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November 22, 2005
Hello, 911? Can you help me? I've lost God!
Poasted by gekko at 1:13 PM and filed under 
"Jesus Lurves Me"
Just some brain farting, during my walk.
Of the three major religions that acknowledge the Judaic deity as the one and only creative force of the universe, two of them at least have moved further and further away from their original concept of that deity, and closer and closer to an "it's all about us" view.
I listen to some of the sermons, see what Pat Robertson has to say, hear the anger of the Islamic extremists and their concept of how God rilly wants things, and think "it's all about them. It's all about how they expect us to conduct our lives with one another, here, and how God means for this person to be punished, or that person to be rewarded, for basically acting on a human instinct that, presumably, God instilled in us."
They don't seem to focus on God. They seem to focus, instead, on themselves, or on everyone else. They use God, and God's name, to make their opinions have more force, but, really, where is God in all that? Where is he really?
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Cool! If I were in computer mode instead of home maintenance mode, this would be the motivation to make me study up some more on CSS, much as I hate it. But I've got other projects to fry.
It's a good thing my bifocals will be in soon, though. Then I can read the comments.
"It's a good thing my bifocals will be in soon, though. Then I can read the comments."
Okay, okay. Do NOT use "font:small;" in the comments style. Gottit.
SO WHAT DOES THIS ALL HAVE TO DO WITH GOD???
SO WHAT DOES THIS ALL HAVE TO DO WITH GOD???
Oh, all right.
... but, really, where is God in all that? Where is he really?
Where's He's always been: Inside minds and imaginations.
How could it, whatever it is, not be about us? What value is there in focusing on an impersonal Infinite? That amounts to some kind of meditation, transcendental if you're good at it -- and that's refreshing and that just returns it back to being about us again.
I don't know, I feel like I Got It a couple years ago when I was still a church-goer and we would say people who complain their prayers aren't answered are missing the point. But if God doesn't do anything, if He serves as nothing but a distant anthropomorphism of Creation to be worshipped for the sake of worship, why need He exist at all? Is not the point of life to a) reproduce and b) find our personal Truth? In the last couple of years, at least in my equation, the God term seems to have been cancelled out.
That is sad sometimes, because it breaks communities that rely on faith in God as a glue (e.g. my church friends). But again, that concern just brings it back to being about us again. Once we remove our Earthly / physical / life concerns from our worship, what is left but smoke that drifts away and leaves nothing behind?
AND HOW COME YOUR COMMENTS DON'T RECOGNIZE PARAGRAPH BREAKS?!?
Oh wait, they do. Just not in preview. I apologize for shouting.
SO WHAT DOES THIS ALL HAVE TO DO WITH GOD???
ummmm. i don't know. i could have sworn i put that comment with the post about tropical flavors. i could have sworn that's where paula's comment was, too.
P.S. And your comment to Paula was not there when I entered my comment. But it should have been because you posted it after hers and before mine. But it wasn't there. I'm sure it wasn't there. Hey! Where are you taking me? Get this thing off me. I can't move my arms. Hey! I'm not crazy! Let me gooooo!!!
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NEVER, EVER SHOUT AGAIN! NOT HERE NOT ANYWHERE BUSTER!! UNLESS YOU HAVE MY PERMISSIONS THAT IS!!
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