Enjoy a randomly generated fortune:
$ fortune | cowsay _________________________________________ / ...And no philosophy, sadly, has all \ | the answers. No matter how assured we | | may be about certain aspects of our | | belief, there are always painful | | inconsistencies, exceptions, and | | contradictions. This is true in | | religion as it is in politics, and is | | self-evident to all except fanatics and | | the naive. As for the fanatics, whose | | number is legion in our own time, we | | might be advised to leave them to | | heaven. They will not, unfortunately, | | do us the same courtesy. They attack us | | and each other, and whatever their | | protestations to peaceful intent, the | | bloody record of history makes clear | | that they are easily disposed to | | restore to the sword. My own belief in | | God, then, is just that -- a matter of | | belief, not knowledge. My respect for | | Jesus Christ arises from the fact that | | He seems to have been the most virtuous | | inhabitant of Planet Earth. But even | | well-educated Christians are frustrated | | in their thirst for certainty about the | | beloved figure of Jesus because of the | | undeniable ambiguity of the scriptural | | record. Such ambiguity is not apparent | | to children or fanatics, but every | | recognized Bible scholar is perfectly | | aware of it. Some Christians, alas, | | resort to formal lying to obscure such | | reality. - Steve Allen, comedian, from | | an essay in the book "The Courage of | | | \ Conviction", edited by Philip Berman / ----------------------------------------- \ ^__^ \ (oo)\_______ (__)\ )\/\ ||----w | || ||
$output = shell_exec("/usr/games/fortune | /usr/games/cowsay"); echo $output;