(Just finished I Pray You Put This Journal Away and ooof)
Mr. Destructicity — 04/24/2022
I don’t know what’s worse, that, or just thinking your shirt don’t stink because you got dunked twice
Zackfig — Yesterday at 3:30 AM
-that kind of story seems rather common – just like there are a lot of stories about a flood spread across the world
-FlameRaven — Yesterday at 8:27 AM
-Just finished the Job ep and I am having a lot of feelings. Generally I am with Chris - as an atheist, I’d rather believe in a random universe than a God capable of this much deliberate cruelty
-FlameRaven — Yesterday at 9:58 AM
-Now, if God is cruel because gods are just capricious and ineffable, then I’m actually less mad about it? If gods were an explanation for the random forces of nature, or capricious and human like the Greek gods who mess with humans just for lols, then you can’t expect justice or fairness from them. I think the problem of Job is that we have this tradition of God as always just and loving, and putting that next to a very old story of “sometimes life sucks and then you die” just. There is a lot of cognitive dissonance there and it’s very unsatisfying.
-Kivutar — Yesterday at 10:39 AM
-Yeah, that’s how I feel about it
+Zackfig — Yesterday at 3:30 AM
+that kind of story seems rather common – just like there are a lot of stories about a flood spread across the world
FlameRaven — Yesterday at 8:27 AM
+Just finished the Job ep and I am having a lot of feelings. Generally I am with Chris - as an atheist, I’d rather believe in a random universe than a God capable of this much deliberate cruelty
FlameRaven — Yesterday at 9:58 AM
+Now, if God is cruel because gods are just capricious and ineffable, then I’m actually less mad about it? If gods were an explanation for the random forces of nature, or capricious and human like the Greek gods who mess with humans just for lols, then you can’t expect justice or fairness from them. I think the problem of Job is that we have this tradition of God as always just and loving, and putting that next to a very old story of “sometimes life sucks and then you die” just. There is a lot of cognitive dissonance there and it’s very unsatisfying.
Kivutar — Yesterday at 10:39 AM
+Yeah, that’s how I feel about it
Being told “god loves you personally and wants the best for you” just feels gaslighty
Gods as uncaring cosmic forces, see “the sun” above
-Getting angry at the sun for creating a desert is insane, and besides that silly -FlameRaven — Yesterday at 10:49 AM
-Yeah, you can’t get mad at a hurricane for wrecking your house
+Getting angry at the sun for creating a desert is insane, and besides that silly
+FlameRaven — Yesterday at 10:49 AM
+Yeah, you can’t get mad at a hurricane for wrecking your house
AcetyleneLamp — Today at 8:28 PM
+When I read Job, I pictured his friends sitting down in the ashes with him, which made them seem a little more empathetic. This depiction seems more true though.