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Invisible-sky-daddy religions lose again.
Seriously, I can't fathom how people in this day and age still fall for this crap.
It really makes me lose faith in the human race.

Invisible-sky-daddy religions lose again.
Seriously, I can't fathom how people in this day and age still fall for this crap.
It really makes me lose faith in the human race.

>>22183275
Wow...I could have written this exact post, just over two years ago.
I had spent a few decades unable to write, despite being prolific in my 20s.
You may think my solution is silly, but it really worked.
For years, I had been plagued with horrible nightmares. They affected my sleep tremendously.
Some nights, they were so bad, I'd just get up, even though it was still the middle of the night, because I preferred losing rest to having another nightmare.
Then I happened upon this article:
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/body-odd/bad-smells-can-give-you-nightmares-flna1C9926317
I started washing my sheets more often, and put some incense in my room. After it lost its scent, I'd burn it to get the rest out, then replace it with a fresh one.
These days, I usually have a stick of incense, and three cones, on my headboard.
But once I started, after a few days, I noticed my sleep quality getting better, and after a week, my nightmares were noticeably reduced.
That Saturday, I was making a big breakfast, when an idea for a short story suddenly hit me.
As I continued to prepare my elaborate breakfast, more and more related ideas occurred to me.
I took my food to my office, and between bites, cranked out the first short story I've written in years.
Words cannot express how cathartic that was.
I've since written many more short stories, and even a few novels.
And all it took was pleasant smells while sleeping.

>>21741338
The Fountainhead is more tightly written, but despite that, Atlas Shrugged will always have a special place in my heart.
Ayn Rand is the only one that ever gave me permission to be excellent, instead of being part of the overwhelming mediocre mob we are pleased to call the human race.
I am honest, decent, and hard-working, if for no other reason than the shock value.

Let us all bow our heads and say a prayer for our dearly departed.
Z-Lib, now you belong to the ages.

God is *one*.
God is *everything*.
God is the universe.
God is all possible universes.
God is all possible timelines.
God is every galaxy, every star, every planet, every person, every animal, every bacterium, every rock, everything.
God is everything simultaneously, and all separate existences simultaneously.
God is *one*.

And if you think about it, if you're asking about the nature of the God of creation, not the one that supposedly wrote books, but the *real* God...you realize that this is the only possible answer.

>>20550752
Let's see how much you know about your own religion.
Is it your understanding that, when Satan was cast out of Heaven, 1/3 of the angels were cast out with him?
It is? Where is that in the Bible?
Go ahead, find it, and come back.

The answer, as you just learned...it's not.
It's from "Paradise Lost" by John Milton.
You have incorporated a known work of fiction into your religion.

>>20412412
>>20412428
Can he just capture them without killing them?
After all, assassins are generally paid by someone else to kill.
Finding out who did that would be very valuable intel.

>>20270908
I can only speak for myself.
It turns out my poor sleep quality was to blame...which, unfortunately, had persisted for decades. Horrible, debilitating nightmares, every night.
Then I found this:
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/body-odd/bad-smells-can-give-you-nightmares-flna1C9926317
Sounds stupid, but all I did was put several incense cones on my headboard, burn one of them occasionally, change my sheets more often, and made sure to use antiperspirant every day...and my nightmares went away.
Within a week, I was feeling a lot better...and then my muse, which I hadn't seen in decades, came out of nowhere.
I've been writing up a storm ever since.
I'm not saying it'll work for you, but it worked like a miracle for me.