Comments on: The universe weighs in. Or not.

By: lauxa

lauxa — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 19:13:05 +0000

Reminds me of Jacob (Gen. 28:20-21):

And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on, so that I come again to my father’s house in peace; then shall the LORD be my God.

The point of which is not the existence/non-existence of a Deity, but just that this is an old theme…

By: emjaybee

emjaybee — Sun, 26 Mar 2006 17:08:18 +0000

No no, I’m not saying I don’t DESERVE it. Just that, it’s funny that nothing happened until I got good and mad at the Deity Who May Not Really Exist.

And hey, by your own accounts you DID get laid, Dean. Just not as fast as you wanted to.

By: rachael

rachael — Sun, 26 Mar 2006 14:26:09 +0000

lol, the Angry Prayer has many times echoed off the walls of my house (although, i don’t do that when my kids are awake).

i’m glad to hear that things are taking a turn for the better. you are right about poverty – it sucks BIG time.

By: Dean

Dean — Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:23:04 +0000

Preface: I should have averted my eyes.

I promised God many times in my childhood that I’d believe in him forever and love him forever and do his will forever if he just X-Y-Z. (In my adolescence, I imagine X-Y-Z was “get laid”.) And do I feel guilty about not believing in God even though I made those promises? Nope. Not a bit.

I’m confused, though. You got an offer for a temp job making more money than Matt’s making after working for several years as a senior editor in a New York publishing house, and you’re attributing that to the hand of God? Talk about shunning the spotlight. You earned that job. Take the credit.