sue God??

There's no sense in suing God - we should just accept that life isn't fair
Lee Randall
22 September 2007
The Scotsman
29
English (c) 2007

PROVING beyond a shadow of a doubt that life imitates art - specifically the work of television mogul David E Kelly, the man behind Ally McBeal and Boston Legal - a Nebraska state Senator by the name of Ernie Chambers is suing God. This is a device Kelly has used twice, to my knowledge. In Ally McBeal, Ling (soft L soft G) helped a little boy dying of leukaemia sue God on the basis of it being horribly unfair to die so young. By sheer artistic coincidence, the kid was played by the same tyke who "saw dead people" in the film The Sixth Sense.

A few years later, in his even more outrageous show about a group of rapacious legal eagles, Boston Legal, Kelly featured an episode in which a woman sued God because her husband was killed by a lightning bolt. (Technically, shouldn't she have sued Zeus?) That case was settled out of court when she accepted a pay-out from the company who manufactured the mobile phone her man had been speaking into at the time of the conflagration, it having been argued that the phone helped conduct electricity and was partially to blame for his demise.

Who knows whether Chambers is an avid fan of television, or if he came up with this idea on his own. Reports suggest that he is trying to prove a point about so-called frivolous lawsuits with one that's as frivolous as it can possibly be. Chambers says: "The Constitution requires that the courthouse doors be open, so you cannot prohibit the filing of suits. Anyone can sue anyone they choose - even God." And, he argues, he can do it right there in Douglas County, Nebraska, because "the defendant is omnipresent", and, that being the case, he is as good as being a local.

The suit is not without entertainment value. Chambers points out that the defendant goes by many aliases, and accuses God of making terroristic threats against humanity in the form of "calamitous catastrophes resulting in the widespread death, destruction and terrorisation of millions upon millions of the Earth's inhabitants". In other words, all those floods, earthquakes, hurricanes, wars, plagues, birth defects, etc. The suit asks that God cease and desist from such behaviour in the future.

Chambers isn't the first non-television character to sue God. A few years ago a Romanian prisoner doing time for murder tried it, claiming God broke the contract they entered into at his baptism because He failed to save him from the Devil. That case was dismissed on the basis that "God has no known address and so can't be taken to court". You'll note that Chambers has neatly sidestepped such considerations in his claim.

I don't think being a non-believer disqualifies me from pointing out some very practical problems here. For instance, how would you get God into the courtroom for the trial? How would you enforce the judgment or collect any settlement you were due? No, the whole thing is preposterous and a symbolic gesture. While it's a fine dramatic device on the telly, it's not effective here in the real world.

The bigger issue - one that keeps philosophers and theologians awake nights - is the question of whether or not life is fair. We keep insisting that it should be, despite a wealth of evidence proving it's anything but.

Why, within the last few weeks I discovered that my brother and sister-in-law, both younger than myself, in their mid-forties, are confronting serious health problems. He's had stents put into two badly clogged heart valves - the doctors marvelled that he hadn't dropped dead of a heart attack - while she has had to have a double mastectomy. The kicker is, neither of them smokes. They rarely drink alcohol. They're slim. They exercise and eat an extremely healthy diet. They even attend church.

Meanwhile, many other of my acquaintances - and, funnily enough, Crohn's or no Crohn's, I include myself in that group - live lives that are paragons of vice, yet they are significantly more robust. So what have we learned? That life is a crapshoot played with loaded dice? That something hideously awful will always find an innovative way to zing you?

I could offer many more instances of life's iniquities (and my solicitor has heard them all), but that way madness lies. No, I've decided it's more efficient to accept that unfairness exists and to find a way to work with it. I'm not arguing for passivity, but I reckon the sensible approach is to try to be good - to ourselves and to others - and to make the most of the best bits of what life has on offer. Suing God to prove a point? At the end of the day it's a pointless exercise.

it all must come to an end...

this is the last post before i officially start my long leave for hibernation
to stay in my room and mug and mug and mug till facts pour out of tiny brain
and it's exciting but i know it's going to be ho stressful
this is not how this is supposed to sound..i'm not whining!!!..(lao dieh..i maintain this!!)

anyway..i must gambatte!
my aim is to finish the syllabus in time for the exam!
should be quite simple right??....
hopefully!..*keepingfingerscrossed*

as usual, i'm making plans to go out after exams
on what i'm supposed to do...
here's a preview
- df with uncle & hy
- cut hair
- back massage
- lunch @ chinatown
- mushroom pot lunch
- lunch with kean siew
- out with tessa
- drinks!
- games

hahahhaa....i'm going to zzzzz now...
it's the road to the final now!!
jia you!!!

criminal minds

this show rocks!

if you've never caught it before....check it out under the links

yesterday was one of the most thrilling episode

dr spenser reid, kidnapped by a psycho with 3 personalities, getting tortured physically and tormented psychologically..it was really scary...

at some point, it almost seemed that he wasn't going to make it and now he's addicted to drugs??

he's definitely my fave character, with the high IQ, low EQ and the slight autism..but as it was put..anyone who's such a genius has to be autistic at some level

WATCH THE SHOW!!!

ever feel like the worst version of yourself??

