(September 28, 2009 at 1:13 am)GrayAreas Wrote: How is anyone supposed to know what is supposed to be taken literally or not?
There's this thing, called a brain? Yeah, people with one tend to use it. As expressed by Galileo Galilei, "I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason and intellect has intended us to forego their use."
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when
called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
(Oscar Wilde)
called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
(Oscar Wilde)