Philosophical question thread
My question is this: Which is the scarier thought? 1) That God doesn't exist? Or 2) That God exists and doesn't care? I am Just curious! Don't mean to offend anyone and i am sorry if i did!
posted by The Sandmonkey @ 6/27/2005 02:11:00 AM
13 Comments:
What about adding:
3) God exists and cares but I don't care
4)God exists and cares but I don't know
God exists and has given us free will otherwise what is the point? The only way that we can truly come back to God is to come back on our own. We have the power to deal with the world's tragedies to prevent them and heal them, but we choose not to. God's waiting. Just my two cents.
Guys, i am not contesting god's existance or free will or anything. It's a simple abstract question that i am wondering about. So please just tell me which one you find personally scarier: A nonexistnat God, or One that exists but doesn't care?
Please define the word "exists". Also, it might be more scary if God doesn't care but Satan does.
I think this guy Jeffry is scarier than either one
This is a tough one to speak about. Sometime, when something hideous happens , like some buddy skinned alive by the little bastards and all you can do is listen to him scream or a child contracting a hideous form of cancer, made me question God's existance or even his caring. Yet, some miracle happens, saving a plane full of people or some kid suddenly recovers from the aforementioned horror, then one has to say ,there is the merciful God I had once believed in. I flat don't know.
I will say, I think God/Allah has a weird sense of humor.
I don't think either one of those things are scary because they are not even remotely possible to me.
I think that God does exist and that he does care, but just not about the same things we care about, or at least not in the same way.
Face it, why would God worry about people dying if He knows good and well that all death is, is leaving one room and entering another.
The one thing that really scares me? Disappointing God.
At this moment, I think That God exists and doesn't care is more scary.
scarier that God doesn't care after giving life and intelligence to creatures, what would God be existing for else than to care?
I second Haal - the scariest is that if God exists and doesn't care:
- The agnostics have it wrong
- The athiests have it wrong
- The Jews, Christians and Muslims have it ALL wrong
- The Buddhists, Hindus and Shintos have it wrong
That's 98% of the world's population wrong. If 98% of the world is wrong, what's to say what' right?
I agree that it's scarier that God exists and doesn't care. As for the purpose thing, i could come up with a reason: Entertainment. Being God must be boring, with being eternal and all knowing. He must find his amusement somewhere. So create Earth, create people, and add idiots and assholes to keep them interesting, give them religions that contradict eachotehr and their natures and their instincts and just watch them go at it. 6 billion crazy bastards running on their impulses and rationalizing their actions later without actual purpose or plan. It must be the greatest reality TV show ever, with all the sex, conflict, drama and violence. You then add a little production and script improvments (senseless death here, natural catastrophie there, a new virus perhaps) when things get boring. You know, the psycho kids who use magnifuying glass to burn ants or use water to flood their farms, and then chose which to let go and which to stomp using their feet for amusement's sake? Same concept almost, only on a much larger scale.
It would explain why the world is the way it is, and the whole business with the conflict with Satan, heaven and Hell, the major religions, the new diseases, the crazy bastards, our constnat drive for self-destruction, the senlessness of it all and why John Lennon gets to die and Yoko Ono gets to live. When you think about it, it's all rather amusing, if it wasn't scary.
By the way, i don't necessarily believe that God exists and doesn;t care, nor do i actually mean to say that God is a psycho kid. I am just being rhetorical is all, u know, viewing it in an abstract way!
My friend Julia, when i asked her about that question, she was like "That's a cute idea. To think i am amusing God. That's pretty damn cool!". If you find her answer puzzeling, well, don't. She is a theatre major, and to for her to think that God is her audience, well, u get the idea.
The reason why i asked this questions is because every athiest i've met uses the following reasoning " God doesn't really exist because there is so much random suffering in the world, and that can't happen with a Good God in charge, so he must not exist!" The idea that there might a god that didn;t care was so horrible in their minds that they would rather believe he doesn;t exist then that otehr option. I wanted to know if people saw it the same way is all! What pisses me off is that most people avoided the question. Grrrrrrrr
Yep, I avoided the question. I just didn't see either as an option so figured no sense respond.
So grrrr to you too. :)
Silly monkey, trix are for kids
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