zodiac4 Feb 2005

I don't understand how anything you've said really responds to my comment above. Would you mind clarifying?

If I get you right (and I'm not at all certain I do), things are heading in something like the following direction:

DOVINA: People (should) find God a hard guy to like because he often crushes them like insects with little or no warning, and probably no concern on his part (cf. your poem).

ZODIAC: But God knows those people are going to heaven, so he's not bound to care for their insectly earthly lives.

DOVINA: Who says there's a heaven just because there's a God?

ZODIAC: Most people.

DOVINA: That's because people want to believe God made a heaven. Maybe he didn't.

ZODIAC: Indeed maybe he didn't. It seems just as likely that he didn't as that he did. But considering that the point of this poem (or the only one I can imagine it having) is to make most people question why they think God is so swell (since he crushes people etc etc), then it's a bunk argument. Any person in the world put in that position is bound to say, Because he made a nice heaven for us to go to after we're crushed.

Incidentally, I know I'm paraphrasing something awful above. Please, please don't make the gist of your response that I've paraphrased something. You and I both know perfectly well what was really said, and if we forget, we have the comments above to reread. If you do, I'm afraid I can't be your friend anymore.

:-(