Friday, December 31, 2004
Some good bits
Lileks is funny today, which in itself is not unusual. But I got a kick out of a couple of his bits. He's trying to answer his young daughter Gnat's difficult question about God:
“We don’t know, because our brains really aren’t capable of getting that part, anymore than Jasper (their dog) can understand how cars work; it’s enough for him to know that they move. Of course, this could all be an echo of some ancient coping mechanism that ascribed the inexpicable manifestations of natural forces to a patriarchal, interventionist superbeing who demanded slavish obedience from the brutish, mewling meatbags he had created, and smote them when the mood took him. That’s what some would say. That’s too easy, by my lights. Either one requires faith; it depends what you want to have faith in."
And as his piece has touched on many unanswerables he finally decides he'd better just hang it up for the night:
"Time to stop before I sink completely in the murk of dorm-room stoner-think..."
Hilarious. You ought to read the whole thing.
“We don’t know, because our brains really aren’t capable of getting that part, anymore than Jasper (their dog) can understand how cars work; it’s enough for him to know that they move. Of course, this could all be an echo of some ancient coping mechanism that ascribed the inexpicable manifestations of natural forces to a patriarchal, interventionist superbeing who demanded slavish obedience from the brutish, mewling meatbags he had created, and smote them when the mood took him. That’s what some would say. That’s too easy, by my lights. Either one requires faith; it depends what you want to have faith in."
And as his piece has touched on many unanswerables he finally decides he'd better just hang it up for the night:
"Time to stop before I sink completely in the murk of dorm-room stoner-think..."
Hilarious. You ought to read the whole thing.
# posted by mds : 9:03 AM
