[1705] in Humor
HUMOR: God, the Divine Programmer
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew Bennett)
Tue Nov 19 10:02:15 1996
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 09:53:29 -0500
To: humor@MIT.EDU
From: abennett@MIT.EDU (Andrew Bennett)
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1996 21:58:10 -0800
From: connie@interserve.com (Connie Kleinjans)
From: SGUCKEN@sqa.com
>From mail@IH (David L.Andre){+andre@ultranet.com}, on 11/13/96 11:27 AM:
From: George Feinberg <gmf@odi.com>
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Important Theological Questions that are Answered
If we Think of God as a Computer Programmer.
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Q: Does God control everything that happens in my life?
A: He could if he used the debugger, but it's tedious to step
through all those variables.
Q: Why does God allow evil to happen?
A: God thought He eliminated evil in one of the earlier versions.
Q: Does God know everything?
A: He likes to think so, but He is often amazed to find out what
goes on in the daemon scripts.
Q: What causes God to intervene in earthly affairs?
A: If a critical error occurs, the system pages Him
automatically and He logs on from home to try to bring it up.
Otherwise things can wait until tomorrow.
Q: Did God really create the world in seven days?
A: He did it in six days and nights while living on Jolt and
candy bars. On the seventh day He went home and found out His
girlfriend had left Him.
Q: How come the Age of Miracles Ended?
A: That was the development phase of the project; now we are in
the maintenance phase.
Q: Will there be another Universe after the Big Bang?
A: A lot of people are drawing things on the white board, but
personally, God doubts that it will ever be implemented.
Q: Who is Satan?
A: Satan is an MIS director who takes credit for more powers
than he actually possesses, so nontechnical people are scared of
him. God thinks of him as irritating but irrelevant.
Q: What is the role of sinners?
A: Sinners are the people who find new and imaginative ways to
mess up the system when God has made it idiot-proof.
Q: Where will I go after I die?
A: Onto a DAT tape.
Q: Will I be reincarnated?
A: Not unless there is a special need to recreate you. And
searching those .tar files is a major hassle, so if there is a
request for you, God will just say that the tape has been lost.
Q: Am I unique and special in the universe?
A: There are over 10,000 major university and corporate sites
running exact duplicates of you in the present release version.
Q: What is the purpose of the universe?
A: God created it because He values elegance and simplicity, but
then the users and managers demanded He tack all this senseless
stuff onto it, and now everything is more complicated and
expensive than ever.
Q: If I pray to God, will He listen?
A: You can waste His time telling Him what to do, or you can
just get off His back and let Him code.
Q: What is the one true religion?
A: All systems have their advantages and disadvantages, so just
pick the one that best suits your needs and don't let anyone put
you down.
Q: Is God angry that Jesus was crucified?
A: Let's just say He's not going to any more meetings if He can
help it, because that last one with the twelve managers and the
food turned out to be murder.
Q: How can I protect myself from evil?
A: Change your password every month and don't make it a name, a
common word, or a date like your birthday.
Q: Some people claim they hear the voice of God. Is this true?
A: They are much more likely to receive email.
Q: What was Aramaic?
A: The original Higher Order MACRO Language.
Q: What does that make Ancient Hebrew?
A: Aramaic++
Q: Why don't we see God at work?
A: God works at interrupt level. When He wants to do something,
He suspends our processes, saves our registers and status, and
swaps us out. Then He works His will on the world. Then He
swaps us back in, restores our registers and status, and resumes
our execution. To us, things appear to change by magic.
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