[kj] PROOF THAT THERE IS NO GOD!

[Alex Smith]

I appreciate the subversive spin, but I doubt it was intentional on their part (although, I suppose it *might* have been). I'm objecting more to the surface-level aspect of it.

Alex in NYC




-----Original Message-----

>From: John Carville <John at PRIO.NO>

>Sent: Jan 19, 2007 10:10 AM

>To: gathering at misera.net

>Subject: Re: [kj] PROOF THAT THERE IS NO GOD!

>

>Alexander Smith wrote: 

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>There's an television ad here in the `States making the rounds at the

>moment. It features "Everybody's Happy Nowadays" by the Buzzcocks.

>Here's the kicker.

>The advertisement is for THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF RETIRED PERSONS.

>Like I said, a benevolent God would not have let this happen.

>So let's drop all this religion bullshit, shall we?

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>

>LOL! That's hilarious! Of course, 'Everybody's Happy Nowadays' is a key

>slogan in Aldous Huxley's 'Brave New World'. In that novel, 'everybody'

>is happy because they're taking mind-altering drugs to keep them that

>way - as well as the system ticking over - somewhat like in George

>Lucas's THX1138. In 'Brave New World', as one website puts it,

>'happiness derives from consuming mass-produced goods, sports such as

>Obstacle Golf and Centrifugal Bumble-puppy, promiscuous sex, "the

>feelies", and most famously of all, a supposedly perfect pleasure-drug,

>soma.'

>

>In other words, Prozac, golf, shopping and Viagra! Say hello to Florida

>and the mindlessness of the Modern World!!!! 

>

>The fact that the lesser demons making that advert chose 'Everybody's

>Happy Nowadays' for the soundtrack is a piece of Divine Justice, nothing

>less. So, thanks for the info. I'm afraid you may have drawn the wrong

>conclusion from it, though!

>

>'Life's an illusion, love is a dream.'

>

>:-D

>

>JC 

>Oslo, Norway

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