God doesn't give a shit

Mutant Funk Drink · #1 2007-01-10, 07:02

If 'god' is all-powerful and all-knowing and perfect, then what significance are we to him? If I were god, I really wouldn't give a shit about such boring powerless people like us humans.

Merlinman2005 · #2 2007-01-10, 07:13

This perfect being made us to worship and glorify him.

Also, I take the "in His image" to mean that we are somehow all a part of God. That we make up a part of him/it. God is the Collective. By loving each other, we are loving ourselves, and, vicariously or directly, loving God.

CatharticWeek · #3 2007-01-10, 07:34

Or maybe the entire cosmos is god and each negative person makes it a little more like hell.

Merlinman2005 · #4 2007-01-10, 07:44

Well personally I can't think of God as a physical thing. It's our consciousnesses that make Him up. Our bodies and everything physical.. all matter, I guess, are just a part of this plane, one that we'll be cut off from when we die, and are able to (re/)join the One.

ArmsMerchant · #5 2007-01-10, 20:35

A baby is rather boring and powerless--nevertheless, the parents love it. God is like a perfect parent. (I know, the analogy breaks down rather badly, but it seems appropriate.)

Mutant Funk Drink · #6 2007-01-10, 21:51

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quote:Originally posted by ArmsMerchant:

A baby is rather boring and powerless--nevertheless, the parents love it. God is like a perfect parent. (I know, the analogy breaks down rather badly, but it seems appropriate.)

If god is like a perfect parent, then why does he torture his 'naughty' children for an eternity? If a human father were to torture his children like that, he'd go straight to jail.

The Enigma · #7 2007-01-10, 23:46

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quote:Originally posted by Mutant Funk Drink:

If 'god' is all-powerful and all-knowing and perfect, then what significance are we to him? If I were god, I really wouldn't give a shit about such boring powerless people like us humans.

welcome to my beliefs. there may be some all-powerful dude up there, but i doubt he gives a shit about earth. were probably just like a science experiment gone horrible wrong, lol.

I_am_god · #8 2007-01-11, 01:25

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quote:Originally posted by Mutant Funk Drink:

If 'god' is all-powerful and all-knowing and perfect, then what significance are we to him? If I were god, I really wouldn't give a shit about such boring powerless people like us humans.

God cares about us because he created us, would you love your son and/or daughter?

Also god doesn't do much because if you do too much people want more, do too little people lose faith.

purplekhanabooze · #9 2007-01-11, 01:51

Your right.

Sort of.

God doesn't seem to give a shit. I mean he doesn't do anything. He doesn't come down and end all of our suffering or intervene with our world in any way for that matter.

But he does this because he's created the most perfect existence. An existence in which we rely on ourselves to get through challenges and problems that arise. If the world was perfect, there would be no point. In being challenged we truly appreciate life and existence.

The "suffering" you feel only applies to this existence as you know it. If the human spirit is eternal and lives forever, "suffering" in this world is meaningless. What if suffering is just the building up of the human spirit; pushing it ever closer to immortality and perfection?

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CatharticWeek · #10 2007-01-11, 02:17

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quote:Originally posted by I_am_god:

God cares about us because he created us, would you love your son and/or daughter?

If you were a god, omnipotent with infinite scope, what is human conciousness compared to that?

Perhaps, it is simmilar to the way we care for the blood cells in our veins. Part of us, but not holy or sacred.