Spiritual Consultation - The Reverend is...lINl

[Reverend]

Much like we have 'Dear Doot', I'm offering my services as a quasi-psychologist/confessional/shoulder to cry on. So, if you feel like you need someone to cheer you up, act as a sounding board, or overall just want to talk, you can now find me here!

[Therin]

I have a confession to make. I have discovered the ultimate answer. Am I gonna go to hizell?

[Reverend]

Not unless you have the ultimate question to go along with the ultimate answer. But your head would explode from the knowledge before that then, so you'd be reincarnated again

[Tobias]

i discovered that God has a flaw,does that mean that because of the ruining of order becuase of the imperfect god, and the stoping of time and space, that the world is gonna end?

Just wanted to know

[Reverend]

In the Old Testament, it was shown that God was fallible, and the he too could make a mistake. This was why he had to flood the world, so that it could start over with Noah. The Greeks too, felt that the gods were capable of making mistakes, and feel the emotions that humans do.

And since we ourselves are supposedly created in god's image, then I'd like to think that our imperfection would mirror god's own

[D-Trix]

Descartes' Meditations begin with the premise "I think, therefore I am" (cogito, ergo sum). using the same argument, i can be sure of my own existence insofar as i think. but in order to prove that i have a body, and that the world actually exists as i perceive it, Descartes' argument relies upon God's existence. since i have yet to see an acceptable proof that God does, in fact, exist, i am forced to reject Descartes line of reasoning beyond the initial premise.

since all that leaves me with is "I think therefore I am," how can i be sure that any of the things i think have happened to me actually have? do i need to find the impossible - non-rational faith that God exists? if not, how can i live my life when plagued by existential doubts? after all, this could just be the Matrix, and how would i ever know?

~Ted "as a philosophy major i think this is a hilarious question, but you're probably just wondering what's wrong with me" Burnham

[Reverend]

You're going to hate me for saying this, but I'd have to say that there is absolutely no way right now to know if you have actually experienced what you remember. We could be in a matrix right now, or we could easily be just figments of an imagination. So what do we have? Faith.

Yes, that's right, faith. That dirty word that intellectuals shun, because faith requires you to recognize that you could well be wrong, but hope you are right. So in truth all I can tell you is that right now, have faith that you indeed go through all the experiences you did, and know that one day there will be an answer.

[Aindriahhn]

Amen

[Selrahc the Evil]

I have a question for you Rev.
I have a very depressed friend who is not far from suicide already. the only thing that is keeping her here right now is her boyfriend. But now her boyfriend has told me that he is going to break up with her in a week or so. should I tell her about it in advance even though I know that her obsession with him will make it so she won't belive me or should I not tell her and let her boyfriend do this on his own??

[Selrahc the Evil]

Dear Reverend,
Apparently the reverend is out. I am just posting to let you know that I got advice from some of the other otakus and everything has worked out fine. I hope you come back from where ever you may be.