I'd ask: What are the Powerball numbers that will appear in the next draw? Cha Chinky! $$$$$$


So long and thanks for all the fish.

Why do people blame you when they don't get what they want? After all you're a perfect source.

How am I leading my life so far? So far am I going to heaven? How about the rest of my family?

and I have plenty others but I can only reply with one.. so yea that would be it

Actually that just reminded me of a question. SImilar to yours but a little more detailed - why do people who do not believe in you congratulate themselves for everything good that happens, and blame you for everything bad that happens.

Sorry you are the one that is either wrong or not understanding what I said.

IF the Christian God was real and omniscient (all knowing), when I ask "why" he would know what I was asking.

I would ask him out for a beer. You know....chat about the universe, life, small talk.

My question would be, in all seriousness

"Why are human eyes wired backward?"

Human eyes are actually wired backward; the light-sensitive material is at the back, with nerves, blood vessels, and other stuff in the way.

I would ask him:


How in the hell can you sit up there and let people bash you like that without even making one small bad thing happen to them? Oh wait, he's omnipotent, he has eternal patience. =D

Do the world a fav and banish ALL religion

-blink blink-


Wow, and you guys say the Christianity is bad, but you want to get rid of everyone's beliefs that you disagree with now. >.>

You sure you wouldn't rather be God?

NOPE dont be so simple Zero...

Get rid of all religions so there is NO more holy wars...no more fighting and people like you as you claim to get bashed all the time..and others that get killed for their belief...be gone with it all

If Christianity doesn't get bashed on this website then Kismit was lying and I'm Michael Jackson with 3 legs. I was gone for a few days, came back and I still see the same old Christian bashing.

BM - how is getting rid of people's religion going to help. Does that not make you as bad as the early missionaries who went to Africa and destroyed that culture, bringing in the "civilization" of CHrisitanity?

How is what you are proposing any different?

If you're going to get God to get rid of something, why not make it fanaticism and extremism. That'd do the job just as well, and leave the cultural roots of a society in tact.

Regards, PA

PA its my own persoanl question ok?

NOW...if ALL religion and not just boo hoo christianity was banished and no one knew of it..complete mnds wiped of all religions...then thats it...no more bashing...no more killing.......do you get me? I guess you dont...how sad...

Oh, I get it, I just think getting rid of the minority of extremists would be a much better plan. But as you say, it's your question

Extremists form from a religion if there was no religion of any kind and we knew nothing of it there would be no extremists

ON the contrary - there are extremists everywhere. A fanatical soccer fan might be prone to violence, rioting and looting if his team loses (or even if they wil, sometimes).

Yes but thats a different ball game (pardon the pun) you dont hear too many getting shot dead over their support of a football team

I would dispute that claim! Rugby League (an Australian sport, you've probably never heard of it) is relatively low-key as far as sports fans go. I've heard crazier things happen overseas in soccer. But here is the rub - last year on multiple occassions, there were..... incidents..... among some of the fans, where fans traveling to rivals games were attacked, even beaten just because they supported the opposite team. I can cite specific examples if you like, but since you don't know the sport or the teams, suffice it to say that it does happen

Though you specifically said "shot dead" didn't you! Violence is violence, and extremism is extremism. If there was no religion, people seeking power would just use some other vehicle to preach their hatred and discrimination.

And since Rugby League is low-key, all I can assume is things happen in other sports too. And of course, sport was only one example. Politics is another example. There are more.

My opinion of course.

Regards, PA

PA LOL of course we have heard of it gee they play rugby over here ..........my dad is a huge fan of the All Blacks my partner Gary was the captin of his college rugby team....its a rought sport if you ask me but its never off the tv

A lot of riots happen over football..its never off the news........but what I was saying PA...its not every day you hear someone getting a bullet in their heads over their teams...you hear more killings and violence occuring over religios believes.....gee I grew up here in N.Ireland for over 30 years now I should know

Actually Rugby League and Rugby Union are different sports. I think you are thinking of Rugby.

But I take your meaning. I don't mean to say that extremism happens as much in sport as it does in religion. But I do think it happens. I stand by my last statement though, that if religion were to be erased, people would just use another vehicle to the same result.

Of course that's just my opinion.

Regards, PA

Ohh yes thats true PA....but think about it they use other reason to show hate anyways...but it seems now days that its mainly over religion....they use it as a big excuse to hate.....think about it PA....if you wernt a christain...you wouldnt know what it was like to get bashed for your beliefs would you? and whatever else you get bashed over would be just the same...if you get my drift

How is destroying a culture equate to civilization?

hmm I was wondering the same thing I mean if you have your mind wiped clean of all religion how that could effect anyone is beyond me

Bah, people are thinking about asking all the boring, vague, "Meaning of Life" questions that God could answer with appropriately vague answers. Asking him something like "Why are human eyes wired backward, creating a blindspot and limiting our vision, while octopus eyes aren't?" requires him to explain his poor design. It's one of those questions that would cause a Perfect God to go, "Well, um, you see, um" and then suddenly explode from the logical problem.

No what I meant was how could destroying a culture be considered civilized?
Strange ideas some Christians have.....

It doesn't! Did you not noticed the " " around the word civilization? It's supposed to indicate sarcasm. I was acknolwedging the unfortunate habit that the early missionaries had for destroying other cultures.

