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[split] A question to the darwinists - School Chat
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RE: [split] A question to the darwinists - School Chat
September 14, 2009 at 6:08 pm
Poor gods, goddesses, and other such deities Undecided Can you imagine how depressing it is for them?

There is the Kyu and 'wearing the hat' problem as well... people often react to one's power or lack of it... It might be fun initially to know everything, or to be all powerful, or the like... but at the end of the day: it becomes boring, by the end of the week it is depressing, and by the end of the month one has killed themself, gone insane, or grown absolutely numb to emotion.
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RE: [split] A question to the darwinists - School Chat
September 14, 2009 at 6:13 pm
Deities are perfect so they don't have to worry. I was thinking the same thing as Evie. It'd be an impossible job.
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RE: [split] A question to the darwinists - School Chat
September 14, 2009 at 6:14 pm
Well if gods are perfect then they don't feel the need to "want", so they don't feel depressed and kill themselves. If they felt depressed that would mean they wanted things to be different - which is an imperfect trait, I would think?

EDIT: Oops, fr0d0 beat me to it. I agree fr0d0.

P.S: LMFAO @ how much more long winded my version of the response is than yours Wink

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RE: [split] A question to the darwinists - School Chat
September 14, 2009 at 6:19 pm
That's the problem with deities: they try so hard to be perfect... that they forget how to be good Smile
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RE: [split] A question to the darwinists - School Chat
September 14, 2009 at 6:24 pm
nah deities are naturally good and perfect sae. They can't help it Tongue

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RE: [split] A question to the darwinists - School Chat
September 15, 2009 at 9:40 pm (This post was last modified: September 15, 2009 at 9:40 pm by Violet.)
Wait... are you suggesting that Hades, Zeus, YWHW, Allah, Lucifer, or really any other deity is 'GOOD'?! O.o
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RE: [split] A question to the darwinists - School Chat
September 15, 2009 at 9:45 pm (This post was last modified: September 15, 2009 at 9:45 pm by theblindferrengi.)
gods/religeon are just ideas, and even though we say thats a good idea or a bad idea, it is the actions steming from the idea that are good/bad, not the idea its self, therefore "the gods" and religeon are not bad, but neither are they good, they just are, to be interpreted and debated with thought and discussion.
Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?

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RE: [split] A question to the darwinists - School Chat
September 15, 2009 at 9:52 pm
But as they are interpreted: they can be judged as either bad or good, or even neutral. An action speaks rather loudly, and when it is recorded in words it is all the louder. Hades, Zeus, YWHW, etc. have all done horrible, evil things... and their good-evil ratio isnt so much in favor of the good. Therefore those deities can be considered bad.
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RE: [split] A question to the darwinists - School Chat
September 16, 2009 at 3:38 am
The Christian God is pure good. He's pure actuality that can only be good.
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RE: [split] A question to the darwinists - School Chat
September 16, 2009 at 2:58 pm
Keep thinking it over and over fr0d0. Lol.

I think you're married to bare assertions! No offence. Lol.

(*waits for fr0d0 to say "JP/Arcanus explained it" or "It's true by definition", etc*).

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