Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mind-bogglingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see it as a final and clinching proof of the non-existence of God. The argument goes something like this:
"I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing."
"But," says Man, "the Babel fish is a dead giveaway isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves that you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. Q.E.D."
"Oh dear," says God, "I hadn't thought of that," and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.
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my God has Paradox-Absorbing Crumple Zones.Syl wrote:Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mind-bogglingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see it as a final and clinching proof of the non-existence of God. The argument goes something like this:
"I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing."
"But," says Man, "the Babel fish is a dead giveaway isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves that you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. Q.E.D."
"Oh dear," says God, "I hadn't thought of that," and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.
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Which, if canonical, is no different from Russian, Greek, Ukranian, Antiochian or other canonical Churches ('cepting languages used in the Liturgies and minor variance in local practices).lord.trax wrote:I'm Serbian Orthodox.
I'm an American in Russia in the Moscow Patriarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church, myself. (That'll probably only make sense to Orthodox posters)
I know pretty much the whole general Liturgy of St John Chrysostom in Old Church Slavonic by now, and can safely sing "Our Father", the Symbol of Faith and most other regular hymns in OCS. It's actually kind of wierd hearing that stuff in English, because I was chrismated right before moving to Russia, so never got to really know services in English. But if you want to hear English, Greek and Russian music (Byzantine chant et al), you can do it here:
ancientfaith.com/
A mega-cool radio station with lots of podcasts as well.
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"These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own." G.K. Chesterton
