TraderJoe comments on Thanksgiving Prayer - Less Wrong

20 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 28 November 2008 04:17AM

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Comment author: TraderJoe 26 April 2012 11:04:43AM 6 points [-]

“Dear God. We paid for all this stuff ourselves, so thanks for nothing.”

-Bart Simpson

Comment author: TimS 26 April 2012 01:22:20PM * 2 points [-]

Other than the atheism applause light, what is rationalist about this quote?

Edit: In other words, Bart Simpson has plenty to be thankful for, even if God is not the appropriate receiver of thanks.

Edit2: Oops. I withdraw my objection.

Comment author: thomblake 26 April 2012 03:39:03PM 1 point [-]

Well, Bart's is basically a simplified version of Eliezer's prayer, and preceded it by quite a number of years.

And it's also a "Hey, I saw that cartoon!" applause light.

Comment author: TimS 26 April 2012 03:41:10PM 3 points [-]

Somehow, I thought this was in Rationality Quotes. My criticism is based on that erroneous context. D'oh!