What's the term for a god who created the universe and then becomes an absentee father?
Giles, if you would like to get by in American society, then you are going to have to follow our traditions. You're the patriarch. You have to host the festivities, or it's all meaningless.
Buffy ,'Sleeper'
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.