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How would God say fairwell?
Originally posted by AfterInfinity
reply to post by mutatismutandis
It's "farewell". I would assume "God" knows how to spell, considering he knows everything.
Originally posted by Hecate666
I think he/she should take at least a little but of responsibility. It's like abandoning your children because they become heroin addicts or criminals. Whilst the kids have obviously some fault, the parent brought them up and failed. Also if you create something [or give birth to], you have a lifelong obligation to them. You can't just go "Meh, this is cr*ap, I'm outta here".
Seriously, humans are vile creatures in general. If [and I doubt this very much] there was a creator , he/she designed us just the way we are, with all the bad things included.
If a god would so easily give up and leave us only a poem, I'd say good riddance, we have been toddling along more or less in the same way since the beginning of time anyway. So who cares?
Originally posted by AfterInfinity
reply to post by mutatismutandis
Why do I get the feeling that if the Biblical god were ever truly existent, this is exactly what happened?
Probably because if I were him, this is exactly what I would do. Or maybe I'd just destroy everything I'd created so it didn't spread like some horrible insatiable sentient disease.
Originally posted by mutatismutandis
Originally posted by AfterInfinity
reply to post by mutatismutandis
Why do I get the feeling that if the Biblical god were ever truly existent, this is exactly what happened?
Probably because if I were him, this is exactly what I would do. Or maybe I'd just destroy everything I'd created so it didn't spread like some horrible insatiable sentient disease.
Possibly why we are born into this bio dome called earth...we can either make it off together or destroy ourselves in the process.
Originally posted by AfterInfinity
reply to post by Merriman Weir
What if we're too young to understand where everything came from, and we're just groping for answers because our own weaknesses have led us to hope there is indeed reason and not just random chaos? What if religion is just a symptom of our manic search for a reason to believe that we won't just die as another failed mixture of probabilities? What if the only reason that the idea of gods even exists is that we refuse to believe we're the highest form of consciousness?
What if all of this - religion, deities, spirituality - is just another way of observing our refusal to accept ourselves as we are? Has anyone thought of that yet? Would it be so wrong to change that?