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Problems with the first life

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fnord

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Message 9 of 138 (124482)
07-14-2004 1:43 PM

Reply to: Message 6 by jar
07-14-2004 12:21 PM

Actually, the density of water is 1 because we said it is.

Reminds me of dutch writer Gerard Reve who said that the fact that water freezes at exactly 0 and boils at exactly 100 is proof for him that there has to be a God.

Thank God I'm an atheist -- Luis Buuel

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Message 14 of 138 (124558)
07-14-2004 7:25 PM

Reply to: Message 10 by coffee_addict
07-14-2004 1:50 PM

literary corner

He actually said that?

I've looked it up, because I wasn't sure if I remembered correctly, and he really wrote it in a published letter to a friend. The best thing is, he was serious.

So in more or less the same vein a poem:

QUIA ABSURDUM

You've finished your new book
You've quit drinking
You've passed your driving test
What further proof of God do you need?

Gerard Reve (1987)

(translated by me; and it doesn't rhyme in Dutch either)

Thank God I'm an atheist -- Luis Buuel

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