Re: virus: Level 3

Robin Faichney (r.j.faichney@stir.ac.uk)
Wed, 28 May 1997 10:13:00 +0100


Eric Boyd wrote:
>Tim Rhodes wrote:
>>
>> What of God as a tool (a meme, perhaps?) that only has to exist when
you
>> need to employ it. Like something equally non-existent, such an
imaginary
>> number or a super-organism.
>>
>> -Prof. Tim
>
>If I ever do end up beleiving in a God, this is probably the way I'll
>go... I can't actually see there really /being/ a God, but the
>postualate of His existance could turn out to be quite powerful...

Why believe in "existence"? Seems pretty faith-like to me.
Isn't it just a meme? Why not make what use you can of the
memes "God", "existence", etc, without clinging to any of
them?

Robin