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A Rather Mild Revelation, part V of V

Started by The Good Reverend Roger, January 03, 2011, 06:29:35 PM

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The Good Reverend Roger

January 03, 2011, 06:29:35 PM
Thanatos, it has been said, really hates Irwin Schroedinger. 

"Come on", he rails, "Is the fucking cat dead or not?  I have a schedule, here."

Indeed, this era hasn't been good to Gods.  They've never really had an easy job...It's not all skipping across lakes and turning water into wine, after all.  There's no end of people praying - demanding - that Gods rescue them from their own stupidity, to say nothing of the countless jackasses praying that bad things happen to their enemies, or even to people they've never even met, based on the people in question's sexual orientation, skin color, religion, etc.

On top of that, the Gods set down some basic universal rules, and expected us to learn them, so that we may prosper...But the most strident of the Gods' followers run around insisting that those rules don't exist.  For example, the mechanism by which the Gods created man from lower beasts couldn't be spelled out in an easier fashion, yet more than half of America looks at the fossil evidence and still won't believe.

So the Gods gave us functioning brains and the physical evidence to work out the grand puzzle they set before us, and instead we blunder around quoting the old testament, or sliding back into animism (while "Skyclad" no less), refusing to follow the simple clues they left us.

And then we wonder why the Gods no longer walk or work amongst men.  Would you?

Seriously, would you have anything to do with someone who sees the evidence in front of them, and then makes up some ridiculous fairy tale about how things really operate?  Hell, no.  If it were me, I'd find some other planet and start over, leaving the hairless apes to drown in their own shit.

In short, the Gods aren't responsible for the mess you're in.  They didn't do it, YOU did it. 

And since they aren't likely to get involved now, maybe you'd better think of a way to get out of that mess, eh?

Or Kill Me.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Adios

#1
January 03, 2011, 06:32:37 PM
Seems to be a theme this year!

LMNO

#2
January 03, 2011, 06:36:19 PM
I really, really like this one.  I've always thought that gods, if they existed, would be much more clever than the myths make them out to be.

Nephew Twiddleton

#3
January 03, 2011, 06:41:51 PM
:mittens:
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Sentence or sentence fragment pending

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Juana

#4
January 03, 2011, 08:42:28 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD on January 03, 2011, 06:36:19 PM
I really, really like this one.  I've always thought that gods, if they existed, would be much more clever than the myths make them out to be.
Except possibly the omnipotent ones.

:mittens:
Right on, Roger.
"I dispose of obsolete meat machines.  Not because I hate them (I do) and not because they deserve it (they do), but because they are in the way and those older ones don't meet emissions codes.  They emit too much.  You don't like them and I don't like them, so spare me the hysteria."

Epimetheus

#6
January 04, 2011, 06:39:12 AM
I like your concept of the gods, Roger: respect where it's due - and none where it's undue.
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Cainad (dec.)

#7
January 04, 2011, 04:26:05 PM
This is good. Especially this line:

QuoteAnd then we wonder why the Gods no longer walk or work amongst men.  Would you?

Very poignant. I may yoink that line, or at least the idea.

Mesozoic Mister Nigel

#8
January 04, 2011, 06:30:21 PM
SQUEEEE

I love this!

How can I apply this concept as broadly as possible to the maximum number of people?

"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."

Mesozoic Mister Nigel

#9
January 04, 2011, 06:32:26 PM
The gods are simply disappointed in us, and, like college kids who don't understand about financial responsibility, have cut us off and left us to work it out on our own.

They don't want to party with us, because we're irresponsible and don't have interesting conversations. All we want is jello shots and to rail against "the man" while spending our parents' money.
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."

The Good Reverend Roger

#10
January 05, 2011, 02:43:05 AM
Quote from: Nigel on January 04, 2011, 06:32:26 PM
The gods are simply disappointed in us, and, like college kids who don't understand about financial responsibility, have cut us off and left us to work it out on our own.

They don't want to party with us, because we're irresponsible and don't have interesting conversations. All we want is jello shots and to rail against "the man" while spending our parents' money.

:lulz:

And rail about personal responsibility from a Starbucks near the university, on daddy's card.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Cuddlefish

#11
January 05, 2011, 03:02:40 AM
I enjoyed this very much.
A fisher of men, or a manner of fish?

Mesozoic Mister Nigel

#12
January 05, 2011, 03:55:26 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 05, 2011, 02:43:05 AM
Quote from: Nigel on January 04, 2011, 06:32:26 PM
The gods are simply disappointed in us, and, like college kids who don't understand about financial responsibility, have cut us off and left us to work it out on our own.

They don't want to party with us, because we're irresponsible and don't have interesting conversations. All we want is jello shots and to rail against "the man" while spending our parents' money.

:lulz:

And rail about personal responsibility from a Starbucks near the university, on daddy's card.

:lulz: exactly!
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."

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