IT'S A TRAP!

[RyouIshtar]

KotariZythynn

The Bible wasn't meant to be taken literally.
My stance is that God put us on the world to be scientific. Why would he give us cognitive thought and not want us to use it?

I used to think that things was put here to entertain us, still kinda do, but i don't know, been thinking more freely lately and random thoughts has been coming into my mind. Just seeing if anyone else had this thought as well

[KotariZythynn]

RyouIshtar

KotariZythynn

The Bible wasn't meant to be taken literally.
My stance is that God put us on the world to be scientific. Why would he give us cognitive thought and not want us to use it?

I used to think that things was put here to entertain us, still kinda do, but i don't know, been thinking more freely lately and random thoughts has been coming into my mind. Just seeing if anyone else had this thought as well

Agreed, the thought has crossed my mind as well. Maybe our entertainment is to learn, and to expand our scientific knowledge. Plus I dont think humans would enjoy having someone watching over their shoulder 24/7 so if he does exist, thats probably why he is so backed off.

[nostalgic song]

Or maybe God is just waiting for us to realize that religion and science is not mutually exclusive and is waiting for the creationists to take their heads out of their rectal cavities.

[OneWithDunamis]

Officially Unnamed

Kinda late on this idea.

Nonetheless:

Why would he do that? Why would he purposely mislead his beloved creations?

And not really on topic, but somewhat related: Why would he even care if you believed in him or not?

Why wouldn't He mislead His beloved creations? When I write a story I don't rub it in the characters faces that I made them.

[Kaosgirl]

RyouIshtar

Seriously, I couldn't think of anything to name this, but it fits.

This is Gaia. "It's a trap" has a few other meanings...

[Officially Unnamed]

OneWithDunamis

Officially Unnamed

Kinda late on this idea.

Nonetheless:

Why would he do that? Why would he purposely mislead his beloved creations?

And not really on topic, but somewhat related: Why would he even care if you believed in him or not?

Why wouldn't He mislead His beloved creations? When I write a story I don't rub it in the characters faces that I made them.

That's a different situation, as you control everything the characters do... in fact, they don't even exist.

But still. Yes, I would assume you don't rub it in your characters faces. But would you punish them for not believing in you even without any evidence? And with evidence for previously unknown phenomena having a natural explanation, aka not "God did it"? (Assuming the characters exist and have free will)

[EsgarBlackpoxs]

No, I think it's safe to say it was satan.


And where's Admiral Ackbar?

[Rosetta Celestine]

Kaosgirl

RyouIshtar

Seriously, I couldn't think of anything to name this, but it fits.

This is Gaia. "It's a trap" has a few other meanings...

LOL This thread is now about trannies in anime!

http://www.moemoerabu.net/images/anime_randoms/Lovely Complex 01.jpg

http://www.moemoerabu.net/images/anime_randoms/Lovely Complex 02.jpg

[Rosetta Celestine]

EsgarBlackpoxs

No, I think it's safe to say it was satan.


And where's Admiral Ackbar?

http://images.starcraftmazter.net/4chan/barack_ackbar.jpg

[OneWithDunamis]

Officially Unnamed

OneWithDunamis

Officially Unnamed

Kinda late on this idea.

Nonetheless:

Why would he do that? Why would he purposely mislead his beloved creations?

And not really on topic, but somewhat related: Why would he even care if you believed in him or not?

Why wouldn't He mislead His beloved creations? When I write a story I don't rub it in the characters faces that I made them.

That's a different situation, as you control everything the characters do... in fact, they don't even exist.

But still. Yes, I would assume you don't rub it in your characters faces. But would you punish them for not believing in you even without any evidence? And with evidence for previously unknown phenomena having a natural explanation, aka not "God did it"? (Assuming the characters exist and have free will)

How different is it, really? If I write "Timmy chooses a Pepsi over a Coke", do I choose it or does Timmy choose that? I say free will is an illusion, and that God made the world for His entertainment. To Him we really are nothing more than just characters in His story.

[Project 429]

RyouIshtar

Seriously, I couldn't think of anything to name this, but it fits. I saw a picture a while back, one of those motionvational pictures. It had a picture of dinosaur bones on it, and at the bottom it said "And God scattered dinosaur bones all over the world and thought it was funny". That got me thinking, maybe God put things on the earth to make us choose between our faiths. Think about this, maybe God made monkeys close to humans to see what we as humans will do, will we dismiss it, or say that we 'evolved' from monkeys and wasn't created by God himself.

I believe God has set things in the world for us to find and to test us, I think that 2012 is a trap as well (Even though I didn't mention it in that post I made a few minutes ago).

What are your thoughts by this? Do you think it's a possible trap by God himself. Even if you don't believe in God, do you think it could be possible.

You mean, like the prankster god? In that case, no, I don't think it's really possible.

[Vice Admiral Romeo Mike]

Olya

We all meandered through our schooling haphazard; so, to God be thanks,

You make Descartes turn in his grave rofl

...it's easy, without too much fooling, to pass for cultured in our ranks.

Cartesian philosophy places human thought in a rather high esteem.

[Officially Unnamed]

OneWithDunamis

Officially Unnamed

OneWithDunamis

Why wouldn't He mislead His beloved creations? When I write a story I don't rub it in the characters faces that I made them.

That's a different situation, as you control everything the characters do... in fact, they don't even exist.

But still. Yes, I would assume you don't rub it in your characters faces. But would you punish them for not believing in you even without any evidence? And with evidence for previously unknown phenomena having a natural explanation, aka not "God did it"? (Assuming the characters exist and have free will)

How different is it, really? If I write "Timmy chooses a Pepsi over a Coke", do I choose it or does Timmy choose that? I say free will is an illusion, and that God made the world for His entertainment. To Him we really are nothing more than just characters in His story.

If you write "Timmy chooses a Pepsi over a Coke", then you form a mental image of someone named Timmy choosing a pepsi. Timmy doesn't actually exist.

Now, if you were writing that down as an observation of an actual person named Timmy, then Timmy is real, but you're not controlling his actions.

Also, even if free will is an illusion, and God controls everything we do, people still feel pain. Why would you punish someone for not believing you exist if you control what they do?
If it's just for fun / the sake of it, then we're not really his "beloved" creations.