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Re: Does God have a monopoly on gods?
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Mon, 13 Mar 2000 01:18:39 GMT
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Todd Lehman wrote:
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> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> > [...]
> > As I've said, if a thing has no effect on the tangible universe, and
> > can't be proven one way or another, it doesn't matter one way or another
> > if it's true. So I go for the simple explanation, knowing full well that
> > if god is as you say he is, I risk my mortal soul. But, since god also
> > has implications I don't care for, I choose not to rub blue mud in my
> > belly button. I'd rather be damned that worship a god (and subscribe to
> > a belief system) I feel is evil.
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> I never thought I'd hear Larry admit that he doesn't rub blue mud in his
> belly button.
It's an old RAH reference. I actually forget if it was from Stranger,
Job, Farnhams Freehold or what.
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| (...) I think that it is a general RAH-type comment that has found its way into several of his books... Like Larry, I'm not 100% sure., but I seem to remember it from more than one book... however, since RAH developed the "Myth as Reality" (...) (24 years ago, 13-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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