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If God Weren't Invisible
September 18, 2012 at 8:10 am
... what might a personal relationship with 'him' really be like? (NB: Potentially mildly NSFW)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYkxWO4Op6c?rel=0
From the crotch-bar:
Quote:"Every breath you take...every move you make...every bond you break...every step you take...I'll be watching you." ~ God (and Sting)
A great point made in a conversation I had with LiveLife8072 and NegationofP is that believers don't act like God is there, watching them. They act appropriately when someone real walks in and catches them in an uncompromising situation, like masturbating or something, but God was already supposed to be there. Perhaps this is a sign that, deep down, they don't truly believe.
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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RE: If God Weren't Invisible
September 18, 2012 at 8:20 am
Even if you throw invisibility into the mix, God talks in that one from time to time so I'd say Darkmatter's God does more than irl God even if he were made visible.
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RE: If God Weren't Invisible
September 18, 2012 at 8:52 am
Good point. Actually irl God has been so emasculated and eviscerated by its worshippers that is now the most powerless entity in the Universe. It totally depends on humans to speak for it, act for it, defend it and so on. Humans with questionable motives, I might add.
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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RE: If God Weren't Invisible
September 18, 2012 at 12:34 pm
"God" started creating the whole fucking universe, then deteriorated to the point where he had to use a flood to kill everyone and have his designated human build a boat to save his ass. You'd think that an all-powerful "god" could just do all that...but it gets worse.
By the 6th century he's reduced to the status of an aging mafia don who has to hire the fucking Babylonians to do his wet work for him and by the first century he's so fucking inept that he has to get himself - or his alleged "son" crucified to make a point.
Total fucking bullshit....all of it.
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RE: If God Weren't Invisible
September 18, 2012 at 12:51 pm
It's very revealing that all the more fantastic elements of the story got considerably less fantastic the nearer they got to actual history. God's powers, the miracles, the ages of the patriarchs; once real people started to record and investigate this stuff, all the magic faded away. It's almost as though it were all mythology.
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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