This one's for Maxx...
Even though I know that he can never manage to read long posts like this.
One day, a friend of mine explained the entire problem to me. He said, that I shouldnt let if bother me that people are so completely stupid and inept. When I asked him why he replied quite matter-of-factly that it was Gods plan.
I was somewhat awe-struck by this and asked him to elaborate. He explained that there are a finite number of IQ points in the universe. That having been said, it stands to reason that the larger the population of the planet the lower the average intelligence of the general public. That, he added, is why most of Earths most brilliant minds are not contemporary. He continued by saying that it is only when people die that their allotted IQ points return to the collective to be redistributed and it is only through negative population growth or global catastrophe that the average intelligence of the masses will ever increase.
At this point I was seriously contemplating a career change to something on the scale of Genocidal Dictator of the new Police State of California, but I thought Id hear him out before doing something really rash. Still, I hear that Ethnic Cleansing in the spring-time is quite a wonderful site. But I digress
I still didnt understand how any of this was part of Gods grand design. You see, following this particular method of though one might then infer that Adam and Eve, being the first people to ever exist, would be ber geniuses; this is not the case, as was explained. Initially God had not needed intelligence as he believed that his guidance and the free will of human beings would be enough. Unfortunately, God had underestimated the power of free will and the complete and total ignorance inherent in the human species and had only decided to institute intelligence as a last resort.
Ultimately it breaks down like this; God got fed up with having to repeat itself to humanity every time it needed to remind humans on how to behave; what to do, what not to do, who to fuck or who or what not to fuck and that sort of thing. After much contemplation, God was sick and tired of repeating itself to humanity and had decide to start writing everything down. Of course, after creating the world and all that God had become rather lazy so it was resolved that humanity would have to transcribe Gods laws themselves. This was the impetus behind the granting of intelligence to human beings. Somewhat anecdotally my friend added that Moses spent a fuck of a long time trying to forge the signature of the hand of God; in stone no less.
This, the granting of intelligence, my friend said was a huge mistake and quite honestly, the beginning of the end for God. Intelligence became problematic when the really smart people exercised their free will and began worshiping all sorts of different things, calling it or them God and using their newly discovered intelligence to convince the masses that this was the true meaning God had set forth for them. Once this ideology was firmly in place people wrote God off entirely.
Still, some people just couldnt get with the program and wanted things to be the way they were; so they started writing their own book about what they thought God was all about.
By this time God was pretty well pissed-off and decided that it was time to get hardcore. This is when God runs the big Jesus scam on everyone and starts interfering with the natural order of things. Then people start running around talking about these books that a bunch of whacked out drug addict morons were writing. There was preaching and prognosticating and many crowds gathered to hear about these books and scriptures. They gathered like junkies at a methadone clinic; absorbing as much of this bullshit as they could.
Now people are scared shitless of the Old Gods and live in fear of some mystical second coming of this Jesus asshole; which were still suffering from today.
There have been many cultures that have tried to pull us away from all this craziness but the population was expanding so rapidly at the time there just wasnt enough intelligence left to go around, so here we are.
I still dont know what any of that means but it sure sounds good.
And Im still thinking that genocide might not be such a bad career choice.
Even though I know that he can never manage to read long posts like this.
One day, a friend of mine explained the entire problem to me. He said, that I shouldnt let if bother me that people are so completely stupid and inept. When I asked him why he replied quite matter-of-factly that it was Gods plan.
I was somewhat awe-struck by this and asked him to elaborate. He explained that there are a finite number of IQ points in the universe. That having been said, it stands to reason that the larger the population of the planet the lower the average intelligence of the general public. That, he added, is why most of Earths most brilliant minds are not contemporary. He continued by saying that it is only when people die that their allotted IQ points return to the collective to be redistributed and it is only through negative population growth or global catastrophe that the average intelligence of the masses will ever increase.
At this point I was seriously contemplating a career change to something on the scale of Genocidal Dictator of the new Police State of California, but I thought Id hear him out before doing something really rash. Still, I hear that Ethnic Cleansing in the spring-time is quite a wonderful site. But I digress
I still didnt understand how any of this was part of Gods grand design. You see, following this particular method of though one might then infer that Adam and Eve, being the first people to ever exist, would be ber geniuses; this is not the case, as was explained. Initially God had not needed intelligence as he believed that his guidance and the free will of human beings would be enough. Unfortunately, God had underestimated the power of free will and the complete and total ignorance inherent in the human species and had only decided to institute intelligence as a last resort.
Ultimately it breaks down like this; God got fed up with having to repeat itself to humanity every time it needed to remind humans on how to behave; what to do, what not to do, who to fuck or who or what not to fuck and that sort of thing. After much contemplation, God was sick and tired of repeating itself to humanity and had decide to start writing everything down. Of course, after creating the world and all that God had become rather lazy so it was resolved that humanity would have to transcribe Gods laws themselves. This was the impetus behind the granting of intelligence to human beings. Somewhat anecdotally my friend added that Moses spent a fuck of a long time trying to forge the signature of the hand of God; in stone no less.
This, the granting of intelligence, my friend said was a huge mistake and quite honestly, the beginning of the end for God. Intelligence became problematic when the really smart people exercised their free will and began worshiping all sorts of different things, calling it or them God and using their newly discovered intelligence to convince the masses that this was the true meaning God had set forth for them. Once this ideology was firmly in place people wrote God off entirely.
Still, some people just couldnt get with the program and wanted things to be the way they were; so they started writing their own book about what they thought God was all about.
By this time God was pretty well pissed-off and decided that it was time to get hardcore. This is when God runs the big Jesus scam on everyone and starts interfering with the natural order of things. Then people start running around talking about these books that a bunch of whacked out drug addict morons were writing. There was preaching and prognosticating and many crowds gathered to hear about these books and scriptures. They gathered like junkies at a methadone clinic; absorbing as much of this bullshit as they could.
Now people are scared shitless of the Old Gods and live in fear of some mystical second coming of this Jesus asshole; which were still suffering from today.
There have been many cultures that have tried to pull us away from all this craziness but the population was expanding so rapidly at the time there just wasnt enough intelligence left to go around, so here we are.
I still dont know what any of that means but it sure sounds good.
And Im still thinking that genocide might not be such a bad career choice.
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Yes, this is why I'm an atheist. I don't want a God who can't survive in the minds of intelligent people.