From: Arlo Bensinger (ajb102@psu.edu)
Date: Thu Oct 28 2004 - 15:59:46 BST
At 08:44 AM 10/28/2004, you wrote:
>Hi Erin,
>Hey, congratulations to your Red Sox. 8 in a row is pretty impressive. It
>is faithful. Didn't you see all the fans in the crowd praying?
There were no doubt Cardinals fans praying too? Are you suggesting that god
favored the Sox? This reminds me of Jon Stewart's witful observation that
when athletes "hit a home run" they always "point up". But when the commit
an error, or strike out, "why don't they point up then?" Or even point down??
Perhaps the headline in St. Louis today should run, "God Deems Cardinals
Unworthy of World Series Win, Decides Sox More Faithful".
Now if we could only get god off sports betting for a while, to look at
other important global matters...
;-)
Arlo
> I'd say coincidence is a platipus, it is one of those SOM terms that
> dissolves under the MoQ. It dissolves because coincidence is not real but
> an illusion, sometimes I forget this. The MoQ says that the basis of
> reality is moral, not coincidental. Anytime something appears chanceful
> it just means you don't understand the workings behind it. The "oops" of
> science, as Platt would say. Hope this helps.
>Rich
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