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[BOGO12953]

The following is a brief excerpt from Neil Gaiman's American Gods. There is a lot to think about in this paragraph, and potentially some good discussion:

"I can believe things that are true and I can believe things that aren't true and I can believe things where nobody knows if they're true or not. I can believe in Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny and Marilyn Monroe and the Beatles and Elvis and Mister Ed. Listen-I believe that people are perfectible, that knowledge is infinite, that the world is run by secret banking cartels and is visited by aliens on a regular basis, nice ones who look like wrinkledy lemurs and bad ones who mutilate cattle and want our water and our women. I believe that the future sucks and I believe that the future rocks and I believe that one day White Buffalo Woman is going to come back and kick everyone's ass. I believe that all men are just overgrown boys with deep problems communicating and that the decline of good sex in America is coincident with the decline in drive-in movie theaters from state to state. I believe that all politicians are unprincipled crooks and I still believe that they are better than the alternative. I believe that California is going to sink into the sea when the big one comes, while Florida is going to dissolve into madness and alligators and toxic waste. I believe that antibacterial soap is destroying our resistance to dirt and disease so that one day we'll all be wiped out by the common cold like the Martians in War of The Worlds. I believe that the greatest poets of the last century were Edith Sitwell and Don Marquis, that jade is dried dragon sperm, and that thousands of years ago in a former life I was a one-armed Siberian shaman. I believe that mankind's destiny lies in the stars. I believe that candy really did taste better when I was a kid, that it's aerodynamically impossible for a bumblebee to fly, that light is a wave and a particle, that there's a cat in a box somewhere who's alive and dead at the same time (although if they don't ever open the box to feed it it'll eventually just be two different kinds of dead), and that there are stars in the universe billions of years older than the universe itself. I believe in a personal god who cares about me and worries and oversees everything I do. I believe in an impersonal god who set the universe in motion and went off to hang with her girlfriends and doesn't even know that I'm alive. I believe in an empty and godless universe of causal chaos, background noise, and sheer blind luck. I believe that anyone who says that sex is overrated just hasn't done it properly. I believe that anyone who claims to know what's going on will lie about the little things too. I believe in absolute honesty and sensible social lies too. I believe in a woman's right to choose, a baby's right to live, that while all human life is sacred there's nothing wrong with the death penalty if you can trust the legal system implicitly, and that no one but a moron would ever trust the legal system. I believe that life is a game, that life is a cruel joke, and that life is what happens when you're alive and that you might as well lie back and enjoy it."

There are some interesting thoughts here!

[Tamisonsgrandchild]

I need one of the little emoticons that rolls on the floor, laughing it's little head off!
I think I can believe almost all of that, except the part about California falling in the ocean.  The mountains will actually continue to lift, pushing the coast range toward the Sierras and the Sierras toward the Rockies, eventually creating our Simalayan Mountains.  The valleys, however, will flood, initially, until they continue raisng high enough to drain again.

From the lifting side of the San Andreas Fault,
Tamisonsgrandchild

[BOGO12953]

A big school district recently hired several cannibals. "You are all part
of our team now", said the HR rep during the welcoming briefing. "You
get all the usual benefits and you can go to the cafeteria for
something to eat, but please don't eat any of the other employees".

The cannibals promised they would not. Four weeks later their administrator
remarked, "You're all working very hard, and I'm satisfied with you.
However, one of our secretaries has disappeared. Do any of you know
what happened to her?" The cannibals all shook their heads no.

After the administrator had left, the leader of the cannibals said to the
others, "Which one of you idiots ate the secretary?" A hand rose
hesitantly, to which the leader of the cannibals continued, "You
fool!!! For four weeks we've been eating Administrators and no one noticed
anything, but noooooo, you had to go and eat someone who actually does
something!!!

[The Citizen's Voice]

LOL   I am sure some of Malone's finest admins would shake their heads a little at this, but I know they would be smirking at the same time.