### Apollo BBS Archive - May 19 - 20, 1991

    Public Bulletin Board command:$C

    Message: 75296
    Author: $ Paul Savage
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: Annie/75280
    Date: 05/21/91  Time: 05:08:25

     I consider a person as spiritually shallow when they ask about my beliefs,
    not to learn of my beliefs, but to ridicule and hold in scorn that which I
    and a lot of others hold very dear. It's not as ,uch the questions as it is
    the motives.
     As to the seriousness of Apollo, while you are right in most instances,
    when it comes to things Scriptural, I can remember several times when, after
    an extended period of endless Bible discussions, several users criticized
    the discussion as being too long and drawn out, and requested, even
    demanded, that they be terminated. Since the present one is going noplace, I
    fail to see any reason to bore those users who couldn't care less.

    Message: 75297
    Author: $ Paul Savage
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: Bill B.
    Date: 05/21/91  Time: 05:17:19

     I'm not sure just how long you have been hanging around BBSes here, Bill,
    but I have seen these same "inquiries" and "truth-seeking" over and over
    again, and have yet to see one soul converted through them. The same people
    who held the Word of God up to ridicule several years ago are still doing
    the same thing today.
     Personally, I am tired of round-robin arguments that resolve absolutely
    nothing, and if that translates into lost opportunities, as you claim, then
    so be it. I guess I'll have to answer to God when I stand before the throne
    one of these days. One thing for sure. I don't have to stand before any man
    for judgement.
     Since you are so mournful of my lost opportunities, why don't YOU engage
    the "skeptics" (I prefer "Bible bashers) in an ongoing "discussion"? Maybe
    you can even get a few jewels in your crown. Go for it!

    Message: 75298
    Author: $ Ann Oudin
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: Cat on canoe
    Date: 05/21/91  Time: 08:10:21

    Re: "I'll bet one could build quite a canoe for $2 million. Just think of
    all the accessories one could include."

    Yeah .... a couple of paddles! -=*) PEACHES (*=-

    Message: 75299
    Author: $ Ann Oudin
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: Pauley on discussion
    Date: 05/21/91  Time: 08:18:22

    Re: your "Since the present one (religious discussion) is going
    noplace"......! The PRESENT ONE???? Are you kidding with this 'present one'?
    Lets face it - it is and has been a continuous one - at least since I've
    been on Apollo!! From what I read of old posts, it has been going on since
    the beginning of Mr. Slone. It was probably programmed into his Motherboard!
    Ha ha. *>>> ANN O. <<<*

    Message: 75300
    Author: $ Ann Oudin
    Category: News Today
    Subject: New law
    Date: 05/21/91  Time: 08:32:48

    Another rediculous law on the books thanks to Fifie baby! The article reads.
    .. New signs will greet restaurant patrons in Phoenix this summer and will
    appear at restaurants throughout Arizona by next year.
    Gov. Fife symington has signed legislation that mandates the signs, which
    urge pregnant women to abstain from drinking alcoholic beaverages.
    "There is no know safe level of drinking for pregnant women" said Carol
    Keene of Phoenix Fights Back, a substand-abuse program sponsored by the
    city. "Drinking alcohol during pregnancy causes birth defects, and it's
    easily preventable" The signs will read "Warning: Drinking distilled
    spirits, beer, coolers, wine and other alcohol beaverages during pregnancy
    can cause birth defects."
    The signs will go up in Phoenix on July 1 to meet a city code, and the state
    law takes effect Jan. 1
    More than 9,000 restaurants and bars will be affected by the law!

    When is this idiocy going to stop anyway? I have went to bars and
    restaurants for years and I'll bet I never saw one pregnant women in a bar
    and darned few even in a restaurant. But what is the signs going to prevent
    - the women from drinking? What's next - a law against her drinking, period?
    What is the matter with education trough the media (also magazines,
    articles, etc.) and the woman's doctor? The article didn't state what the
    fine would be if these bars and restaurants do not comply, but any amount
    would be crazy. Next will be warnings about Cholesterol, eggs, milk, and
    beans causing flatulence! They won't need wallpaper with all the signs.

    Message: 75301
    Author: $ Ann Oudin
    Category: News Today
    Subject: more on sub.
    Date: 05/21/91  Time: 08:39:14

    Makes me wonder about the statistics of Italy where the wine consumption is
    like water here and they start out at an early age and I doubt very much if
    pregnant women abstain. Also Germany, where beer is consumned with a
    passion. I don't ever recall reading where there is a over abundance of
    birth defected people running around in either of those countries or idiot
    Savants or morons or babies born addicted to alcohol!!??!!

