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[which_chick]

Yesterday's news: Yield curve inverts. CNN Money has the story here.

Also, I played The Bible Game last night. It contains distressingly tiny amounts of actual Bible knowledge and is mostly composed of non-Bible challenge activities. The challenges are video-game-ish and I suck at them (example challenge: Outline blocks on Tower of Babel to make them crumble, kind of a tetris effect.) compared to the computer generated characters. The game show format is remarkable for the sole singular feature I found amusing as (forgive me) hell: The Wrath of God. Think Whammy in Wheel of Fortune, only you get a rain of frogs, a swarm of locusts, masses of flies, and so forth. Playing the game show (called "Do Unto Others") is like being a pharoah, almost. You see a lot of The Wrath of God in this game, to the point where I just started to laugh at the rains of frogs. I mean, they're totally random and there's nothing you can do about them. You didn't deserve them. I can understand dying in DDR if I fuck up enough. I can understand dying in, say, Quake II if I fail to account for the snipers. I can understand getting eaten by the ghosts in Pacman. However, my mental concept of video games does not allow for random fucking rains of frogs. It doesn't make narrative sense. Anyway, given the frequency with which this game employs The Wrath of God, it was clearly designed by someone who'd read his Jonathan Edwards.

Comments

[sara-merry99.livejournal.com]

The question that I ask in this case is: How could I see the divine in something that's an integral part of being human?

What are you referring to as the integral part of being human here--the coolness of the universe or the ability to see and appreciate it?

I mean the universe would be incredibly cool whether we were here to notice it or not, right?

And I don't actually think everyone is able to see that awesome coolness--I don't think it's necessarily an integral part of being human. Maybe. Hrm. I might need to think about that more.

[electroweak.livejournal.com]

The ability to see and experience the coolness is a vast part of our humanity. It may, in fact, ultimately turn out to be what makes us human as opposed to a very dextrous ape.

[sara-merry99.livejournal.com]

Ah, fair enough. On more reflection, I think I probably agree with you about that. Which means that there are some H. sapiens running around that aren't entirely human.

Like that's a shock.