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Re: The power of Forth

From "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.forth
Subject Re: The power of Forth
Date 2016-08-08 11:26 +1000
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lawrencedo99@gmail.com wrote:
> On Tuesday, August 2, 2016 at 7:17:28 PM UTC+12, lehs wrote:
> > I believe in Jesus, who often reminded his disciples that the honor belongs
> > to God.
>
> But Jesus *was* God <http://skepticsannotatedbible.com/contra/jesus_god.html>.
>
> Or was he?
>
> One of the things you learn about computers is that they need things spelled out
> exactly correctly. Otherwise they don't work.
>
> Religion doesn't need things spelled out this correctly. That's because, even when
> religions don't work, you can still believe they do!

Computers only require things spelled out correctly at the lowest level
i.e. its machine code.  There are as many ways to get there as there
are humans with imagination.  Doesn't that sound like religion? :)

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The power of Forth lehs <skydda.barnen@gmail.com> - 2016-08-02 00:17 -0700
  Re: The power of Forth Brad Eckert <hwfwguy@gmail.com> - 2016-08-02 11:03 -0700
    Re: The power of Forth endlessboomcapitalism@gmail.com - 2016-08-13 09:45 -0700
      Re: The power of Forth endlessboomcapitalism@gmail.com - 2016-08-14 20:11 -0700
    Re: The power of Forth polymorph self <jackvanc3@gmail.com> - 2016-09-23 16:06 -0700
  Re: The power of Forth hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2016-08-02 14:26 -0700
    Re: The power of Forth lehs <skydda.barnen@gmail.com> - 2016-08-04 08:37 -0700
  Re: The weakness of Forth "WJ" <w_a_x_man@yahoo.com> - 2016-08-03 18:24 +0000
  Re: The power of Forth mentificium@gmail.com - 2016-08-05 20:33 -0700
  Re: The power of Forth lawrencedo99@gmail.com - 2016-08-07 16:05 -0700
    Re: The power of Forth "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2016-08-08 11:26 +1000
      Re: The power of Forth lawrencedo99@gmail.com - 2016-08-09 19:01 -0700
        Re: The power of Forth lehs <skydda.barnen@gmail.com> - 2016-08-09 22:03 -0700
          Re: The power of Forth Chris Curl <ccurl609@gmail.com> - 2016-08-10 06:06 -0700
            Re: The power of Forth Cecil Bayona <cbayona@cbayona.com> - 2016-08-10 10:15 -0500
            Re: The power of Forth Bill Zimmerly <billzimmerly@gmail.com> - 2016-08-10 11:54 -0700
              Re: The power of Forth polymorph self <jackvanc3@gmail.com> - 2016-09-23 16:08 -0700
            Re: The power of Forth Ilya Tarasov <ilya74.tarasov@gmail.com> - 2016-08-12 05:22 -0700
              Re: The power of Forth endlessboomcapitalism@gmail.com - 2016-08-14 20:34 -0700
            Re: The power of Forth polymorph self <jackvanc3@gmail.com> - 2016-09-23 16:07 -0700
    Re: The power of Forth lehs <skydda.barnen@gmail.com> - 2016-08-07 18:56 -0700
  Re: The power of Forth endlessboomcapitalism@gmail.com - 2016-08-13 09:42 -0700
    Re: The power of Forth JUERGEN <epldfpga@aol.com> - 2016-08-13 12:26 -0700
      Re: The power of Forth endlessboomcapitalism@gmail.com - 2016-08-14 20:11 -0700
        Re: The power of Forth JUERGEN <epldfpga@aol.com> - 2016-08-14 22:58 -0700
          Re: The power of Forth polymorph self <jackvanc3@gmail.com> - 2016-09-23 16:09 -0700
          Re: The power of Forth polymorph self <jackvanc3@gmail.com> - 2016-09-23 16:09 -0700
          Re: The power of Forth polymorph self <jackvanc3@gmail.com> - 2016-09-23 16:09 -0700
  Re: The power of Forth polymorph self <jackvanc3@gmail.com> - 2016-09-23 16:05 -0700

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