The Ubiquity of Horror--What's God Got to do with it?
I was born at the very start of WWII. The holocaust started the day after I was born. Historians tell us 65 million people died in that war.
When I was a toddler, a clothesline pole in the yard next store toppled over & killed a young girl I knew. I was horrified such a death could happen right next door.
When I was older, one of my playmates jumped off a wall. His arm got caught on a hook on a pole. He hung there like a piece of meat, his arm horribly mangled. I was shocked at the amount of blood.
A workman fell off a house he was repairing onto the rocks in the brook next door. He was terribly injured.
One of the men my uncle worked with on the railroad fell off a bridge & was killed. My uncle said it was very sad to come back to the truck & see his cap & lunch pail.
My mother mysteriously went to the hospital. Everything was hush-hush. I found out later she was thought to have cancer & had to have a mastectomy & her lymph nodes removed. She lived for many years after that. I think the doctor was an incompetent quack.
So what does god have to do with it?
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Shit … that was a litany of reasons I’ll try to be more patient with the multitude of ‘idiot proofing,’ ‘safety features,’ and ‘helicopter parents’ I encounter…. The good ‘ol days 
There is no god or gods. Whatever there is beyond the unknown, for now, remains just that ..unknown. Nothing happens for a reason, but everything that happens are consequences of varying, if occasionally predictable circumstances. Life remains a crapshoot, that’s what keeps it exciting 
Varn
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Sep 15, 2019
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If nothing happens for a reason, then nothing can happen that is a consequence of predictable circumstances, If what is is beyond the known, then we cannot say if it happens for a reason or not.
The "good old days" were dark & dangerous. We have more buffers today, but they are still dark & dangerous. No wonder the majority of humanity want some god myth to protect them. Reality can be very painful & uncertain
God had nothing to do with it because god is fiction. It’s just random chance that we exist and random chance that we die.
Killtheskyfairy
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Sep 14, 2019
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I think we need to take our life & death straight us without the illusion god has anything to do with it, because god, as far as we know, doesn't appear to exist. But something exists & it is us.
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