We can't know God's divine plan *warning- 'R'-rated rant ensues*
POSTED BY: chrisisall
UPDATED: Friday, February 26, 2010 19:16
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I should have known better than to get involved in this. The last thing I would ever try to do is convince someone I had any notion of what the reality of the universe actually is. Nothing of this nature can be proven either way, so why even bother speculating?
"One man's religion is another man's belly laugh." - Woodrow Wilson Smith
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Quote:Because it can be fun.
Originally posted by ecgordon:
I should have known better than to get involved in this. The last thing I would ever try to do is convince someone I had any notion of what the reality of the universe actually is. Nothing of this nature can be proven either way, so why even bother speculating?
My take is that we exist. Why?
"Why does the sun come up? Or are the stars just pinholes in the curtain of darkness? Who knows?"
The laughing Chrisisall
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Originally posted by OPPYH:Quote:
Originally posted by Storymark:
It "seems" logical.... huh.
To me, it "seems" just as "logical" (as in, there is little to be applied in the conversation) that we are just a natural occurrence.
Yeah, what is unnatural is the 'perfect placement' of everything on this earth and in our solar system.
The distance of the sun from the earth is perfect for us. Any closer, and we all be living underground. The 'hardwiring' of human sex drive. Any more and we be fiends(Tiger Woods) any less, and our numbers would eventually wither and die. Just enough to keep our species alive and kicking for the next few hundred thousand years.
Enough water(For 95% of countries anyway) for us to live comfortably. The perfection of the seasons, our life cycles in general, our nervous system, our ability to love.
If this is random I'd give my life to comprehend a planned order to the universe.
in the words of douglas adams: "you are a very intelligent mud puddle"
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"Harmless"
updated
"Mostly harmless"
My 2 cents,....if this (life, the Universe and everything) was an accident, it was a well organized accident.
Chaplain of the 76th Independant Battalion
Do not bother dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup!
...it's worse than you know...Operative
...it usually is.....Mal
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Sargon was voiced by James Doohan.
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I often think God gets bored a lot and has to figure out ways to keep himself stimulated. e.g. I firmly believe that the day he was wiring my brain he decided to be creative...acutely creative. It makes for some interesting times...and some not so interesting and downright irksome situations that I'm sure he finds amusing on a sick level. Maybe one of the reasons he may be messed up relates to the fact that many people on the planet insist on living in a state of intellectual de-volvement despite having the capacity to progress. Imagine what it would be like to spend eons creating people and trying to guide them in the right direction, only to have most of them prefer to take the ignorance trail...that would mess me up and ignite a bit of a cruel streak. Though being the creator and all he should get over it. sometimes I actually hear myself saying "suck it up God whoever you are"
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Where ever you have centralized, absolute authority you have torture chambers. Kings have their dungeons and God has His hells. You can't not. Absolute power really does corrupt absolutely and if the Holy Bible isn't a corrupt document, I don't know the meaning of the word.
But the atheists really aren't much better off, what with their Cartesian Black Iron Prison of logic and feckless automita (that's you and me and all of us, Chris); their desperate obsession with how small and insignificant human life is as if that is the ultimate answer to all inquiry. Really kinda sets the stage for a fascist take-over, don'it? I mean, if life is really so deterministic and empty of conscious control, aren't the fascists right? Isn't all meaning subjective and all truth only opinion, the world populated by half-conscious sheeple? Well is it, or isn't it? Who are we, puny mortals that we are, to object in any case? And if anyone could really achieve the atheist nirvana of the truly logical, dispassionate, indifferent being of which their universe, in its infinite idiocy of chance, stands in need, why the heck would they even care?
Let this obsession with authority and agency, insignificance and determinism go and just see where that takes you. What if life is simply an Attractor? What if essence attracts consciousness? What if that primordial monad, without the benefit of our five official senses, nonetheless intuited that there was an "out there" to its "in here" and began looking? What if the five senses aren't our only way of accessing the world around us, but just our most organized? What if the "sixth sense" is really the first--the desire to be aware, to connect, to encompass?
And this desire to be aware, to be conscious, nascent in every material thing, is what created life and continues to drive every living thing to strive toward greater and greater flourishing?
What I'm basically saying is: Who needs the Great Asshole in the Sky, when you've got Love?
HKCavalier
Hey, hey, hey, don't be mean. We don't have to be mean, because, remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
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Originally posted by chrisisall:
Because it can be fun.
My take is that we exist. Why?
"Why does the sun come up? Or are the stars just pinholes in the curtain of darkness? Who knows?"
The answer to your questions is simple: To entertain and amuse me.
You see, my world revolves around me and bends to my will. Well, from my perspective anyway.
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Quote:Cool, but has no one caught the Highlander quote?
Originally posted by Stegasaurus:Quote:
Originally posted by chrisisall:
Because it can be fun.
My take is that we exist. Why?
"Why does the sun come up? Or are the stars just pinholes in the curtain of darkness? Who knows?"
The answer to your questions is simple: To entertain and amuse me.
You see, my world revolves around me and bends to my will. Well, from my perspective anyway.
The laughing Chrisisall
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Quote:I call it the Universal Battery, but a rose by any other name, eh'?
Originally posted by HKCavalier:
this desire to be aware, to be conscious, nascent in every material thing, is what created life and continues to drive every living thing to strive toward greater and greater flourishing
Thanks HK, I can now call this thread a "win."
The laughing Chrisisall
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