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RE: you have to have faith..and there's a purpose
May 30, 2014 at 4:17 pm
I once had someone tell me that I'm a 'person of faith' because I expect the light bulb to turn on when I flip the wall switch. He said something like, 'You don't know WHAT is going to happen, but expecting the room to light up is an act of faith.'
My response was that since I've flipped wall switches hundred of thousands of times and that the light generally comes on when I do so, my expectation of light is an act of experience, not of faith. I explained that if I were to flip the switch and expect raspberry jam to ooze out of the sockets, THAT would be an act of faith.
He got angry and accused me of comparing God to raspberry jam.
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‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
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RE: you have to have faith..and there's a purpose
May 30, 2014 at 4:25 pm
Of course we know what's going to happen when you switch a light on - what a ridiculous thing to say. When you flip the switch, the reasonable expectation is that the light will come on, or if not, there is a reason why. It takes absolutely zero faith to expect the light to come on instead of, say, turning into a butterfly that shits M&Ms.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
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RE: you have to have faith..and there's a purpose
May 30, 2014 at 4:40 pm
You ever considered getting into the lightbulb game...cuz I gotta say..I'd buy yours over cfls any day of the week...twice on tuesday.
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