Well, he [we] wouldn't Jack, if you lot didn't go on & on postulating arguments, and concepts, and 'beings', that seem to us so pretty well self-evidently absurd.

OK, maybe, just maybe, they are not absurd, but right after all. Well then, he and I are going to look pretty silly some day, aren't we, and you will all look down from your heavenly home and pity the miners laugh at us writhing in our eternal torments, and we hope you'll have a ball. Don't we, Steve?

Maybe maybe maybe maybe

Oh, the hell with it [joke: geddit?]. It is, too, absurd!

~M~