Gah.
Then there’s
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Dude, no.
You pray for forgiveness.
You hope for forgiveness.
You might even take a measure comfort in worshipping a god who is forgiving by nature.
But you should never take that forgiveness for granted, and you certainly shouldn’t speak on your deity’s behalf.
'Cause I know that if I had god-like power (note: this is one of may reasons why I should never be given power), I would put the requests of the people who falsely claimed to speak for me, and I would put them on the bottom of my pile of eternally-long list of things to do.
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In Jurgen, by James Branch Cabell, Heaven turns out to have a War Roof which is placed over the world whenever there is a war on to stop the blasphemous prayers of both sides for divine intervention from reaching it.
I also like Heller’s God Knows, in which King David has the Lord miraculously instruct him to do whatever it is he wants right up till he (David) has a sudden attack of insight into himself and the Lord leaves him.
Thank incomprehensible first cause of the universe that I’m an atheist and am aware that all this stuff is going to /dev/null.
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I prefer thinking it’s going to 127.0.0.1.
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See - I would have said that machines ARE magic, precisely because we set them up.
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Gotdamn! I had no idea Iris DeMent was such a badass.
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When I bookmarked that video, I tagged it with “video”, “shrew”, and “wtf”.
Well done. 
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I thought we did salvage The Other Place… that’s why we’re here!
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The movie it’s a trailer for is one of the sillier “science mistake makes big animals” trend of the 50s. IIRC the killer shrews in the movie are friendly dogs with some carpeting draped over them.
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Nice play on words!
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I’m a little surprised they got through this whole article without mentioning vibrators.
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I can see women gaining sex partners who can talk and reason on a mature level because dashing men bots will have the option to be programmed to do so, unlike human men.
On the other extreme, men have already proven how low they can sink recently with the brutish damages to rented sex bots that have been reported.
I think we’re going to diverge more severely.
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Mark this as a noted historical juncture of when the Morlocks and Eloi separate
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Interesting. I wonder if Wells meant that as a metaphor for men vs. women?
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Possibly, although the allegory is more usually read as proles vs bourgeois.
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This makes Katie Roiphe make a lot more sense.
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