Subj : Re: "Hams to the Rescue After Katrina" MSNBC News Article To : alt.ham-radio.vhf-uhf,rec.radio.amateur.antenna,rec.radio.amateur.dx,rec.radio.amateur.equipment,rec.radio.amateur.policy From : Fred W4JLE Date : Sat Sep 24 2005 11:46:31 From Newsgroup: alt.ham-radio.vhf-uhf My favorite was a short story years ago called "All the names of God". Seems a group of monks in Tibet or some other eastern place were writing all the possible perturbations of their alphabet. Having completed the task the universe would end as mans purpose had been fulfilled. At the rate they were going the task would be completed in about another 400,000 years or so... That was until an enterprising computer salesman showed them that with a sufficiently large order from his company, the task could be finished in 3 weeks. As the end of the run came near, the salesman decided to get out of Dodge, as he did not want to deal with a group of pissed off monks when the universe didn't end. Besides he had a hell of a commision to spend! The last line was a classic "As he looked out the window of the airplane, silently, one by one, the stars were going out". "Cecil Moore" wrote in message news:VodZe.2610$G64.2073@newssvr12.news.prodigy.com... > Fred W4JLE wrote: > > > Your lack of education is showing. It is a Jewish thing, the name of God is > > never written in any form that can be erased. > > That's kinda strange since "God" is a title, NOT a name. > Do they also refuse to write "Lord", I wonder? Do they > refuse to write "Elohim", i.e. the Genesis Gods? How about > "Jehovah" and "Allah"? > -- > 73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp .