God believers, does your skydaddy need a list of duties?
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Son, why are you so angry?
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Questions like this generally deal with priorities and generally deal with two main concepts:\n\n1) The greater good\n\n2) Specific responsibility\n\nAs a fellow reply mentioned, the list is usually considered to consist of three options:\n\na) God\n\nb) Family\n\nc) Country\n\nNot necessarily in that specific order.\n\nLets look at the question first by considering the Greater Good.  If you believe in a God, usually he creates the moral standard.  Faith in that God and doing what he says, not disavowing him, are often considered hallmarks of great Good, because without him or denying him you deny the precursor of good.  If you do what God says you should be doing what an omniscient, eternal knows is good -- so that good will ultimately be the right action.  That's the THEORY.  Since we humans often misunderstand what God MEANS for us to do , caveat emptor.\n\nCountry.  This can be a solid choice because it is backed up by numbers.  If the country is of good moral character, stands for freedom, and protects certain inalienable rights it gains more points.  Unfortunately, the human element comes into play again.  It is compounded by the fact that not everyone in a nation is good and not every national interest is good for most of the people.  Lastly, it assumes that all people are equally crucial which is sad actuality may not be the case.  For example, on a ship that has a reactor field that is decaying and about to explode who is the most important to save first and get down that tube if only one is sure to make it -- the engineer, the captain, the supermodel, the comedian, your father, a little toddler, or your mother-in-law ... some decisions might be based on logic (the engineer) or hope (the supermodel) or rank (the captain) or self-interest (yourself).   But one thing is probable, chance of survival will depend on who gets into that reactor chamber.\n\nFinally, there is family.  This is a specific responsibility that is chosen quite intimately by the husband and wife, probably the most important decision either ever made was to marry each other.   So it is said that a man will leave behind his mother for his wife and so on.   The rest is self evident.\n\nSpecific scenarios may change the order, at least in my mind.\n\nScenario 1:\n\nYour wife, a known christian, has killed two innocents in front of you, reloading the pistol between each separate event.   The injured policeman,  an atheist and a known racist, is trying to stop her from starting the countdown of a nuclear bomb that she has built to blow up your mother-in-law's hometown, and therefore kill several million innocent resident's of Moscow.\n\nDo you:\n\n1) Say Hasta La Vista mom and shove your mother in law out of the last train to China thus saving your own skin and improving U.S. relations with China while causing the accidental burning of a used Koran to inflame relations in the Middle East?\n\n2) Use your MCI minutes thus involving more people by asking 6 people to get Nicole Kidman on the line, and having all those listening go through severe emotional trauma as they here the explosion and all of you die ( and the additional trauma of a Nicole Kidman movie dramatizing this a year later)?\n\n3) Pick up the racist's gun, shoot your wife dead in the brain in order to make sure the button isn't pushed, but forget to praise Allah or donate the N.O.W. the next morning , thus creating animosity leading to violence in the streets of Saudi Arabia towards women\n\n4) Pop your head out of the most secure place in the house, the half-bath, whip out a Do Not Disturb sign, grouchily exclaim "What the hell is wrong with your hormones, can't a guy get any privacy!?", close the door and your mind, and watch the end product of the digestive system glow while murmuring "HAL is that you?"\n\n5) Read some more Gabriel Garcia Marquez in order to convince your would-be maker how intelligent you really must be while sipping on a cheap P
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You don't need to be a pilot, but it helps! Thanks for picking my answer as the best one for the other question! I love those web sites! As for the stuff to become a pilot, if you fill the astronaut requirements, you are set!
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I do my very best to put Him before anything else.  I do love God.  Feel free to contact me through the link on my profile page.  Praise God!!\n\nI also put verses and thoughts out there on my 360 page.  As soon as the link is restored by Yahoo (for some reason everyone's link to their 360 page has been removed) you should check them out and see what you think..I would love some feedback on them.  I only started them a few days ago, so there aren't many.
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Looks like you got a bunch of rookies answering for you.\n\nYES.  It's there.  And it is GOD.  And any man who knows what to do with it is GOD.\n.....see, now I gotta make some phone calls.  Look what you did.
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no, you need to remind him that his job is supposed to be spreading the word of god, and to help those in need.\n\n-- from an aethiest
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Hmm. No.  It's not MY fault.  Though anything bad that happens is NEVER MY fault.  Besides, I wouldn't burn a house down. And I don't need "God" to babysit me.  Think that "God" is more like the babysitters they catch on video ;).
