Editing Absurd

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	| number    = 5111
	| date      = December 6, 2018
	| title     = absurd
	| image     = 1544133976-20181206 (1).png
	| votey     = 154410899220181206after.png
	| titletext = The aliens were about to offer immortality, but saw this and changed their minds.
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==Explanation==
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==Transcript==
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:We believe in the afterlife because we find the alternative absurd.
:Within an ordered cosmos, so many unlikely events have conspired to make an impossibly complex machine called "you," only to have it live out a bewildered instant before disappearing forever.
:Cats don't invent after-lives, because they aren't smart enough seekers of pattern. They have no sense of the absurd.
:It stands to reason that if we ever meet alien life, it will have at one time believed in an afterlife, only to later discover that it was wrong.
:Conventional warfare is probably useless against any beings who've navigated across the galaxy to our little blue pond of a planet.
:Psychological warfare is our only chance of safety.
:Let us spread truth, for it is more powerful than any atomic weapon.
:I'm not sure congress is prepared to fund your astroexistentialism' program.
:Well, the good news is that nothing matters anywhere anyway.
:Too
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==Votey Transcript==
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:I hope the aliens speak english
:, a
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