    As far as I'm concerned, this new law belongs in the same catagory as the
    one where they put a warning on the oven door not to stand on it!! Just as
    crazy! *>>> ANN O. <<<*

    Message: 75302
    Author: $ Bill Burkett
    Category: Religion
    Subject: Roger's Too Rational
    Date: 05/21/91  Time: 08:51:53

    > Even those who are "questioning christian beliefs" are clearly
    > thinking about those things. ... In fact, looking and reading
    > the Bible with a questioning mind is good for the Christians as
    > well.

            I have to disagree with you, Roger.
            Beliefs such as those professed by christians cannot be rationally
    supported.  They are, by definition, irrational.  Rod's quote from Mencken
    says it quite well:  "If you doubt the silliness of religious beliefs], then
    ask any pious fellow of your acquaintance to put what he believes into the
    form of an affidavit, and see how it reads...."
            To try and apply rational thought to religious convictions is pure
    folly.  It only results in confusion and bitterness.  If one is going to
    accept and profess religious beliefs -- of any type -- he or she is much
    better off simply saying, "Look.  I know it doesn't make any sense, but it
    works for me.  If you're interested in hearing how I feel about all this,
    fine.  I'm more than happy to tell you.  But, I'll never be able to satisfy
    you that it's reasonable.  It isn't.  It goes beyond reason somehow.  That's
    why they call it 'faith.'"

    Message: 75303
    Author: $ Bill Burkett
    Category: For sale
    Subject: Dean Sells It
    Date: 05/21/91  Time: 08:52:36

    > I am selling out in order to atone for my past financial sins
    > (debts).

    Go and sin no more.  Good luck, Dean!

    Message: 75304
    Author: $ Bill Burkett
    Category: For sale
    Subject: Cool Jeep
    Date: 05/21/91  Time: 08:53:00

    > How's the air conditioning on that thing?  I wouldn't want to
    > tool around the Phoenix deserts too much without it.

    Actually, you might not want to tool around the desert WITH it.  At least
    not on.  From what I've seen of others' experience, the relatively slow
    speed of four-wheeling means limited air circulation around the radiator,
    making the extra heat generated by having the a/c on often leads to
    overheating.  Pull the doors and let the air flow!  Smells better, too.

    Message: 75305
    Author: $ Bill Burkett
    Category: Drug Talk
    Subject: C U @ DQ, Rod
    Date: 05/21/91  Time: 08:53:26

    > If you were (and some of you are) a female then how would you
    > like... Label: Dairy Cow.

    Kinda makes me hope for a Dariy Queen GT.  Burgers, fries and a malt.
    Mmmmmmmm!

    Message: 75306
    Author: $ Bill Burkett
    Category: Religion
    Subject: Paul Hogs the Truth!
    Date: 05/21/91  Time: 08:53:55

    > I have seen these same "inquiries" and "truth-seeking" over and
    > over...  I'll have to answer to God when I stand before the
    > throne one of these days. One thing for sure. I don't have to
    > stand before any man for judgement.

    Interesting how you so piously reserve judgment of your actions for the
    Great Beyond, yet are so willing to condemn others based on your own
    judgment.

    > Since you are so mournful of my lost opportunities, why don't
    > YOU engage the "skeptics" (I prefer "Bible bashers) in an
    > ongoing "discussion"?

    Because I think you're full of prunes.  My objection is to the inconsistency
    in your positions; your willingness to discuss biblical matters only with
    those you deem to be "serious."  It makes your belief appear to be designed
    only for your own comfort and belies your professions of desire to share the
    word with all.

    Message: 75307
    Author: $ Roger Mann
    Category: Religion
    Subject: Rational Beliefs
    Date: 05/21/91  Time: 13:18:12

    But within a belief system such as Christianity, a tenet of that belief
    system should be able to be rationally deduced. If the outsider or skeptic
    points out an inconsistency within that system, then the believer should be
    able to either eliminate the tenet from that system or be able to resolve
    the inconsistency in a rational manner.

    Therefore, the Christian, having his faith solidly based upon a rational
    basis, given the axioms of that system, should not fear or despise the the
    attack from without, but use it to clarify and purify his own faith.

