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Originally posted by Starchild23
You obviously haven't taken a psychology class.
The mind, when under duress or otherwise unpreoccupied and anxious, will continually obsess itself with "then end". In other words, it will keep track of how long you must endure, so as to retain sanity and focus.
When you are having fun, your mind releases chemicals that dull such concerns, much as a drug will dull your senses.
It has nothing to do with God. It has to do with your focus. Stop paying attention to how boring life is and make it exciting. That should solve your problems.
Originally posted by DAZ21
reply to post by Ralphy
No, I have a vast understanding of many things. It's you who is failing to see my point. To understand what I have said, you need to deepen your own understanding and knowledge.
Please state your own opinion, even constructive criticism. But don't reply if you can't comprehend the question.
Originally posted by xxsomexpersonxx
While this is the first time I heard this unique argument, it's part of the grander argument that so many things aren't the way a God would make them.
Violence and Suffering in nature.
Giving us an Immune system, only to give us Aids.
Making only .00000000000001% of his universe a place where we can actually live.
Natural Disasters.
Ect, there are hundreds.
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The Fall
The Flood
The Wage of Sin
Free Will
Once you're passed all the stock answers, the only one I can think of is "The more people suffer, the easier it is for them to be desperate, I mean, draw close to god."
Originally posted by DAZ21
Just a quick question, I was pondering apon today.
Time flys when you're having fun, and can seem to almost halt when you're not. As we all have experienced this, there is definitely something to it. I thought this God was benevolent and serious, not a practical joker.
Question is.
If God exists, why would he be so cruel as to speed up the perception of time in our best circumstances, and prolong our sense of time in our worse happenstance?
I suppose, that this is an argument against God. Why would God prolong our suffering and shorten our vivacity?
I've heard the saying, "sometimes you have to be cruel to be kind." But how far can you take it before it becomes frivolous torture?
Originally posted by DAZ21
So basically you're saying God is just a comfort blanket for the weak minded, who can't find strength within themselves?
Originally posted by DAZ21
reply to post by HeFrippedMeOff
"Suffering teaches obedience."
Good people don't need obedience, dog's do.
Why would I want to join him, and get belittled by him in every aspect?
I won't bow to a master, that makes me no better than a domesticated pet. You shouldn't have to either.
Wake up! Where is your pride?
Originally posted by DAZ21
reply to post by HeFrippedMeOff
But eternal bondage after death, forever and ever Amen.
You can serve your master if it pleases you. But I will go my own way. I'll shake God's hand as his equal, not as his subject.
Sometimes we have to stand for what is right. Were we truely free before the serpent opened our eyes to other possibilities? One being equality.