User blog comment:DYBAD/Character Sheet/@comment-25135454-20171011120908/@comment-4867780-20171026135918

If we were made in God's image, doesn't that mean that... God sucks ? ^ ^;

We remain insatiable because the human mind is simply built this way, isn't it ? Growing less and less sensitive to recurring stimulations, because of the exact same flexibility that allows us to endure hardships and overcome them. The solution thus seems to lie in simply correcting this design flaw (adapting effectively without fading the enjoyment) rather than pursuing some kind of external infinity.

In other words, rather than keep a holed barrel filled by adding infinite water, we can just properly patch up the hole and the barrel will remain permanently full with only a limited amount of water. Much more accessible, and every bit as effective ^ ^

I think this relentless attempt at justifying the unnacceptable is what disturbs me the most about religion. It's obvious that an omnipotent, omniscient and omnibenevolent deity would just create a perfect world, free of evil and suffering, where love and wisdom and happiness flourish safely and naturally for all eternity. Yet our world is radically different, which means that God either doesn't exist, or doesn't live up to expectations. This again is crystal clear.

Yet believers keep struggling with all their might to salavage the idea of a perfect fatherly God, when everything around us screams the contrary, like angry toddlers trying to shove a square peg in a round hole ^ ^; That's how you end up with a God handwaving attrocities in the name of freedom while somehow still being omnibelevolent, or horribly punishing his creations for the product of his own incompetence while somehow still being omniscient.

I guess it's just one of these "the end justify the means" kind of situations, where there is too much at stake emotionally to simply acknowledge the obvious and move on. Our world isn't merciful enough so we can just live without emotional support, which is paradoxically yet another proof that the belief is unfounded. Quite the uncomfortable situation to be in o_O

My apologies if it the reflection comes off as insensitive, it's hard for a non-believer to tell what can be reasonably be discussed and what is better left aside.

If the First Soul does indeed see his creations as his own children, then his complacement passivity in the face of suffering and violence is even less acceptable. After all, what kind of remotely decent father would just stand by and watch his children tear each other appart ? It is only natural to let them find their own path in life after properly teaching them, but no amount of philosophy can justify passivity in the face of violence between family members, especially when you could so easily stop it and have them settle things like civilized people.

Here again, it does seem rather obvious when you take the time to imagine it happening.

"promising them that all they ever desired was at the end of the Road"

Assimilation time, b!tches ! Sorry for the bit of vulgarity, couldn't resist this one XD

How did the same civilization manage to simultaneously appear in different places ?

It is in the nature if civilizations to rise and fall, just like species as a whole and everything else, though in a monotheistic context with a confirmed deity being worshipped by said civilization, I can't help thinking the fall part could be easily avoided if he simply did his part as existential guide, rather than letting them stumble in the dark and then blaming them for not being good enough. I can't shake this feeling of parental irresponsibility from a God who essential blame his creations for his own faillure as a sapience designer.

I mean, he could have easily given them both free-will *and* the ability to forsee the consequences of their own actions, which is the essence of wisdom, to intuitively "feel" which action would lead to which consequences, and thus be able to naturally make the right decisions of their own free will. The deficiency of empathy is yet another huge flaw in their design, as none of the horrors that unfolded down the line ever would have if they could naturally feel other people's emotions as their own.

At the end of the day, all these creators are really good at is mess up and throw blames ^ ^;