On Dec 29, 2009, at 11:29 AM, Stan Hoeppner <s...@hardwarefreak.com>
wrote:
Sahil Tandon put forth on 12/29/2009 9:08 AM:
God himself? Is this a joke or are you working on some creepy,
endearing biography?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analogy
According to Jewish and Christian belief, God is the creator of the
universe,
and is all knowing of all things in the universe.
Wietse created Postfix, and is all knowing of all things within
Postfix.
Via analogy, Wietse is the God of Postfix. I'm quite surprised this
required
explanation. Maybe this frequent analogy is exclusively an American
cultural
thing. Michael Jordan has been called the "God of basketball",
Donald Trump the
"God of New York real estate" (in the 80s anyway). It's frequently
used to
describe someone who is the top master of a craft, subject, sporting
or business
endeavor, etc. I believe Genghis Khan has been called the "God of
war", though
I don't know if that was coined by an American or not.
My goodness. Your idolatry (by way of analogy or otherwise) is off
topic here, please stop it. And your assumptions about posters'
natonality and culture also an epic fail. Finally, please leave the
pedantry to the experts! Last post on this thread.
