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God's Impotence / God's Wit

Cave Painter

16:19 / 09.07.03

of course I've been nurturing my own religion recently.
I figure that God is impotent. and I am not.
Therefore : I MUST be more powerful than god.
Therefore WORSHIP ME

I thought I was funnier than god too, until i heard the news story yesterday about a man and woman who were out sailing with their 9 year old kid off the coast of a Greek Island. But something happened to the boat, in bad weather, and the mum and dad - they drowned in front of their kid.

and the name of the greek island was: Pathos.

true story.

SO. I take it all back, god does have a sense of humour
but it led me to think - what if this humour is just God over compensating for his impotence?

Saint Keggers

16:27 / 09.07.03

There was a story in the news the other week about a minister who on his first day at the new church threw his arms towards heaven and yelled "give me a sign god!"...god imeadiatly struck the church steeple with a lightning bolt burning it to the ground. The minister was reported to have chuckled later on and said "oh well, Ask and ye shall receive".

Char Aina

11:16 / 10.07.03

and IIRC, they continued the service for some twenty minutes before the fire broke out sufficiently to give them pause.

egads, it must be great to be so full of zeal sometimes...

Our Lady of The Two Towers

16:54 / 10.07.03

CP: Why do you reckon God is impotent? And why are you equating sexual power with actual power. If you can bring Geoff Capes of Steve Guttenburg's career back from the dead, then I'll admit you're mightier than God.

@ BOD aka Cave Painter

11:22 / 12.07.03

1. the whole thing is riddled with inconsistencies, I wrote it just as a joke.

2. OPLOTF: it is YOU, my good fellow, who are equating sexual power to actual power - by reading that equation into what I said.
re-read what i said. no reference to sexual power.

Although NOW I will start referring to sexual power... I am potent because I can fuck AND I have the power of life and death over myself and others.

If anything, God is largely impotent because, if anything he can only kill. God fucking anyone would surely be an abuse of power. God fucking you would be like your mum or dad fucking you. That's probably why god can't get it up for humanity.

wanna join my religion? bayyyybeeeeee
I will ask for less worship than God, and I will treat you better.
Your salvation is now a fun time saving bargain.

Lea-side

11:28 / 12.07.03

Geoff capes doesn't want to be back in the spotlight these days. everybody knows that he is perfectly happy running his esteemed shawl and poncho shop, "Geoff's Capes".

@ BOD aka Cave Painter

11:37 / 12.07.03

... Next to a shop selling Giant Haystacks owned and run by Giant Haystacks

Shrug

14:57 / 12.07.03

Hmmm do you mean like Dr Fincher in Graham Greene's The Bomb Party??

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