Words of wisdom...
Originally posted by CurtSibling:
No human has been to this fantasy world that is promised.
It's a fantasy made to make people's pointless lives seem worthwhile.
An illogical fable that is beaten into generation after generation of young humans, to keep the lie going.
And to keep the human elite in a position of power.
I choose freedom over such degradation.
I am a Human, the race that built glory from nothing and mastered the matter of life itself.
By that heritage, I am a god.
Originally posted by Floppa:
A promise of a 'paradisiacal heaven' after death... What is required to attain it? Shun natural insticts and desires. Ingrain mental sicknesses and guilt guilt GUILT into our children and their children for desiring what is natural to us humans to desire. How pathetic is that? At what point did we become gerbils? Or should I say 'sheep'... No, brainwashing is NOT too strong a word for this line of talk. GUILT for being a human being... Where do I sign up? And pass me that collection plate while you're at it so I can help support this GARBAGE.
What ever happened to thinking for yourself? Whatever happened to deductive reasoning? Too bad stupidity isn't physically painful.
Don't forget, Jesus rose from the dead so technically, he's a zombie.
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My premise is simple.
The idea of god is a construct, an invention.
There is no need to disprove it, as he never really existed anyway.
As living deity or entity, this god is as real as Frodo or Gandalf.
And like these characters, god has many fan-fiction writers working in their names.
And many hardcore fans.
Does this make them or god real?
Nope.
It matters not how much you believe, the fact is this
Man invented the divine to first explain, then justify and now avoid his miserable existence.
If you look back through our history, it is obvious that ideas of gods have evolved along with our civilisation.
From Stone Age to Internet age, we have been enthralled by fancies and the lure of the spectacular over our mundane boring lives.
Hence why we are so eager to accept that we are small vessels crashing in some cosmic sea, beyond our control.
And since you are players of civ, the basics are there in front of you.
Humans made up gods to give moral guides to behaviours, and to cow populations under a flag of one power.
What we cannot explain, we made fantasies to explain, and a trend that is still with us.
A Stone Age man would not know why it rained or why his mate had a child, he put it down to the spirit gods happiness.
Disasters were then acquitted to the spirits wrath
this is where the idea formulated.
And to say the earth is 6000 years old is completely preposterous, I refuse even to give it consideration, so lets move on
As time moved on we learned to settle down, build cities, trade and trick and get one over each other, by force or even better, by fear.
Primitive religious leaders realised that their god invention was useful for maintaining a grip over the plebs, and to assure the good life for them.
That is where religion came into its own, when it was married too human greed.
Human-controlled religion was the first corporation, with several market leaders crushing the traditional competition till they monopolised the market.
This is what Christianity and Islam excelled at; fear mongering and championing of ignorance.
While a few privileged men pontificated and made the rules, and raked it in.
Business was good, and everyone was too fearful or stupid to ask questions.
All with humans at the helm, with their ever flexible, invented god concept.
And for those who refused to buckle under, the threat of a baddie god or demon would be enough to ostracise them or if that failed, a sword or burning at the stake will do.
And now the idea of god is firmly in the hands of people who know how to squeeze what they want out of the franchise:
Docile followers, money, power, politics and all this with an unmatchable promise added in at the end of the day
And if you dont submit and join in the church bizarre, you are damned to a hell, purpose-invented for the task!
And it matters not how good you have been. Unless you get in line with the earthy power-church, you are sunk
a perfect man-made delusion.
If you look at the whole scheme, from the Greek states, through Rome, to the dark ages, to the new world and then industrial age and now, it is obvious that it is all a big human delusion, allowed to go way too far.
There never was a god/gods/goddess; it was a mental security blanket in our immature years as a species to provide comfort in a harsh world.
And now we still cling to it in the space age
Scared to let go.
Or rather being told we are scared, by those who are scared to lose power.
Even worse are the unwitting followers, beaten or deluded into giving up their self-determination and bowing to a false hope and fantasy god.
In this day and age, revisionism and reverential treatment is not challenged by successive generations, who are either beaten into believing by parents who got the same treatment,
Or tricked by charismatic individuals who serve to keep the great lie alive.
For know there are many who live in great renown and luxury and wish to keep their power-base.
The invented god spirit has come far since those innocent days of the hunter-gatherer.
Many tribes had their own harmless little invented gods,
Now swallowed up by the huge, terrifying machine of the mono-invented-god, and his retainers, who cannot recall why they maintain this colossal grand invention.
Will they ever learn?
In conclusion,
Look through history, god was an invention, he never existed anyway.
We live, controlled by a massive lie. Are you part of it, do you wish to keep it alive?
vs Curtsibling
