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can't resist this opportunity to tell an interesting sartre story
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My favorite Sartre story is
http://www.geocities.com/sartresite/sartre_theses3.html
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For several years more, I maintained public relations with the Almighty. But privately, I ceased to associate with Him. Only once did I have the feeling that He existed. I had been playing with matches and burned a small rug. I was in the process of covering up my crime when suddenly God saw me. I felt His gaze inside my head and on my hands. I whirled about in the bathroom, horribly visible, a live target. Indignation saved me. I flew into a rage against so crude an indiscretion, I blasphemed, I muttered like my grandfather: "God damn it, God damn it, God damn it." He never looked at me again.
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This has overtones of the unforgiveable sin - a good example also of Romans 1-3.