excreationist
Married mouth-breather
But due to God not being obvious, many people don't even think God exists, let alone think that God is toying with them.As I keep pointing out, god toying with us is BAD! Like, fucked up on a level Lovecraft wrote about.excreationist said:Well in this thread my idea of a God is one that people aren't sure exist (see the Futurama quote). Based on Epicurus' trilemma this God could be good but just not all powerful. If he was all powerful and was all good it would be obvious he existed.
If you think a couple of decades of that is BAD what about Christians that believe that most people are going to hell to suffer forever and that they totally deserve it and that God is still 100% loving?
Here is an excerpt of a sermon of a preacher saying that eternal punishment means God is "great":
BTW perhaps we allowed ourselves to enter a world with suffering but just forgot our original identity... like Morty playing the "Roy" game or Alan Watts talking about a dream thought experiment.
Mostly because ethical action relies on a symmetry, and symmetry relies on a balance of power, opportunity, and understanding. Literally no consent can exist across that boundary. It is essentially equal to pedophilia, but for literally every act and decision.
There's this Ken Keyes quote:
"...As the watcher of the screen, you are perfect. The screen may be projecting a horrendous movie that is showing all kinds of pain and suffering - on the screen. Or the screen may reflect a happy movie that shows a beautiful sunset, a delightful sexual experience, or an enjoyable meal. But the essential you is the pure awareness that just watches the stuff go by on the screen of your life. Behind what you think you are - YOU ARE..."
BTW films and video games that aren't made for small children can be very dark... I guess it adds drama...