Question:
Who coined the phrase, "God-shaped vacuum"?
2006-06-19 14:20:13 UTC
Today's birthday boy!
Blaise Pascal, French mathematician, philosopher and physicist, born June 19, 1623:
"There is a God-shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus."

Do you agree with Monsieur P.?
Nine answers:
2006-06-19 14:26:54 UTC
I surely do agree with the good Monsieur.



And thank you for lifting my spirits. I learned something I didn't know.
C P R
2006-06-19 14:36:23 UTC
Before God decided to become the all-mighty, he was the inventor of the vacuum cleaner. But because it was God-shaped, nobody believed it would work. Not to mention he was way ahead of his time, being that there was no electricity in the beginning of creation. Later, after his career change to supreme being, his old friend Stanley found the old plans God had drawn up. He tried to sell his vacuum as well in more of a demi-god shape, but had just as bad of luck. Later, he asked God for a favor, and so God created dust. The rest is history, and today the Stanley Steamer picks up more than just dust, as God also created the stain. Stanley's business partner was named Jesus, a Mexican immigrant who was the real brains behind Stanley's success. So of course Blase Pascal is just paying tribute to Jesus, in that elusive hidden way that scholars do. The end.
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2016-11-15 04:57:52 UTC
the perception isn't one used in remedy through functional analysts. it should be used to make a level even if the idea probable derived from a paper someone wrote. Anthropological psychologists speculate that some persons will be confident that they are listening to voices and that this became more effective generic in Mesopotamia than now. they don't look implying fantasy yet actual glaring voices created through our mind. there would properly be a psychological predilection for non secular delusion both in historic guy and in us moderns and analyze is being executed in this possibility. this can be a subject matter truly worth looking in to. good question. i am going to say that that is instantly ahead information between analysts that our assumptions are very a lot influenced through our perception device. If docs carry out an amazingly effectual operation on an fairly ill infant the moms and dads will frequently say...'thanks' to a deity previously they thank the medical team what executed the deed. that is an celebration of permitting perception to impression one's appraisal of reality. often, this would properly be benign yet, no longer continuously.
michael s
2006-06-19 15:01:42 UTC
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2006-06-19 14:23:38 UTC
Cool quote.



I think Augustine said something similiar.
lowonbrain
2006-06-19 14:25:13 UTC
The vacuum cleaner talking about it's ancestral origin. :-)
2006-06-19 14:42:10 UTC
No, and I may lose it if I have to read one more Pascal's wager question....
whynotaskdon
2006-06-19 14:22:23 UTC
Been around for a long long time.. anonamous
2006-06-19 14:23:14 UTC
Of course not. Stupid Frenchman.


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