🚀 go-pugleaf

On 11/14/2010 02:01 PM, Daniel Pitts wrote:
> On 11/13/2010 8:38 AM, Lew wrote:
>> Joe Snodgrass wrote:
>>>> Several years ago, somebody invented a clever email add-on that would
>>>> alert you to the fact that you were using harsh language, so you
>>>> wouldn't hit the "send" key.
>>>>
>>>> This is wrongheaded. The place you want to put it is on the receive
>>>> end, to alert you that someone was about to insult you, so you could
>>>> delete the diatribe without reading it.
>>>>
>>>> Does anybody know what was the name of that invention, or the
>>>> company or
>>>> person who invented it?
>>
>> Some dipshit motherfucker.
>>
>> Meat Plow wrote:
>>> The inventor was God and the invention was called The Brain.
>>
>> Yes, She did create the brain, or it created itself, or She created the
>> soul that created the brain, but I am not sure "invented" is the
>> appropriate verb. We don't say a sculptor "invents" a sculpture or a
>> composer "invents" an aria, we say they "create" or "compose" it.
>>
>> Nice bit of humorous proselytizing, though.
>>
> Without getting into a religious debate, I often chose too interpret
> "God" as "The natural consequences of the universe existing" where
> appropriate, and restructuring the surrounding sentence so that it fits
> the intent of the originator with my understanding of the universe.
>
> I'm not saying I'm an atheist, just that "God" as an explanation is too
> course grained most of the time. Yes, God did lots of great stuff, but
> its not outside our ability to understand why/how a lot of it happened.
>
> So, my interpretation of what Meat Plow wrote:
>
> "The filter is created by evolution and it evolved into The Brain."
>
> Normally I apply this translation internally so as not to offend other
> people (you should try that sometime Lew). I often appreciate your
> contributions, and agree with your opinions, but presentation accounts
> for something.

Huh?  What'd I do wrong /this/ time?

Jesus, people!  You are all a pack of cards.

The OP referred to God in a semi-humorous style.  I responded in kind.  Why in 
the holy Hells is that a problem for you?

Christ on a crutch!

-- 
Lew