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Who would be your favourite God/dess?
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RE: Who would be your favourite God/dess?
Having given this some little thought, if I had the choice I might for some of the Discworld gods. After all, they at least pay their followers the courtesy of existing. Also their existence is ties directly to the level of belief in them, such that they evaporate neatly and tidily when people no longer believe in them.

One in particular is Nuggan:

Quote:the locally worshipped monotheistic and omnipotent God of Borogravia, but elsewhere he is known as the God of Paperclips, Correct Things in the Right Place in Small Desk Stationery Sets, and Unnecessary Paperwork. He usually sports a fussy little moustache.

His holy writ (the Book of Nuggan) is a Living Testament, into which more material is added on a regular basis. All believers regularly add pages to the ring binder Appendices, which then eventually fill with more commandments, usually Abominations unto Nuggan. By the time of [the novel] Monstrous Regiment, his commandments were becoming rather nonsensical — among his ever-growing list of Abominations (Which even the other gods of the Discworld thought are a little over the top) were cats, the colour blue, Dwarfs, oysters, mushrooms, chocolate, garlic, babies, cheese, the smell of beets, ears, jigsaw puzzles, crop rotation, shirts with six buttons, and rocks. He is also very opposed to the clacks [semaphore tower] system, as it interferes with the prayers of the faithful. [...] He is now dead because belief has switched to his abominations

[annotations] mine.

On the other hand, this guy seems very familiar...
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist.  This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair.  Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second.  That means there's a situation vacant.'
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Who would be your favourite God/dess? - by Question Mark - February 5, 2013 at 12:31 am
RE: Who would be your favourite God/dess? - by justin - February 5, 2013 at 12:42 am
RE: Who would be your favourite God/dess? - by Question Mark - February 5, 2013 at 5:29 am
RE: Who would be your favourite God/dess? - by Minimalist - February 5, 2013 at 12:45 am
RE: Who would be your favourite God/dess? - by Gilgamesh - February 5, 2013 at 12:51 am
RE: Who would be your favourite God/dess? - by Nine - February 5, 2013 at 12:52 am
RE: Who would be your favourite God/dess? - by justin - February 5, 2013 at 12:55 am
RE: Who would be your favourite God/dess? - by Gilgamesh - February 5, 2013 at 4:56 am
RE: Who would be your favourite God/dess? - by Cyberman - February 5, 2013 at 12:57 am
RE: Who would be your favourite God/dess? - by Question Mark - February 5, 2013 at 5:39 am
RE: Who would be your favourite God/dess? - by Darth - February 5, 2013 at 1:22 am
RE: Who would be your favourite God/dess? - by Nine - February 5, 2013 at 1:30 am
RE: Who would be your favourite God/dess? - by Nine - February 5, 2013 at 9:55 am
RE: Who would be your favourite God/dess? - by Cyberman - February 5, 2013 at 1:34 am
RE: Who would be your favourite God/dess? - by Anomalocaris - February 5, 2013 at 2:13 am
RE: Who would be your favourite God/dess? - by Kayenneh - February 5, 2013 at 5:36 am
RE: Who would be your favourite God/dess? - by pocaracas - February 5, 2013 at 7:47 am
RE: Who would be your favourite God/dess? - by Cyberman - February 5, 2013 at 12:23 pm
RE: Who would be your favourite God/dess? - by Violet - February 6, 2013 at 12:13 am
RE: Who would be your favourite God/dess? - by Gilgamesh - February 6, 2013 at 12:36 am

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