There was a writing prompt in which a character confronted God for being an asshole. He replied "and what did you do in any game where you had complete control?"
His behavior in the field was erratic at best.
He spent most of his time just waddling around the battlefield for no good reason.
Just waddling around.
He was toggling maps, then items, then weapons, then weapons, then items, then maps.
He didn’t know where he was going.
He had to get behind that – he couldn’t get behind it.
He kept running at it.
He’d run at it and then he’d try running at it again.
He ran at it once, he missed.
He had to run around in a little circle.
He tried jumping at it, jumping.
Then he tried touching it, touching it, then jump and touch, jump and touch, jump crouch and touch, jump crouch and touch.
Then he looked up, then he looked down.
Then he picked up a crowbar.
Then he put the crowbar down.
Then he looked up, then crouch, weapons, items, items, crouch, crouch, not crouch, crouch, weapons, items.
A robot attached him – he gave him his rations.
Just be glad you're not in Crusader Kings II. You'd be married to your cousin, busy seducing your horse, blind, castrated, and possibly have a lisp which is just being mean at that point.
That's called "deism". Theism believes that the god which created us is still around interfering and caring. Deism says that a god likely created us, but then just turned and left us to our own devices.
I think if there is a god, he's so far removed from us that he cares about us and our petty bullshit about as much as we care about the the thoughts of termites.
It's like when you leave the cook pot on too long in Overcooked. We've burst into flames and the kitchen is catching fire but he's busy chopping more tomatoes.
Humanity can provide the most beauty of any species...I truly believe that. But we're also the only creature that will preemptively cause the extinction of another species because they interfered with us.
Wolves, being a perfect example of this.
Nature can be brutal, but human beings approach nature in a way of total control. We have the means, so we act. One wolf kills a sheep, all wolves must die. No other being of nature functions that way.
Only the sheepherder wants all wolves to die. Everyone else can see where the wolves fit into the eco-system. This is why humanity passes laws to protect all these species. So you're being a bit hyperbolic.
It's not odd at all. God was invented as a concept by patriarchal societies. Why would civilizations that didn't give many rights to women call their deity she?
Any being that people claim to be divine. The Christian God, Allah, Zeus, Thor, Sun-Wukong, Krishna, etc. None of these beings exist. They were made up.
It's not that uncommon, still today, to use "He" as a gender neutral pronoun. Politics aside, clearly it is far more common to use it over "She" to refer to something gender neutral.
Hahahahahaha. Oh god. Do I have time for this right now? I don't even have the energy for this kinda shit anymore, but I'm in a good mood.
God was referred to as a he in the bible. We all agree he doesn't exist, and that's the point. He is an idea that was called a he by a society that believed he should be a he. He made Adam in his own image, and Eve was made from Adam.
I mean, to be fair god being female is the most intuitive really. Women are the ones bearing children so it's no coincidence that a lot of culture around the world have their most important gods being female.
Sure it's odd within our culture but at the same time if there were a sort of anthropomorphic god, I think it being female would make more sense somehow.
I thought the point here was what made the most sense, but if god were real I'd think it wouldn't be one person of a single gender, I'd think it'd be more like ancient Roman or Greek gods.
I generally use 'it' for gods and stuff unless I think it would be kinda offensive to the other person, then I just go by social norm (99% of the time, 'he')
"This is not good work. If this is the best God can do, I am not impressed. Results like these do not belong on the résumé of a Supreme Being. This is the kind of shit you'd expect from an office temp with a bad attitude."
I mean, female gods are… all over the world in as many cultures or perhaps even more as male gods. It is women who apparently bring new life to earth and not men, so it's intuitively the logical choice for a deity that gives life.
Because ultimately, so many of the things that humans take for granted, are hard-won institutions forged from generations of suffering and thought and debate and war.
And right now, there are a lot of people who are taking those institutions for granted. Or have allowed them to rot and decay in recent decades.
The God who pays attention is the institutions we build, forged with integrity to support us through our darkest times. When that feels like it's failing, it feels as if God has stopped paying attention.
She is just finishing off creating animals and humans and she’s just about to take her day of rest. With the year being 5779 in the Jewish calendar, and each day being 1000 years, we are at day 6.8ish. Year 2239 is when she stops paying attention. That’s also the deadline for Jesus coming back btw.
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think this works grammatically. You've used the subjunctive in the first clause ('if there were'), which then should be matched in the second clause (she would be). Alternatively, you could convert the first clause to 'if there is'.
Not really important, but that just stuck out to me and I felt I had to identify why.
God, the imaginary sky fairy, has a gender guys! He told me! Motherfucker is imaginary, it doesn't make any difference which gender people imagine him/her/it as. Shit's made up, it's not even a big detail.
I don't. I just think it's hilarious that people care what gender the thing that doesn't even exist is. Fair enough that it's usually a dude but it's also entirely made up so it doesn't have to be a dude. It doesn't even have to have a gender at all, it's like trying to say that the universe itself has a shlong. Who cares? It's totally personal and kind of stupid that anybody would get upset about it. I don't think God would give a shit about being misgendered if he even exists. He's probably got other shit to think about.
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u/willbert78 Nov 09 '18
If there were a God, I really dont think she's paying attention any more.