    For example, in the story of Noah, God and Jehovah seem to say inconsistent
    things relative to how many animals to take on the ark. Biblical scholars
    have discovered that the story of Noah consists of two separate accounts
    inter-twined to make one story. There is substantial evidence to back this
    claim, and the text, when read with this knowledge finally makes sense.
    Thus, the Christian, able to resolve a nagging inconsistency has his faith
    strengthened as it is no longer burdened with an indefensible position.

    Of course, there are those who deny any rational basis for belief and
    believe 10 impossible things before breakfast. These folks ARE hopeless.

    Message: 75308
    Author: $ Daryl Westfall
    Category: Religion
    Subject: Ann on God
    Date: 05/21/91  Time: 17:06:44

          But if God DOES exist, then who are we to say what He can and cannot
    do with what He created?

    Message: 75309
    Author: $ Daryl Westfall
    Category: Religion
    Subject: Rod on Elisha
    Date: 05/21/91  Time: 17:12:02

         Rod, you are showing your ignorance to the original Hebrew languages,
    and Biblical context.  I will elaborate when I am home and able to do so.

    Message: 75310
    Author: $ Apro Poet
    Category: Question?
    Subject: Guess The Author!
    Date: 05/21/91  Time: 20:06:16

    ...
      "Those are absurd doctrines which will have you on the
    dung heap in no time, my girl," said Dubois with a frown;
    "believe me; forget God's justice, His future punishments
    and rewards, the lot of those platitudes lead us nowhere but
    to death from starvation.  O Therese, the callousness of the
    Rich legitimates the bad conduct of the Poor; let them open
    their purse to our needs, let humaneness reign in their
    hearts and virtues will take root in ours; but as long as
    our misfortune, our patient endurance of it, our good faith,
    our abjection only serves to double the weight of our
    chains, our crimes will be their doing, and we will be fools
    indeed to abstain from them when they can lessen the yoke
    wherewith their cruelty bears us down.  Nature has caused us
    all to be equals born, Therese; if fate is pleased to upset
    that primary scheme of the general law, it is up to us to
    correct its caprices and through our skill to repair the
    usurpations of the strongest.  I love to hear these rich
    ones, these titled ones, these magistrates and these
    priests, I love to see them preach virtue to us.  It is not
    very difficult to forswear theft when one has three or four
    times what one needs to live; it is not very necessary to
    plot murder when one is surrounded by nothing but adulators
    and thralls unto whom one's will is law; nor is it very hard

    Message: 75311
    Author: $ Apro Poet
    Category: Question?
    Subject: Guess The Author!
    Date: 05/21/91  Time: 20:18:19

    to be temperate and sober when one has the most succulent
    dainties constantly within one's reach; they can well
    contrive to be sincere when there is never any apparent
    advantage in falsehood....  But we, Therese, we whom the
    barbaric Providence you are mad enough to idolize, has
    condemned to slink in the dust of humiliation as doth the
    serpent in grass, we who are beheld with disdain only
    because we are poor, who are tyrannized because we are weak;
    we, who must quench our thirst with gall and who, wherever
    we go, tread on the thistle always, you would have us shun
    crime when its hand alone opens unto us the door to life,
    maintains us in it, and is our only protection when our life
    is threatened; you would have it that, degraded and in
    perpetual abjection, while this class dominating us has to
    itself all the blessings of fortune, we reserve for
    ourselves naught but pain, beatings, suffering, nothing but
    want and tears, brandings and the gibbet.  No, no, Therese,
    no; either this Providence you reverence is made only for
    our scorn, or the world we see about us is not at all what
    Providence would have it.  Become better acquainted with
    your Providence, my child, and be convinced that as soon as
    it places us in a situation where evil becomes necessary,
    and while at the same time it leaves us the possibility
    of doing it, this evil harmonizes quite as well with its

    Message: 75312
    Author: $ Apro Poet
    Category: Question?
    Subject: Guess The Author!
    Date: 05/21/91  Time: 20:21:28

    decrees as does good, and Providence gains as much by the
    one as by the other; the state in which she has created us
    is equality: he who disturbs is no more guilty than he who
    seeks to re-establish the balance; both act in accordance
    with received impulses, both have to obey those impulses and
    enjoy them."
    ...

