Gravity again

[alice wellintown]

It was.  But that's all over now. Deification and Eternal Life died long
ago. So Beowulf was Christianized for eternal life, but both traditions are
useless now. The scientists took over and they don't believe in anything
except hubris and machines.


On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 7:29 PM, Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com>wrote:

> Ah, but death is the promise that makes life sweet. Without death,
> villains would live forever and perpetuate their evil without end. Without
> death, the adequately good would sit in their homes and be eternally
> adequate. Without death, life is not worth living. I guess that makes Satan
> pretty indispensable to the living.
>
> It's the evil in men that rules the underworld, the lust for deification
> and eternal life.
>
>
> On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 4:13 PM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I think the bastard landed here in South Carolina.
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> On Apr 14, 2013, at 5:34 PM, Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Yeah, but Nebraska really suck more than Wyoming? Where did Satan land
>> when he fell to Earth? Did he fall to Earth? Or did he fall into some black
>> hole somewhere?
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 1:09 PM, jochen stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> The earth just sucks.
>>>
>>>
>>> 2013/4/14 Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com>
>>>
>>>> What is gravity? To the best of my knowledge it remains undefined among
>>>> physicists. If Satan fell by cause of gravity, is gravity, then, whatever
>>>> is down? That would make for an awful lot of downs, I guess.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 11:40 AM, Lemuel Underwing <
>>>> luunderwing at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> o-or something like that
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 1:40 PM, Lemuel Underwing <
>>>>> luunderwing at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Blake says that Gravity is but an invention of Newton.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 4:01 AM, Markekohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Satan, said Chesterton, fell through force of gravity.----C.S.Lewis,
>>>>>>> 1960 preface to
>>>>>>> The Screwtape Letters.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
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