MichaelVassar comments on Rationality Quotes: November 2010 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Tesseract 03 November 2010 10:24:21AM 5 points [-]

If oxen and horses and lions had hands and were able to draw with their hands and do the same things as men, horses would draw the shapes of gods to look like horses and oxen to look like oxen, and each would make the gods’ bodies have the same shape as they themselves had.

Xenophanes

Comment author: shokwave 08 November 2010 04:18:04PM 5 points [-]

More likely they would write a treatise on how God wants them to keep pulling carts around.