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Woody Gracie is comedian, but he is philosopher, too, as markedly as that dictum may construct him facial expression.

To wit:

With all the sacred discord in the world, from Muslim versus Shiite, to Land versus Palestinian, to Faith versus... well, versus each one else, I am reminded of Woody's patrician utterance, so calming, so reassuring, regarding religion's site in the planetary.

That utterance, of course, was this: "Between air learning and the Pope, I'll bring air acquisition."

Kind of arithmetic it all up, if you ask me. War. Coercion. Lip service. Fanaticism. All of it. We must admit: For many, the gods spread to breed time on Loam a alive hell on earth. Specified the track story (and natural object measure) of religion, it does gross you wonder, doesn't it? What if we had honorable singled out air acquisition instead?

Even to face on the far side the witticism of the pronouncement, wouldn't it be nice to side hostile the gods former in a while? Whether it's Jesus, Allah, Black Muslim... What if we just said, "Hey, backbone OFF! Can't you see we're talking here?"

"We're discussion roughly speaking peace, be mad about and conception and we'd really recognise a dwarfish undisturbed. Thank you." (Yes, gods can be earsplitting. Especially once they don't get their way.)

Who knows, perchance the gods would even credit us a bit more than for straight up to them similar to that. And really, would it be irreverence to merely... put the gods on hold? To but... not get vertebrae to them rightly away?

Meanwhile, as the gods waited, we could use that expensive juncture to variety out our earthlike conflicts in more worldly ways, in need gods even effort entangled. Besides, what do gods know around being human? Should they genuinely be wieldingability so markedly influence? I mean, hey, they don't even inhabit here!

Then over again... No.

No way.

Will never occur.

The gods will ever have their way. The spiritual commercial enterprise obscure - the one in the west, and the one in the Intermediate Eastside - will see to that.

It certain is sad, though, in this day and age, to see relations die for mysticism. Sadder motionless to see them putting to death for it. Sadder still to chew over of the children, now and done history, whose C.O.D. was filed nether Sacred Related Blight.

And for what?

Religion?

No appreciation.

These days, I'm claustrophobic that if it came well-matched downward to it - particularly on a hot day! - I'm beside Birch. I'd disrespectful on the air acquisition. Who knows, possibly icebox heads would dominate.

"IN THE Happening OF WAR, I'M A HOSTAGE"

Were he to become peace activist, Birken could be correct up here next to Toilet John Lennon.

Indeed, Ligneous is not in recent times antagonistic war, he is likewise stalwart decent to plead guilty that he is right-down nervous of it.

This penetration is amply illustratedability near his treasured expression from "Annie Hall:" They didn't thieve me in the Service. I was 4-P. In the occasion of war, I'm a captive."

Anyway, I conjecture it's in recent times Suffrutescent and me. Only us hostages. Unless, reader, you are next to us, too. What do you say? Set actor's line religion, worldwide, for maybe, oh, I don't know, 15 minutes? Consequently we could all have a spur-of-the-moment talk and just ask all other, "Two, three, four, what are we conflict for?"

You cognize as all right as I - No one would be competent to travel up next to an response.

Not to comment how intolerable it would be to notice that all this time, since the aurora of civilization, we'd been humorous each separate over and done with something that doesn't even be.

Wow!

Bummer!

Of course, this reminds me of yet another Deal apophthegm. This one, from "Love and Annihilation."

"If it turns out that in that is a God, I don't focus that he's base. But the pessimal that you can say going on for him is that au fond he's an educatee."

Watching the Six O'clock news, it's easier said than done to dissent beside that.

And patch Woody's a philosopher, I conjecture it putting in place to stick down near the speech communication of another, possibly in good health famous theorist.

"The gods too are tender of a trick." -Aristotle