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Worse. It’s “attempting to understand this might cause me to question my faith, so I’m not going to even try.”
I think is more like: "I dont have any explanation that wouldn't prove that god doesn't exist"
It's generally directed at the person doing the questioning so I think it's more: "STFU you little twerp, how dare you attack me and my fairy stories"
The last time my in-laws said that to me I asked them what their gods plan was when he gave their daughter leukemia.
"to test us"
"Well I'm glad you're comfortable devoting your lives to someone who gives a 2 year old cancer, that's beyond my capabilities."
Juuuuust enough to sound like it could be a compliment but with a clear backhand because honestly.... Wtf is that logic.
"to test US"
us. not her. us. fuck her, it's for us.
i'm surprised you didn't smack someone.
Meh. I think of this (and similar sentiments in other religions) as the equivalent of an aknowledgement of the butterfly effect, unforseen circumstances and the reality that we as humans have little control over the world and can't see into the future.
TLDR: maybe the baby needed to die.
"it is what it is, fuck you" how I translate it.
Toilets work in mysterious ways
Toilets are different though. If you've ever tried to fix one you'd eventually figure it out.
Most people would call a plumber and pay the bill for swapping the feces-capacitor-unit or whatever is billed, and that's how toilets work to them. They don't think it's magic, they think it works because the plumber was paid.
To anyone who has tried to fix one, it also isn't magic. It's just a really clever design consisting of several valves controlling the input and output of water in different pipes. I won't try to explain as there are several different designs, but the main idea is that valves work just like logical gates. On/off. Just like a computer has bits and booelean operations, toilets work by manipulating the gates(valves) either by user input (pressing the flush buttons) or by conditions changing (the pressure of water at certain levels).
Toilets are logical. You can run Doom on toilets. Try to run Doom using the bible.
Kinda funny that rather than explaining how toilets work you try to compare it to circuits, which I’d take a guess and say that a majority of people don’t know how they work, lol.
This is on Lemmy, where every second post is about Linux. The users here know electric circuits better than plumbing.
"pipes? why are you transferring data between commands in the bathroom?"
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One time at baseball camp I was an outfielder because I was always too busy thinking about more interesting stuff than baseball. Eventually the ball ended up near me somehow, and the whole crowd was yelling at me as I came out of my reverie. So I threw the ball in the opposite direction by accident. The other team ran everyone around the bases while laughing at me.
Anyway cool reply, have fun with your Doom toilet.
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They surely do in Tokyo...
That thing was smarter than my smart TV.
"It's all part of God's plan."
"Yeah, well God's plan fucking sucks. If I was God, I'd just snap my fingers and skip to the end of the damn plan, instead of scheduling little kids to be molested by my clergymen."
Honestly, if I was a God, I would create the universe, then just watch how it unfolds, why would I interfere to save what is the equivalent of ants to me?
I think that you are overlooking a lot of things here. If you are God in the traditional modern sense then you would already know how the universe will unfold. You would be gaining nothing by having the "ants" live and suffer. As the creator of the universe you would also have a responsibility for the lives you put in it and you would be responsible if you chose to not intervene in their suffering as well. As the creator it would have been within your power to create a universe without suffering. When we start to consider those points it paints morbid picture. That's not to attribute that kind of callous cruelty to you, the implications of such a hypothetical are probably not something we've spent much time sorting out.
I dunno' I like to view that part as many do eith their creations. Does a builder not like to see their project standing at the end? Does a programmer not like to see their program work?
Both should know exactly what will happen (especially the programmer), but there is both satisfaction and a necessity to get it actually running.
Of course, that's anthropomorphizing God and projecting, but then that's 99% of religion, so...
Of course, that's anthropomorphizing God and projecting, but then that's 99% of religion, so...
We were made in His image, according to the 3 biggest religions. And most take that to mean that, other than the power he wields, he is like us.
Both should know exactly what will happen (especially the programmer)
Tell me you're not a programmer without saying you're not a programmer. 🤭
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Well to borrow a bit from the rest of the threads here, just how much baby cancer is in the builder's project or the programmer's code? The difference in perspective between an all powerful all knowing being knowing fully what the entirety of the outcome of their creation vs our speculation of the outcome of our works is probably incomparable. Would there even be a difference between experiencing the spectacle of the universe verses perfectly knowing it as an all knowing being? That might be an interesting philosophical question.
