What's the term for a god who created the universe and then becomes an absentee father?
Saffron: But we've been wed. Aren't we to become one flesh? Mal: Well, no, uh... We're still two fleshes here, and I think that your flesh ought to sleep somewhere else.
'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Natter 45: Smooth as Billy Dee Williams.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Allyson - Jun 17, 2006 9:45:18 pm PDT #2595 of 10002
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
ChiKat - Jun 17, 2006 9:47:01 pm PDT #2596 of 10002
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?
Clockmaker?
Spidra Webster - Jun 17, 2006 9:47:55 pm PDT #2597 of 10002
I wish I could just go somewhere to get flensed but none of the whaling ships near me take Medicare.
Deadbeat Deity.
§ ita § - Jun 17, 2006 9:48:04 pm PDT #2598 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Deadbeat god?
Allyson - Jun 17, 2006 9:56:50 pm PDT #2599 of 10002
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
No, you know, the belief that there was a god who created the universe, but that god doesn't watch over us, isn't involved in our lives and hurricanes and such.
-t - Jun 17, 2006 10:04:48 pm PDT #2600 of 10002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Deism, maybe.
Spidra Webster - Jun 17, 2006 10:06:42 pm PDT #2601 of 10002
I wish I could just go somewhere to get flensed but none of the whaling ships near me take Medicare.
Attention Deficit Deity.
P.M. Marc - Jun 17, 2006 11:11:33 pm PDT #2602 of 10002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
-t's right, that's essentially the Deist viewpoint.
Topic!Cindy - Jun 18, 2006 3:42:11 am PDT #2603 of 10002
What is even happening?
Yeah, that's the Deist point of view. As far as I know, there's no special term for the deity in that point of view.
Jesse - Jun 18, 2006 4:50:45 am PDT #2604 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
So, I need to go to the mall and do laundry today. I guess I should do laundry now, then shower, then the mall. That seems like a good plan.
This is like my least-favorite set of chores ever.