(June 5, 2013 at 10:28 pm)Aran Wrote: Perhaps God 'keeping people in check' wasn't the right way to put it. I didn't mean to imply that I believe the deity intervened in physical events to prevent wrongdoing. What I meant is that he would force people to behave by dangling the threat of damnation in front of them.
That's less a deity and more the parasites who proclaim to speak in its name. Most definitely they are the ones to beware when they do.
(June 5, 2013 at 10:28 pm)Aran Wrote: Do I believe human beings are capable of bettering themselves? Of course. Most of us are good. But I'm a pessimist. I'm always on the half empty.
To me, the glass is rarely half full or half empty. Rather, I try to see it as exactly twice as big as it needs to be. Most of the time it works.
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.'
