Zeev's Turnips Patch-No Politics (ZEEV)

[Zeev Hed]

I am always optimistic, it is my very nature....I have an old adage I composed a long time ago (in 1950...), "the stone that will crush me has not been created yet". At the time, I was pondering a lot of "stones", part of my "struggle" with my Jewish heritage, which I never asked to inherit, mind you, I came to the conclusion that if "g-d" exists, he surely must be quite a nasty being, and having "chosen" me for all the punishment he was dishing on me in the prior ten years, surely, "nasty" was mild. To resolve my dilemma I decided that G-d does not exist, I needed to prove it (the budding mathematician in me, of course), that is when I started to ponder stones, including the question: " Can G-d create a stone so heavy, he cannot carry it". Since G-d must be "almighty" to indeed warrant the great reverence, he does not exist, I concluded. Rationale? Since, if he can carry such a stone, he surely failed in creating the right stone, and if he succeeded in said creation, he is not almighty since there is at least one stone (a neutron star?) he cannot carry. That dilemma (which about 10 years latter, I learned was formulated in various ways long before that smart Alec came up with it, and reformulated by Bertrand Russell as the Axiom of Choice in the grand "Theory of Sets").