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Um no\nbelieve in Him for can you to tell the sun to rise?Can you tell the clouds to rain? Did you make the stars shine in the night time sky? Were you there when He layed the foundations of the heavens and the earth? Mad all the animals in their various ways? Did the ocean come from your womb? Did you incept your soul? Do the heavens obey your commands? Have you raised the dead? Have you told the earth to quake? Has your only Son been Crucified so our sins may be forgiven? Can you bind the Pleiades? Have you let the wild donkey free? Have you cut the channels for the rain, a path for the thunderstorm? Have you fathered the rain and the dew? Have you fixed limits for the seas and told its waves to halt? Were you there when the morning stars snag together and the angels lept in joy? Did you shut up the sea in its gates? Haave you been shown the gates of the shadow of death? Jave you jjourneyed to the springs of the ses or walked in the recesses of the deep? What is the way to the abode of light? Where does darkness reside? What is the way to the place from which the lightning is spread over the earth? Have you been to the origins of the east winds? Have you seen the storehouses of the snow and hail? Have you ever give orders to the morning, or shown dawn its place? Have you the wisdom to count the clouds or the stars in their glory? Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you loose the bounds of orion, or bring the constellations forth in their seasons? Do you provide food to the raven when its young cry out in hunger?\nCan you tip the waterjars of the heavens when the dust grows hard? Have you made the desert wastes sprout with grass? DO you send the lightning forth and it reports back to you saying i am here? Do you command the gates of death? Can you take away the labor pains of the sheep on the mountain and the doe in the forest? Do you satisfy the hunger of the lions as they wait in the thicket? Did you set up Gods dominion over the Earth? Can you look on proud and haughty men and bring them low? Can your voice thunder from the clouds? Did yyou give the horse his strngth or the hawk its wisdom? Are you a Savior of Man, the Son of God? Does the moon stay in its orbit and shine every night because you told it to? Can you block out the light of the sun and rein in the moon? Will show all the world your glory, and slay many from your words? Can you judge all peoples and bring them to eternal life or forced to bring them to eternal damnation?....................... He has, He is, and He will forever.\nI believe because I chose my path, which is the only to salvation, that is, through The Lord Almighty, Jesus Christ.
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No he only works in obvious ways. god works in mysterious ways because he is a sneaky bastard.
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Yep, absolutely! Omnipresent Atom is a bit tired of having to do everything on her own. Meanie has very practical views, very helpful! As for Bafuudo, watch out, he sounded a bit jealous and vendicative on the other thread. But I'm hoping we'll convince him to be a Qag, as we need him to serve the snacks and drinks in the Zabubabeaven! But we need more Qags, like Zabubangels and Zabubattvas!\nP.S. Don't forget about the brahs
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If there is a sentient, benevolent, omnipotent being out there I'd like to think it has better things to do than to worry about a checklist of do's and don'ts for billions of little scuttling life-forms on one little planet way out on the western spiral arm of the galaxy.\n\nYou are accountable for your own actions.  Those actions have repercussions.  You reap what you sow, as it were... though that speaks more of karma than of judging God.  Anyway.  I suggest you keep your own record and take care of things the best way you can, as it seems highly unlikely anyone else is going to do it for you.  ;)
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I don't think you can make a list of how many of things you need. Just be prepared for anything! Anyways congrats on your new grandbaby.
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You need to consider something.  When you ask God for something, His answer is either yes, no, or later.  If what you want is not what's best for you, then you need to take His word on it.
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Its not religious duty.\n\nSomewhere somehow some idiot with influence found a way of making quick money (by selling their kids) by exploiting the old customs of bride bringing home some stuff from parents (vaguely put) - others followed suit
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LMAO! That list is as ridiculous as it is horrible.\n\nI like the "example" of the Titanic dude that said even God couldn't sink this ship... the list implies that God's reaction was then, \n\n"Oh yeah! Well I'll just kill all kinds of people, even kids, and that'll show you not to say I can't sink a ship! And YES! I AM that petty! SO nah!"
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God has a plan for you and He will do things in His time.\nJust have faith in Him and everything will be alright.
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Most modern airliners don't need the pilots to land these days, is mostly done with ILS and computers.  Pilots are mostly there to take over if things go wrong.  Without the computers however, a civillian with no training would likely wreck the plane unless being specific instructions from air control.  I'd not trust that person though....