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5th Annual Konkan Fruit Fest
Promenade, D B Bandodkar Road, Panaji, Goa
16-18, May 2008
http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2008-May/073789.html
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With this ongoing debate about the cardinal and what he said and his
interpretation of God, this whole issue is kind of amusing. One just has to
take a look around to see how much of a role "God" plays in out lives. The
Jaipur blasts, the China quake, the Myanmar cyclone - As George Carlin rightly
says "If there is a God, IF there is one, He just doesnt give a sh**". And as
the genius Betrand Russel once remarked, "If I were to suggest that between the
Earth and Mars there is a china teapot revolving about the sun in an elliptical
orbit, nobody would be able to disprove my assertion provided I were careful to
add that the teapot is too small to be revealed even by our most powerful
telescopes. But if I were to go on to say that, since my assertion cannot be
disproved, it is intolerable presumption on the part of human reason to doubt
it, I should rightly be thought to be talking nonsense. If, however, the
existence of such a teapot were affirmed in ancient books, taught as the sacred
truth every Sunday, and instilled into the minds of children at school,
hesitation to believe in its existence would become a mark of eccentricity and
entitle the doubter to the attentions of the psychiatrist in an enlightened age
or of the Inquisitor in an earlier time."
Watch more of Carlin and his humorous but profound thoughts here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeSSwKffj9o&feature=related
