1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8!

[PrinceMyshkin]

On the day that Dr. Marion Strong
published her irrefutable paper
“On the Inexistability of God,”
three Archbishops died,
along with numbers of clergy
in every known and hitherto unknown
faiths; as well as two leading particle physicists;
a dozen pastry chefs;
an orthodontist having an affair
with the sister of his wife;
several poets;
and an unrecognized Uruguayan novelist.

but

every eight seconds, a child was born.
1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8!

[dafydd manton]

Very neat indeed. Will one of those kids become anovelist? Who knows. Nice one.

[hillwalker]

Clever clever - love the irony behind this (both a snub of the nose and a ray of hope).

[Taliesin]

And now, after reading this poem, listen to this. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjN_F0hqtzQ)

[PrinceMyshkin]

Thanks Dafy, Hillwaker &


And now, after reading this poem, listen to this. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjN_F0hqtzQ)

What a coincidence! I figure 30.75 babies were born during that video. It seems they have a series of those: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWyG5p87--E&NR=1

[AuntShecky]

2,4,6,8--
guess who we appreciate?

That's some $50 word there "inexistablility." The dictionary lists "inexistence" and we've seen "non-existence."

Reminds me of a joke I heard way back in fourth grade:
"The newspaper says somewhere in the world a woman gives birth every 8 seconds. I say we've got to find that woman -- and stop her!"

[Delta40]

I'm thinking alot of babies need to be born before those who died in your poem can be replaced!

[Virgil]

Oh yeah! It's a keeper. :)

[Haunted]

any of those babies have 666 on their foreheads?

[angliholic]

Life goes on and on whether we exist or not!
A new generation, a new belief!
This is what I read from the poem!

[PrinceMyshkin]

Thanks Aunt Shecky, Delta, Virgil, Haunted and Angliholic.

[blank|verse]

Hmm, either I'm missing something, or this is a bit too simple and perhaps, sentimental?

Still, snappy title - I was expecting something more rock'n'roll, I have to say!

[PrinceMyshkin]

Hmm, either I'm missing something, or this is a bit too simple and perhaps, sentimental?

Still, snappy title - I was expecting something more rock'n'roll, I have to say!

The only definition of sentimentality that comes to mind is one that may have been applied to the work of JD Salinger, i.e. "That it was to love a dead cat more than God would..."

But I plead guilty to the simplicity of it: i.e, that whether the existence of God could be proven either way, a certain number and kind of men and women would die; and children would continue to be born every 8 seconds.

[dafydd manton]

Is simplicity really so bad? I think not!

[NikolaiI]

well even if I don't understand it completely, I like it, as I do most all your work.
so this Dr. Strong is a fictitious character?

[Bar22do]

It's Marian Strong, not o, and she wrote of sea cows, bulls on the beach and of stolen jewelry, couldn't care less about existence or inexistence of god... but she would pick up some of those children that are born every eight seconds and turn them into heroes of her fantastic books.

[PrinceMyshkin]

Thank you, Dafy and Nikolai,but


It's Marian Strong, not o, and she wrote of sea cows, bulls on the beach and of stolen jewelry, couldn't care less about existence or inexistence of god... but she would pick up some of those children that are born every eight seconds and turn them into heroes of her fantastic books.


I was writing about Dr. Marion Strong, whose paper proved not only that God did not exist but that His existence was an impossibility.