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What God wants:
- Thread starter Chandrasekhar
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The stress is probably mitigated by the reliance on "God works in mysterious ways" meme...
warpus
In pork I trust
If God exists it would be ridiculous to assume that we can know what he wants
,unless he made it pretty clear to us
But again, to claim that God wants something specific from insignificant little us, without any evidence, is rubbish
,unless he made it pretty clear to us
But again, to claim that God wants something specific from insignificant little us, without any evidence, is rubbish
mangxema
I
"Gah! Must you all whine at once? Come on people! A few thousand at a time, please!"
God doesn't want; God is. People want.
Some Budhists don't in fact that's the basis of the religion, to break free from the bonds of desire. Some have even managed to do it too.
Seems to me the world would be a better place without so much want, but what can you do?
Abaddon
Deity
not want?
Want less. Wanting is all about "ego"; to "want less" is to want less for oneself.
Make the "doing [to the best of your ability]" more important than the outcome.
Be kinder to the people around you.
Very difficult; too difficult to do in anything but small steps. Or you coud take this approach:
SMAC said:
Perfection
The Great Head.
3 pages, and noone has posted this? I'm dissapointed. 
SMAC said:
ComradeDavo
Formerly God
I'm sorry but to me talking about what god wants it's like talking about what Frodo from Lord Of The Ring wants or what the tooth fairy wants.
I'm an athiest - I don't have ideas about what a 'good' god might want because I don't belive such god exists, and talking about it hypothetically always seems to be a way for christians to try and score points.
3 pages, and noone has posted this? I'm dissapointed.
Perf, you should always read to the end of the thread before you post.
This is something I do or try to do, but I was of course referring to those who see it differently and their own selfish gain is more important than moral issues. These people sadly are more common than the general good guys out there. But as I said what can you do except hope that you do the right thing, and maybe it'll rub off? Considering the amount of want in the world though, I don't think this sort of mentallity is likely to become popular.
It doesn't have to become popular, just more frequent and then some of life's ills will be lessened.
Eukaryote
Deity
1. For us all to love one another
2. For us to be peaceful with one another
3. For us to be genorus with one another
4. For us to worship him
5. Chocolate
jk
2. For us to be peaceful with one another
3. For us to be genorus with one another
4. For us to worship him
5. Chocolate
jkThat'd be the dream, but I'm not seeing it happening, perhaps we are just not ready for such enlightened thinking? Perhaps Jesus came three thousand years too early, because I'm pretty sure no one was ready for that message through out history to the present day. It's considered weak or pacifistic or liberal or stupid, to do the right thing sometimes, I just wish that such moronic thinking wasn't so prevelant, and I didn't see such thinking so often.
EDIT: and I'm not solely refering to here, in fact I'd say in general most people here are a little more enlightened or moralistic than average, just looking at lifestyles in general in my experience.
Shadylookin
master debater
nothing. if you're omnipotent then you already have what you want.
More frequent is just one extra kindness a day somewhere. That is not too much to ask. Don't look to see it happening. Just add one to what you do and forget the rest.
Xanikk999
History junkie
Just to clarify, i dont think any agnostics have any idea of what god wants.
If you do, you cant take the agnostic stance.
If you do, you cant take the agnostic stance.
au contraire, we can duck and weave into all spheres, it's just that we don't necessarily support them. I did say that Agnosticism will not give you a better moral grounding than atheism, but then I'm not an idiot and am not bound by my beliefs to consider only one option, because I accept that I don't know I can consider all spheres. And athesits or theists aren't bound either, although sometimes it might seem they are.
