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Relativistic religion
Saturday October 04th 2008, 7:43 pm
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A group of old friends of mine (of mixed Maldenite religions) are as good at pilpul as anyone in the known  universe, and no slackers when it comes to universal laws.  A few weeks back, on a long day full of troubled memories and hurricane worries, it was refreshing to step into a conversation whose combination of surrealism and science felt like home…

Are you at Alpha Centauri, or is the chometz?  If the latter, I don’t
think the location of the chometz matters.  If the former, then this
reduces to the (admittedly difficult) problem of figuring out when
Passover begins and ends in other star systems.

The discussion quickly degenerated in a promising bidirection, into a discussion of time travel around the surface of the Earth… 

…if the japanese ship attacks the american ship and takes prisoners, then
the jewish americans will be making kiddush as the jewish japanese make
havdalah, on the same ship.

Naturally yours truly would be on that ship for reasons only peripherally related to wine and candles.

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