Pancho Pistolas's Journal: And with your piece of divinity?

"We are all of us gods, holding within our grasp everything there is to know, everything there is to be, everything there is to envision-- only we know it not."

What say you to this?

i'm no

[blinder]

i'm no deity, or god or whatever. i'm just me, highly flawed, strange and not terribly unique. all qualities i think describe the antithesis of a god.

now, ellem? now there's a guitar hero-god if i ever saw one. and i have photographic evidence of it as well.

nope

[ellem]

Fuck that; I don't want all that responsibilty.

Re:nope

[ellem]

Gee thanks a lot blinder! [slashdot.org] now I have all sorts of manna to obtain.

Sorry, Dad

[Son Danny]

Too late.

i say it's bunk

[SolemnDragon]

we have at best a century or so to try to become the best we can be. You can do a lot of things somewhat or one or two things very well. Either is a valid choice.

We do the best we can and that's that. You're human, and in the words of C. S. Lewis, (though he was speaking of something else entirely) that ought to be enough to make you hang your head in shame and also enough to make you stand tall as any king.

If you aren't doing the best you can, do better. If you vaguely suspect that you aren't, but don't kn

Re:i say it's bunk

[nizo]

and stay off my lawn,, you crazy kids! *shaky fist*

I keep hoping the wonders of genetic engineering will make it possible to breed giant trapdoor spiders. I want one for my front yard. I wonder how many meter readers would get eaten before they came to investigate?

Re:i say it's bunk

[Pancho Pistolas]

I keep hoping the wonders of genetic engineering will make it possible to breed giant trapdoor spiders. I want one for my front yard. I wonder how many meter readers would get eaten before they came to investigate?

OoooOOOOOooooo... Now I really need to build that secret laboratory, complete with a genetic engineering wing. NEAT IDEA!

Muuuuhaaahaahaahaaaaa!!!

i've touched on this before...

[kesuki]

but i put it in the terms of the way discworld deals with 'gods' the god(s) we choose to believe is/are the one(s) we must live by.

rather than saying we 'are' god of the universe we percieve, i say we create god, from our perceptions and are thus ruled over by our own limited perceptions.

another way to put it is...

in soviet russia, god doesn't create man, man creates god.

but even though i've figured out that perception is 99% of reality, I haven't quite gotten changing my perception down yet.