God is the optimal food/ Sigh was something else was something else was somehthing else-- believe me was something else... (was:Blaise Pascal's Bet on God)

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MikeSuesserott [MikeSuesserott]

Tuesday, March 19, 2002 11:23 AM

Sigh... (was:Blaise Pascal's Bet on God)

 

Dan,

 

this was not about winning at all, nor was it a debate. More like a

desperate cry from one who is getting tired of being fed the same cliche

phrases again and again.

 

Like you say "good morning", and sure as hell someone is going to send a

message to the effect that there is no morning, or how can there be a

morning if no observer exists, or some such pearl of wisdom.

 

Remember Eliza, one of the early computer programs that simulated the

behavior of a psychologist? You would input some personal problem, and the

computer would repeat part of it back to you and then say, "tell me more

about it." Just a very few stored-up phrases and simple pre-programmed

behaviors were sufficient to make people believe that they were

communicating with a live psychologist.

 

Can you guess how there might be an analogy here? :-)

 

Take care,

 

Michael

 

Thanks Michael for the humor.

For those who are interested I do believe in including both raw fruits and

vegetables in the optimal diet. By the way, disregard everything I said last

year about my potato diet. It works only for three weeks.

Thanks Jan and David for your wisdom. May everyone's muscles bulge and tummy

shrink for whatever is best for you and may your nutrition be appropriate to

your needs.

Love to all

Harsha