Posted by Gremlin [12.255.181.7 - 12-255-181-7.client.attbi.com] on 11 July 2002 at 22.40.23 ZuluTime:

In Reply to: i thought so posted by whoami on 11 July 2002 at 22.17.13 ZuluTime:

Evolve: change, ameliorate, et cetera; not really all that amazing a word. Things evolve; anyone who says otherwise is either lying, or doesn't understand the definition of the word.

Regarding your reworded question: I think a deity is an excuse. I think that people are inherently brainless little creatures who don't know much about anything, and feel some tragic need to look as though they do; so they invent excuses. People see the sun come up and go down, and decide that they know for a fact that the planet is a flat square at the centre of the universe; people see lightning and blame it on Thor. People notice that dead people look exactly the same but no longer function, so they invent souls to explain animation. People are morons. But they're too narcissistic to admit that they have no idea what's going on. So, they create various deities to explain what they can't understand, and then decide that these deities are vastly more intelligent than they are. Ironically, that may be true, even though these deities are nothing more than shallow excuses for these various actions which have yet to be properly analysed.

Regarding your final point: if you look to the right side of your keyboard, you'll find everything from periods to commas to semicolons; these keys are your friends; they help to break up the list of words you type so that people reading them can kinda work out what you thought you were saying.