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To: NobleFree

Even the relevance can get into so many words.

And actually that isn’t even the preferable answer. Humblegunner, for example, would like to have his double meat with cheese hamburger without having to worry about the water. That turns that simple hamburger into quite an exercise! “Here’s how you reconstitute the bun... the patties... the cheese....” Even the pickle for those who want a pickle.

And here I am really stretching, because water ultimately is a metaphor for God. We can’t literally thank the water for being water, as it’s an inanimate thing. But imagine for a moment that it wasn’t inanimate. Would we be thanking the water for being in and around us? I think we would, if it had a will and could respond to that.


11 posted on 07/09/2019 12:20:39 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (May Jesus Christ be praised.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck
And actually that isn’t even the preferable answer. Humblegunner, for example, would like to have his double meat with cheese hamburger without having to worry about the water. That turns that simple hamburger into quite an exercise! “Here’s how you reconstitute the bun... the patties... the cheese....” Even the pickle for those who want a pickle.

The more you belabor HG's metaphor about the hamburger, the more you make the case that injecting God into everything derails the conversation at hand. No food establishment, particularly a burger joint will waste the customer's time with the fact that water is needed for all living things. They won't worry about how food would not exist without water. It does exist, and the job at hand is to make the burger for the customer.

Whenever I see a FR poster post something like "we need to turn to God to save our country", when the thread is about fraud on election day, I usually just gloss over those responses. I think religious responses belong in the Religion forum or in religious threads or in poster's taglines.

14 posted on 07/09/2019 1:19:10 PM PDT by Sans-Culotte (If it weren't for fake hate crimes, there would be no hate crimes at all.)
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