Comments on: About this “god” thing… http://stevesiwy.com/blog/2006/04/08/about-this-god-thing/ I might have been born yesterday, sir, but I stayed up all night. Tue, 06 Jan 2009 03:57:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 By: Steve http://stevesiwy.com/blog/2006/04/08/about-this-god-thing/#comment-74 Steve Wed, 12 Apr 2006 16:23:03 +0000 http://stevesiwy.com/blog/2006/04/08/about-this-god-thing/#comment-74 I see how it is. Start off with the "Jesus is just all right with me" Lorenz attractor business, and then when I remain unmoved, continue on to the threats of violence. How very Republican of you, Tom. I see how it is. Start off with the “Jesus is just all right with me” Lorenz attractor business, and then when I remain unmoved, continue on to the threats of violence. How very Republican of you, Tom.

]]> By: Jesus H. "Tapdancing" Christ http://stevesiwy.com/blog/2006/04/08/about-this-god-thing/#comment-72 Jesus H. "Tapdancing" Christ Wed, 12 Apr 2006 14:58:08 +0000 http://stevesiwy.com/blog/2006/04/08/about-this-god-thing/#comment-72 Have you ever been nailed to a cross you cock-smoking heathen? How about I get my boy W's gang to nail your nutsack to a cross by your nutsack? Who's the atheist now? Reck-a-nize!! Have you ever been nailed to a cross you cock-smoking heathen? How about I get my boy W’s gang to nail your nutsack to a cross by your nutsack? Who’s the atheist now?

Reck-a-nize!!

]]> By: Nicole http://stevesiwy.com/blog/2006/04/08/about-this-god-thing/#comment-67 Nicole Tue, 11 Apr 2006 18:32:42 +0000 http://stevesiwy.com/blog/2006/04/08/about-this-god-thing/#comment-67 Mariana Islands, mostly. Mariana Islands, mostly.

]]> By: Tom http://stevesiwy.com/blog/2006/04/08/about-this-god-thing/#comment-66 Tom Tue, 11 Apr 2006 16:47:34 +0000 http://stevesiwy.com/blog/2006/04/08/about-this-god-thing/#comment-66 He works in mysterious ways, in Malaysian sweatshops. He works in mysterious ways, in Malaysian sweatshops.

]]> By: Steve http://stevesiwy.com/blog/2006/04/08/about-this-god-thing/#comment-65 Steve Tue, 11 Apr 2006 16:16:40 +0000 http://stevesiwy.com/blog/2006/04/08/about-this-god-thing/#comment-65 Not to mention so shoddy! Truly, He tests our faith. Not to mention so shoddy! Truly, He tests our faith.

]]> By: Tom http://stevesiwy.com/blog/2006/04/08/about-this-god-thing/#comment-64 Tom Tue, 11 Apr 2006 12:06:51 +0000 http://stevesiwy.com/blog/2006/04/08/about-this-god-thing/#comment-64 "Uh, by one we haven’t figured out yet? Wait, are you arguing god-of-the-gaps at me, you lazy bastard?" Steve, it would be small-minded of us to believe that a human being could have designed all those t-shirts and khakis to be so form-flattering, and so stylish. “Uh, by one we haven’t figured out yet? Wait, are you arguing god-of-the-gaps at me, you lazy bastard?”

Steve, it would be small-minded of us to believe that a human being could have designed all those t-shirts and khakis to be so form-flattering, and so stylish.

]]> By: Steve http://stevesiwy.com/blog/2006/04/08/about-this-god-thing/#comment-63 Steve Tue, 11 Apr 2006 05:07:21 +0000 http://stevesiwy.com/blog/2006/04/08/about-this-god-thing/#comment-63 <blockquote> Talk like that is totally going to get you left behind when the rapture comes Siwy. </blockquote> One of the running jokes at the message board at which I used to spend my time was that all we athier-than-thou types would be rich after the Rapture, running used-car dealerships full of all those cars with the "In case of Rapture, this car will be unmanned" bumper stickers. Honestly, I welcome the Rapture, if that's what it'll take to make all the pre-millennial dispensationalists fuck off and leave me alone. <blockquote> By what system of logic would any ordering principle apply to all of the events that produce that shape? </blockquote> Uh, by one we haven't figured out yet? Wait, are you arguing god-of-the-gaps at me, you lazy bastard?

Talk like that is totally going to get you left behind when the rapture comes Siwy.

One of the running jokes at the message board at which I used to spend my time was that all we athier-than-thou types would be rich after the Rapture, running used-car dealerships full of all those cars with the “In case of Rapture, this car will be unmanned” bumper stickers.

Honestly, I welcome the Rapture, if that’s what it’ll take to make all the pre-millennial dispensationalists fuck off and leave me alone.

By what system of logic would any ordering principle apply to all of the events that produce that shape?

Uh, by one we haven’t figured out yet? Wait, are you arguing god-of-the-gaps at me, you lazy bastard?

]]> By: Tom http://stevesiwy.com/blog/2006/04/08/about-this-god-thing/#comment-61 Tom Mon, 10 Apr 2006 15:46:53 +0000 http://stevesiwy.com/blog/2006/04/08/about-this-god-thing/#comment-61 Talk like that is totally going to get you left behind when the rapture comes Siwy. Personally, I have a mood-based system of faith in which it is imprecise to call me an agnostic, because it’s not like I don’t know, it just depends on the day, and I’m ok with that. I’m passionately ambivalent. The problem with your statement Steve, is that only a notion of a tiny God makes a tiny world. On my godlier days, I think much less throne-like visions of God, and look to shit like this that occurs in unrelated models of seemingly random and chaotic events: http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/~pbourke/fractals/lorenz/ By what system of logic would any ordering principle apply to all of the events that produce that shape? Jesus totally lives inside the Lorenz Attractor. And he’s totally pissed at you. Talk like that is totally going to get you left behind when the rapture comes Siwy. Personally, I have a mood-based system of faith in which it is imprecise to call me an agnostic, because it’s not like I don’t know, it just depends on the day, and I’m ok with that. I’m passionately ambivalent.

The problem with your statement Steve, is that only a notion of a tiny God makes a tiny world. On my godlier days, I think much less throne-like visions of God, and look to shit like this that occurs in unrelated models of seemingly random and chaotic events:

http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/~pbourke/fractals/lorenz/

By what system of logic would any ordering principle apply to all of the events that produce that shape?

Jesus totally lives inside the Lorenz Attractor. And he’s totally pissed at you.

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