If only it were so easy to distinguish true from false worship.
Still, we have to try—
“Because here’s something else that’s weird but true: in the day-to day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. And the compelling reason for maybe choosing some sort of god or spiritual-type thing to worship—be it JC or Allah, be it YHWH or the Wiccan Mother Goddess, or the Four Noble Truths, or some inviolable set of ethical principles—is that pretty much anything else you worship will eat you alive.”
― David Foster Wallace, This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
Farside99 about 9 years ago
Look on my works, ye mighty and despair.
Jason Scarborough about 9 years ago
No no, that’s a real idol, may not represent a real god though. I’ll show myself out.
Jonni about 9 years ago
He is your father, put on his helmet Hans, and you’ll be aware.
Chodzin about 9 years ago
Ah, modeled after the villain king tut from the old Batman series.
Image from http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/batman/images/4/4f/King_Tut_Victor_Buono.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20100408215648.
Patrick Hunt Premium Member about 9 years ago
It’s taking Bill Murray’s advice. If someone asks you if you’re a god, you say, “Yes!”
Zen-of-Zinfandel about 9 years ago
Angel Genghis Khan?
gammaguy about 9 years ago
I never cared for True-False tests.
Thomas & Tifffany Connolly about 9 years ago
That rock is not the Rock!
kernelcorny Premium Member about 9 years ago
Sounds like the FBI. Everybody lies except them, which is why they give the lie detector tests.
bmonk about 9 years ago
If only it were so easy to distinguish true from false worship.
Still, we have to try—
“Because here’s something else that’s weird but true: in the day-to day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. And the compelling reason for maybe choosing some sort of god or spiritual-type thing to worship—be it JC or Allah, be it YHWH or the Wiccan Mother Goddess, or the Four Noble Truths, or some inviolable set of ethical principles—is that pretty much anything else you worship will eat you alive.”
― David Foster Wallace, This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life