# The world is perfect?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-world-is-perfect/816554>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [June 22, 2018, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-world-is-perfect/816554 "2018-06-22T02:50:47Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2019, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-world-is-perfect/816554/142 "2019-10-31T03:35:47Z")

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You’re not the joker here. You’re the jokee.  
Quit reading that website. It’s bad for you.

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**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2019, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-world-is-perfect/816554/143 "2019-10-31T12:42:17Z")

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Casting pearls, **Beck**.

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**Author:** ![begbert2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/begbert2/32/3357_2.png) [@begbert2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/begbert2)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2019, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-world-is-perfect/816554/144 "2019-10-31T16:55:18Z")

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> [@Machinaforce](#):
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> I wasn’t making a joke, I gave him the website like he asked for.

Just to clarify the situation and hopefully put it firmly to bed, you said (underlining mine):

> [@Machinaforce](#):
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> I wouldn’t know how god sees it and I doubt he does either. But trying to debate it with him seems pointless. I tried it on his website before but after they hit me with radical skepticism I didn’t know what else to do .

The rule of thumb with pronouns that that they refer to the previous noun that matches them. (And by ‘match’ I mean plurality and gender-matching.) And that “god” sitting there at the start of the sentence can be interpreted as being the “he/him/his” that all the pronouns refer to. This results in the humourous readings where god doesn’t know how he himself sees things, where you (rightfully) don’t see much point in debating with god, and where god has a [del]starship[/del] webpage. And thus the joke, and thus the confusion, and thus the eventual collapse of civilization.

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