• Limonene@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    The existence of one or more gods can’t be conclusively proven or disproven. So it makes sense to me that some people believe in it and others don’t.

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      8 days ago

      The funny thing is that people believe very specific things about gods, like that there’s only one, or that they’re nice or at least have similar values to us.

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        8 days ago

        Or give a shit at All about you …that one’s hilarious.

        Vast incalculable cosmos to rule but God gives a shit about an ant? Ok buddy. U just want my $10 for this week’s plate

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          Or literally look like a specifically male human. What he does with those two legs when he already exists everywhere, nobody knows. It’s not just the Abrahamic religions either, all the myths of the world have a bit of anthropocentrism to them. That was excusable when we had no better ideas.

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            My favorite interpretation of that was in Mage: The Ascension. Man being “in God’s image” wasn’t morphological, it was in man’s ability to reshape reality to his whims.

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              7 days ago

              On the subject of fiction, I was thinking about H.P Lovecraft when I wrote this. His whole thing was making a mythology that’s not anthropocentric, and incorporates that character of vast incomprehensibility that our modern science has.