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To become one with God, through his commandments, mostly by loving, clothing, and feeding my neighbor. However, my performance is woefully inadequate. Luckily,
by dimitrios1 5y ago
To become one with God, through his commandments, mostly by loving, clothing, and feeding my neighbor. However, my performance is woefully inadequate. Luckily, my God is a loving God, and has me on a PIP, so hopefully we see some good progress with the time I have left.
- nanna 5y agoA Pain In the Posterior?
- thelittlenag 5y agoAren't all gods?
- kayodelycaon 5y agoPerformance Improvement Plan.
- dimitrios1 5y agoFunny enough, I have been dealing with sciatica for so long now, I am considering a career change!
- uhtred 5y ago
- throwaway4aday 5y agoSuch an insipid argument. If we entertain the idea of a Creator and try to make logical sense of the world I think we'd find pretty quickly that it isn't as simple as "make suffering impossible". What does that mean? What are the constraints? A few solutions in no particular order: Don't create the world in the first place, attractive only to nihilists. Make cruelty on the part of humans impossible, easy to do without free will or choice, now we're all p-zombies with no internal life just forever going through the motions of existence. Make man immortal, static and unchanging. Might as well be an action figure on a shelf still sealed in the box. The world isn't perfect, neither is man but at least there is a world and we do exist and we have a choice as to how we treat each other. Everything that happens here is of our own doing, that is both terrifying and inspiring. Just don't try to use your own failings and that of man in general as a criticism of the concept of a God, the responsibility for our actions will always lie with us.
- uhtred 5y agoI'll entertain your idea that god can't / shouldn't stop humans being cruel because of free will blah blah. Ok, god was powerful enough to create the world, why did they feel the need to also create mosquitos? or cancer? Why do they use their power to make a Hollywood actor win an oscar (oh they didn't? That's not what the actor claims. Who knows their god better?) but not use it to stop a young child being hit by a car?
- arkey 5y agoImagine you have a child. You give that child a toy and you give them instructions to be careful with it and to play well. The child is careless and stubborn and misbehaved and breaks the toy. Are you a bad parent for giving that child a toy? God gave us His creation in a pretty nice state and we managed to corrupt it through sin, which is by definition, removing Him from His place, and going our own way instead of His. Mosquitoes are annoying and diseases exist and bad things happen because we broke Creation. Not in the sense that we are being punished for it, but rather because we're not using it properly.
- throwaway4aday 5y agoThe general idea, at least in monotheism, is that God does not intervene on a minute by minute basis. Miracles are by definition exceptional circumstances that rarely occur. I don't think the majority of believers would agree that God would intend mosquitos or cancer to simply be a torment specially created to bedevil man. A better question would be why would God create a world in which such things are possible? Like many things surrounding religion, it is simply unknowable. We can speculate all we want but it won't change anything. However, it's not very honest to take such a simplistic view of the matter. My original comment was intended to get you to think of things from another perspective instead of simply blaming God for all the ills of the world and demanding divine intervention as proof of His existence and love. It's probably better to ask yourself how can I make the world a better place rather than rage against God for not doing so. Perhaps that is the point.
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- shmde 5y agoDO you work in Amazon ?
- yuuu 5y agoI don't know why this is downvoted, I actually laughed out loud.
- the_common_man 5y agoPip3 surely?
- derin 5y agoUnless they installed conda on an Apple machine, because I'm pretty sure that constitutes original sin.
- ganzuul 5y agoUnless you are a p-zombie, you can not become something you already are. Realize this.
- slothtrop 5y ago> To become one with God That happens in death. Until which, we are human and by extension imperfect.
- dimitrios1 5y agoGod became man, so that we may become like God.
- slothtrop 5y agoHe became man to die for our sins, according to the dogma. Man is sinful. Salvation is the path to "becoming like God", and that comes with death.