Techno Destructo
Riding In Peace
Just thought I'd split this up from the Jesus camp thing.
I was heavily religious when I was young. As I grew older, read, learned and expanded my horizons, I slowly lost my religion. I'm comfortably atheist now (have been for the last 20 years... I'm 35 now).
Because of the correct argument that you can neither completely confirm or deny the existance of a higher power, I've always wondered what would happen when I close my eyes for the last time, then open them again, and BANG! I'm standing in front of god (well, if this happens, hopefully we get to speak to him/her in person, and not just some clerk/teller/servant/etc... up there).
What would the conversation go like?
ME: Hoooolllleee-whoops! I shouldn't be saying that stuff, should I? Sorry 'bout that!
GOD: It's alright... like they say in advertising, any publicity is good publicity, right?
ME: Hey, I'm really sorry about not believing in you, eh? But, really, you can't blame me... Evolution and science have REALLY solid arguments against you, and you've been... well, kinda absent. You're all powerful right? You should have got that burning bush gig again, but like... do it on world-wide tv! Or live at the Superbowl or something like that! We just needed more clear cameos from you... not stuff that science has explained over and over again... So, uh... how'd I do? Life-wise?
--- I'd like to think he thought I was a nice guy, who always tried to do the right thing, and look out for others. As for not believing in him, he wouldn't hold it against me, since it's my actions that determine the kind of person I am, and not what deity I believe in.
He'd probably wag the finger at me for throwing my downstairs neighbour's cigarette butts (which she throws out her window onto the lawn) back in through her open window though. (But really, she throws them out her window first, and they're always completely out when I throw them back in....).
I was heavily religious when I was young. As I grew older, read, learned and expanded my horizons, I slowly lost my religion. I'm comfortably atheist now (have been for the last 20 years... I'm 35 now).
Because of the correct argument that you can neither completely confirm or deny the existance of a higher power, I've always wondered what would happen when I close my eyes for the last time, then open them again, and BANG! I'm standing in front of god (well, if this happens, hopefully we get to speak to him/her in person, and not just some clerk/teller/servant/etc... up there).
What would the conversation go like?
ME: Hoooolllleee-whoops! I shouldn't be saying that stuff, should I? Sorry 'bout that!
GOD: It's alright... like they say in advertising, any publicity is good publicity, right?
ME: Hey, I'm really sorry about not believing in you, eh? But, really, you can't blame me... Evolution and science have REALLY solid arguments against you, and you've been... well, kinda absent. You're all powerful right? You should have got that burning bush gig again, but like... do it on world-wide tv! Or live at the Superbowl or something like that! We just needed more clear cameos from you... not stuff that science has explained over and over again... So, uh... how'd I do? Life-wise?
--- I'd like to think he thought I was a nice guy, who always tried to do the right thing, and look out for others. As for not believing in him, he wouldn't hold it against me, since it's my actions that determine the kind of person I am, and not what deity I believe in.
He'd probably wag the finger at me for throwing my downstairs neighbour's cigarette butts (which she throws out her window onto the lawn) back in through her open window though. (But really, she throws them out her window first, and they're always completely out when I throw them back in....).
