Re: curses

kstocklmeir@xxxxxxx wrote:

> I guess God made a plane crash

I guess God must be extremely bored, or childish. He created, if we
are to believe this, a race of creatures with finite lifetimes.
Apparently, if the old apologists are to be believed, he originally
intended to create a race of creatures with infinite lifetimes, but
became enraged when the first two creatures ate a piece of fruit he
left dangling in front of them, with the irresistable instructions
"whatever you do, don't eat this fruit!". He knew, further, what would
be the result of his little experiment, so the motive must have been to
create a race of creatures with finite lifetimes, all of which could,
after hearing of this story, kick themselves. God must like when his
creatures kick themselves.

Anyway, having such a race of creatures, all of whom are guaranteed to
die (and in a small number of standard deviations from the mean
lifetime at that) he apparently amuses himself, or busies himself for
reasons we cannot understand, in determining the exact second of the
demise of every instance. Or does he usually allow the universal
extinction simply to run on auto-pilot, but occasionally step in, as
you seem to suggest, and make a plane crash?

Oh, that's right: I am cursed for asking such questions. But you
already cursed me last time. Am I double-cursed now?

I am interested to learn that you grew up around Coney Island... I'm
living in Brooklyn now. The stories you tell of police corruption and
abuse sound real, anyway, though your conclusions that everybody in the
US is now cursed until the third and the fourth generation seem to me a
little ... tenuous.

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