Gravity again

[alice wellintown]

Satan is useless too, as useless as Jesus and all the rest. Religion was.
Science is.


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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