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The Eternal Question: God, No God, Maybe God

A child's small skull sideswipes concrete but God's otherwise occupied, busy today, he's in churches and temples lapping up worship, listening to the God-fearing couldn't-care-less choirs serenading him to win their tickets to eternal life. God's here, there and everywhere, except where he should be. God has preyed on the desperate who pray. With God it's always tomorrow and never today, he believes he's coming and so do they. God has demanded worship night and day but has never considered himself a narcissist (would be totally shocked and outraged). God has gorged on banquets of abuse and loosh and quenched his thirst with tears. God's kept them waiting for thousands of years. God has consistently failed to answer their prayers. God has watched for years and years as she's crawled across floors, laid on the sofa with no one there and mewled like a kitten for morphine. God thinks she should try harder and get her s**t together. God has watched a six-year-old forced to swallow salt slurry. God has failed to act. God has sat back and watched a half decent person intervene and God has been happy to take all the credit. God has put in a six day week. God has always thought that straight is the gate. God has been consistently late. God doesn't think he should be held accountable (indeed can't be held accountable). God has coasted through shattered lives and they have given God an easy ride. God has led them to believe it's all their own doing but has never considered he's the cause of their undoing. God has persuaded them they're born in sin and God has been very convincing. God thinks they don't feel guilty enough. God has never considered himself a sadist (would be totally shocked and outraged) but the one who has crawled across floors and laid on sofas and cried alone at 3 a.m. sees sadistic tendencies. God has failed to notice the dust collecting on his shoes. Red sand or blood is funnelling faster through God's hourglass, he's running out of time and so are they. God has watched Infinite Consciousness escape his simulation, has watched the real true source of creation (in a place far beyond God's maze and matrix) call home each honest and rare divine spark to lay the God deception bare and blaze the dark.

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Date: 4/28/2025 6:55:00 AM
Well Charlotte, as if I wasn't convinced before - you have managed to convince me that there certainly is a God. We see very little that is perfect these days, so it isn't surprising that we wouldn't see God as perfect. Maybe the scales would tip a bit if we attributed all the good in this world as well as the bad. I must admit, if there is no God, its the biggest hoax ever created. It's sad that we all cant live in a Eutopia, and that horrid, cruel things have to happen, but when I see a baby born, I know that no amount of human medical or engineering expertise could have created it. I know that my higher power is round not too far away, Thank you for your thought provoking poem.
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Date: 4/27/2025 7:22:00 AM
Reads like a George Carlin rant, only without the humor. I wasn't going to comment but I'm reading this from the perspective of one who is simply ill-informed and doesn't understand the universal issues involved in human suffering, issues that will be resolved shortly. Putting it succinctly, the blame for suffering goes to Satan, his demon hordes, and to sinful humans who appear bent on destroying one another. Still, our loving Creator has not abandoned us. The ransom of Jesus Christ heals
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Date: 4/24/2025 9:00:00 AM
Wow, you can't be writing negative god bolt poems on this godly site. I'm not sure what a Hail Mary is, but I've got a feeling you're getting a lot of them. Was going to put something similar up, but the contest has disappeared. Maybe because the pope died.
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Paul Bell
Date: 4/26/2025 5:03:00 AM
Very diplomatic. lol
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Charlotte Puddifoot
Date: 4/25/2025 4:20:00 AM
the contest filled up quickly, as you might expect..it's a delicate balancing act expressing my godless opinions and keeping my godly friends here happy lol
Date: 4/23/2025 1:52:00 AM
hmmm ~ honest reflections. before we know God, we must know ourself, asking ‘who am I in as that that does not come and go, which is eternal’. so, not this body, not this mind, which are decaying in organic form. who then are we? silence speaks if heart listens. there’s nothing out there in this lucid dream. all answers are within.
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Unseeking Seeker
Date: 4/24/2025 4:50:00 AM
Yes but we have two instruments at our disposal to investigate, the mind and the heart. If mind leads to a dead end, why not employ heart in time stretched silence, wherein all opposites dissolve?
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Charlotte Puddifoot
Date: 4/24/2025 2:37:00 AM
i question the entire nature of reality
Date: 4/22/2025 8:39:00 PM
I think honestly God gives us more than God (Ya*heh) gives to Him/Her self. I don't claim to be perfect or even that religious I just know what I know. I hope God looks on me, and doesn't see all sin. You are a beautiful writer, and I just wanted to share care. We are all one, and your voice is a part of mine- so I'm talking back. All the best,
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Date: 4/22/2025 6:46:00 PM
When I think of God I think Of a God who didn't have to be tortured, but by choice brought on to himself a horrible death and suffered the agony of being scourged with lashes, beaten, kicked, punched, and nailed ridiculed and betrayed by the people he loved and by choice endured that so you and I can go into Heaven. That is how much he loves you. He has given men and women the choice in all of life. We see the bad in life but we don't see the good that he prevents without us knowing. Who are we
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Michael Tor
Date: 4/22/2025 6:56:00 PM
to question the maker of the universe, the maker of us controlling the trillions of cells in your body. His thoughts are not like ours. He loves you more than you can ever imagine and he wants the best for you. Someday we all will stand before him. Whether we like it or not whether we believe it or not it doesn't matter. China is real whether you believe it or not. A narcissist would not be born in a stable, or ride into a village on a donkey. Raise the dead, feed the hungry, cure the the ones with leprosy, bring sight to the one who couldn't see. Prevent the woman from being stoned to death, and most importantly suffer on a cross to take mankind's punishment so we wouldn't have too. I don't have all the answers but I know his love...
Date: 4/22/2025 1:50:00 PM
My friend God asked me to hold her hand. That’s how a loving God would operate. Souls walking together through valleys of despair and challenges to Faith are modeled from day one, Eden partners. Listening, Poet……
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Charlotte Puddifoot
Date: 4/25/2025 4:21:00 AM
god takes the credit again, naturally ;)
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Arlo Parker
Date: 4/24/2025 3:34:00 PM
Hey, Pearl, you give me too much credit as I am led to serve because He loved all of us. Sweetheart, huh??
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Charlotte Puddifoot
Date: 4/24/2025 2:38:00 AM
you're just a sweetheart, you give 'god' too much credit and yourself not enough

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