Is god really angry?

[vivek]

Rain seems to be the latest weapon that god has decided to use against mankind. He/she is serving it in various forms, Hurricane, Flash floods and untimely incessant rains. Its as if, he/she is asking us to payback for all the screwup that we have subjected nature to.



Pollution, insfratructure growth (uncontrolled), exploting jungle resources, de-forestaion and pretty much everything that damages the delicate balance that god has been maintaining staying awake late nights



Rains and train accidents, rains and relief efforts, rains and ar rahman concert and may be rains and deevali!



Can we do some sort of Shanti Puja

[Lucifer]

Hmm... I just had to post here.



Why is it that we judge the actions of God based on what happens to us as a species? May be because he is our God and he is supposed to look after us but the thing is God has a lot more on his mind than a few mere mortals. And, these rains is not his doing. It is ours. Am afraid Hyderabad will go the same way if the indiscriminate construction goes on like this. You don't respect nature and you expect nature to respect you. Go fish!

[Mayavi Morpheus]

Its my table i tell ya.... my table is angry.

[*]

Things can go wrong even when no one is angry. You dont need an angry person to make things go wrong.

For example, a drug addict dies of OD. who got angry here ? the drug ? well its the simple fact that even too much of a good thing is bad, so following this dictum ,, how worse can too much of a bad thing get?

so for all the excesses of bad things we are doing ( and i am not talking moral issues here) we are seeing the results.

Citing and other analogy, if we screw around with a bike during the intial run-in period, we all know that it screws us back for a life time.

so we srewed up with the earth and now its screwing us back.

And oh,, what a screwing is it dishing back? I can only sit and watch.



Finally someone is showing President Bush what shock and awe really mean. 3 hurricanes hitting 3 states and more to come in one season........

well Thats "shock and awe".



we can only sit and wait till the "Avian flu" strikes,,,, and people believe me thats going to be the biggest one of them all.................. an estimated 120 million people dead worldwide.

[Pagan HP]

Hmm... I just had to post here.

Why is it that we judge the actions of God based on what happens to us as a species? May be because he is our God and he is supposed to look after us but the thing is God has a lot more on his mind than a few mere mortals. And, these rains is not his doing. It is ours. Am afraid Hyderabad will go the same way if the indiscriminate construction goes on like this. You don't respect nature and you expect nature to respect you. Go fish!

How would you differentiate Nature and God?

[facelesspenguin]

How would you differentiate Nature and God?

in much the same way you differentiate between nature and man ...

[Spiritual HP]

How would you differentiate Nature and God?

in much the same way you differentiate between nature and man ...

But isn't man a reflection of God himself?

[fp]

How would you differentiate Nature and God?

But isn't man a reflection of God himself?

even if man is , what does that have to do with the differentiation with Nature and God?

[Spiritual HP]

How would you differentiate Nature and God?

in much the same way you differentiate between nature and man ...

But isn't man a reflection of God himself?

even if man is , what does that have to do with the differentiation with Nature and God?

My original question had something to do with Lucifer's post where he said that it wasn't God but nature that was angry. So going back to our relay of questions, I know pretty well that the differentiation between nature and God would be the same as that between Nature and Man....but my question was....HOW??

[fp]

how ? as a "reflection" ...

but whats reflecting what ?

[GPL HP]

how ? as a "reflection" ...
but whats reflecting what ?

Seems like you're too interested in someone's backparts to understand a simple question....



HOW DO YOU DIFFERENTIATE BETWEEN NATURE AND GOD?



Now, if you can answer it, you're welcome. If you have any idea of involving me into some kind of spam on this, go back to the backparts.

[curious fp]

how ? as a "reflection" ...
but whats reflecting what ?

Seems like you're too interested in someone's backparts to understand a simple question....

HOW DO YOU DIFFERENTIATE BETWEEN NATURE AND GOD?

Now, if you can answer it, you're welcome. If you have any idea of involving me into some kind of spam on this, go back to the backparts.

you want a pretentious answer ...? you got it ...



god is nature seen through the prism of humanity ... remove the prism , no god ..



lighten up a bit dude ...

whats a backpart?

[spamtaneous]

How would you differentiate Nature and God?

GOD is a concept..an idea (prolly imaginary) ...there is no reason why one should believe/not-believe in god



NATURE is a more real thing...right in front of ur eyes...u can see it ..feel it... hurt it..get hurt by it...



i think nature is more like a man (rather any living being) ..... u screw it... it screws u.... it falls ill like us ....and when it gets old it dies ....

[Chilled HP]

you want a pretentious answer ...? you got it ...

god is nature seen through the prism of humanity ... remove the prism , no god ..

lighten up a bit dude ...

It's not about being stiff upper lipped or anything friend...its just that I'm one of the foremost anti spam advocates on this board and I don't like every thread degenerating into a spamhouse. Chill.

whats a backpart?

Something you've mentioned in your signature I guess.

[fp]

chill... that wasnt spam ... but (probably ) my bad to shoehorn onto your discussion with lucifer...

yeah , i know what a backpart is ... didnt know what that had to do with what we were talking about ...

[mark]

god doesn't exist, but if He did, he'd be utterly indifferent.

[Lucifer]

I kind of share Mark's opinion. The second part of it anyway. God does exist. But he is indifferent.



And to answer HP, I do not know. I honestly do not know if you can distinguish God from nature. What I do know is this. We cannot keep blaming God for all the ills that are our own doing.



Why do people live in earthquake zones without proper housing? We know there will be earthquakes there, why don't we take precaution? And then we blame mother nature's fury! It is that same fury that has churned the earth enough to make possible the existence of life. Without the earthquakes, volcanoes, and whatever else that we have life would cease to exist.

[fp]

god doesn't exist, but if He did, he'd be utterly indifferent.

god doesnt exist Vs utterly indifferent .... same difference?

[talky]

god doesn't exist, but if He did, he'd be utterly indifferent.

god doesnt exist Vs utterly indifferent .... same difference?

oh r u an atheist

[mark]

god doesn't exist, but if He did, he'd be utterly indifferent.

god doesnt exist Vs utterly indifferent .... same difference?

that was basically the point i was getting at.. the existance of god is a non-issue cos even if he was around he wouldn't be arsed.

[fp]

why wouldnt he be?

[mark]

why wouldnt he be?

because we're trivial in the overall scheme of things..

[fp]

because we're trivial in the overall scheme of things..

theres a scheme? whats the scheme ?

[CtrlAltDel]

i sort of agree with luci here. all the recent catastrophe are a result of man's arse_rape of nature thru the centuries and affecting the delicate balance - pollution, global warming, population, poaching....we are paying the price for our own mistakes.



...and abt God, well...i believe its the name given to the mysterious force behind nature that makes things happen....like i said, we raped it and its giving back now