Florida State football player Wyatt Sexton was arrested while claiming to be God. According to the wire piece:
“Police said Sexton “appeared to be under the influence of some unknown narcotic or alcohol.” Hospital officials said they didn’t have any information on him. Once at the hospital, Sexton continued to say he was God and that he didn’t know why he was in the hospital, Lyne wrote.”
Okay, but…what if he really IS God?
I mean, there are people who firmly believe that possession by Satan is a real condition, and requires exorcism to boot. So why is it any more farfetched to believe that, hey, God decided to drop by for a visit? Or…hey! Maybe he was overthrown and condemned to live in a human’s body. That would be cool. I think I’ll write that.
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“Kevin Smith played with this idea a bit in DOGMA. God was, by turns, Bud Cort and Alanis Morissette”
I wish I’d never seen it. Because the instant I read this…
“Oh, this would be nothing like Wally. This would be more of a flip of the Exorcist.”
…I IMMEDIATELY thought “projectile šhìŧŧìņg?”
You made our brother God????
I’m confused. How can he think he’s God if Chris Roller says he’s God?
http://www.objectforce.com/php/MyTrumanShow/
This is one helluva read. 🙂
[quote]Oh, this would be nothing like Wally. This would be more of a flip of the Exorcist. In other words, I wouldn’t be ripping off myself. I’d be ripping off William Peter Blatty, which is MUCH more acceptable.
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Whew…that’s TOTALLY different from the story I’m writing…you may proceed. 🙂
1″And Eric Pilgrim, I hope you meant bated breath, otherwise if what you said was literally true, I’m not sure people will want to get close to you for a while.”
Ya thats what i meant, yet still people dont want to come near me. O and Ripping off Blatty is much more acceptable, lmao!
Hmmm. Was he arrested because he claimed he was God, or because he was laying in a public street? Seems God would immediately have trouble with the authorities if he showed up and told us his identity!
Maybe he is God. Maybe we all are. Think about it. Rowan Atkinson skits aside, Jesus walks into town and says “Hi! I’m Jesus! Maybe you’ve heard of my father, God.” They’re all gonna look at Him like he’s the latest one who fell out of the turnip tree. Y’know, until He does the whole walking on the water that turns into wine thing.
Just because something sounds nuts don’t make it nuts. Ask Galileo and Orville and Wilbur.
Rat:
>Just because something sounds nuts don’t make it nuts. Ask Galileo and Orville and Wilbur.
If you are asking these guys, I’d hazzard a guess that you are nuts.
I think God would be better at hitting his receiver on a basic out pattern than Sexton is.
(Not that I care, mind you, I’m a Gators fan.)
Posted by James Tichy at June 15, 2005 03:06 PM
>Unless God wanted to be overthrown, who could do it?
>Thats only if you assume he created everything, >is omniscient, omnipresent, and all powerful, of >course.
HEY! Can God bring into existance a rock so heavy even HE can’t lift it?
Mooooawwawawawaahahahahwhahahahahahahahahaaa.
“HEY! Can God bring into existance a rock so heavy even HE can’t lift it?”
He’d use the force.
(maybe PAD could use a line like, “God, use the force.” (or, since I have Batman Begins on my mind, “Luckily Robin, I brought my Bat shark repelent in my Bat utility belt.” – God (or would it be God shark repelent?)))
A good answer to that question.
Basically…it’s not a fair question. You’re asking G-d to do something that is self-contradictory. Only Schroedinger’s cat can be and not be at the same time. (Which of course means Schroedinger’s Cat is more powerful than G-d.)
I am the Lord Thy God, and Thou shall have no other football teams before me.
Track down the book The Old Man and Mr. Smith.
God gets in trouble for telling who he is, causes a stir on TV when he has it out with a TV preacher and the Devil falls asleep on a høøkër (pre-act) and wakes up outraged at how boring man has let sin become amongst other things. Funny book.
Slightly off-topic, but everytime I see an Army recruiting officer on campus, I’m tempted to walk up and say “If it’s an army of one, why are you recruiting?”
Cause that guy’s starting to feel really lonely.
First off: Hello Mr. David. I am a long time lurker, first (sorta) time writer, and a big fan of your work.
second:”bbayliss: HEY! Can God bring into existance a rock so heavy even HE can’t lift it?”
I actually asked my Philosophy Professor (who is a devout Christian) this question. He reffered me to the old question “What happens when the irresistable force meets the immovable object?” The answer is that if there is an *Irresistable* force there can be no immovable object, and vice versa. So the entire question cancels itself out, which means it never existed, so you couldn’t have asked it, so you can’t exist, so, basically, nothing exists. Or somthing like that.
Piers Anthony wrote the “Incarnations of Immortality” series a few years back along similar lines. A man killed Death just as Death came to claim his soul, and became Death. Lucifer was overthrown by Satan. And so on.
The 2-3 of them I read were insteresting, but I haven’t picked them up in a long time.
So the entire question cancels itself out, which means it never existed, so you couldn’t have asked it, so you can’t exist, so, basically, nothing exists. Or somthing like that.
“‘Oh, dear,’ says God, ‘I hadn’t thought of that,’ and instantly disappears in a flash of logic.
“‘Oh, that was easy,’ says Man, and for an encore, goes on to prove that black is white and gets himself killed in the next zebra crossing.”
– Oolon Colluphid, Well, That About Wraps It Up For God
“Piers Anthony wrote the “Incarnations of Immortality” series a few years back along similar lines. A man killed Death just as Death came to claim his soul, and became Death. Lucifer was overthrown by Satan. And so on.”
Sadly, I know of that plot from Family Guy. (although it was nice to see some work from Norm again)
The great thing about claiming you are God is that no one can prove you are not. God and religion are based purely on faith, which as it turns out, is the exact same basis as Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy. I just went through this with my eldest daughter who is beginning to question the existence of both Santa and the Tooth Fairy, even though she really wants them to exist.
If enough people have faith that this guy is God then who are we to question 😉
Hacksaw.
“The great thing about claiming you are God is that no one can prove you are not.”
I torment my friends all the time by walking up to them and saying “I am God” and challenging them to prove me wrong. Thus far none have, and since you can’t prove that I am NOT God, couldn’t that mean that I AM God? Hmmmm, I should try parting my tomato soup….