[lit-ideas] Re: Ken Lay
- From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2006 14:42:14 -0400
Insults from Paul Stone, indeed several insults, while praising others for
their inspiring him. How refreshing.
> [Original Message]
> From: Paul Stone <pas@xxxxxxxx>
> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 7/5/2006 1:48:11 PM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Ken Lay
>
>
> >O'me Gassidy deliberately, provocatively posted: Kenneth Lay just died
of
> >a heart attack. We all gotta go eventually, and he did know how to
> >live. I wonder how many people will sing Ding dong the witch is dead
for
> >him? I wonder if he saw the Dick and Jane movie remake? I wonder if he
> >cared how many heart attacks he caused?
>
>
> To which I [perhaps predictably] responded: "I'm going to have certainly
> re-assess my agnostic position."
>
> To which, Aunti Sagassidy rued: "Sorry to hear that he was your god."
>
> To which, I once again tried to explain: "I meant, I may have to
re-inquire
> as to the existence of 'a just god'.
>
> To which, Ragging-on-me Andy self-righteously scolded: "A just god is
still
> just a god. Why no inquiry when Joe Average lives a
> horrendous life and/or dies a horrendous death? Just no money in it is
> just no fun. And no justice."
>
> To which I now, somewhat verveless, respond: Is your first language
> Gibberish? The main reason -- other than the obvious one -- that I don't
> believe in any religion is that a "just god" wouldn't let those who you
are
> always batting for, languish like they do. I was trying to be ironic by
> singing my version of "ding dong" by saying that I'd have to revisit this
> [non] belief because the traditional GOD has obviously done something
> right. Your killjoyishness is stultifying. I must add that Andreas and
> Julie have made me question my initial, gut reaction even further by
> postulating that perhaps a "just god" would make Ken lay for another 30
> years before giving him a grabber.
>
> Just, but not "just",
> Paul
>
>
> ##########
> Paul Stone
> pas@xxxxxxxx
> Kingsville, ON, Canada
>
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