{"id":30,"date":"2008-02-27T15:46:17","date_gmt":"2008-02-27T13:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/2008\/02\/27\/nietzsche_was_wrong\/"},"modified":"2012-08-09T22:29:04","modified_gmt":"2012-08-09T20:29:04","slug":"nietzsche_was_wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/2008\/02\/27\/nietzsche_was_wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"Nietzsche Was Wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The big news on the BBC World Service (<a href=\"http:\/\/network.nature.com\/london\/news\/blog\/matt\/2008\/02\/27\/who-felt-the-quake-who-felt-the-quake\">and elsewhere<\/a>)this morning was that their desks had been <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/england\/7266136.stm\">shaken by an earthquake<\/a>.  I reckon this doesn&#8217;t look good for God.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nIn olden days, when God got upset, He would <a href=\"http:\/\/gfhandel.org\/messiahlibretto.htm\">shake the heav&#8217;ns and the earth, the sea and the dry land<\/a>, and make ev&#8217;ry mountain and hill low (which must be a bummer if you&#8217;re one of those who tries to follow the instruction to &#8220;tellest good tidings to Zion&#8221; by getting &#8220;up into the high mountain&#8221;).  When he got really angry, he would smite races, flood the lands, and even burn the odd bush.<br \/>\nNowadays when He gets angry, He still tries to shake the earth, but only seems to manage to rattle a few plates.  God is evidently not dead but just rather weakened: a diety of sorrows, and acquainted with grief.<br \/>\nI do wonder what the poor folk of Market Rasen did to suffer His wrath.  Follow up on &#8220;All we like sheep&#8221; a bit too far?  Or was He aiming for Scunthorpe?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The big news on the BBC World Service (and elsewhere)this morning was that their desks had been shaken by an earthquake. I reckon this doesn&#8217;t look good for God.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}