What if God wasn't what you thought God was?
POSTED BY: HKCavalier
UPDATED: Monday, August 14, 2006 03:45
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Wash, that's grate.
This is the best God thread, so it should stay.
Bump.
Generally speaking, I'm with Viggo who says "God is evil, just read his book and see" which is where I got it from, but it's true. I mean sure, it makes no nevermind if God is really the flying spaghetti monster, but the book is important.
Our nation, the USA, my nation anyway, is based on a nebullous group we call "the founding fathers" which is particularly vague. Someone's founding father may be someone else's benedict arnold. But, as vague as it is, whatever the founding fathers said, that, theoretically, would be america. Now what if the founding fathers had been a bunch of axe murderers? Then america would be something different. (Australia?)
So it's important who you are using as a canon. If Ben Franklin is top dog, america becomes a republic, if it's george washington, it's a fortress, (if it's andrew jackson, it's a white's only club?)
You catch my drift, but generally speaking, america can do okay if it sticks to the founding fathers, because for the most part, they had good ideas on how to run a country.
Now take the book of God. Yhwh. It's full of some strange stuff, a few fairy tales, some history, and a few parabels (David actually hired assassins to kill goliath because he was political competition, but told his men that goliath was a crime against god because of his genetic deformity: he was 8'4")
But a lot of what the bible is full of is worship me, kill those that don't, don't do anything that gives you pleasure because you're only pleasure is me, i created everything, no i don't have proof, don't ask questions, punish the question askers, punish everyone, torture, maim, kill, destroy, rape the earth, kill everyone, genocide is good, kill the animals too, someday I'll come back and kill you all! Now do what I say... come on, it's a test. Paradise awaits, you want paradise don't you? Lie? why would I lie? You know you want it, where's the greed, you think about you, and me, and come on, oh, there's a good boy, go fetch, get me some more worshippers. Good dog, bring those sheep home.
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What if God was one of us?
Just a slob like one of us?
Just a stranger on the bus, trying to make his way home.
Like a holy rolling stone.
Sorry, that song popped in my head and now it won't leave. Thought I would spread the bug!
We are The Forsaken - We aim to burn! and we don't need no stinkin levels!
one of the Forsaken TM
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okay, you're viral marketing paid off. I took a look at the site. nifty idea. i like. I don't have time for games like this, but I like the idea. how much of the world is defined? how seriously does the mod develop the dynamics of the situation?
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Agnostic that I am, this is one of my favorite songs:
Must of been mid afternoon
I could tell by how far the child's shadow stretched out and
He walked with a purpose
In his sneakers, down the street
He had, many questions
Like children often do
He said,
Tell me all your thoughts on God?
Tell me am I very far?
Must of been late afternoon
On our way the sun broke free of the clouds
We count only blue cars
Skip the cracks, in the street
And ask many questions
Like children often do
We said,
Tell me all your thoughts on God?
'Cause I would really like to meet her.
And ask her why we're who we are.
Tell me all your thoughts on God,
Cause I am on my way to see her.
So tell me am I very far -
Am I very far now?
Its getting cold picked up the pace
How our shoes make hard noises in this place
Our clothes are stained
We pass many, cross eyed people
And ask many questions
Like children often do
Tell me all your thoughts on God?
'Cause I would really like to meet her.
And ask her why we're who we are.
Tell me all your thoughts on God?
'Cause I am on my way to see her.
So tell me am I very far?
Am I very far now
Am I very far now
Am I very far now
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Interesting question, but I think there's no "what if" about it. As they say, "the ways of the Lord passeth all understanding." Assuming God exists, he/she/it cannot be what one thought, because I think humans lack the capacity to comprehend the full meaning. Thus, all religions are wrong in their depiction of the nature of God. I've always liked that "in a mirror, darkly" thing, because it describes perfectly the mode of our understanding of the universe. If I may be so bold as to speak for scientists, we constantly have our faces rubbed in the fact that we know next to nothing about the universe, and can only come up with the most rough approximations that serve our needs at the time. This is the root of all science, in fact- acknowledge ignorance, and then constantly work toward the unattainable goal of understanding. If, as Citizen noted the Minbari say, God is the universe trying to understand itself, then, in an infinite universe, whatever belief we have about the nature of God cannot be anything except infinitely wrong. Disheartening, perhaps, but it takes the pressure off 
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