I've been worrying the last couple of days that all us free thinkers and liberals are just wrong, that we really are in End Times being referreed by a judgemental, angry God. These Bush Era disasters read like God making an example of each of the deadly sins: WTC = Greed, NOLA = Lust, Pakistan = Wrath. I'm not sure what sin this myopic God intended to punish with the South Asian tsunami. Sloth, perhaps? Because it's, like, really hot there, and people are less active? I don't know.
Anyway, the phrase "fully-inhabitable fury" is a very comforting motto in this context.
I'm not sure what sin this myopic God intended to punish with the South Asian tsunami. Sloth, perhaps? Because it's, like, really hot there, and people are less active?
*raised eyebrow*
Uhhhh... yeah. You know, the tropical heat shore do make them brown-skinned furriners lazy.
von_doom, are you high?That aside, I can't say the thought that the somewhat higher-than-average rate of Really Bad Shit the last few years hasn't made me wonder about wrathful Old Testament deities. However, what really worries me about this is not so much that it might be true, but rather that too many people might think it is, and that instead of reading increased frequency of hurricanes and floods as evidence of the seriousness of global warming, people will read it as a sign to vote against gay marriage
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No, no, I was speaking as this irrational God who wipes out a whole coastline because some people like it up the bum, or who murders a bunch of secretaries and busboys before the stockbrokers get to the office. Clearly, this is someone who thinks in very broad, fuzzy, self-justifying terms. He's a fundamentalist, after all. I know when I lived in the tropics nobody wanted to do a fucking thing during the middle of the day, myself included, but that was in the Carribean. I have no idea what it's like in India.
I fear seeing the country reacting to these things as signs that the Battle of Armageddon is at hand
The scenario you're describing actually is the Battle of Armageddon, though. Like, once you get past a certain point, it is what it is.
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Anyway, the phrase "fully-inhabitable fury" is a very comforting motto in this context.
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*raised eyebrow*
Uhhhh... yeah. You know, the tropical heat shore do make them brown-skinned furriners lazy.
von_doom, are you high?That aside, I can't say the thought that the somewhat higher-than-average rate of Really Bad Shit the last few years hasn't made me wonder about wrathful Old Testament deities. However, what really worries me about this is not so much that it might be true, but rather that too many people might think it is, and that instead of reading increased frequency of hurricanes and floods as evidence of the seriousness of global warming, people will read it as a sign to vote against gay marriage ( ... )
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I fear seeing the country reacting to these things as signs that the Battle of Armageddon is at hand
The scenario you're describing actually is the Battle of Armageddon, though. Like, once you get past a certain point, it is what it is.
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