by edmond dantes 13 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
If God decided to kill himself how would we know ?
Has God terminated his existence already and we don't realise it ?
Horrible things have been happening to the human race and other creatures for so long how can we tell the difference whether God is alive or dead?
If he's alive then he's likely not interested...
If he is interested, then he's got a very odd way of showing it (by feining disinterest)
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away."
-- Phillip K. Dick
God's alive! He recently healed a cataract.
When good things start actually happening in my life consistently, and not just on a "bait and switch" basis, that actually start reflecting the efforts I put in, that will be a good sign that that Almighty Lowlife Scumbag is dead. That almighty Parasite sucks the good right out of my life, just so he can keep me available to either live as a monk in some stupid religion, go to Beth Hell or the Value Destroyer Training School, pious-sneer, or go to Nigeria (specifically Nigeria and not some place where it's more pleasant) and rot there doing endless and stupid missions that are only going out of date within the next 140 years.
That's a good question because God has been so passive, ambiguous and reclusive there is no way of knowing.
This reminds me of a Futurama episode where Bender gets lost in space and he comes across God; the conversation goes:\
Bender: Hey! That galaxy's signaling in binary. I gotta signal back. But I only know enough binary to ask where the bathroom is. (shouting) You speak English?
Galaxy: I do now.
Bender: What are you? Some kind of galactic computer?
Galaxy: Possible. I am user friendly, my good chum.
Bender: Who built you?
Galaxy: I have always been.
Bender: Oh, my God. Are you God?
"God": Possible. I do feel compassion for all living things, my good chum.
Bender: But why would God think in binary? Unless ... you're not God, but the remains of a computerized space probe that collided with God.
"God": That seems probable.
[Scene in between]
Bender: So, do you know what I'm gonna do before I do it?
"God": Yes.
Bender: What if I do something different?
"God": Then I don't know that.
Bender: Cool! Cool! I bet a lot of people pray to you, huh?
"God": Yes. But there are so many asking so much. After a while, you just sorta tune it out.
Bender: Y'know, I was God once.
"God": Yes, I saw. You were doing well until everyone died.
Bender: It was awful. I tried helping them, I tried not helping them but in the end I couldn't do them any good. Do you think what I did was wrong?
"God": Right and wrong are just words. What matters is what you do.
Bender: Yeah I know, that's why I asked if what I did-- Forget it.
"God": Bender, being God isn't easy. If you do too much, people get dependent on you. And if you do nothing, they lose hope. You have to use a light touch like a safecracker or a pickpocket.
Bender: Or a guy who burns down the bar for the insurance money.
"God": Yes, if you make it look like an electrical thing. When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all.
Bender: Does that mean you wouldn't send me back to Earth even if I prayed to you?
"God": Earth? Which way is that?
If god exists then exisiting is all he does.
All good answers .
Everything that we think we know about God is pure conjecture ideas of mortal man. Nobody in our life time has had direct communication with the Almighty and it can't be proved that anybody in the past has had any communication with God.
Figuratively speaking God is not answering the knock on his front door and I have been around the back and still can't get any answer should I presume that he is no longer available for whatever reason? Has God left the building was he ever in the building to begin with?
Should I put a letter through his letter box saying "Will have to assume you are long gone or have suffered a demise I will have to carry on without you the best way I can."
We must assume he is dead I think because averything else is illogical we can't telephone him we can't email him he doesn't employ staff to answer his mail nothing ; missing presumed dead it seems.
he he NC, this Tim Minchin video is the mother load.
