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Would you kill if God told you to?

Yes
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No
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Maybe
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Depends, if he/she's an asshole or not.
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Postby Nationes Pii Redivivi » Sun Jun 29, 2014 1:22 pm

Jukraina wrote:
Greater Bosna wrote:I would if Allah told me.
Allah is great.


If Allah would told you to kill someone, it would only mean that Allah isn't great.


Allah, if he exist, would be great in so far as he is infinitely more powerful than you are, so I would agree with Mr Jukraina, if Allah told me to kill someone, its either me or that poor sod, and I would rather it be him.

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Postby Shilya » Sun Jun 29, 2014 1:55 pm

If it's god, he's more than suitable to do the job himself. I'm pretty sure he doesn't need me for it. I'll consider it a test of my niceness and decline.

If it's not god, I was right in declining as well.
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Postby Ammar » Sun Jun 29, 2014 1:58 pm

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Postby Nationes Pii Redivivi » Sun Jun 29, 2014 1:58 pm

Shilya wrote:If it's god, he's more than suitable to do the job himself. I'm pretty sure he doesn't need me for it. I'll consider it a test of my niceness and decline.

If it's not god, I was right in declining as well.


If it is a being with any power to make your life extremely miserable for the rest of your existence, then declining would not be the wise thing to do.

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Postby Sun Wukong » Sun Jun 29, 2014 2:01 pm

Nationes Pii Redivivi wrote:
Shilya wrote:If it's god, he's more than suitable to do the job himself. I'm pretty sure he doesn't need me for it. I'll consider it a test of my niceness and decline.

If it's not god, I was right in declining as well.


If it is a being with any power to make your life extremely miserable for the rest of your existence, then declining would not be the wise thing to do.

I annihilated heaven's armies, and all I had to do was some community service. You'll be fine.
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Postby Shilya » Sun Jun 29, 2014 2:03 pm

Nationes Pii Redivivi wrote:
Shilya wrote:If it's god, he's more than suitable to do the job himself. I'm pretty sure he doesn't need me for it. I'll consider it a test of my niceness and decline.

If it's not god, I was right in declining as well.


If it is a being with any power to make your life extremely miserable for the rest of your existence, then declining would not be the wise thing to do.


If it's a being with any power like that, it doesn't need my services in the first place. It's more reasonable to assume the being is testing you. In that case, I don't want to be found a murderer.
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Postby Sun Wukong » Sun Jun 29, 2014 2:04 pm

Shilya wrote:
Nationes Pii Redivivi wrote:
If it is a being with any power to make your life extremely miserable for the rest of your existence, then declining would not be the wise thing to do.


If it's a being with any power like that, it doesn't need my services in the first place. It's more reasonable to assume the being is testing you. In that case, I don't want to be found a murderer.

Wouldn't that be true of absolutely everything he might ask you to do?
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Postby Nationes Pii Redivivi » Sun Jun 29, 2014 2:06 pm

Shilya wrote:
Nationes Pii Redivivi wrote:
If it is a being with any power to make your life extremely miserable for the rest of your existence, then declining would not be the wise thing to do.


If it's a being with any power like that, it doesn't need my services in the first place. It's more reasonable to assume the being is testing you. In that case, I don't want to be found a murderer.


If this being works in mysterious ways, and it is more reasonable not to assume that it is some benevolent figure wanting to test you, but to do what it says. If you failed, and it claims that you failed the test, then you can always tell it that you are simply following its bidding like a good follower of that being, whilst, if you do not kill it, and it turns out that it is angry at you for not doing it, you are really out of an excuse.

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Postby Nationes Pii Redivivi » Sun Jun 29, 2014 2:07 pm

Sun Wukong wrote:
Nationes Pii Redivivi wrote:
If it is a being with any power to make your life extremely miserable for the rest of your existence, then declining would not be the wise thing to do.

I annihilated heaven's armies, and all I had to do was some community service. You'll be fine.


They put you beneath a shit ton of rocks for centuries, and then made you go with some hippie monk fellow for years afterwards. And you would still be under a shit ton of rocks if it weren't for the hippie monk fellow.
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Postby Sun Wukong » Sun Jun 29, 2014 2:12 pm

Nationes Pii Redivivi wrote:
Sun Wukong wrote:I annihilated heaven's armies, and all I had to do was some community service. You'll be fine.


They put you beneath a shit ton of rocks for centuries, and then made you go with some hippie monk fellow for years afterwards. And you would still be under a shit ton of rocks if it weren't for the hippie monk fellow.

I needed a nap after all that excitement anyway.
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Postby United Marxist Nations » Sun Jun 29, 2014 2:13 pm

Nationes Pii Redivivi wrote:
Sun Wukong wrote:I annihilated heaven's armies, and all I had to do was some community service. You'll be fine.


They put you beneath a shit ton of rocks for centuries, and then made you go with some hippie monk fellow for years afterwards. And you would still be under a shit ton of rocks if it weren't for the hippie monk fellow.