Regards, PA

is it really over religion? it seems to me that religion has become the convenient excuse for people who have either forgotten the real issue or dont want to face it. take religion out of the middle east, and what are you left with? large numbers of unemployed young men with guns in a region that has been used and abused by the west for the last 100 years or so. do the same with any conflict religion gets blamed with. more often than not, there is a real reason for the conflict. get rid of the real cause, and the violence will stop.

me too....

i would ask how i could be all powerful like him then i would win every argument on this thread because i will know everything! ahhhh the possibilities

I think I'd ask the G-man (he and I go way back by the way) what his/her real name is, assuming god'd have one...it's an odd request isn't it? really a waste of breath, however to me, if I know it's name, it becomes tangible, adds a sense of personality, or relatability. i just can't find myself putting too much faith in such a distant entity...I could allow myself to finally put a bit more faith in him/her....anywho...that's pretty much it...boring huh?

Yes and the majority of these "missionaries" were of what faith?

What's your point zandore? Are you trying to make me admit something I"ve already admitted???

My point being just how destructive the Christian religion HAS BEEN and still can BE.


If you could ask God just one question.....WHY?

I would be asking YHWH (actually I ask all the time) why YHVH has allowed the xians to maim, torture and murder whoever gets in their way for the last 1500 years. Probably he would say it's a way of making the Jews stronger, or something even weirder.

"No what I meant was how could destroying a culture be considered civilized?"
- Conrad, in Heart of Darkness, said that it was "idea behind it."


"do the same with any conflict religion gets blamed with. more often than not, there is a real reason for the conflict. get rid of the real cause, and the violence will stop."
- Usually, that real reason is Property.

What i would ask God is nothing, all i would do is thank him for the wonderfull life he gave me.

No, you wouldn't.

Get the story right.

They like to here themselves talk.

You don't lead, you follow.

Simple, your eyes would be in the back of your head. I knew what I was doing.

What is THIS and WHY?

Legally Sunni (Now go google me.)

A blank canvas, go paint.

Get what story right? the girl was just stating if she could ask one question to God and that was it

I'd ask him why I like Thai food more than Indian.

I'd ask him...how come my partner don't enjoy my home cooking I mean arent potatoes meant to be crunchy?

God, lord, divine, jehovah, allah, bill, whatever...Why are you so opinionated?


~ADHD~

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No, you wouldn't.

It's a metaphor.
However if he were suddenly mortal in that process of my addressing the depraved indifference "he" has exampled....yes I would. Perhaps that other example of rebellion would open his attentions to all those supplicants beseeching for release from that which his clergy claim is the result of free will, while at the same time they stand mute save for the empty euphemism; "It's all in god's plan."
I've seen the suffering. I've watched flies crawl across faces of babes too weak to brush that which will eventually devour their morbid flesh, away. I've watched AIDS evolve into the super strain certain of the virus has become today; killing a person in less than a year, because it is resistant to every known AIDS treatment to date.

I've watched people screaming in hospice care, until the morphine drip took it up another notch, to alleviate their pain at the cost of lulling them into a mental fog so strong because it is necessary if even a semblance of the allopathic credo is to be sustained; do no harm. And in the long last they died there, devoid of the capacity to say "goodbye" before they left this world forever.

I've heard those wearing crosses and crucifix, curse what was a homeless WW2 decorated Veteran lying prostrate and dead on a heat grate in New York's high dollar Manhattan, just across from Central Park, because he dared pass away before morning's pedestrian traffic found his blocking their way offensive!

I've witnessed people on this site and others where the religious topics are discussed, posture love and light in the name of god when they defend their faith, only to berate , ridicule and sarcastically assault anyone that does not see god, much less life, as they approve.

I've tended newborns smaller than my hand, because god is seen as pro-life, despite the Biblical recording otherwise, because a fertile waste of flesh female exercised the free will to pump Horse into her living temple to sustain that life she wasn't even aware was there, every single day of her pregnancy because she was so stoned as to not even know she was pregnant! (9 months!!!!) Where was the hearkening unto the mute prayer for salvation from that babies womb of damnation!? Was it free will that caused that babe a life of depravity because it's little body systems were so corrupted by that toxin that they were a veritable vegetable on life support?!

I've witnessed physical, verbal and mental abuse in "gods" name. And while all this is the dominion of human consciousness or the lack thereof, I've also heard the prayers and seen the weeping spirits beseeching something to save them from that which they did not choose but that found them anyway, and now they suffer till the moment they are saved. Either by dying or through the agency of some miracle. Imho, there are far too few of those to go around, considering the prayers beseeching the consideration.

I've read the histories that made it possible for all this supplication to come to pass from those faithful believers who's faith in spirit caused mortal sadists to kill, rape, torture and decimate cultures in it's name, because mortal ego proclaims there is only one way for all people to return to the god that made all things.

So please, with all due respect to your observation, respect mine. And know, if god suddenly became mortal, with all that to "his" credit , despite the free will excuse, despite the prayers for mercy, I would punch him right in the face. Because it would afford me the opportunity to address the source that inspired the clergy and the scribes to envision him as a sado-masochist and he, creator and wise spirit in all things, bought into the hype and exampled himself as such. That's not god! That's the sickest depravity of the sickest minds,intent on ruling the temporal world in the spirit of evil! And since I cant beat hell out of every cleric, the "father", which inspired the spirit of that depravity, in reach of a right hook, is a start!