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Posted by The Blue Cross, Friday, 4 February 2011 7:50:51 AM
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The simple answer - sorry, my own simple answer - to the question "why is God", is that it is a handy shorthand method for some people to explain "why the universe"?
The most interesting aspect of that question for me is that it assumes that there has to be a reason for everything. It is far more useful and constructive, surely, to just answer "because", or "why not", and then move on to important stuff. Like how to stop people killing each other every day because they cannot agree on the answer to the question "which God". A question that surely should be entirely redundant, until such time as we have a satisfactory answer to the "why is God" question. But hey, we are only human. And the likelihood of the human race being collectively smart enough to realize that there doesn't actually have to be a reason for our existence, and that the choice of which God, or no God, is purely a personal statement that is the business of no-one else, is so slim as to also be beyond worrying about. Have a great day, everyone. Posted by Pericles, Friday, 4 February 2011 8:11:41 AM
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If there is no reason, then any reason the individual gives for his own existence is legitimate and we return to the lawless primitive dark ages.
Posted by Philo, Friday, 4 February 2011 8:23:25 AM
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You're in luck Philo, the free market can save us all.
No savage attacks, no arbitrary human behaviour. In fact, I do believe the the free market IS god. Posted by The Blue Cross, Friday, 4 February 2011 8:29:48 AM
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SOG.. yes...that was a refreshingly beautiful and honest post!
You raise the question.. may I invite Solomon(or "Author of Ecclesiastes) to partially answer it ? Can? good :) here is what he says: Ecc 3:11 //He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end.// Seems that's exactly where you are is it not ? Seriously... if you've not read the whole Book of Ecclesiastes... I enthusiastically recommend it. http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ecclesiastes+1&version=NIV His conclusion is helpful. Of making many books there is no end, and much study wearies the body. Ch 12:13ff 13 Now all has been heard; here is the conclusion of the matter: Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the duty of all mankind. 14 For God will bring every deed into judgment, including every hidden thing, whether it is good or evil Posted by ALGOREisRICH, Friday, 4 February 2011 8:44:33 AM
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People invent god/s
Because they can't conceive of Life without purpose Unfortunately Many folk don't find meaning In simply Being Posted by Shintaro, Friday, 4 February 2011 8:48:46 AM
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It is obvious why the gods created us isn't it?
The big god, a crossdressing old curmudgeon, put us here in order that he could have sex with a human, a sheila called Mary.
He was so upset his offspring became a tradie unionist and not a professional type that he killed him off, to save the world from a rash of tradie wannabes pushing themselves around the place as being something 'special'.
Why are we here?
Easy!
We are here to make sure 'the market' can work.
Without us, do any of you think the lions and tigers of the world could have managed to organise anything as worthless and dangerous as 'the free market'?
No, indeed not.
The world will only be as the gods intended when every last human has every single item they have ever wanted, or even not wanted, and the free market has won over the entire world.
Simple.