Where is the graveyard of the Gods?
2006-09-28 10:51:14 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Reply to Gluon:
Why yes! I do remember seeing that episode.
2006-09-28 10:56:59 · update #1
In order to exist, a god must have believers.
When the believers move on to some other god,
the old god just ceases to exist. Gods do not die,
because they were merely virtual in the first place.
2006-09-28 11:05:17 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Very good question. Imagine this: Gods are fed by the power of human belief. The more altars, the more prayers, the more imaginative energy devoted to them, the more powerful they become. The less notice anyone pays, the less powerful they become. But it's a Catch-22, because if they're still known about, historically for instance, it's enough to keep them corporeal, but because there's no belief invested, it's not enough to make them powerful.
I first came across this concept in a Douglas Adams book called "The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul", where a Heathrow terminal is destroyed by what gets labelled as an "act of god" and the question seems logical - "Which god?"
Turns out Thor, the Norse god of Thunder, got fed up waiting and just summoned up a bolt of lightning to take care of the problem!
It's also a concept I'm using in a book of my own, where "The Devil" feels the effects of people not really believing in him any more when he tries to make an Anti-Christ and suffers what becomes known as "The Night Of The Diabolic Flopper". Aparrently it happens to all incarnations of ultimate evil some time...
2006-09-29 06:14:35 · answer #2 · answered by mdfalco71 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They end up on some far away planet. Didn't you see the star trek episode where the Greek God Apollo was found on a planet, he tried to force kirk and his officers to worship him. When they would not, he just faded away.
2006-09-28 17:55:07 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
old god's don't die, they just get forgotten.
there's actually a retirement home for unwanted gods, it's on a beach in greece, really nice place, I go and play croquet with Thor every summer.
2006-09-28 17:56:58 · answer #4 · answered by phalsephasod 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know but it sounds like the start of a really gay song
2006-09-28 17:57:00 · answer #5 · answered by kddkd a 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They leave out beyond the rim of space. lol
2006-09-28 17:56:34 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