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Author Topic: Problems with your God?  (Read 4153 times)

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« on: April 22, 2004, 01:54:29 PM »

I just ran across this and thought it was mildly funny.  :)






GOD'S TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT QUESTIONNAIRE

God would like to thank you for your belief and patronage. In order to
better serve your needs, He asks that you take a few moments to answer
the following questions. Please keep in mind that your responses will be
kept completely confidential, and that you need not disclose your name
or address unless you prefer a direct response to comments or suggestions.

1. How did you find out about God?

___ Newspaper
___ Bible
___ Torah
___ Book of Mormon
___ Koran
___ Other Book
___ Television
___ Divine Inspiration
___ Word of mouth
___ Dead Sea scrolls
___ My mama done tol' me
___ Near Death Experience
___ Near-life experience
___ National Public Radio
___ Tabloid
___ Burning Shrubbery
___ Who?
___ Other (specify): _____________

2. Which model God did you acquire?

___ Yahweh
___ Jehovah
___ Allah
___ Just plain God
___ Krishna
___ Father, Son & Holy Ghost (Trinity Pak)
___ Zeus and entourage (Olympus Pak)
___ Odin and entourage (Valhalla Pak)
___ Gaia/Mother Earth/Mother Nature
___ None of the above; I was taken in by a false god

3. Did your God come to you undamaged, with all parts in good working
order and with no obvious breakage or missing attributes?

__ Yes
__ No

If not, please describe the problems you initially encountered here.
Please indicate all that apply:

___ Not eternal
___ Not omniscient
___ Not omnipotent
___ Finite in space/Does not occupy or inhabit the entire universe
___ Permits sex outside of marriage
___ Prohibits sex outside of marriage
___ Makes mistakes (Geraldo Rivera, Jesse Helms)
___ When beseeched, doesn't stay beseeched
___ Requires burnt offerings
___ Requires virgin sacrifices
___ Plays dice with the universe

4. What factors were relevant in your decision to acquire a God? Please
check all that apply.

___ Indoctrinated by parents
___ Needed a reason to live
___ Indoctrinated by society
___ Needed target for rage
___ Imaginary friend grew up
___ Hate to think for self
___ Wanted to meet girls/boys
___ Fear of death
___ To piss off parents
___ Needed a day away from work
___ Enjoy organ music
___ Needed focus on whom to despise
___ Needed to feel morally superior
___ Graduated from the tooth fairy
___ My shrubbery caught fire and told me to do it

5. Are you currently using any other source of inspiration in addition
to God? Please check all that apply:

__ Self-help books
__ Tarot, Astrology
__ Star Trek re-runs
__ Fortune cookies
__ Ann Landers
__ Psychic Friends Network
__ Dianetics
__ Playboy and/or Playgirl
__ Sex, Drugs, and Rock & Roll
__ Biorhythms
__ EST
__ Television
__ Mantras
__ Jimmy Swaggart
__ Crystals (not including Crystal Gayle)
__ Human Sacrifice
__ Wandering around in desert
__ Burning shrubbery
__ Other:____________________

6. Have you ever worshiped a false God before? Is so, which false God
were you fooled by? Please check all that apply.

___ Odin
___ Cthulhu
___ Lottery
___ Baal
___ Beelzebub
___ The Almighty Dollar
___ The Conservative Right
___ Mick Jagger
___ Bill Gates
___ The Great Pumpkin
___ Ronald Reagan
___ A burning cabbage
___ mushrooms
___ Other: ________________

7. God employs a limited degree of Divine Intervention to preserve the>
balanced level of felt presence and blind faith. Which would you
prefer... (circle one)?

a. More Divine Intervention
b. Less Divine Intervention
c. Current level of Divine Intervention is just right
d. Don't know - what's Divine Intervention?

8. God also attempts to maintain a balanced level of disasters and
miracles. Please rate on a scale of 1 to 5 God's handling of the
following: (1 unsatisfactory, 5 excellent):

Disaster:

1 2 3 4 5 flood
1 2 3 4 5 famine
1 2 3 4 5 earthquake
1 2 3 4 5 war
1 2 3 4 5 pestilence
1 2 3 4 5 plague
1 2 3 4 5 AOL
1 2 3 4 5 Republican Congress
1 2 3 4 5 Jerry Lewis
1 2 3 4 5 Dubya
1 2 3 4 5 my last relationship

Miracles:

1 2 3 4 5 rescues
1 2 3 4 5 spontaneous remissions
1 2 3 4 5 crying statues
1 2 3 4 5 water changing to wine
1 2 3 4 5 walking on water
1 2 3 4 5 stars hovering over towns
1 2 3 4 5 VCRs that set their own clocks
1 2 3 4 5 clear and competent statements by the President
1 2 3 4 5 my present relationship

9. Please rate the following on a scale of 1 to 5 (1 > unsatisfactory, 5 excellent):
 
1 2 3 4 5 God's Courtesy
1 2 3 4 5 answers to your prayers
1 2 3 4 5 Are your spiritual needs being met?
1 2 3 4 5 How are your shrubs doing?

