Lol. No, I think that feeding the troll would be getting all worked up about His supposed indignities; I’m trying to keep people from feeding the troll. And also help people gain the capacity to appreciate the author’s jokes, whether the author is YHWH or extrapolated-wedrifid or whomever. (Not that YHWH and extrapolated-wedrifid are necessarily mutually exclusive.)
I think that, deep down, every male human wants to defeat YHWH in one-on-one combat and then take up His mantle. He’s the Father, after all.
I’m not so sure. At least with respect to the “He’s the Father, after all” part. I’m all for defeating God in one on one combat and taking His power but the frame of taking the mantle of the father is strongly aversive. It puts me in the frame of a rebel within the father’s realm and that just doesn’t seem to be how my psychology is wired. From what I can tell my instincts drive me to expand my own tribe, not to rebel from within a father figure’s. I don’t imagine I’m alone.
Yeah, upon introspection it seems aversive to me too; I think I applied my Freudian-Jungian psychomythology incorrectly there. The fatherly aspects do seem near-entirely unrelated to the “worthy enemy” aspects.
So your moral impulse to bring Him to our attention should be equated with an impulse to feed the Troll? I like that perspective.
Everyone, downvote and ignore Yahweh! He is just ordering people to genocide each other for attention!
Lol. No, I think that feeding the troll would be getting all worked up about His supposed indignities; I’m trying to keep people from feeding the troll. And also help people gain the capacity to appreciate the author’s jokes, whether the author is YHWH or extrapolated-wedrifid or whomever. (Not that YHWH and extrapolated-wedrifid are necessarily mutually exclusive.)
Why thank you. Or screw you. I can’t decide. ;)
I think that, deep down, every male human wants to defeat YHWH in one-on-one combat and then take up His mantle. He’s the Father, after all.
I’m not so sure. At least with respect to the “He’s the Father, after all” part. I’m all for defeating God in one on one combat and taking His power but the frame of taking the mantle of the father is strongly aversive. It puts me in the frame of a rebel within the father’s realm and that just doesn’t seem to be how my psychology is wired. From what I can tell my instincts drive me to expand my own tribe, not to rebel from within a father figure’s. I don’t imagine I’m alone.
Yeah, upon introspection it seems aversive to me too; I think I applied my Freudian-Jungian psychomythology incorrectly there. The fatherly aspects do seem near-entirely unrelated to the “worthy enemy” aspects.