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Quandary
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RE: Quandary
(October 21, 2015 at 5:52 pm)Cinjin Wrote: If God, the creator being, proved to exist it would plausibly (at least to me) mean a few things.  
One, that there is an afterlife of some sort.  After all, I don't foresee any other way of finding proof of God's existence in this current life of ours. Which means two, he made a plan for souls to move on into another form of existence.  It seems very unlikely that he's going to go to those lengths just to see tiny peons grovel for an eternity.  Would you care to make an ant bow before you - unlikely.

Neither of these are necessarily true, not to rain on your parade. They're assumptions you're making based on pre-existing god narratives; it's equally possible that there's a creator that created a universe for some other purpose, no afterlife included, that just happens to have complex life on it as an emergent property of the systems that creator put in place. Or life exists to serve a purpose that holds no benefit to the life itself; I've seen stories where human life in this world lives and dies to generate energy to fuel the magic system in some other world, that's not any more or less far fetched than an afterlife.

Quote: Three, he's an artist or at least artistic on some level and loves creating beautiful amazing things.  A universe full of life with millions of intelligent species in it.  Artistic, creative people tend to be the kind of people I spend the majority of my time with.

Beauty is a highly subjective quality, why are you assuming that a god shares exactly human ideals of beauty to begin with?

Quote: Four, God very likely wouldn't go by the name of 'God' and wouldn't subscribe to the petty human emotions that christards have assigned him ... not that I believe for a moment they would even be one in the same.

So, wait: god wouldn't be beholden to petty human emotions... but he would subscribe to human standards of beauty, and also their ideas of what he should do with them after they die?

Hopefully none of that comes across as too harsh? I mean it as a conversation starter, not an attack. Tongue
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Quandary - by Cinjin - October 7, 2015 at 2:30 am
RE: Quandary - by Minimalist - October 7, 2015 at 2:38 am
RE: Quandary - by Losty - October 7, 2015 at 2:44 am
RE: Quandary - by ignoramus - October 7, 2015 at 3:03 am
RE: Quandary - by robvalue - October 7, 2015 at 4:11 am
RE: Quandary - by Wyrd of Gawd - October 7, 2015 at 4:38 am
RE: Quandary - by robvalue - October 7, 2015 at 6:16 am
RE: Quandary - by Wyrd of Gawd - October 7, 2015 at 11:30 am
RE: Quandary - by brewer - October 7, 2015 at 1:31 pm
RE: Quandary - by RobbyPants - October 7, 2015 at 3:00 pm
RE: Quandary - by robvalue - October 8, 2015 at 1:40 am
RE: Quandary - by Cinjin - October 13, 2015 at 5:52 pm
RE: Quandary - by Edwardo Piet - October 7, 2015 at 6:28 pm
RE: Quandary - by Cinjin - October 8, 2015 at 12:22 am
RE: Quandary - by TheRocketSurgeon - October 8, 2015 at 12:40 am
RE: Quandary - by Thumpalumpacus - October 8, 2015 at 12:42 am
RE: Quandary - by TheRocketSurgeon - October 8, 2015 at 12:49 am
RE: Quandary - by Thumpalumpacus - October 8, 2015 at 1:37 am
RE: Quandary - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - October 13, 2015 at 7:44 pm
RE: Quandary - by Edwardo Piet - October 13, 2015 at 7:48 pm
RE: Quandary - by Neo-Scholastic - October 13, 2015 at 8:00 pm
RE: Quandary - by Cinjin - October 15, 2015 at 5:45 pm
RE: Quandary - by Cinjin - October 16, 2015 at 4:53 pm
RE: Quandary - by Simon Moon - October 16, 2015 at 5:46 pm
RE: Quandary - by Edwardo Piet - October 13, 2015 at 8:28 pm
RE: Quandary - by Wyrd of Gawd - October 14, 2015 at 3:42 am
RE: Quandary - by Edwardo Piet - October 14, 2015 at 9:16 am
RE: Quandary - by robvalue - October 16, 2015 at 3:21 am
RE: Quandary - by Edwardo Piet - October 16, 2015 at 7:44 am
RE: Quandary - by The Grand Nudger - October 16, 2015 at 5:05 pm
RE: Quandary - by Cinjin - October 16, 2015 at 5:43 pm
RE: Quandary - by robvalue - October 16, 2015 at 7:07 pm
RE: Quandary - by Cinjin - October 19, 2015 at 12:51 am
RE: Quandary - by robvalue - October 19, 2015 at 2:56 am
RE: Quandary - by Cinjin - October 21, 2015 at 5:52 pm
RE: Quandary - by Esquilax - October 22, 2015 at 10:21 am
RE: Quandary - by Cinjin - October 23, 2015 at 8:05 pm
RE: Quandary - by Edwardo Piet - October 23, 2015 at 8:52 pm
RE: Quandary - by Cinjin - October 24, 2015 at 5:23 pm
RE: Quandary - by Edwardo Piet - October 24, 2015 at 10:53 pm
RE: Quandary - by Cinjin - October 25, 2015 at 1:00 am
RE: Quandary - by robvalue - October 22, 2015 at 3:46 am
RE: Quandary - by The Grand Nudger - October 24, 2015 at 6:52 pm
RE: Quandary - by Cinjin - October 25, 2015 at 12:43 am
RE: Quandary - by Lek - October 24, 2015 at 8:43 pm
RE: Quandary - by Cinjin - October 25, 2015 at 1:03 am
RE: Quandary - by Edwardo Piet - October 25, 2015 at 12:45 am
RE: Quandary - by The Grand Nudger - October 27, 2015 at 9:42 pm



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