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David B. Axelrod Poems/Gedichte Sophistry The only god I've ever worshipped is the bell-shaped curve. 1. Life is a series of random events. Random events produce a probability curve. Probability patterns guide our lives. 2. What guides our lives is god. Probability guides our lives. The bell-shaped curve is god. 3. A lack of god means life is random. Random events produce a pattern. A lack of god creates a god. Faith and Prejudice Faith begins where reason leaves off. Thirty-two students are shot dead by a boy who is angry. „God has taken them to do his work in heaven,“ one mother says. Prejudice substitutes for reason. All so-and-sos are criminals or lazy. Faith and prejudice go hand in hand. Because you do not worship my god, you are not worthy. 28 _ZWISCHENWELT All those who do not worship my way are of no account or should be dead. Kill the infidel. Kill the Christ killers. Drive out the non-believers. Faith is che prettier name for prejudice. I do this in god‘s name. The devil makes them do that. Nothing can prove that my religion is the true faith. Nothing you do therefore is true. If it is built on false assumptions, it can not by its very nature, ever be reliable or true. In Munich From a New York Times report „Gunther von Hagen's vastly successful anatomical exhibition of preserved bodies, Korperwelten first opened in Munich in 2003) Plasticized corpses are on display in a museum. »l must be doing something right,“ their creator says, injecting the bodies of volunteers with a solution that hardens into statues. ,,200,000 people have viewed my work in just one week.“ Art critics say it's art. Theologians argue if it's disrespectful. No one mentions how the murder of 6,000,000 souls also became an art. Brains and Talent vs. Persistence If I had half his brains, I always thought I could be somebody. And that one — what talent! But my genius friend never could fit in — drinking, drinking until he shrunk his brain to ordinary and my truly-gifted friend couldn't focus, bumping into thing after thing, leaving me, ,,Axelrodthe-poet,“ still doing what I have to, still hoping I will win.
