is a miserable, hateful, malevolent, avaricious, money-hungry, nasty, sadistic, treacherous, cowardly creep...he should be thrown alive to the crocodiles! An anaconda should strangle him slowly! A poisonous spider should sting him and paralyze his lungs! The most venomous serpent should bite him and make his brain expl… Read more

is a miserable, hateful, malevolent, avaricious, money-hungry, nasty, sadistic, treacherous, cowardly creep...he should be thrown alive to the crocodiles! An anaconda should strangle him slowly! A poisonous spider should sting him and paralyze his lungs! The most venomous serpent should bite him and make his brain explode! No panther claws should rip open his throat--that would be much too good for him! Huge red ants should piss into his lying eyes and gobble up his balls and his guts! He should catch the plague! Syphilis! Yellow fever! Leprosy! It's no use; the more I wish him the most gruesome deaths, the more he haunts me.

'In the chapter on 'Logic' that considers the law of causality, John Stuart Mill affirms that the state of the universe at any instant is a consequence of its state at the previous instant and that for an infinite intelligence the perfect knowledge of a single instant would make it possible to know the history of the … Read more

'In the chapter on 'Logic' that considers the law of causality, John Stuart Mill affirms that the state of the universe at any instant is a consequence of its state at the previous instant and that for an infinite intelligence the perfect knowledge of a single instant would make it possible to know the history of the universe, both past and future ... In that tempered version of one of Laplace's fantasies ... Mill does not exclude the possibility that a future exterior intervention may break the series. He asserts that state q will inevitably produce state r; state r, s; state s, t; but he concedes that before t a divine catastrophe--the consummatio mundi, say--may have annihilated the planet. The future is inexorable, precise, but it may not happen. God lies in wait in the intervals.' -J.L. Borges, The Creation and P.H. Gosse