really?
it depends on just what they believe.

I was at a wedding the other weekend where the vicar was suggesting in no uncertain terms that without God our actions and achievements are meaningless, and that our purpose is to worship God.

If there is a God like that, then he is an insecure and selfish cunt.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 1 Sep 2010, 14:22, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

I think that's part of the fun. Man's interpretation of 'God'. It's not what the person has faith in so much but that they have made the conscious choice to accept that there is a higher power and to live their live to a moral code. I know that's a huge sweeping statement but B3ta isn't the place for religious debate. I don't mean people who have been pretty much brainwashed by parents etc but people who had a need and filled it with faith.

I don't have that capacity and sometimes it can be a bit shit being a nihilist.
( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Wed 1 Sep 2010, 14:27, Reply)

That's part of the gist of my belief
If there is some kind of 'creator' being (not even necessarily a creator - let's say a 'higher power'), it will be, by necessity, so much more complex than ourselves that we could never truly understand it. It would be like giving an ameba consciousness, and asking it to imagine us. It would just think of a giant ameba, possibly with a beard, who would care about ameba issues and think ameba-like thoughts.

It really does sound better on halucinogenics - throw in a couple of 'mans' and long pauses to stare at your hands for the full effect
(Godwin's Lawyer is more evil than Hitler, Wed 1 Sep 2010, 14:32, Reply)

I think I might just be lonely.
( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Wed 1 Sep 2010, 14:34, Reply)

I like this amoeba description
probably because I'm also a horrible stoner
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 1 Sep 2010, 14:46, Reply)