God?...Booooring!!!

By mugen shiyo · Apr 20, 2011 · 1.1K · 7

Jesus Frickin Crist...I get one of these questions at least once every two weeks. It's like I have "Love to argue about stupid things" written on my face somewhere.

Argument always begins as "Do you believe in God" and then degenerates to me defending myself against the half-poetic guano-fountain that sounds like years of poorly funded brainwashing. The argument always ends with grudgingly agree to disagree. I always dream that if I had the hackers touch, I would go into their bank accounts and give all their money away to the poor and needy like Jesus would have done. Then I would hide in the bushes and laugh watching them go bat-**** crazy in a tirade that would have Mel Gibson and Christian Bale blogging about it.

I used to be religious mostly for the sake of the very, very spiritually and mentally strong, formidable, and amazing example of a human wonder that my grandmother is...and the fact that it was one of the first comic books I ever read. But then you go to school and get your brain turned on and, well, you know...

But is God even relevant anymore...really? He seems more like one of those retro topics you bring up when you remember the weird things that symbolized past ages like bell-bottoms, disco, and the horoscope. I'm pretty sure the church understands this and plans to come out with the exciting new and sleek version of iGod sometime around 2012 when the world ends. Even the horoscope is being replaced with a much more twenty-first century personality-dictating fascination called "humanmetrics" or "Psychological Type Profiles." If you want to find out who you are also, click below...you'll be amazed just how specific this general description of you is...just like the horoscope.

http://typelogic.com/

or

http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/jtypes2.asp

Really, God is such a boring topic. The only fun you get out of it is in arguing about it with someone else. Things get even more exciting when AK-47's and RPG's come into the picture like in the Middle East. Those guys know how to punctuate themselves.
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Comments

I took that test, the result was creepily accurate, it's closer that anyone I've ever met has gotten.

Cthulhu, Apr 20, 2011
Yeah, for me too

Compared to the horoscope, I actually like this one because it has some sort of reasonable basis. It forms a guess based on the answers you give it and so it cuts pretty close. Makes it hard not to take it seriously.

By the way, it said I was an ISTP...basically a geek from what I could tell. What was yours?

mugen shiyo, Apr 20, 2011
But then you go to school and get your brain turned on and, well, you know...
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I don't understand why people think that academic intelligence and a belief in God are mutually exclusive. Somehow believing that the universe began in a sporadic explosion of compressed matter makes you intelligent, but believing that there is a God who orchestrated that event makes you some kind of superstitious backwater hillbilly? I feel kind of bad for religious people in today's society, because they suffer a lot more persecution and ridicule than most other groups and it's over something that literally doesn't affect anyone else besides that individual.

nibris, Apr 21, 2011
Well, first it's not the belief in God I'm crusading against, it is the perversion and the profiteering of that belief in God in the form of RELIGION that I absolutely loathe. More specifically I am agnostic and I think all atheists are really agnostic because we ALL wonder whether there just might be a God or not; we just don't have solid proof either way. But when you do become academic you begin to realize that all the mysteries of life and creation that you once thought were the realm of God are, in fact, much, much more natural. In a hundred years you may see an android giving a child moral advice with more sensitivity than half our own human civilization. An android with a need to communicate to others to validate his own existence. A thousand years ago, that android would have BEEN a God to those who saw him, and a whole religion formed around him. I mean, truthfully, what is the difference between a man and a machine.

Even if you did believe in God, there is increasing evidence that God is not the reason behind all things. The closest thing I have ever come to explaining it is that God simply is a blind force of creation itself. He simply creates on a universal level and that creation evolves on it's own. More so, he may have simply been the "spark" in the beginning and that was it, his existence merely the spark plug for creation. I have others, but they become more and more bizarre and unhinged. Let me hang on to some dignity

The greatest case for my own detachment that I can offer is look at all the deception. Any religion, in my opinion, attempts to deceive. People claim to know and connect with God and know his laws and beliefs and the right and wrong of things. They give you a structured hierarchy and a to-do list and the whole time it's only men making these rules and these judgements. It's not really God I am crusading against, it is religion masquerading as God's representative. (sorry for the confusion)

And yes, it does effect many people because religion is often used to polarize people against one another. Try an get a Muslim, Taoist, or Jewish president in America. They will file your attempt under COMEDY. Religion effects everyone...everyone. How can a person's beliefs not spill into the way he lives his life and perceives the beliefs of another?

mugen shiyo, Apr 21, 2011
I see, I think I understand your point of view, and I respect your ideas. On a different note, though, I wanted to address one another thing about your entry:

defending myself against the half-poetic guano-fountain that sounds like years of poorly funded brainwashing.
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I've heard religion compared to brainwashing time and time again, and I can see how people would get that impression. What you need to take into consideration though, is that religion is certainly not the only form of "brainwashing". Just look at movies, tv, music nowadays. The show Family Guy for example is so incredibly preachy. The creator, Seth MacFarlane squeezes his own view of morality into each episode and tells everyone that's the way life should be lived and then goes on to antagonize people who don't agree with him.

Movies, as well, are all about trying to persuade people of the director or producer's own personal dogma. Take for instance, the movie Hall Pass: fidelity to someone's wife is a silly old tradition and we should embrace the idea of cheating on spouses or significant others.

If religion is to be considered a form of "brainwash", then television and movies and even many books have to be considered so as well. Ultimately, what it comes down to is which is more appealing, and which is the manner after which you want to model your life: You can accept the religion of Hollywood which claims that there is no such thing as morality, you can practice Christianity which preaches love one another or you can worship as the Buddhists do and attempt to find enlightenment through individual self-betterment.

All things considered, I'd have to say that the "brainwashing" of religion is less harmful than the "brainwashing" of the media, since most religions tend to teach some code of moral conduct that encourages treating people well.

nibris, Apr 21, 2011
That's very true what you said, all of it. Brainwashing has become a ubiquitous part of our society- our world- and that deserves a moment of reflection all on it's on.

You know the trippiest thing about it to me is that it has gotten so bad that we ALLOW THE NEWS to be bias. We just accept it casually. Yeah, this program goes to this side and this one goes to that...at some point you have to realize neither is telling you the whole truth if they are telling you the truth.

We are literally besieged by bias and in being unable to avoid it without isolating ourselves from at least some form of modern information, we tend to pick and chose among the media the things we like the most. A "go with the devil you know attitude".

I wouldn't say any brainwashing is more or less than any other because it depends on to what end each one is being used at the time. But that it exists at all, I guess, I something simply unavoidable.

But an awesome point to bring up, nibris

mugen shiyo, Apr 21, 2011
That's very true what you said, all of it. Brainwashing has become a ubiquitous part of our society- our world- and that deserves a moment of reflection all on it's on.

You know the trippiest thing about it to me is that it has gotten so bad that we ALLOW THE NEWS to be bias. We just accept it casually. Yeah, this program goes to this side and this one goes to that...at some point you have to realize neither is telling you the whole truth if they are telling you the truth.

We are literally besieged by bias and in being unable to avoid it without isolating ourselves from at least some form of modern information, we tend to pick and chose among the media the things we like the most. A "go with the devil you know attitude".

I wouldn't say any brainwashing is more or less than any other because it depends on to what end each one is being used at the time. But that it exists at all, I guess, I something simply unavoidable.

But an awesome point to bring up, nibris

mugen shiyo, Apr 21, 2011