    Message: 75313
    Author: $ Apro Poet
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: Cryptography
    Date: 05/21/91  Time: 20:31:06

    Crypto seems to be becoming a hot topic.  On NPR this
    morning they had a story about the FBI attempting to make
    the transmission of encrypted data over telephone lines
    a criminal offense.  They want the law to force the
    plaintext of any such transmissions to be required to be
    available to law enforcement organizations.  The opposition
    made a good case by pointing out how this would go against
    every related precedent in U.S. history.  Banking, for
    instance, would have to cease electronic funds transfer
    because they would not be able to operate securely.
    Any comments from the cryptologists?

    You chose Religion
    Message: 75314
    Author: $ Rod Williams
    Category: Religion
    Subject: Letter
    Date: 05/21/91  Time: 22:26:43

    Dear Editor:

          What a wonderful April Fool's joke!

          The April 1st Phoenix Gazette ran Billy Graham's column with the
    headline "Discoveries of science don't contradict Bible".  I had a big
    laugh.  I remembered the verse where the bible calls the mustard seed the
    smallest of seeds (Matt. 13;31-32), which the science of botany has
    determined to be false.  The bible say that the earth has four corners
    (Rev. 7:1) and that the earth is motionless (1 Chor. 16:30) which the
    science of Astronomy has disproved.  It says that the hare chews its cud
    (Deut. 14:7) which the science of zoology has refuted.  Also it claims that
    some birds have four feet (Lev. 11;20-21) which the science of ornithology
    has refuted.  This is just a small sample of such examples in the bible.

          Then I read the column itself.  Billy Graham says "Nothing in modern
    science contradicts the Bible or makes it obsolete."  It was then I
    realized that the April Fool's joke was Billy Graham.  Apparently this
    atheist knows science and the bible better than Mr. Graham.
                                        Douglas D. McNeil

    I received a copy of this letter and thought I'd pass it along.
    Remember: Dairy Cows are in Hell.

    Message: 75315
    Author: $ Dean Hathaway
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: Last
    Date: 05/21/91  Time: 22:52:11

      The AC works fine, I just never put the full top on it so I don't turn it
    on.
       See You Later,
          Dean H.

    Message: 75316
    Author: $ Dean Hathaway
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: Bill B./sins
    Date: 05/21/91  Time: 22:58:42

      I'll try, how about buying my Jeep to get me started on the path to
    righteousness?
       See You Later,
          Dean H.

    Message: 75317
    Author: $ Paul Savage
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: Annie/present
    Date: 05/22/91  Time: 05:15:27

    While religion has been one of the ongoing topics of debate since Apollo was
    a pup, it does get a rest now and then, until somebody makes a remark
    concerning religion, and then it gets picked up again. My reference to the
    "present discussion" was in the context of the current round.
     While I doubt that the subject was programmed into Tom Slone's motherboard,
    I'm sure that the opinions expressed on both sides of the debate were
    expressions of belief (or unbelief) that had a source much older than even
    computers themselves.

    Message: 75318
    Author: $ Roger Mann
    Category: Answer!
    Subject: Apro/author
    Date: 05/22/91  Time: 07:55:27

    I'll guess Voltaire.

    Message: 75319
    Author: $ Bill Burkett
    Category: Answer!
    Subject: Guess The Author
    Date: 05/22/91  Time: 07:58:16

    Rod?

    Message: 75320
    Author: $ Bill Burkett
    Category: Answer!
    Subject: Tithe, Dean! Tithe!
    Date: 05/22/91  Time: 07:59:08

    > ...how about buying my Jeep to get me started on the path to
    > righteousness?

            Sorry.  I can barely afford the Escort with which I replaced MY
    Jeep.    It's a decent little car, but sure high-centers easily.
            There is, however, Another Way.
            We have been told many times that "It is easier for a camel to pass
    through the eye of a needle than for a Kennedy to enter the Kingdom."  I
    would encourage you to make an offering of your Jeep.  To me, of course.
    With this small gesture you will be on the road to redemption.  (I know this
    solution does little to relieve your indebtedness, but suffering is good for
    the soul.  Especially yours.)

    Message: 75321
    Author: $ Bill Burkett
    Category: Religion
    Subject: Stop Thinking, Roger
    Date: 05/22/91  Time: 07:59:50

    > But within a belief system such as Christianity, a tenet of
    > that belief system should be able to be rationally deduced.

