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Thought for the day: what sort of atheist are you, Catholic atheist, or Muslim atheist?
by Sniffer | posted on 22 March 2005
Everyone knows that dragons don't exist. But while this simplistic formulation may satisfy the layman, it does not suffice for the scientific mind.
The School of Higher Neantical Nillity is in fact wholly unconcerned with what does exist. Indeed, the banality of existence has been so amply demonstrated, there is no need for us to discuss it any further here.
The brilliant Cerebron, attacking the problem analytically, discovered three distinct kinds of dragon: the mythical, the chimerical, and the purely hypothetical.
They were all, one might say, nonexistent, but each nonexisted in an entirely different way...
Stanislaw Lem, "Cyberiad"
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