I don't know what you're talking about. I crucified Jesus, then stabbed him with a spear, and all I got was a retirement pension.
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Postby Shilya » Sun Jun 29, 2014 2:14 pm

Nationes Pii Redivivi wrote:
Shilya wrote:
If it's a being with any power like that, it doesn't need my services in the first place. It's more reasonable to assume the being is testing you. In that case, I don't want to be found a murderer.


If this being works in mysterious ways, and it is more reasonable not to assume that it is some benevolent figure wanting to test you, but to do what it says. If you failed, and it claims that you failed the test, then you can always tell it that you are simply following its bidding like a good follower of that being, whilst, if you do not kill it, and it turns out that it is angry at you for not doing it, you are really out of an excuse.


Well, then my excuse is that I'm trying my best to be a good being and just can't help acting the way I was made. If the god blames me for that, then I was shit outta luck in the first place, because it means god's a dick.
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Postby Sun Wukong » Sun Jun 29, 2014 2:19 pm

Shilya wrote:
Nationes Pii Redivivi wrote:
If this being works in mysterious ways, and it is more reasonable not to assume that it is some benevolent figure wanting to test you, but to do what it says. If you failed, and it claims that you failed the test, then you can always tell it that you are simply following its bidding like a good follower of that being, whilst, if you do not kill it, and it turns out that it is angry at you for not doing it, you are really out of an excuse.


Well, then my excuse is that I'm trying my best to be a good being and just can't help acting the way I was made. If the god blames me for that, then I was shit outta luck in the first place, because it means god's a dick.

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Postby Tyriece » Sun Jun 29, 2014 2:57 pm

I would be asking ALOT of questions....
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Postby The Alma Mater » Sun Jun 29, 2014 9:13 pm

Shilya wrote:
Nationes Pii Redivivi wrote:
If this being works in mysterious ways, and it is more reasonable not to assume that it is some benevolent figure wanting to test you, but to do what it says. If you failed, and it claims that you failed the test, then you can always tell it that you are simply following its bidding like a good follower of that being, whilst, if you do not kill it, and it turns out that it is angry at you for not doing it, you are really out of an excuse.


Well, then my excuse is that I'm trying my best to be a good being and just can't help acting the way I was made. If the god blames me for that, then I was shit outta luck in the first place, because it means god's a dick.


Fraid so. Remember the story about the bush that could not give Jesus fruit because it was not the right season ?
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Postby Greed and Death » Sun Jun 29, 2014 10:05 pm

No and I would check myself in a mental hospital in another country ( to avoid anything in america being filed to have my guns seized).
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Postby Cuprum » Sun Jun 29, 2014 10:26 pm

Nah, i'd make a topic in NS about my mental problems before that.

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Postby SolasDagr » Mon Jun 30, 2014 8:31 am

Phocidaea wrote:No, for the same reason I wouldn't kill someone in the name of Slenderman/Santa Claus/Zeus.

If I heard a voice in my head telling me to kill someone, I would see a psychiatrist.


Oh but if you are hearing voices your facilities of judgement would be skewed and the thought of needing a shrink probably wouldn't enter your mind at all. Unless it wasn't a psychological happening but an auditory message being sent to your head.
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Postby Alaizia » Mon Jun 30, 2014 11:26 am

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Postby Sun Wukong » Mon Jun 30, 2014 11:27 am

Yes, but I'm charging double.
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Postby Sunlandic » Sun Aug 03, 2014 4:22 pm

Sun Wukong wrote:
Nationes Pii Redivivi wrote:
If it is a being with any power to make your life extremely miserable for the rest of your existence, then declining would not be the wise thing to do.

I annihilated heaven's armies, and all I had to do was some community service. You'll be fine.


Funny.. I was in Heaven's armies.. and I don't ever recall losing, I LEGITIMATELY annihilated(will annihilate? Guess since its in the future :? ) Hell's armies.. and all I had to do was undergo some temporary punishment (because I had been ordered to let them go :? )

I'd beat 2000 demons faster than you could blink.

Also when I was undergoing my punishment I beat all of Satan's leuitanents like it was joke 8)

Dude was legitimately frightened like you wouldn't believe.

Also probably killed all demons and entites in hell shortly after.. my memories of those days are vague. I just remember yelling at the top of a giant mountain of conquered entities.

Wasn't a thing left alive in hell except me.. then I just remember seeing a light.. and that was it.
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Postby Sunlandic » Sun Aug 03, 2014 4:31 pm

Sun Wukong wrote:Yes, but I'm charging double.

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Postby Margno » Sun Aug 03, 2014 4:31 pm

Gravedigging is against the rules, yo.
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Postby Nirvash Type TheEND » Sun Aug 03, 2014 4:32 pm

Would I get away with it if I told the local authorities god commanded it?
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Postby Earth in Roughly 1000 Years » Sun Aug 03, 2014 4:34 pm

I'm agnostic agnostic so I would probably tell he/she/shim/it to ask someone else. But I would think that a religious person would say that people are not omnipotent so whether it conflicts with our moral values or not, we are not perfect enough to evaluate God's intentions objectively.

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