The more I think about it, the more I think that if there is a god that they must have created the world and then left us alone because no benevolent God, like the Christian God, would ever let the world suffer as much as it has, letting their creations destroy everything in site without massive repercussions long before now.
Or maybe the creator just wouldn’t take us all that seriously, like a 14 year old putting a sim in a room with no exit, a fireplace, and a pile of furniture in front of said fireplace. It is only a game.
We could be just one little work of art in a room full of old works.
I mean, we tend to think of the universe as an endless canvas. It could just be some finished piece that the gods don’t even look at.
Maybe they watch our suffering so they can write their plays from it. They have no stakes, so they watch us to learn.
I mean, we’re the ones suffering. We’re the ones looking for some good luck and praying we don’t die before we get our children raised. Of course that is important to us because we’re the ones crying when it doesn’t all work out.
Maybe god/the gods don’t care because it is of no consequence to them.
Of course I’m just playing with thought. I am not a religious man. I happen to think that all of this was just a big, happy, sad, ugly, beautiful, wonderful accident.
If there was a God and it was an actual conscious entity, how could any human ever comprehend the motivations or intentions of such an entity. It can start again from scratch in 6 days - it’s not an ecologically constrained being.
It might be like a fighting dog trainer - the trainer might like it, feed it , take it for walks, abuse and traumatise it and so on, or it might not - just like God might. But after it loses it’s last fight, they can just get a new one.
God might care, but has no reason to. He could just as well be fucking around for a laugh. Or doing some scientific experiment, or fish tank, or it’s just an art project to show off to break the ice at parties. No human could ever know.
So it’s just not worth wasting time thinking about - unless you’re charismatic enough to disempower the charlatans and demagogues who do claim to know the will of god. If that is the case, good luck to you.
The more I think about it, the more I think that if there is a god that they must have created the world and then left us alone because no benevolent God, like the Christian God, would ever let the world suffer as much as it has, letting their creations destroy everything in site without massive repercussions long before now.
Or maybe the creator just wouldn’t take us all that seriously, like a 14 year old putting a sim in a room with no exit, a fireplace, and a pile of furniture in front of said fireplace. It is only a game.
We could be just one little work of art in a room full of old works.
I mean, we tend to think of the universe as an endless canvas. It could just be some finished piece that the gods don’t even look at.
Maybe they watch our suffering so they can write their plays from it. They have no stakes, so they watch us to learn.
I mean, we’re the ones suffering. We’re the ones looking for some good luck and praying we don’t die before we get our children raised. Of course that is important to us because we’re the ones crying when it doesn’t all work out.
Maybe god/the gods don’t care because it is of no consequence to them.
Of course I’m just playing with thought. I am not a religious man. I happen to think that all of this was just a big, happy, sad, ugly, beautiful, wonderful accident.
If there was a God and it was an actual conscious entity, how could any human ever comprehend the motivations or intentions of such an entity. It can start again from scratch in 6 days - it’s not an ecologically constrained being.
It might be like a fighting dog trainer - the trainer might like it, feed it , take it for walks, abuse and traumatise it and so on, or it might not - just like God might. But after it loses it’s last fight, they can just get a new one.
God might care, but has no reason to. He could just as well be fucking around for a laugh. Or doing some scientific experiment, or fish tank, or it’s just an art project to show off to break the ice at parties. No human could ever know.
So it’s just not worth wasting time thinking about - unless you’re charismatic enough to disempower the charlatans and demagogues who do claim to know the will of god. If that is the case, good luck to you.
Benevolent? Dude killed his own son. That isn’t benevolent by any definition of the word.
If you see death as a good thing, it could be benevolent