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How to outmatch God in a physical fight

JustGeorge

Imperfect
Staff member
Premium Member
If you fight against the pantheistic interpretation of God then literally anything you punch counts as punching God.

Boulders, soil, birds, toddlers... whatever you fancy punching really.

That doesn't sound like a real promising fight...
 

sun rise

The world is on fire
Premium Member
This is a featured thread? No wonder new memberships are falling...
I thought this was a joke thread and was readying some humor.

This thread is what happens when people get too caught up in extremist politics, Covid, monkeypox, heat waves, drought, inflation, airlines that can't deliver baggage, airports limiting traffic, religious extremism, dysfunctional corporations & governments, species extinctions, climate change, war and whatever I left out.
 

Brickjectivity

Veteran Member
Staff member
Premium Member
So, how would you do it? You're up against the God or Goddess of your choice... how are you going to best him or her?
Trouble is, you don't really know if you're not them (one of your own gods). Suppose two goddesses (and one might be you) want to have a little fun, and one dares to other to temporarily erase their memory and temporarily live a mortal life under difficult or unfair conditions. Now suppose its you (a goddess) who takes the dare, blanks your own memory; and are living a mortal life as part of a dare. Now suppose that while you're living out this dare as a mortal mom the other goddess decides to prank you into threatening to fight yourself? Jokes on you, isn't it? So what are you going to do when you get your memory back? Punish yourself?
 

JustGeorge

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Premium Member
Trouble is, you don't really know if you're not them (one of your own gods). Suppose two goddesses (and one might be you) want to have a little fun, and one dares to other to temporarily erase their memory and temporarily live a mortal life under difficult or unfair conditions. Now suppose its you (a goddess) who takes the dare, blanks your own memory; and are living a mortal life as part of a dare. Now suppose that while you're living out this dare as a mortal mom the other goddess decides to prank you into threatening to fight yourself? Jokes on you, isn't it? So what are you going to do when you get your memory back? Punish yourself?

Well, that explains a lot, Brick.

Why didn't you tell me this sooner?
 

mangalavara

नमस्कार
Premium Member
So, how would you do it? You're up against the God or Goddess of your choice... how are you going to best him or her?

It’s impossible because every god has his Shakti, and every goddess is Shakti. Even if I were nearly invincible and overthrew Indra and sat on his throne, Shakti would easily destroy me and restore Indra. Then, you would hear a bhajan about an asura called mangalavara.
 

JustGeorge

Imperfect
Staff member
Premium Member
It’s impossible because every god has his Shakti, and every goddess is Shakti. Even if I were nearly invincible and overthrew Indra and sat on his throne, Shakti would easily destroy me and restore Indra. Then, you would hear a bhajan about an asura called mangalavara.

Perhaps you'll find moksha this way. :)
 

osgart

Nothing my eye, Something for sure
I'd belly flop on his immaterial existence. Then compare notes on who's got the better truth.
If I win, then I get to recreate reality, if I lose then it's back to cleaning away dust and dirt and looking for something that I don't believe is there. 5200 religions in a vast void which one is it? All fails I go into a rope a dope.
 

PoetPhilosopher

Veteran Member
I don't have an answer really, but this does remind me of a book I've heard about, from the Eragon series. There is this really powerful villian in the book, with no way anyone can possibly defeat it, that rules over the world, and occasionally causes bad things to happen due to not intervening, being negligent, etc. So anyway, since the main character has no way of defeating the villian by strength, he casts an empathy spell on the villain, causing the villian to experience such empathy for a brief moment that they feel shamed over anything that has ever happened under their rule and their watch.
 

JustGeorge

Imperfect
Staff member
Premium Member
I don't have an answer really, but this does remind me of a book I've heard about, from the Eragon series. There is this really powerful villian in the book, with no way anyone can possibly defeat it, that rules over the world, and occasionally causes bad things to happen due to not intervening, being negligent, etc. So anyway, since the main character has no way of defeating the villian by strength, he casts an empathy spell on the villain, causing the villian to experience such empathy for a brief moment that they feel shamed over anything that has ever happened under their rule and their watch.

That would be really useful for a few of the more tyrant like Gods.
 

Alien826

No religious beliefs
For any of the fighting type gods ...

Tell them you've defeated every Boss in Elden Ring and they will instantly concede.

For Jesus ...

Strike him on the cheek.
 

Viker

Your beloved eccentric Auntie Cristal
Seeing that I act as my own god while venerating others, thereby representing them.

Punch myself repeatedly. Especially, real punches. Maybe give myself a take-down and a lock, if that's possible. :p
 

Brickjectivity

Veteran Member
Staff member
Premium Member
Why didn't you tell me this sooner?
If you really are a goddess who is temporarily living a mortal life and who is beng punked by a goddess buddy, then I am almost certainly a pawn in the scheme but not knowingly. Even now knowledge of your true situation must be hidden (from me), and I speak only of hypothetical situations not ones that I am aware of. Hypothetically you've been punked.
 
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