An atheist came to sit next to her, and he turned to her and said, "Do you want to talk? Flights go quicker if you strike up a conversation with your fellow passenger."
The little girl, who had just started to read her book, replied to the total stranger, "What would you want to talk about?"
"Oh, I don't know," said the atheist. "How about why there is no God, or no Heaven or Hell, or no life after death?" as he smiled smugly.
"Okay," she said. "Those could be interesting topics but let me ask you a question first. A horse, a cow, and a deer all eat the same stuff - grass. Yet a deer excretes little pellets, while a cow turns out a flat patty, but a horse produces clumps. Why do you suppose that is?"
The atheist, visibly surprised by the little girl's intelligence, thinks about it and says, "Hmmm, I have no idea." To which the little girl replies, "Do you really feel qualified to discuss God, Heaven and Hell, or life after death, when you don't know crap?"
I like the joke. The issue is that it was written by P-Angel, so we get automatically defensive 🙂. Or perhaps because the atheist came out a bit lame in the joke. I'm an atheist too.
I like it when people speculate. I like to see the human brain at work. For example, different animals, different bowls. Take it from there and have fun with it. You don't have to know details. But you could work out some of them. If it happens to know something already, the rest will be an educated guess.
What I really cannot stand is when people refuse to think or engage in a new debate, even when they find the subject interesting. Instead, they say things like: "I don't know, I have no experience, I never heard of, I haven't read that yet, I haven't been taught about it at school, I can't think of anything, I'm stupid!" Fair enough. I try to avoid such people.
You've got a brain, use it!
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An atheist came to sit next to her, and he turned
to her and said, "Do you want to talk? Flights go quicker if you strike
up a conversation with your fellow passenger."
The little girl, who had just started to read her book, replied to the total
stranger, "What would you want to talk about?"
"Oh, I don't know," said the atheist. "How about why there is no God,
or no Heaven or Hell, or no life after death?" as he smiled smugly.
"Okay," she said. "Those could be interesting topics but let me ask
you a question first. A horse, a cow, and a deer all eat the same
stuff - grass. Yet a deer excretes little pellets, while a cow turns
out a flat patty, but a horse produces clumps. Why do you suppose that is?"
The atheist, visibly surprised by the little girl's intelligence,
thinks about it and says, "Hmmm, I have no idea." To which
the little girl replies, "Do you really feel qualified to discuss
God, Heaven and Hell, or life after death, when you don't know crap?"
And then she went back to reading her book.