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The universe is God's elaborate game of falling dominoes with added suffering.
Children dying of cancer
God works in mysterious ways
I fucking hate religion.
Children abused by clergy.
Good works in mysterious ways.
It get worse than cancer.
God DOES work in mysterious ways.
Mysteriously similar to random chance.
HEY! every once in a while it feels, like, kinda special and directed at me. so doesn't that mean that - aside from all the times it doesn't - the world was created just for me, in "my image"?
And there we have it. The world was made for toy boats. No wonder humans are so messed up.
it's made for many. say it a few times, friar tuck fire truck
"My external locus of control comforts me and I'd prefer it not be challenged thank you very much."
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God heals, but always within the exact parameters of what is possible by the modern medicine of that exact era.
Amputees unfortunately can still go fuck themselves.
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God is a scapegoat for actions you don't want to claim responsibility for.
Any time spent trying to puzzle out "God's plan" is wasted effort.
Just be good to yourself and others.
If God isn't happy with that, we were all doomed to begin with.
"Don't fear the gods; don't worry about death; what is good is easy to achieve, and what is bad is easy to avoid." -- Epicurus
my unemployment, anxienty, depression, and alcoholism need to have a chat with Epicurus..
Have a waffle!
It’s some sort of cognitive dissonance that also gives credence to coincidence.
The sentiment appears really early on in the book of Job which has the character Elihu jumping in to what was effectively an adaptation of the earlier dialogue on the injustice of suffering in the Babylonian Theodicy to claim that God's purpose and motivations are unknowable because why it rains and where snow comes from is beyond human understanding.
Now that why it rains is literally a nursery rhyme, maybe we should really adjust our thinking about just how undecipherable a potential creator of the universe is.
For example, religious traditions that believe God is light (1 John 1:5) and believe it was an intelligent designer of the universe might want to think a bit more on the design detail that light when unobserved can be more than one thing at once, and can even be different things to different eventual observers. At very least, you'd think that would give them pause in their commitment to the idea of absolutely defining who or what their God is for everyone else.
"A quantum collapsed to an unfavorable state"
Story of my life.
I don't believe in god. However, I can see this argument having some merit. Think of all the stuff we do to and for our pets that probably confuses the crap out of them, like putting them in a car and taking them to the vet.
True, but I bet you'd communicate that to your pet if that was within your power to do so. In fact, if you could magically cure your pet you'd do that too.
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God of the Gaps..
You would go mad otherwise
It's also a central principle of many beliefs. It's common for a person to think that they are smarter than gods or that they know all the facts of the universe and what is right and wrong and then they judge the things around them based on their little ideas.
God works in mysterious ways is a thing that a humble (realistic) person should keep in mind. A Human is a tiny insignificant creature and a human brain isn't going to comprehend the reasons, events and magnitude of things. We don't even know anything about the past except the stories we've heard and made up. Let alone the future.
Whether you believe in deity or not, it is a good model and perspective. A piece of age old wisdom, even if you don't like the words it had been put in.
“God works in mysterious ways” is blaming things on gods when your god may have nothing to do with it. That signals you’re trying to me smarter than your god way more than saying, “Let’s figure this out.”
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This is full of falsehoods and outright lies. We do understand the past, we do understand how we got here, we do comprehend the reasons behind almost all events that happen as they can almost universally be explained by science. If we don't know, we keep doing science until we get the answer - which we, invariably, do.
This may have passed as wisdom a century ago but in the modern age of mandatory education and freedom of information, it just sounds uninformed and naive.
It’s common for a person to think that they are smarter than gods or that they know all the facts of the universe and what is right and wrong and then they judge the things around them based on their little ideas.
i cant decide if this is outrageously funny or incredibly naive... both?
please, cite your fact based source
Yeah, little babies with cancer surely make sense. And so does the saying "God wanted him/her there sooner!". Like that fucker couldn't just skip giving the parents trauma and create a baby at heaven directly. And I could think of dozens examples more.
Have you ever heard of a reverse exorcism?
It’s when a demon tells a priest to exit the child’s body.
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