10. Do you have any additional comments or suggestions for improving the
quality of God's services? (Attach an additional sheet(s) if necessary.)
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« Reply #1 on: April 22, 2004, 02:17:41 PM »

So why wasn't I mentioned in question 2?

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« Reply #2 on: April 22, 2004, 02:25:33 PM »

And why wasn't I mentioned in question 6?
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« Reply #3 on: April 22, 2004, 02:39:47 PM »

Dude, there was an other with fill in the blank option.  PAIC.

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« Reply #4 on: April 22, 2004, 02:47:12 PM »

Quote from: pbsaurus
Dude, there was an other with fill in the blank option.  PAIC.

 :oops:

Anyway, I think I deserve to be there... or at least my many disciples think I should have made the list ;)
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« Reply #5 on: April 23, 2004, 01:03:03 PM »

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« Reply #6 on: April 23, 2004, 01:57:40 PM »

Eh?

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« Reply #7 on: April 23, 2004, 02:34:33 PM »

parkay?
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« Reply #8 on: April 23, 2004, 03:02:28 PM »

i'm a deity in my spare time.
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« Reply #9 on: April 23, 2004, 03:43:57 PM »

My deity can beat up your deity.
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« Reply #10 on: April 23, 2004, 03:45:13 PM »

I'm wearing my Atheistic Cloak Of Deity Resistance +15.  Bring it on.  

Embroidered on the back is this:

"If I don't believe in it, it can't hurt me."

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« Reply #11 on: April 23, 2004, 07:07:24 PM »

My deity can create a rock so heavy your deity can't lift it.
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« Reply #12 on: April 23, 2004, 10:19:10 PM »

My deity created levers and pulleys.
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« Reply #13 on: April 24, 2004, 05:38:26 PM »

My diety grants me a two level bonus to my Turn Undead ability.
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« Reply #14 on: April 24, 2004, 11:04:39 PM »

My deity is the One God, YHVH, Adonai, Our Father, the one and only.
You have all been pwned and will be pwned from here unto infinity.
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« Reply #15 on: April 25, 2004, 08:35:04 AM »

Yea, but your deity also endorses circumcision.  That's gotta suck.
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« Reply #16 on: April 25, 2004, 10:49:01 AM »

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Yea, but your deity also endorses circumcision.  That's gotta suck.


Or not suck, depending on ones' preference.

Personally, my diety allows me to 'sleep' for 15 hours straight, then get up and wonder where my pants went.
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« Reply #17 on: April 25, 2004, 11:21:48 AM »

Quote from: BizB
Yea, but your deity also endorses circumcision.  That's gotta suck.


Well noone's perfect. He endorses slashing of many things, whether penises or hearts.
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« Reply #18 on: April 26, 2004, 08:04:43 AM »

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My deity is the One God, YHVH, Adonai, Our Father, the one and only.
You have all been pwned and will be pwned from here unto infinity.


*rolls saving throw and adds 15 to it*


Pfft!  Easy!  You have no power here.  Begone!  :lol:
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« Reply #19 on: April 26, 2004, 08:37:57 AM »

Ooo, he said Jehovah! Stone him!
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« Reply #20 on: April 26, 2004, 08:39:23 AM »

Right!  Who threw that!?

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« Reply #21 on: April 29, 2004, 06:55:57 PM »

I saw this on anohter board during a particularly bad religious flame war and thought I'd share:

"Could God make a thread so bad, even He couldn't read it?"
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« Reply #22 on: May 02, 2004, 12:22:57 PM »

If you really wanted to know, you should've asked me.

In a word, yes.
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« Reply #23 on: May 02, 2004, 11:09:33 PM »

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If you really wanted to know, you should've asked me.

In a word, yes.


I'm not 100% sure you're the correct person to be giving religious commentary, Terror. :P
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