i have..TODAY
jumping to conclusions and thinking the worst of this person just cause he has crossed my path previously..
i didn't get my facts right, and just assumed that he's rude, as he has treated me for the past few weeks, when in fact, he had asked for permission...
i feel nasty and quite the horrid bitch...
i think about all the other times when he was civil, he was actually quite a decent boy...
i apologise to him again, even though he doesn't see this...
i also hope that i won't ever feel like this again...

my life's in a mess!!!

the book's here!!..finally!!!
but i don't geddit!!!!!!!

aaaaaarrrrrrrrrgggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

financial calculus

what can i say?

my brains are effectively fried

amazon.com ain't helping..i still haven't gotten my txtbook!!

i must say..it's more stressful studying for an entirely new subject

esp when it's all about logic and stochastic calculus

STOP CALLING ME NERD....u guys must be thinking this in ur head...

hahahahaha

i enjoy this somehow..it's more challenging than a lot of things in my life

plus..it keeps my mind off a lot of other things!!

i need this book!!!

tremors!!

i actually felt these!!

the 12 sept at 7.10pm while in my office

the 13 sept at 7.48am while at home eating breakfast

it's not a good feeling..

u r swaying and for a split second..

u think u're going mad!!

u run ard asking if anyone else felt that...

and a sense of relief rushes over you that it's not just you...

HO HO HO SCARY AR!!..*shudder*

nerd alert!

1 x 1 = 1
11 x 11 = 121
111 x 111 = 12321
1111 x 1111 = 1234321
11111 x 11111 = 123454321
111111 x 111111 = 12345654321
1111111 x 1111111 = 1234567654321
11111111 x 11111111 = 123456787654321
111111111 x 111111111 = 12345678987654321

9 x 9 + 7 = 88
98 x 9 + 6 = 888
987 x 9 + 5 = 8888
9876 x 9 + 4 = 88888
98765 x 9 + 3 = 888888
987654 x 9 + 2 = 8888888
9876543 x 9 + 1 = 88888888
98765432 x 9 + 0 = 888888888

1x9+2=11
12x9+3=111
123x9+4=1111
1234x9+5=11111
12345x9+6=111111
123456x9+7=1111111
1234567x9+8=11111111
12345678x9+9=111111111
123456789x9+10=1111111111

1x8+1=9
12x8+2=98
123x8+3=987
1234x8+4=9876
12345x8+5=98765
123456x8+6=987654
1234567x8+7=9876543
12345678x8+8=98765432
123456789x8+9=987654321

another genius!

Jiro Wang汪東城
Background information
Birth name: Wang Dong Cheng
Also known as Jiro WangDa Dong
Born: August 24, 1981 (1981-08-24) (age 26)
Origin: Republic of China (Taiwan)
Genre(s) Mandarin Pop
Occupation(s):actor, singer, commercial model
Instrument(s):guitar
Years active: 2001–present (modeling)2004–present (acting)2005–present (singing)
Label(s): HIM International MusicWOW Music (HK Only)
Associatedacts: Fahrenheit

Jiro Wang Dong Cheng (Traditional Chinese: 汪東城; Simplified Chinese: 汪东城; Pinyin: Wāng Dōngchéng), nicknamed Da Dong (Traditional Chinese: 大東; Simplified Chinese: 大东) is a Taiwanese actor and singer. He is currently a member of the boy band Fahrenheit, and is widely known as the male lead in the Taiwanese idol drama KO One (終極一班), as Ah Jin in It Started With a Kiss and its sequel, and Shuichi Nakatsu in the live-action Taiwanese drama, Hana-Kimi (花樣少年少女).

too much

now the question in my head is..what did he say about me??
did i do anything wrong??
i just don't understand why it still bothers me so much!!
i wish i knew..should i just confront him?
coz seriously, now my blood is just boiling...他算老几？？？？？

some email...

"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away..Life is short..Live everyday to the fullest & like there is no tomorrow. 加油!!"

" The happiest people in the world are not those who have no problems,but those who learn to live with things that are less than perfect."

Coffee Story

A group of graduates, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university professor. Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life. Offering his guests coffee, the professor went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups - porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal, some plain looking, some expensive, some exquisite - telling them to help themselves to the coffee.

When all the students had a cup of coffee, the professor said: "If you noticed, all the nice looking expensive cups were taken up, leaving behind the simple and cheap ones. While it is normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and stress. Be assured that the cup itself adds no quality to the coffee. In most cases, it is just more expensive and in some cases even hides what we drink. What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you consciously went for the best cups... Then you began eyeing each other's cups. Now consider this:

- Life is the coffee; the jobs, money and position in society are the cups.

- They are just tools to hold and contain Life, and the type of cup we have does not define, nor change the quality of Life we live.

- Sometimes, by concentrating on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee God has provided us. Enjoy your coffee!."

motivational!

check this out...my kind of posters..http://despair.com/viewall.html

it suddenly dawns upon us..

3 girls sitting in a pub
3 girls sipping wine
3 girls enjoying each other's company
3 girls engaged in conversation
the night ends...

3 girls head home in different cabs
3 girls leaving with mixed feelings
3 girls each having realisation dawned upon them
it was quite a night...

all in all...it was a good night
had some wine, had good company, had a good night's sleep
some things were just meant to be kept secret..others were meant to be known
all i can say now is....WE KNOW...