            So how can the basis of christianity -- that Christ was the son of
    God and rose from the dead -- possibly be rationally deduced?
            You're talking rubbish here, Roger.  Religious belief is based on
    pure, blind faith alone.  It is only through its inherent irrationality that
    religion makes any sense at all.
            A wonderful paradox, no?

    Message: 75322
    Author: $ Ann Oudin
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: Bill #75302
    Date: 05/22/91  Time: 08:14:47

    Good post Bill. *>>> ANN O. <<<*

    Message: 75323
    Author: $ Ann Oudin
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: Rod on  Daryl
    Date: 05/22/91  Time: 08:22:22

    Re: Daryl's .... "Rod, you are showing your ignorance to the original Hebrew
    languages, and Biblical context."...

    You bad boy you! How can you go through this life being ignorant of the
    original Hebrew language? Tsh tsh! What's the world coming to anyway? Why,
    I'll bet you haven't even taught it to you kids have you?
    You'd better straighten up fellow. I smell brimstone.
                      *>>> ANN O. <<<*

    Message: 75324
    Author: $ Ann Oudin
    Category: Question?
    Subject: What happened to ...
    Date: 05/22/91  Time: 08:26:33

    ... Wild Barbarian anyway? Did it get to hot for him here?*>>> ANN O. <<<*

    Message: 75325
    Author: $ Apro Poet
    Category: Question?
    Subject: Guess The Author!
    Date: 05/22/91  Time: 18:31:34

    ...
      "What, pray tell, do you mean by this feeling of gratitude
    with which you fancy you have captivated me?"  Roland
    inquired.  "Be more reasonable, wretched creature; what were
    you doing when you came to my rescue?  Between the two
    possibilities, of continuing on your way and of coming up to
    me, did you not choose the latter as an impulse dictated by
    your heart?  You therefore gave yourself up to a pleasure?
    How in the devil's name can you maintain I am obliged to
    recompense you for the joys in which you indulge yourself?
    And how did you ever get it into your head that a man like
    myself, who is swimming in gold and opulence, should
    condescend to lower himself to oweing something to a wretch
    of your species?  Even had you resurrected me, I should owe
    you nothing immediately it were plain you had acted out of
    selfishness only: to work, slave, to work; learn that enough
    civilization may overthrow the principles of Nature, it
    cannot however divest her of her rights; in the beginning
    she wrought strong beings and weak and intended that the
    lowly should be forever subordinated to the great; human
    skill and intelligence made various the positions of
    individuals, it was no longer physical force alone that
    determined rank, 'twas gold; the richest became the mightiest
    man, the most penurious the weakest; if the causes which
    establish power are not to be found in Nature's ordinations,
    the priority of the mighty has always been inscribed
    therein, and to Nature it made no difference whether the
    weak danced at the end of a leash held by the richest or the
    most energetic, and little she cared whether the yoke
    crushed the poorest or the most enfeebled; but these
    grateful impulses out of which you would forge chains for
    me, why, Therese, Nature recognizes them not; it has never
    been one of her laws that the pleasure whereunto someone
    surrenders when he acts obligingly must become a cause for
    the recipiant of his gratuitous kindness to renounce his
    rights over to the donor; do you detect these sentiments you
    demand in the animals which serve us as examples?  When I
    dominate you by my wealth or might is it natural for me to
    abandon my rights to you, either because you have enjoyed
    yourself while obliging me or because, being unhappy, you
    fancied you had something to gain from your action?  Even
    were service to be rendered by one equal to another, never
    would a lofty spirit's pride allow him to stoop to
    acknowledge it; is not he who receives always humiliated?
    And is this humiliation not sufficient payment for the
    benefactor who, by this means alone, finds himself superior
    to the other?  Is it not pride's delight to be raised above
    one's fellow?  Is any other necessary to the person who
    obliges?  And if the obligation, by causing humiliation to
    him who receives, becomes a burden to him, by what right is
    he to be forced to continue to shoulder it?  Why must I consent
    to let myself be humiliated every time my eyes fall upon
    him who has obliged me?  Instead of being a vice,
    ingratitude is as certainly a virtue in proud spirits as
    gratitude is one in humble; let them do what they will for
    me if doing it gives them pleasure, but let them expect
    nothing from me simply because they have enjoyed
    themselves."
    ...

    (Author tomorrow)

    Message: 75328
    Author: $ Peter Petrisko
    Category: Answer!
    Subject: WHAT HAPPENED TO...
    Date: 05/22/91  Time: 20:00:25

    Wild Barbarian?  My guess is a drug overdose.

