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    1. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 28 Apr 2020

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      It's not necessarily that weird a take, like the Bible repeatedly describes believing in and worshiping God as "fearing God" I've talked directly to an Orthodox Jewish person who said in his personal opinion using the word "good" for G-d in the modern sense is misleading https://twitter.com/UnknownEnby/status/1255031053204377605 …

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    2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 28 Apr 2020

      I mean, "good" is a vague term, possibly the inherently vaguest of all terms, there's whole schools of philosophy arguing over what it means or if it even can have a single meaning That said, Calvinist Christians will come very close to agreeing with the above statement

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    3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 28 Apr 2020

      ("Good" and "evil" describe the "revealed will of God" for what humans should or shouldn't do, and applying that standard to the "secret will of God" himself is impossible and meaningless)

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    4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 28 Apr 2020

      This sounds like a hot take from a cynical atheist but I mean is it? It's literally the point of the Book of Job, like if you read it that's straight up what God says in "defense" of himself ("I don't need to defend myself, I'm God")

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    5. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 28 Apr 2020

      I mean on some level I think this is fine and healthy There's a whole bunch of stuff in this big universe that's beyond our control and understanding and whether you "believe in God or gods" is a way of describing how you feel about that but it doesn't change that fact

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    6. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 28 Apr 2020

      And whether you choose to react to that with worship and gratitude or fear and loathing is up to you But like... you can't actually put the universe on trial You can condemn God for being an asshole for disease and suffering and death happening but they still happen

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    7. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 28 Apr 2020

      You've just got to find a way to deal with it See what you can do to make those things happen less Strike some kind of deal, if you can, and if you can't, well, find a way to think about it that gets you through the day

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      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 28 Apr 2020

      One of my thoughts about a D&D type world where the gods are literally real and active entities was that the clerical class are the equivalent of lawyers

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        2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 28 Apr 2020

          There's this whole list of rules and agreements built up around entities much greater and more powerful than us puny individuals, entities that kind of adhere to human values but are so much bigger than us they're inescapably alien Beings like corporations, estates, governments

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        3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 28 Apr 2020

          (Of course those beings don't exist in any physical sense, they're just invented by humans, they're "made of" humans, and every action they take is ultimately an action of some individual human who just believes they're acting on its behalf Hot take -- so are gods)

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        4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 28 Apr 2020

          And the whole thing about being a lawyer is the whole job requires you have a sense of "is" and "ought" separately in your head

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        5. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 28 Apr 2020

          The stereotype that to be a lawyer is to be totally amoral is wrong -- in fact if you didn't have ANY idea of "ought" you couldn't be a lawyer, every lawyer who practices law is fighting in some small way for a worldview, even one they don't actually admit they hold

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        6. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 28 Apr 2020

          But the whole point of your job, what your job actually is, is to work within the "is" of the status quo You tell your client what will *actually happen* if they run a red light, or if they illegally download The Last of Us 2, or if they allow Russia to interfere in an election

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        7. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 28 Apr 2020

          Like in my limited experience a big big part of the job -- the point of being a lawyer, the reason everyone tells you "talk to a lawyer before you do X" -- is to try to readjust a client's expectations between how things *should* work and what actually happens when you do things

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        8. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 28 Apr 2020

          That "lawyering" mindset is very much there in religion, especially Abrahamic religion, rooted in the so-called "ancient Near East covenant" model The Ten Commandments are a contract God makes with Moses as the representative of his people

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        9. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 28 Apr 2020

          The other stuff is there -- a personal emotional relationship with God as parent or lover or object of devotion But the core is the Law "These are the rules, this is how it works, this is the procedure by which we exchange sacrifice and worship for safety and prosperity"

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        1. himbo expert. my word is law.‏ @brucezeleney 28 Apr 2020
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          I LOVE this idea. Even outside of dnd, even a super normal world where the only difference is ::guestures to your ideA:: this.

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        2. Abel Undercity‏ @AbelUndercity 28 Apr 2020
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          I'm suddenly reminded of the line from Pratchett where he said that sometimes the gods would come around to atheists' houses and break their windows.

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        3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 28 Apr 2020
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          Yeah exactly Being a D&D/Discworld atheist is like being an anarchist in our world I may very well not think that the gods *should* be gods and I may not recognize their authority in a moral sense and I may deeply hate them But I pay my taxes so I don't go to jail

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