[lit-ideas] Re: Understanding Why The Compressor Shorted To Ground
- From: "Mike Geary" <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2007 12:37:11 -0600
God wanted this to happen to me?
You have to understand that I use the term "God" as shorthand for: whatever
happens happens because it happens. No need to look further or farther than
our father Fate. I know that jangles them what believes the Fates are female,
but that's the way the rock rolls -- in other words:
That's the way, uh-huh uh-huh,
God likes it, uh-huh, uh-huh.
Oh, that's the way, uh-huh uh-huh,
God likes it, uh-huh, uh-huh.
Yes, that's the way, uh-huh uh-huh,
God likes it, uh-huh, uh-huh.
But could it have been otherwise?
Of course it could have been. Preventive maintenance, especially cleaning the
condenser coil, oiling the fan motor, tightening electrical connections may
well have prevented or at least forestalled this burn-out. But you chose not
to have any maintenance performed on your system. And you decided that because:
That's the way, uh-huh uh-huh,
God likes it, uh-huh, uh-huh.
Oh, that's the way, uh-huh uh-huh,
God likes it, uh-huh, uh-huh.
Yes, that's the way, uh-huh uh-huh,
God likes it, uh-huh, uh-huh.
So it's all God's fault, I'm not to blame here.
Exactly. We're just Job doing our job as God likes it.
Mike Geary
living in Memphis because
That's the way, uh-huh uh-huh,
God likes it, uh-huh, uh-huh.
Oh, that's the way, uh-huh uh-huh,
God likes it, uh-huh, uh-huh.
Yes, that's the way, uh-huh uh-huh,
God likes it, uh-huh, uh-huh.
----- Original Message -----
From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Saturday, November 24, 2007 11:24 AM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Understanding Why The Compressor Shorted To Ground
Geary says:
>God wanted it that way.
-- and it's true -- and while teleological explanations are conceivable, they
are neither here nor there. We are discussing the conceivability of concepts
(conceptus --> conceive, v.)
Notably, the exchange:
A: The compressor shorted to ground.
B: I don't know what a compressor is
I don't know what to short is.
A: You don't know shit.
B: :-)
A: So?
B: Are you _explaining_ me?
A: Well, let McEvoy do that.
MCEVOY enters with an attitude,
McEVOY: Mind, I don't have the time, nor the sexual inclination, but
I'll help you guys out.
B: That's a delight to hear.
McEvoy: It's all guesswork. Guess ... Guess ... Guess ...
R. Paul: Perhaps we can adapt the example in Reichenbachian terms
(gets chalk and writes on board)
PREMISA MAIORIS:
All compressors short to ground when [God wants
that]
or other
hypothesis
And God wanted this
__________________________________
Ergo, this compressor shorted to ground.
McEvoy: Right. It's all mechanical and causal.
Phil Enns (in Indonesia, via telegram):
"I object"
Geary: What did he say?
Paul: He says he objects.
Geary: Maybe we should give him the opportunity through the phone.
(They dial Indonesia)
ENNS: "Knowing that the compressor shorted to ground because God wanted it is
inconceivable unless the knower _knows_ what a compressor is, and what to short
is --)
JLS: I would refer to the attributive/referential. I can say, "I know what a
cow is, although I never saw one -- Just hearsay. In other words, I _heard_
what a cow is."
Yost (as an aside): He is quoting from the Homeric hymn.
Etc.
J. L. Speranza
Buenos Aires, Argentina
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