Posted by The Humbled God on July 29, 2003 at 04:21:30:
In Reply to: Re: When sex, death and poetry grow dull posted by Andy on July 28, 2003 at 19:42:23:
As a god I know a thing or two about this. If The David were to start answering prayers that would diminish his status. Cool gods never answer prayers. Not if they're not drunk, anyway, and then they're not at all picky about what prayers to answer.
: > A possible solution:
: > What if you were randomly and very infrequently >allowed to play God with the information?
: Play God? This is *Darwinian* poetry, not ~Creationist~ poetry. It's vital that the poems remain as free as possible of design.
: Makes me wonder, doesn't this site's sort of "evolution" have a distinctly Deistic bent? I mean, the programmer works as a sort of clockmaker god, who designed the world and then left it to its own devices. And now we have Al here praying to this clockmaker for more control... I wonder, does The David respond to prayers?
: Andy