Writer's Block: It Is What It Is

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Personally, I hate most of the crap people say about God.

"It's God's will"

"God doesn't give you anything you can't handle."

and the like.

It makes me picture God as some sadistic, pimply teenage geek, just poking away at us poor little amoebas in His petri dish, torturing and killing us for no good reason except for that "dur-hurr hurr hurr" hyena-like belly laugh as He pushes up His big black taped-up glasses.

I, personally, would prefer not to think of God that way.

I'd rather think that Shit Happens and that it's not the specific Will of an Omnicient, Omnibenevolent Being who loves us all and takes personal interest in each and every one of us, that people and animals and plants suffer and die in horrible ways.

I would rather just think that God is not all that wrapped up in our every day stuff, not that He specificially willed something horrible to happen.

I guess we never really know...but that's my preference, to believe that God isn't actively a complete bastard. More like He just left his aquarium to fend for itself for a few millenia while he was at GodDisney with His parents.

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[bramblekite.livejournal.com]

I hate that one too...it is even vague-r than "Gods Will" and just as annoying.

No, really, sometimes Shit Just Happens, and there's no reason for it at all.

I suppose it could be comforting if you believed that if you put up with so much crap in this life, you get a bucket of gold and heavenly choirs and 70 virgins in the next...but come on....that's just dumb.