I'm high and.. something new popped into my head. I just read something.. and it gets me thinking about how all these people see their gods as positive beings.. you know, good. But.. they're thankful for the 'good things' god/s do which seem very small compared to the BAD STUFF THEY DO! look, disaster in pakistan, multitudes of hurricanes hit, coming, and on the way! War, death, destruction!. When people start to realize that if there is a god, hes fucked in the head or whatever, I forsee a pseudo-religion that holds shrines to berate and torture the name/s of god/s because of all the bad shit they do. I mean, when you count the good stuff and dont see bad shit affecting millions of more people that counter the mental affect on non believers by a bazillion to 1. We can tell when shit is fucked up! We don't pretend god will take it away, because we realize there is no fucking god.
Christians (and monotheists - even though some don't consider christian's this because of the trinity and all) would say that the bad shit is brought upon ourseslves, because of our "sinful" actions. Polytheists have their "good" and "evil" gods - they don't think all gods are good.
And people who actually know God just say "I've seen enough Good come from God's plan and trimming of the garden of creation that I don't complain (too much ) when the sheers snip off a beautiful flower to make the rest of creation thrive (even if a bunch of dumbasses get their panties in a bunch about it)."
yah hey,so what if a few million little babies are bloated with sickness and disease,hey...no icing off my cake,good job god,keep up the swell job,pass the chips Timmy.... (ain't he a good little christian!New Nikes and everything!) but ya,lets make a religion where we replace worship with complaints "Hey!Muthafucka!Whats with this termination shit!?I just got that job!How am i gonna feed the monkey?You dumbass bitch!Amen!"
i dont think it matters.. sure its sad when stuff like that happens to other people, but its not like we can control it by ourselves. humans are greedy and selfish as long as you live your life happily, and stressfree, its all good.
if you're saying there isn't a god because of all the bad stuff that happens to us, then you are thinkly very narrowly. For example: if you would consider a hurricane bad and a proof that there is no god because it killed some people, then by following the same logic surely the absence of hurricanes would be good and proof that there is indeed a merciful god. Compare the number of days with hurricanes to the days where there is sunshine. If im not mistaken, i think the good kinda outweighs the bad.
people like to scare themselves and you can say anything you like about the unknown, precisely because it is unknown. of course, if you take a look objectively there's a couple of things that become pretty obvious. first of all is that 99.999... % of all the harm and suffering that occurs comes not from the unknown but the all too painfully familiar. the other, just as inatuitively obvious, though for many people it may not be such an obvious thing to stop and think about it, is the unlikelyhood that any of us would ever have existed in the first place if anything signifigantly greater then ourseles, let alone omnipotent, were ever to have wished us any particular harm. story tellers, especialy the kind that do so in persuit of little green pieces of paper, like to give the nontangable 'bad guys' lots of high powered special effects, it gets an emotional response out of their audiance, getting an emotional response has come to be considered by professional critics of art, as a defining qualification for art, (which btw, tnx but no tnx, i'll stick to trying to illustrate the kind of world i'd rather be living in), closer to their little green symbolic heart of hearts, it sells. it sells movie and theatre tickets. it sells recorded music. it sells post toasties on the idiot box. my encounters with the unknown have been no more enemical then what can be expected of the diversity of reality guaranteeing as it allways does, that nothing will ever be all any one way.
this is one of the age old questions about religion... "god, why do we have pain?"...i think most christians would just say "its part of life, get over it"... bruce almighty had a good idea...when jim carrey becomes god he's overflooded with prayers and wishes...the conclusion was about if you give everything they want, then something something...idk cant remember i'm stoned.
