250°C (or whatever it is).

No, you can keep "everlasting life". I'll take my three score and 10 and
then be cremated and satisfied. And if you're going to live forever,
please learn some manners.

> Andrew 

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Alan Mackenzie (Munich, Germany)
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