Why does God prohibit random stuff?

[Aeson]

He could have warned his chosen people about the dangers of emigrating to Europe ... maybe instead of mixed fabrics?

[Elok]

Meh, fine, I'll go away

Don't take it personally, Loin; you do make a positive contribution to our lives. For example, I'm pretty sure it's your fault that, whenever I read Fox in Socks to my son, I feel a momentary twinge of paranoia that I will say "Chicks with dicks come" instead of "chicks with bricks." Years of your dickgirl propaganda have infiltrated my subconscious.

Here I was just pissy because this was the third homosexithreadi on the front page. Enough is enough.

[loinburger]

Yeah, I was hoping to have something like a Terry Pratchett / Discworld Divinities discussion instead of another biblical butt sex discussion, but evidently that wasn't in the cards. Even if I'm not intending to be part of the problem (Slowwhand is the only poster I intentionally annoy because **** him) it's clear that I've become part of the problem, so I'm going to come back in February to see if I have better luck then.

[Elok]

Sorry, I never did get into Discworld. I know I should be able to start with any of the start-of-cycle books, but I really want to do The Color of Magic first. And I just can't find it at any library. While I'm moaning, some douchenozzle checked out Serenity just as I was about to go get it . . . and then never checked it back in. Overdue since early November now. The bastard!

[loinburger]

I don't have a good recommendation as to where you should start in the Discworld books - the problem is that the first books are definitely the "worst" books in the series, because at that point Pratchett was writing a Serious Fantasy Satire full of Lord of the Rings in-jokes and **** like that, and the books started getting really good when he ran out of Lord of the Rings in-jokes. Plus you really aren't missing a lot of character development in those books, because he comes up with the interesting characters or the interesting parts of existing characters in later books. Guards! Guards! (book 8) is probably around the point where it gets good.

Another problem with the first few books is their protagonist: most of Pratchett's protagonists are phenomenal in some way or another, e.g. Vimes is honest, Weatherwax is wise, etc; however, Rincewind is mainly noteworthy for being an imbecile.

[Ming]

Soooo True.
The first books are the weakest. But the good news, you can start later and not really miss much.

I started the series in the middle and had no problem with it. I did go back and read the earlier ones, but again, not really necessary.

[Proteus_MST]

Considering how often Rincewind is featured in the books, "The colour of magic" definitely may be a good first step, followed (in reading order) by "The light fantastic"

[Lorizael]

Another reason to prohibit something is because it's gross and you're omniscient

I think this argument falls flat if God's omniscience includes telepathy. So any time you imagine buttsex, God is forced to watch your erotic fantasy to completion. And the propensity to fantasize is only going to go up the more God forbids the act. And except in truly sexually promiscuous societies, instances of imagined sex are always going to outnumber instances of real sex.

[loinburger]

There's still an advantage to banning sex acts even if you're omniscient+telepathic in that it limits the accuracy of the fantasy, e.g. somebody who has never had butt sex and who is fantasizing about butt sex probably isn't incorporating the smell of poo gas into their fantasy.

[Proteus_MST]

There's still an advantage to banning sex acts even if you're omniscient+telepathic in that it limits the accuracy of the fantasy, e.g. somebody who has never had butt sex and who is fantasizing about butt sex probably isn't incorporating the smell of poo gas into their fantasy.

There would have been an easier way to solve it,
by creating humans in a way that their poo gases smell of roses

[Kidlicious]

Yeah, I was hoping to have something like a Terry Pratchett / Discworld Divinities discussion instead of another biblical butt sex discussion, but evidently that wasn't in the cards. Even if I'm not intending to be part of the problem (Slowwhand is the only poster I intentionally annoy because **** him) it's clear that I've become part of the problem, so I'm going to come back in February to see if I have better luck then.

How could discussing a parody, and injecting butt sex, ever have resulted in that?

[loinburger]

**** off

[Kidlicious]

If God doesn't exist, why do you hate him so much?

[loinburger]

Because he created people like you just to spite me

[Kidlicious]