Thursday, June 29, 2006

Peek-A-Boo!

Why is your god playing hide-and-seek with us? I enjoy this game, as much as anyone. Call me a sore loser, if you will, but I do object being sent to burn in hell for all eternity if I don't find the hider.

Posted by Simon at 9:42 AM

10 comments:

ThomP said...

Just because you find hi don't mean you're on your way to cloudy funland. Last time I found god he overheard me commenting on his wife's chestal area and asked me to leave the dinner party. One little inapropriate comment and BANG, you're off to hell. I'll keep a seat cool for you simon.

29 June 2006 13:43
Simon said...

Cheers bud

29 June 2006 14:29
Chris said...

You aren't looking for him. You aren't playing the game.

29 June 2006 22:15
Doombreed said...

How can you say Simon isn't "playing the game"?

Surely the definition of someone who is "seeking" must include the notion that they have not yet found what they seek?

So, in fact, it's only the atheists who are playing the game, as opposed to those who are sitting in the middle of the playing area, eyes shut and hands over their ears, absolutely convinced they've already won and resolutely ignoring every suggestion to the contrary.

30 June 2006 02:33
Martin Lack said...

I agree with Chris, Simon is not looking and is not playing the game.

He is a bit like Oolon Colluphid

30 June 2006 12:53
cwilsongo1 said...

Doombreed-I fail to see your logic. Simon gives the impression that he is not seeking. That isn't to suggest that he won't find, because often we find what we are not seeking. But what Simon does is seek alternative meanings to the answers that we feel, as Christians, that God gives, and as such, he finds what he himself is seeking. The whole discipline of Philosophy is an attempt by man to explain his existence, apart from God. It is ultimately futile because mankinds thirst for knowledge and truth is not quenched. Answers to life's key questions are not forthcoming.

30 June 2006 19:01
Simon said...

If you concede that it is a game, Chris and Martin, that leads me to ask - what is the point of this game and is it fair?

01 July 2006 18:02
Doombreed said...

Doombreed-I fail to see your logic. Simon gives the impression that he is not seeking.

Really? I read Simon's blog and I see question after question after question. I see a man seeking understanding. I see a man refusing to be like the herd, refusing to pretend that he's found what he's looking for.

When I see Christians - hell, theists of all stripes - I see people who, blind to reality, to reason, to logic, have declared themslves the winners of a nonexsitent game, even though no two groups can agree on the objective or the rules.

Terry Pratchett said it best:

"The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely preferred to the presence of those who think they've found it."

01 July 2006 20:51
Martin Lack said...

doombreed - I think we're "Back to the Future" (i.e. the next question on Simon's blog)... Why did Jesus get crucified?

Because the Religious leaders of his day did not like what he was telling them:

4 Imperfect 2 become Perfect
Requires 1 Perfect Sacrifice.

If that is Voodoo, I'm a dutchman.

03 July 2006 15:57
Simon said...

Ze maken opofferen in voodoo, Martin. Niet onderscheid.

03 July 2006 16:16

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