Re: virus: Level 3

Eric Boyd (6ceb3@qlink.queensu.ca)
Tue, 27 May 1997 20:56:02 -0500


Tim Rhodes wrote:
> > Is it possible that God can both exist and NOT exist and it is
> > only my level 2 mind that can only entertain one of these view points at
> > once?
>
> What of God as a tool (a meme, perhaps?) that only has to exist when you
> need to employ it. Like something equally non-existent, such an imaginary
> number or a super-organism.
>
> -Prof. Tim

If I ever do end up beleiving in a God, this is probably the way I'll
go... I can't actually see there really /being/ a God, but the
postualate of His existance could turn out to be quite powerful...

ERiC

The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable
uncertainty; not knowing what comes next. -- Ursula K. LeGuin