From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Fri Jun 28 2002 - 20:07:56 MDT
CurtAdams@aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 6/27/02 15:14:58, mlorrey@datamann.com writes:
>
>>Dream on. Ask those 14% how many times they've gasped "oh god" in
>>coitus. There are no atheists while they are holing foxes (or foxes
>>getting holed).
>
> The "oh god" business is interesting. I actually never said that
> during sex, but I do use religious terms when cursing. I still haven't
> the slightest belief. Those kinds of interjections are apparently
> divorced from their meaning. I do think that the tendency to use
> religious words under such circumstances reflect some built-in
> biology, as with similar uses of bodily function terms. If we
> understood the wiring we might better understand how people
> fall so easily for such nonsense.
Heh. No atheists in the bedroom? You might as well say that malfunctioning
appliances and buggy programs cause coprophilia.
-- Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/ Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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