![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
(no subject)
Jun. 8th, 2015 05:33 pmI don't know if it was a brilliant book, but I read "Satan: His psychotherapy and cure" and besides being a very healthy book for me at the time I read it (where a central point is while this guy gets utterly screwed in the most personal and horrible ways, ultimately each person screwing him over isn't after him - they're addressing their own issues) it also introduced me to the concept that no story is immune to criticism or another perspective.
Read another way, the bible is actually telling that lucy went to the basement based on copyright issues, as he felt the story wasn't accurately portrayed.
I still have, but don't update, the lj I made for the devil to respond when horrible things would happen, and people would fall over themselves praising god for sparing them. Attributional biases are one thing, but why would anyone trust the bible? Even if some deity wrote the thing, there is no reason to believe that there is such a thing as omnipotence, while it would make far more sense to believe the "devil" rules and simply doesn't care enough to correct god's narrative. All the world was and is horrible, where all life is constantly threatened and hungry, until each succumbs to death. I'd call that a win for the non-authors, so why would I believe the book that claims the winner without contest is all good? If death is evil, who's winning from an earth perspective?
One of my favorite perspective jumps was brought by a cartoon that mocked time travel, noting if you could "stop time" you would instantly be stuck in space as the earth hurtled past your stopped time. We think of spirits as inhabiting our world but without physical attributes - which is also absurd as while we may perceive our world as stable, again it's rock hurtling through space on a wobbly axis and not entirely linear path. Those alleged spirits better have some physical aspect or ... the entire path of earth could be teeming with "ghosts," only each would occupy a piece of space where it was left when it was separated from physical being as the earth continued it's path without them.
Just slapping together a couple basic concepts seems to strip these beliefs away with ease. Yet we fight wars over which leadership structure under a named concept...and here I lose interest and drift off again.
Read another way, the bible is actually telling that lucy went to the basement based on copyright issues, as he felt the story wasn't accurately portrayed.
I still have, but don't update, the lj I made for the devil to respond when horrible things would happen, and people would fall over themselves praising god for sparing them. Attributional biases are one thing, but why would anyone trust the bible? Even if some deity wrote the thing, there is no reason to believe that there is such a thing as omnipotence, while it would make far more sense to believe the "devil" rules and simply doesn't care enough to correct god's narrative. All the world was and is horrible, where all life is constantly threatened and hungry, until each succumbs to death. I'd call that a win for the non-authors, so why would I believe the book that claims the winner without contest is all good? If death is evil, who's winning from an earth perspective?
One of my favorite perspective jumps was brought by a cartoon that mocked time travel, noting if you could "stop time" you would instantly be stuck in space as the earth hurtled past your stopped time. We think of spirits as inhabiting our world but without physical attributes - which is also absurd as while we may perceive our world as stable, again it's rock hurtling through space on a wobbly axis and not entirely linear path. Those alleged spirits better have some physical aspect or ... the entire path of earth could be teeming with "ghosts," only each would occupy a piece of space where it was left when it was separated from physical being as the earth continued it's path without them.
Just slapping together a couple basic concepts seems to strip these beliefs away with ease. Yet we fight wars over which leadership structure under a named concept...and here I lose interest and drift off again.
