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   From: invalid@invalid.invalid   
      
   Ned Ludd  wrote:   
   >   
   > "Tang Huyen"  wrote in message   
   > news:347b98a4-a91c-6098-c764-335a73783605@gmail.com...   
   >> On 9/8/2016 8:31 PM, Ned Ludd wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> I hadn't heard.  Will this require the extermination of all turtles?   
   >>   
   >> Vanish the thought! If it is turtles all the way   
   >> down, what is left if they are fully exterminated?   
   >> Will thought and the imagination, mind overall,   
   >> still exist?   
   >>   
   >> On one hand, those inclined to cynicism will say   
   >> that God knows to have fun at our expense, on   
   >> the other those inclined to grace will say that   
   >> God knows to redeem himself by way of us, but   
   >> if all vanishes, up and down, what is left, God   
   >> included? And if all vanishes, will the ensuing   
   >> nothingness still exist, forever and ever more?   
   >> Would that fall to God's competence to decide?   
   >> Er, what kind of vicious circles am I getting into?   
   >>   
   >> Tang Huyen   
   >>   
   >   
   >  The thing about circles is they always take you back to   
   > where you started.   
   >   
   >  Thus, God is a circle.   
      
   Logic like that is enough make a fellow swear off using the word "thus".   
      
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