    Message: 75329
    Author: $ Felix Cat
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: Melissa
    Date: 05/22/91  Time: 20:11:43

    Re:  Why not Bob Cat?

    Oh man why didn't I think of that?  That's a natural.

    On second thought, I think I'll stick with Felix.  I mean, how many people
    do you know who are named Felix?  If you yell out "Bob" in a crowd, a lot of
    guys will turn and look.  But maybe if you yell out "Felix" in a crowd, a
    lot of guys will still turn and look to see what poor dude got hung with a
    name like "Felix."

    Message: 75330
    Author: $ Rod Williams
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: Ann/orig.stuff
    Date: 05/22/91  Time: 21:48:51

    Thanks, I needed that.

    My children know forty-three languages thus far and we are working on our
    forty-fourth, thank you.

    We know pig-latin (original of course), duck-latin, cow-latin, horse -latin,
    tater-latin and some more latins.

    Ann, I have a serious question for you.....if you were just a mass of free
    energy, having the universe as your playground, and you met another mass of
    pure energy but it was of different polarity.....and you decided, the both
    of you, to intertwangle and become with child....giving birth to a beautiful
    being of free, pure energy......then....then....would you send it to a place
    such as this earth for any reason???

    Any reason?  It seems rather cruel to me.  I know that our stay here is not
    long in the least in comparison to eternity but sometimes it seems like it,
    eh?

    Even if this new entity that you and the other form of energy made, did
    something terribly cruel to another then would it be sent to a place such as
    this?
    (more on this later)
                                        Thanks, Rod

    Message: 75331
    Author: $ Rod Williams
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: Milk
    Date: 05/22/91  Time: 21:53:37

    I heard another one of them "milk" commercials today.  "Yes, Milk is a
    natural."  "Drink lots of milk."  "Stay healthy, drink a lot of milk."  Milk
    helps build strong bodies 8 ways (or is that Wonder white Bread).

    Message: 75332
    Author: $ Rod Williams
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: Bill.B
    Date: 05/22/91  Time: 21:56:39

    Yeah, let's have a dairy farm gt.  We can all meet at one and watch feeding
    and milking time.  We can count how many cow pies per acre.  We can have
    load of fun boys and girls.

    If you think Cows have it so good then visit an egg ranch.  I have this
    theory that goes something like this:  If a person eats a lot of cow flesh
    then they stand an excellent chance of being reincarnated as, yes, you
    guessed it, a cow.  Dumb theory though.

    A cow is just as important as a human.  Why can't we eat humans?

                                    Rod

    Message: 75333
    Author: $ Daryl Westfall
    Category: Religion
    Subject: Ann on Me on Rod
    Date: 05/22/91  Time: 22:39:23

       What I meant is that Rod should do some basic homework before he attempts
    to speak on a topic that he knows too little about.

    Message: 75334
    Author: $ Rod Williams
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: Daryl...last
    Date: 05/22/91  Time: 22:45:49

    I was simply quoting H. L. Mencken, the author.  Why, how do you interpret
    elisha?  And did you interpret it yourself or was it interpreted by another
    for you, what?  There must be several thousand different interpretations of
    each sentence in the book in question, no?
                                            Rod

    Message: 75335
    Author: $ Rod Williams
    Category: Religion
    Subject: Gods
    Date: 05/22/91  Time: 22:48:03

    There must be at least 50,000 different gods in this world and I'd bet that
    not a single one of them would want to be worshipped or praised.  There
    would be no need for such action in any event save for choosing a mad man
    for your particular deity.            Rod

    Message: 75336
    Author: $ Rod Williams
    Category: Answer!
    Subject: Apro/author
    Date: 05/22/91  Time: 22:55:53

    Guess the author......I'd say it was someone from quite a while ago.  I've
    read Mark Twain, Richard Henry Dana and Kurt Vonnegut.  That's all the
    authors I can remember.

    I read a lot of poetry when I was growing up.  Haven't read anything
    recently but I still have a number of poems flowing in my head.  I've read
    "Face on the Bar Room Floor, Sally in my Alley, Omar Kayamm (sp), To the
    Virgins to make much of Time, Yarn of the Nancy Belle and hundreds more.

    I'd say that the author had some fairly deep feelings about their life.  He
    was a realist, it would seem.
                                            Rod

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