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RE: "You just want to be your own god"?
July 6, 2021 at 1:32 pm
Of COURSE I want to be my own god. I mean, who is better qualified? I know what can be expected of me, I know my faults and strong points, I know the price I should pay for breaking my own rules.
No one need apply for the job of Boru’s God - the position is filled, and I’m doing a smashing job of it.
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RE: "You just want to be your own god"?
July 6, 2021 at 11:26 pm
Does this work with other occupations ?
You just want to be your own plumber.
(No, not really)
You just want to be your own farmer.
(Yes, I would love that)
You just want to be your own personal stripper.
(I wouldn't really find any joy in that.)
I can't actually be my own god. I exist and becoming my own god would mean that my body would become non material and cease to exist. I wouldn't have a mind because I wouldn't have a brain. I would be nothing.
But the good news is that in a few thousand years someone might wrongly believe that I exist and there would be nothing I could do to alter that belief, because I don't actually exist.
Insanity - Doing the same thing over and over again, expecting a different result
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RE: "You just want to be your own god"?
July 6, 2021 at 11:46 pm
The closest I've ever been to being a god is through lucid dreaming.
It's my universe, and I'm in charge.
It's the second most fun thing to do when horizontal...and vying for first place.
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RE: "You just want to be your own god"?
July 6, 2021 at 11:58 pm
In non-churchspeak "being your own god" means not accepting any authority above your own. Always thought that odd. I mine isn't it ultimately up to me to decide who to trust and what to believe based on my own experiences and reasons? Is having to make up your own mind a requirement of being an adult?
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RE: "You just want to be your own god"?
July 7, 2021 at 6:58 am
(This post was last modified: July 7, 2021 at 7:00 am by brewer.)
Sometimes my little god takes control, but thankfully that's transitory. It doesn't always make the best decisions.
Being told you're delusional does not necessarily mean you're mental.
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RE: "You just want to be your own god"?
July 7, 2021 at 9:35 am
(July 6, 2021 at 12:56 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: There’s a difference between shame and fealty. Shame is a thing you feel for what you’ve done. Fealty is what crosses your mind when you imagine someone else watching. Any person who tells me that they need fealty to do right or feel shame. That person... is a piece of shit.
I make a mental note to never turn my back on them again. The only thing standing between them and skullfucking their neighbor is paranoia....and if they ever got better....they’d do worse.....
It's more like they're better people than they give themselves credit for. They imagine how terrible they would be without their God, but when they become atheists I've never seen one go on a crime spree.
I'm not anti-Christian. I'm anti-stupid.
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RE: "You just want to be your own god"?
July 7, 2021 at 11:40 am
Atheists cannot understand morality, empathy, decency, these "feelings" can only be acknowledged, appreciated, and most of all applauded by those of superior caliber.
Why just this morning, after I smoked bath salts, drank a bottle of tequila, drove (naked) to get my crack, I ran over a squadron of little old ladies on their morning jaunt. After stopping to make sure they were dead (no witnesses, right?) I assaulted their corpses. I robbed a charity, cause.....you know, why the fuck not! Humans taste better when they are sad, despondent. Especially the little ones. Getting to eat the moms twice though, that's beautiful.
Thank god I am so immoral....... I mean thank me........ I have no fucking clue that there are just certain no-no's. And even if I somehow did, I don't possess the necessary wiring capable of formulating that I am not the center of the universe. I mean after all, I am god.
NOW PUT MONEY IN THE GOLGEN CHALICE*
*Anything less than $2112.00 is considered a blasphemous insult. You or someone you love, will be smited.