I wish people got what they deserved - instantly. Instant retribution for wrong doing, instant serendipity for righteousness. Pure justice.
2007-01-24 09:27:37 · 12 answers · asked by DeanPonders 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
i dont think they would have a choice
2007-01-24 09:32:53 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
In The Secret, a wonderful production about how the Universal Energies are organized by our brains to form reality, they speak about how it is a good thing we do not live in an instant universe.
The example they give goes as follows:
We see a man get a post card in the mail, it has a picture of an elephant. In an instant universe upon seeing the elephant he will thinks of it and so has an elephant in the room. The man with the post card then looks at the elephant and says, "Oh crap." So the elephant does.
2007-01-24 17:38:56 · answer #2 · answered by Thornbrier 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
.... The evidence provided from various major religions is that some people do change because of what they perceive as divine intervention - but not as many as you might think .....and equally to be considered would be whether there might be a change in the way they died (like suddenly - in some cases!). The parables of Jesus - and the stories he told - suggested that people had a decision to make when confronted by the evidence before them - and even that God had too.
2007-01-24 17:44:48 · answer #3 · answered by Anthony H 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Divine intervention presupposes a divinity being there to intervene. I'd love for a higher power to exist. Proof of a supreme being or beings would change everything. Of course it would mean religious types would become even more insufferable, but that wouldn't matter so much since we'd all suddenly become religious types. And, I suppose, all the more insufferable for being so.
2007-01-24 17:38:09 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it would change how everyone lives.
No one would do anything except sit around and pray.
They would be so scared of offending god somehow and get blasted to oblivion.
Who would know what is alright to to and what isn't?
Even Christians, who beleive in the bible, can't agree on what it really says , Some think a bad thought sends you to hell, some thinks if you have a bad thought, and repent right away, you are ok, some think if you do something bad, you will go to hell, others think if you repent right away, you will be ok, some think if you repent on your deathbed, you are ok, some thinks that violating any of the 10 commandments, dooms you, and Good help you if you are a jew, or a muslim who doesn't beleive in Jesus...YOU WILL NEVER BE ALLOWED IN HEAVEN...or for that matter, babies who die without baptism.
so you can see, it could be a scary life, How would you know what not to do???
2007-01-24 17:40:30 · answer #5 · answered by bob shark 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I guess if that's how it was, everyone would live differnetly.
Does it work both ways? I mean, if I'm a great person, do I get to find a sack of money on the side of the road?
Now THAT'S what I call justice!
2007-01-24 17:36:03 · answer #6 · answered by Got rice? 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes. If you got punished for everything you did, you would eventually be crushed beneath the pressure to be so perfect. Your conscience would cease to exist and no one would engage in any wrong doing simply for fear of the punishment that followed.
2007-01-24 17:45:41 · answer #7 · answered by iNeviTable fuTure 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. I would change the way I live.
2007-01-24 17:36:01 · answer #8 · answered by Marianimal 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In the Kingdom of God to come that will happen, for now they live by these laws (and many others):
For whatever a man soweth, that shall he also reap... The Bible.
The wicked have no peace... The Bible
2007-01-24 17:35:34 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Nope.
2007-01-24 18:09:58 · answer #10 · answered by Voodoid 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It has already changed my life. So, yes.
2007-01-24 18:10:42 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