And then God says "POOF"!!!

[Tiamat]

You know just when you think you have time to wallow in your own self pitty party......God says oh rrrrrrreeeeeeeeeeealllllllllly you think you've got it bad?!?!!

I just started a new job yesterday as a Nurses Aide for a home care patient. So yeah here I am feeling all sorry for myself and all the crap that's happened in the past few weeks and I get assigned a woman who was an ICU nurse, married for 15 years, beautiful daughter and then BAM!!! gets hit by a car and looses leg, partialy paralized, closed head trauma etc.... So yeah, that's a bit of a reality check. Just when you think you're life isn't going so good the big man upstairs let's you know it could be worse. Shows me I need to count my blessings every day and be greatful for every healthy, normal day that I can draw breath.

[Urban Ranger]

I feel bad for that woman.

[Boris Godunov]

So God purposefully caused grievous misery to that poor woman just to teach you something? What an evil bastard he must be.

[GePap]

As the old saying goes, Eat, Live and be Merry, for tommorrow we die.

Life is as good or as bad as you decide it is. And then it ends, thought you probably do not know when that is.

[mitch]

Originally posted by GePap
As the old saying goes, Eat, Live and be Merry, for tommorrow we die.

Life is as good or as bad as you decide it is. And then it ends, thought you probably do not know when that is.

for sheezy

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Originally posted by Boris Godunov
So God purposefully caused grievous misery to that poor woman just to teach you something? What an evil bastard he must be.

And not just that woman. Read your Bible; He's one sadistic s.o.b.

[Agathon]

Originally posted by Boris Godunov
So God purposefully caused grievous misery to that poor woman just to teach you something? What an evil bastard he must be.

I don't know. What would life be worth if everyone was happy all the time?

You are being unfair here Boris. I don't like religion at all, but the essence of Christianity is that things in this world, other than our characters do not in the end matter. It's not like religious people haven't spent thousands of years thinking about this problem.

At least give them some credit.

[Spiffor]

Damn.

[Last Conformist]

God is a poofter.

[Dinner]

Pufta?

[Richelieu]

Originally posted by Agathon

What would life be worth if everyone was happy all the time?

What would it be worth? Who cares? You wouldn't give a ****: you'd be happy.

[Japher]

Shows me I need to count my blessings every day and be greatful for every healthy, normal day that I can draw breath.

So God purposefully caused grievous misery to that poor woman just to teach you something? What an evil bastard he must be.

God makes homosexuals, and we all know they are going to hell. He's is REALLY a *****

[Agathon]

Originally posted by Richelieu

What would it be worth? Who cares? You wouldn't give a ****: you'd be happy.

Nothing you did would matter. Most people have this funny thing about their choices actually meaning something.

[The Emperor Fabulous]

My choices mean something, but I don't dwell on mistakes I've made. This makes me happy.

My new motto is "**** It" (but in a positive way.)

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by Agathon
I don't know. What would life be worth if everyone was happy all the time?

You are being unfair here Boris. I don't like religion at all, but the essence of Christianity is that things in this world, other than our characters do not in the end matter. It's not like religious people haven't spent thousands of years thinking about this problem.

At least give them some credit.

Where did I say that people should be happy all the time? You missed the point totally. That a god would let bad things happen to people is different than the implication that a god would deliberately cause such suffering to a stranger in order to "teach a lesson" to someone else. Were I religious, I would still have major objections to this notion. It's similar to my eye-rolling at people who survive disasters claiming their god was protecting them, the implication being that he wasn't protecting those who did die (and thereby insinuating they deserved to die).