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Originally Posted by Profpat  Hi RP;
I was hoping you were going to give us your response to the question. I'm disappointed. Please share with us your thoughts if you like. But if its personal thats OK
Best to you;
Profpat |
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Gosh: Given the company we constitute together here there's already some steep competition in the departments of admixtured humor and solemnity.
I notice how Graybeard avoided calling himself omnipotent and restrained his powers to a presidential status. Given Greg's lack of resraint otherwise I'm surprised he didn't simply take the omnipotent station from which to unseat all impediments to endless festivity.
Well. If I were
omnipotent I would give everyone reason to be happy and stay that way, without any comparative need to know unhappiness in order to indefinitely experience the former (I've not ever been fond of that popular half of the issued equation).
There are so many other (otherwise subordinate, auxiliary) things that may be appropriately said to the issued consideration (Never mind
almost making nirvana in a corporeal state of being, such as in Thomas More's Utopia - we want it
all, with Greg for President.
HooRoo).
Corporeal, biological life does not live by food, clothing, medicine, shelter and love alone.
But uniform distribution of those elements in adequate quantities is a start.
Various degrees of struggle and suffering are said to go with the mortal turf, so, naturally, in Greg's administration, apparently all of that sort of stuff is out of here - and good riddance to it, I say (May we still watch re-runs of McHale's Navy, Mr. President?).
If I'm asking for a temporal Heaven here on earth then let it rip by all means. Who here in T.O.E. circles is really and roundly squared up as being realistic anyway?
(Hey Mr. Greg. Are you absolutely certain that a singularly swinging - up or down - arc of one butterfly wing does not influence events beyond the earths coordinates...? Just asking...)
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Moving right along....
There's a Dr. Peck who authored at least two books,
A Road Less Traveled, and
People of the Lie.
Everyone will have read and understood both of those books, just to be educated to how they don't have to worry about such things in an unimprovable world.
Then of course a completely comprehensive Theory of Everything would be common knowledge to everyone who would automatically understand that they'd never know everything, and we would all be reminded of how much to be grateful for by watching
The Day The Earth Stood Still (remakes): on loop, on, say, a weekly basis (A new and improved revision per week).
The overpopulation problem would be resolved.
There'd be no global warming.
War and non mutual (non consensual) combat of all kinds - and all of the reasons for same - would be abolished.
All cultures will remain intact while appreciating all other cultures.
Everything would be so peachy that there's no need for the refuge of an anthropomorphically created supreme deity (beyond the fact that there is a universe of some kind and it proves there's always some Greater Shakes: somewheres).
The big picture would be a bunch of little independent pictures.
People would be much more respectful toward one another in mutual recognition of individual marvelousness.
And everyone would be free to do what they darned pleased as long as it doesn't impose on anyone else.
Soitinly there's a lot more. Then again, there's plenty of room on this thread, and though we've reflected only a miniscule percentage of a great potential we may proceeed on a roll here... (Sorta like a daisy chain?)
I haven't covered much of what needs to be addressed here, Prof. So it's on you to continue to inspire everyone on and off the net to keep the faith of benevolent and Holy atheism.
Natural disasters and unavoidable accidents are the only things I can't abolish.
The Prof and everyone he wishes the same for get whatever they want for Christmas and their birthday, as well as one editorial wish per year granted as long as it doesn't interfere with the sequence of unimprovement that we are responsible for doing our best to
maintain.
No faux pax's or gaffes like:
'Here, let me help you, said the monkey, putting the fish in a tree'.
Ok?
'Ya gotta suffer to enjoy yerself' platforms are a no-no.
No misunderstandings of any kind allowed.
Boredom bereft of a time or place to dwell.
(No one able to afford being bored, unless they choose to be <yawn>...?)
With an agenda like that, am I qualified to move?
Dare I change the omniversal pantry?
Hope it's still okay to conventionally bake a favorite batch of cookies
with a preferred beverage?
If we lived in a (cliche resilient) perfect world, PC (for political correctness) would comfortably fall back to meaning Personal Computer and Partly Cloudy?
('Too late' will be an anachronism?)
'Only humanly being': will do nicely, thank you?
The Prof dropped a nickel in my jukebox
and got 50 cents - or a penny's - wortha music?
May the Presidential chair, rock, and the music of the spheres, roll on...
Say G'mornin', Gracie?
There's lots more raimants but then that's what threads are for?
Best regards,
- RP