God: Good or Evil

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yes i am so egodriven and bored i crib.

― anthony, Saturday, 7 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Ectoplasm: gas or liquid?

Atlantis: tropical or temperate?

The Tooth Fairy: Republican or Democrat?

― mark s, Saturday, 7 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Was reading one of my favorite sites -- you'd like it, Anthony, given your background: Recovery From Mormonism at http://www.exmormon.org -- and some of the newest stories posted there made me realize how evil god could indeed be if you let him get up to certain things. Unhappily, plenty of people do, and think it meet and right. Ick.

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 7 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I have been posting on that for a couple of years.

― anthony, Saturday, 7 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

What Mark said.

― Ally C, Saturday, 7 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Not surprised, now that I know. :-)

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 7 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

do you post on that board as Ned. Because i thought(think) it went down hill)

― anthony, Saturday, 7 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I was posting for a couple of months when I had a touch more time to regularly read it. Not recently, though.

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 8 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

The tooth fairy instills capitalist values in the minds of young children.

― Ed, Sunday, 8 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Down with the World Teeth Organization! Stop the globalization of molars! Our nation, our dentists!

― Sterling Clover, Sunday, 8 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

God = good.

People who claim to represent God = evil.

― Johnathan, Sunday, 8 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

God doesn't have to good or evil. God just is. And we have to do whatever he says, even if it doesn't make any sense. Even then, there's no guarantee that there's any afterlife. That's just the way it is, I'm afraid. And anybody who can't get with that, tough shit!

― tarden, Sunday, 8 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Actually, I was brought up in a completely non-religious family. Result? I'm a total moral wasteland with no respect for any life form or object. So anybody who disparages religion should keep my horrible example in mind.

― tarden, Sunday, 8 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

What Cookie said.

― the pinefox, Sunday, 8 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Atlantis: odds favour tropical, hence eventual big one which kerplunked it.

― AP, Sunday, 8 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

But another theory = it is the continent under the Antarctic ice.

Used to be a book in Hackney Library which announced on the cover the exactly year, month, day and TIME OF DAY that Atlantis was destroyed, as calculated by the author relying on I forget what. If I recall, one of the more memorable elements in his evidence was that the Basques speak perfect Japanese, a fact hitherto unnoticed in world affairs. (This is TRUE!! I mean, true that I read in some majorly bonkers piece of Atlantis junk scholarship that the Basques speak Japanese — surely an easy thing to check and disprove... Or is the writer CORRECT? I have never checked.)

― mark s, Sunday, 8 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

god is not.

― Geoff, Sunday, 8 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

oh yeah, cash cow & evil whore while I think of it.

― Geoff, Sunday, 8 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Atlantis pseudo science is my favorite because people cannot seem to understand an extended metaphor. But there is a sort of lost contient myth for every ocean. I think its related to the golden age .

― anthony, Sunday, 8 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I quite like the Gnostic view of a Usurper, or Dark Prince, as being responsible for the creation of us humans. The problem with monotheism usually remains that the only axis possible is precisely that, Good or Evil. Religion as a set of moral values to guide you through your life on Earth, in transition before reaching Heaven. Couldn't there be good AND evil Gods, instead of some poor fellow on a cross? Gods that would not bother to die for you? Gods whose behaviour is not defined by moral judgements as we see them?

Yes! Athens!

(Is anyone going to Ibiza? ; )

― Simon, Sunday, 8 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I've always thought God had managed to fool everyone into thinking He was good no matter what. I mean, something good happens and everyone praises God; something terrible happens and they say 'God moves in mysterious ways'. What's that about? I wish I could get away with that.

Just imagine, at Strange Fruit. I play a top new record and everyone says 'Paul is great!'. Then when I accidentally lean on the record/switch off the lights/press the wrong button on the mixer instead of everyone shouting obscenities they all shout 'Jeez, that Paul, he works in mysterious ways...'

― Paul Strange, Monday, 9 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I heard that god lives underwater, but I dunno about that...

― Chris, Monday, 9 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I thought God was a dj?

Paul?????????

I'm thinking more of Ayia Napa this year

― cabbage, Monday, 9 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

seven months pass...

The Tooth Fairy: Cheap thrills.
Atlantis: Cheap essential scenery.
Ectoplasm: Screaming fucking bloody mess.

― Frank Kogan, Saturday, 2 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Johnny "The Baptist" Rotten?

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 2 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

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