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Saturday, November 19, 2022

undeterminist

No, I didn’t intend to allude to Einstein,
though the dice crack would be apt! God
is far more poker-face than craps addict
I suspect, yet the fall of cards to Fate’s hand
has seemingly a good deal of play in it.

The game is or ought to be baccarat, yet
God’s always glomming onto what’s hot
and trendy somehow. What an infinite fan

of bandwagons.

There also seems to be a roulette angle,
something to do with the dangers of
reification, but I haven’t worked that

out yet.

Laws of physics are descriptive rules
after all: they are fundamentally caused
and cannot be the cause. I think sometimes
the determinist is the apotheosis of the

obedience addict.

The scarcity of atheist adeterminists is quite
a puzzler. Partly an enemy-of-my-enemy
solidarity? Maybe partly the fact

there’s literally nothing at stake anyway.

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