bobby_hill@lemmy.world to Atheism@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months agoWhat the trolly problem actually looks likelemmy.worldimagemessage-square119fedilinkarrow-up11.15Karrow-down162
arrow-up11.09Karrow-down1imageWhat the trolly problem actually looks likelemmy.worldbobby_hill@lemmy.world to Atheism@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months agomessage-square119fedilink
minus-squareTrailblazing Braille Taser@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up38arrow-down1·11 months agoSure, but “God works in mysterious ways,” so it’s not my responsibility to clear up any paradoxes that arise from my religious axioms. Get with the program.
minus-squareDe_Narm@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up37arrow-down1·11 months ago“God works in mysterious ways” is a nice way of describing him as a Lovecraftian horror we cannot possibly understand.
minus-squareubermeisters@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13arrow-down1·11 months agoWell have you ever read the depictions of angels in the Bible? Very lovecraftian. You may even say it’s a precisely what inspired Lovecraft.
minus-squarebobby_hill@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·edit-211 months agoThat, and his insatiable hatred for all things dark skinned
minus-squarewildginger@lemmy.myserv.onelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·11 months agoLovecraft didnt hate, he feared. His was a racism born and fed from paranoia, convinced that literally everything actively wanted to hurt him. Makes the racism in his writing make a lot more sense.
minus-squarebobby_hill@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·11 months agoJust going based on what his wife said in her biography of him
minus-squareUriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10arrow-down1·11 months agoPlaying The Sims 2 helped make His mysterious ways less mysterious but the same amount of cosmic horror.
minus-squarebobby_hill@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·11 months agoAlso brings out the capricious in you
minus-squaresamus12345@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·11 months ago God works in mysterious ways I wanted to find out the origin of that tripe, and it’s a poem that should be titled simply “Copium.”
Sure, but “God works in mysterious ways,” so it’s not my responsibility to clear up any paradoxes that arise from my religious axioms. Get with the program.
“God works in mysterious ways” is a nice way of describing him as a Lovecraftian horror we cannot possibly understand.
Well have you ever read the depictions of angels in the Bible? Very lovecraftian. You may even say it’s a precisely what inspired Lovecraft.
That, and his insatiable hatred for all things dark skinned
Lovecraft didnt hate, he feared. His was a racism born and fed from paranoia, convinced that literally everything actively wanted to hurt him.
Makes the racism in his writing make a lot more sense.
Just going based on what his wife said in her biography of him
Playing The Sims 2 helped make His mysterious ways less mysterious but the same amount of cosmic horror.
Also brings out the capricious in you
I wanted to find out the origin of that tripe, and it’s a poem that should be titled simply “Copium.”