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<blockquote data-quote="2WS-Steve" data-source="post: 251796" data-attributes="member: 3289"><p>------ Bill Gates is weaker than the Hulk</p><p>If what matters for purposes of making me worship something is its ability to threaten me and those I hold dear I rather supect that Bill Gates is quite a bit more capable of that than the Hulk. I can hide or run away from the Hulk. Bill Gates can sue me, hire the mafia to hunt me down, or get me to use virus-prone unstable software (oh, wait a minute...) <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f631.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":eek:" title="Eek! :eek:" data-smilie="9"data-shortname=":eek:" /> </p><p></p><p>----- The Hulk is Weaker than Atlas</p><p>Okay, replace the Hulk with Dark Phoenix; I'd do what she says but I still wouldn't worship her.</p><p></p><p>>>Some stuff regarding the previous post....</p><p></p><p>----- Agents of the Divine</p><p>A lot of those divinities didn't have much in the way of special powers, probably in many cases they had fewer perceptual abilities than Dark Phoenix given her telepathy... Also, if a dictator's access to an internal security force and network of informants isn't enough to make me worship him then why would it be enough to make me worship an extraplanar entity with superpowers?</p><p></p><p>----- Worship vs. Obey</p><p>I suppose the real question here is "is there a difference between worshipping and obeying?" I don't wan't to put words in your mouth Furn, but you seem to be indicating that obeying just is worshipping; or, perhaps even better, obeying strongly enough (like with enough fear backing it, or perhaps assiduously enough) is the same as worshipping.</p><p></p><p>I tend to feel that worshipping includes some kind of phenomenal content; when you worship something you have a special feeling of reverance for it or believe it has some special connection with the ethical principles by which you live. Perhaps that's just a too modern conception of worship.</p><p></p><p>Anyway, please don't take any of this as flamage; I just find these sorts of debates interesting.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="2WS-Steve, post: 251796, member: 3289"] ------ Bill Gates is weaker than the Hulk If what matters for purposes of making me worship something is its ability to threaten me and those I hold dear I rather supect that Bill Gates is quite a bit more capable of that than the Hulk. I can hide or run away from the Hulk. Bill Gates can sue me, hire the mafia to hunt me down, or get me to use virus-prone unstable software (oh, wait a minute...) :eek: ----- The Hulk is Weaker than Atlas Okay, replace the Hulk with Dark Phoenix; I'd do what she says but I still wouldn't worship her. >>Some stuff regarding the previous post.... ----- Agents of the Divine A lot of those divinities didn't have much in the way of special powers, probably in many cases they had fewer perceptual abilities than Dark Phoenix given her telepathy... Also, if a dictator's access to an internal security force and network of informants isn't enough to make me worship him then why would it be enough to make me worship an extraplanar entity with superpowers? ----- Worship vs. Obey I suppose the real question here is "is there a difference between worshipping and obeying?" I don't wan't to put words in your mouth Furn, but you seem to be indicating that obeying just is worshipping; or, perhaps even better, obeying strongly enough (like with enough fear backing it, or perhaps assiduously enough) is the same as worshipping. I tend to feel that worshipping includes some kind of phenomenal content; when you worship something you have a special feeling of reverance for it or believe it has some special connection with the ethical principles by which you live. Perhaps that's just a too modern conception of worship. Anyway, please don't take any of this as flamage; I just find these sorts of debates interesting. [/QUOTE]
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