Re: TOS - Who Mourns for Adonais?
Posted: Mon Aug 24, 2020 4:59 pm
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Who is that quote from? I have to say it comes from a pretty Abrahamic-centric view of religion.JL_Stinger wrote: ↑Mon Aug 24, 2020 1:18 amThe Greek gods are simultaneous the most believable - because they're basically just humans with superpowers - but also the ones least worthy of worship. If we were to discover definite proof that Zeus and crew were real and still existed, our next order of business should be figuring out how to wipe them out because they're a menace to the universe.clearspira wrote: ↑Sat Aug 01, 2020 6:44 pm Y'know, i'm an atheist, but the Greek gods are by far the most believable gods I have ever read about. You tell me which is more believable: that humans were invented by an all-loving, all-forgiving creature of mercy and peace; or that humans were invented by a bunch of vain serial rapists, paedophiles, murderers, thieves and slavers? I'll give you a hint: turn on the evening news.
How does that old saying go? "Any god you can perceive is not a god. If you meet a god, kill him."
I'm pretty sure it's a garbled Buddhist thing: "If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him."Fuzzy Necromancer wrote: ↑Mon Aug 24, 2020 11:02 pmWho is that quote from? I have to say it comes from a pretty Abrahamic-centric view of religion.JL_Stinger wrote: ↑Mon Aug 24, 2020 1:18 amThe Greek gods are simultaneous the most believable - because they're basically just humans with superpowers - but also the ones least worthy of worship. If we were to discover definite proof that Zeus and crew were real and still existed, our next order of business should be figuring out how to wipe them out because they're a menace to the universe.clearspira wrote: ↑Sat Aug 01, 2020 6:44 pm Y'know, i'm an atheist, but the Greek gods are by far the most believable gods I have ever read about. You tell me which is more believable: that humans were invented by an all-loving, all-forgiving creature of mercy and peace; or that humans were invented by a bunch of vain serial rapists, paedophiles, murderers, thieves and slavers? I'll give you a hint: turn on the evening news.
How does that old saying go? "Any god you can perceive is not a god. If you meet a god, kill him."
I should point out the majority of Greek Gods are very clear that courage against them is extremely ill-advised. You are to react with submission, cowering, and bowing. There is literally a word for being courageous against the gods and it is akin to pedophile for the Ancient Greeks: hubris.BridgeConsoleMasher wrote: ↑Mon Aug 24, 2020 11:13 pm Christianity looks at humans as a collective. Resorting to our baser instincts is the peril of any modernist religion. With the more polytheistic religions order tends to heed to them in favor of human divinities like passion and courage.
Eh, it really is "You are stupid and should feel awful for this."Fuzzy Necromancer wrote: ↑Tue Aug 25, 2020 4:41 am Hubris isn't quite the same as courage. It's more like Chutzpah, or the cosmological equivalent of "Hold my beer while I try this".
I am the Lord thy God. You will be assimilated.