Jesus/God

Achilles Sophia achillesz@usa.net
Tue, 22 Sep 1998 15:31:43 -0400 (00906510703, 19314373723765@cfagroup.com) 


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>>On Tue, Sep 22, 1998 at 12:34:26PM -0500, Joyce Murray Alim wrote:

>>> can't , don't know how

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>Jeff

>>Well, then, I hope you'll entertain the hypothesis that "God" is really

>>just the same thing that we call "eggplant" in America, or "aubergine"

>>in english-speaking countries.  The truth of this statement will be seen

>>in the failure of any attempt to disprove it.  For example, one might

>>argue that "God is loving of all creation", but that aubergine (or

>>egggplant) is generally seen as indifferent at best to suffering in the

>>world (except to the extent that natural disasters destroy aubergine

>>plants, but even then aubergines are more passsive than anything else),

>>however, I think that this argument becomes just so much empty noise

>>when you realize that "loving of all cration" means something completely

>>different when applied to eggplants than when applied to man.

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>>Jeff

>>PS The fact that no major world religion forbids eating of eggplant

>>probably impacts my argument, but in what manner I refuse to say in this

>>post.  Instead, I will keep this in reserve until such a time as heated

>>debate forces me to use it to shore up my own point of view.

>>PPS Would you believe that Jesus is courgette/zucchini?

>>--

>John Hamilton

>But eating eggplant should not effect your argument since Christians believe

>that they are symbolically eating god every time they take communion.  The

>Catholics should have even less objection since they believe they are

>*really* eating god.

>

ACHILLES
There are some in west africa who identify divinity in the kola nut, and
there is a saying "He who brings Kola brings life." 
Similiarly, in California there are some who identify water with divinity,
and a saying "She who brings water brings life."
Perhaps both of these are really just substitutes for eggplant? 
Achilles

"...we are not simply contending in order that my view or that
of yours may prevail, but I presume we ought both of us to be
fighting for the truth..."
from Philebus, the Dialogues of Plato