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   His Highness the Wise TibetanMonkey to All   
   Re: Who's smarter, God or the Devil?   
   03 Jun 13 10:56:20   
   
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   From: thetibetanmonkey@gmail.com   
      
   On Jun 3, 9:57 am, Malcolm McMahon    
   wrote:   
   > On Sunday, 2 June 2013 17:58:33 UTC+1, His Higness the Wise TibetanMonkey,   
   Most Humble Philosopher  wrote:   
   >   
   > > As I was reading a book* last night about "meritocracy" (who's   
   >   
   > > smarter), I said to myself, "Hey wait a minute, Satan is smarter than   
   >   
   > > God. He should rule the world!" And indeed he does. Whoever runs the   
   >   
   > > world must be smarter than the competition.   
   >   
   > Who needs an intellect when you're omniscient? Isn't most of the point in   
   having an intellect about the ability to make decisions on the basis of   
   partial information? In fact I'm not sure that omniscience is even   
   _compatible_ with intellect.   
      
   Such an easy decision for Christians: Do not eat from the Tree of   
   Knowledge because God knows everything.   
      
   But didn't Satan outsmart God at the Garden of Eden? That proves my   
   point.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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