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ParanoidObsessive 07/12/20 4:45:07 PM #34:	Zeus posted... A return to worshiping us old gods. Frankly, society went to hell when people stopped. When I read this it took a second for me to parse the context (I missed the "us"), and for a moment I thought you were talking about the Old Gods who tend to pop up in Lovecraft and his imitators. Or just sort of chthonic semi-entities in general. And I was all ready to jump on that train. We need more unknowable Powers that drive anyone who contemplates them mad from the knowing of it. WastelandCowboy posted... There's a lot to be said about your power if you're incapable of getting it done yourself. I mean, really. What kind of god are you if you can't demonstrate your wrath and power as a warning to us lowly humans? Lol. Some god you are. To be fair, it's a pretty common god-trope that gods require belief to be empowered, so it's really only our own lack of faith that has left the old gods weak and incapable of the sort of grandstanding they used to do. So it's really our own damned fault. If we want miracles and magic, we have to earn them. Conversely, there's also the corollary that belief can also theoretically empower a new god who has never existed before if enough people believe in it, so again it's a complete failure of imagination and worthiness on our part that we haven't conjured up a God of Rainbows, Ice Cream and Hand Jobs and faithed them into reality (and even ignoring the metaphysical aspects, that's essentially how gods DO work on a metaphorical level - ie, they're our assumptions of what gods would and should be, because we're the ones who invented and perpetuated the concept of them). ie, if we weren't such shitty people, we wouldn't have such shitty gods. Zeus posted... It was the Last of the Titans. Now they're all extinct. Thanks a lump, humanity! Hey now, that one's on you for banishing all the rest of them to Tartarus. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family <cite>ParanoidObsessive posted [p:942021728] in What's... [t:78841729]...</cite> <quote><cite>Zeus posted...</cite> <quote>A return to worshiping us old gods. Frankly, society went to hell when people stopped. </quote> When I read this it took a second for me to parse the context (I missed the "us"), and for a moment I thought you were talking about the Old Gods who tend to pop up in Lovecraft and his imitators. Or just sort of chthonic semi-entities in general. And I was all ready to jump on that train. We need more unknowable Powers that drive anyone who contemplates them mad from the knowing of it. <cite>WastelandCowboy posted...</cite> <quote>There's a lot to be said about your power if you're incapable of getting it done yourself. I mean, really. What kind of god are you if you can't demonstrate your wrath and power as a warning to us lowly humans? Lol. Some god you are.</quote> To be fair, it's a pretty common god-trope that gods require belief to be empowered, so it's really only our own lack of faith that has left the old gods weak and incapable of the sort of grandstanding they used to do. So it's really our own damned fault. If we want miracles and magic, we have to earn them. Conversely, there's also the corollary that belief can also theoretically empower a new god who has never existed before if enough people believe in it, so again it's a complete failure of imagination and worthiness on our part that we haven't conjured up a God of Rainbows, Ice Cream and Hand Jobs and faithed them into reality (and even ignoring the metaphysical aspects, that's essentially how gods DO work on a metaphorical level - ie, they're our assumptions of what gods would and should be, because we're the ones who invented and perpetuated the concept of them). ie, if we weren't such shitty people, we wouldn't have such shitty gods. <cite>Zeus posted...</cite> <quote>It was the Last of the Titans. Now they're all extinct. Thanks a lump, humanity!</quote> Hey now, that one's on you for banishing all the rest of them to Tartarus. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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