God's Atheist

"fear of god is the begining of wisdom"
  - old testament
so construct your ideal
you can f**k it up
doesn't matter
just do it
take all of your faults all of your hatred
apply all of your own little hell's
to that powerful imagination
see what you could be
see your self sabotage
see more than one future
be afraid of it
see that god is the devil
in the mirror
then refine that
so not even a god can know how far you could go
(so worship yourself)
you're already a sinner
have you actually read the old testament?
you're already fucked
(we always have been)
define your own terms
fear yourself
(god is now antiquiated)

Reviews

[Ana B.]

One day i was bored and curious and decided to read the bible very thoroughly. Since then i am no longer religious. I always felt that somethings doesn't add up. But after reading the old testament it became obvious the falsity of it....because according to it, god is a merciless, greedy, quite temperamental bloodthirsty child, that allows marriage between siblings and it's okay to kill and burn innocent children and women and families just because god told you to do so .Gotta hand it to the ''authors'' though, they kept the sheep in the herd for quite a while. Still do. Reading this makes me glad that some people think...and did i imagine the mockery along the poem?

[Davidgeo]

No, you didn't imagine the mockery. However, there are drawbacks if the masses have nothing to believe in. People thought and still think that Nietzsche was a nihilist, the whole 'god is dead' thing. But he wasn't that at all, he predicted that one day if we continue to grow as intellectual people eventually god will seem useless and the masses would have no ultimate value system to fall back on... his solution was the creation of the ubermensch (overman), the ideal person who would rise above religious morality and rely on his own values. And those who could not rely on themselves for their own values would devolve into something very intellectually conscious but valueless; a nihilist. And he thought that to be a very, very terrible thing.

[Ana B.]

I very much agree that a normal, adequate person should rely on his own morals and values. I suppose its nearly impossible to think right in this sick civilization, so how to distinguish the true values from chimerical ones...Yes i heard that about Nietzsche, and i tend to consider that the ubermensch is something that we (the modern men) are all coming from. There is a tremendous amount of historical facts and artifacts that attest to that fact, so maybe for a frail transplant fermented by society, a person who can think fast and can distinguish the truth and the lies and can coexist with the ecosystem in such a way that it doesn't harm anything and has reached such a high level of consciousness that sees the world as it is, maybe for us that could be a god...sort of...in any case, as long as a person is part of an egregore, it can be easily manipulated. I'm still figuring the whys of this grand scheme...one thing is clear - the zombie apocalypse is in full mode, easily seen when i take a look at the people around me.

[Davidgeo]

Ha... you used the word egregore in context.

I tend to think the ubermensch has yet to be seen.

[Davidgeo]

When the ubermensch does show up I think egregore is a word he would use.

[Ana B.]

phaha, honestly, i hope so. I don't consider myself a pessimist,at least not on fridays, but the brain of a common person is so obsolete that i'm surprised we're not monkeys yet :)
huh, maybe ubermensch will not even speak but send mental images, that would be cool.

[Davidgeo]

Have you ever seen the movie "Arrival"? (not the Charlie Sheen one from 1996)

[Ana B.]

the one with Amy Adams? yes. Love the soundtrack. The movie could be interpreted in so many ways though...good stuff.

[Davidgeo]

I've already mentioned that movie before haven't I? My memory is dog s**t sometimes. An Icelandic fellow named Johan Johannsson did the music for that film.

[Ana B.]

yes, i believe we discussed that particular movie a while ago, although i didn't know the Johan Johannsson , although i really like the pice written by Max Richter. He also has a recomposed version of Vivaldi's four season. Lovely.

[Davidgeo]

I'm listening to it as we speak... thanks for posting that. It really is lovely.

[angelina neves]

Well done!
and i can't add to what Ana B, said as I agree completely with her!

[Davidgeo]

Well thank you very much anyway. I'm also happy it instigated Ana B's comment for us, it was better than the poem.

[angelina neves]

oh! it is not better nor worse! it is a point of view inspired by the poem!
i personally don't believe in "gods" ...

[neurostar burns]

empty of any meaningful usefulness, not even negative or critical nor convoluted

[Davidgeo]

Are you talking about that review you just left without reading the poem? The end of that review didn't even make sense. At least try and make an attempt to put a little meat on that. You gotta try much harder if you want to be a real troll instead of just a bitter dried up old thing seeking petty revenge.

[neurostar burns]

Hi,I Have read other poems. This particular one struck me as lacking detailed depth. Although I saw the parenthical lines, they did not add depth to what struck me as litany. I could not find a sense of point other than trite litany Subjects you entered were not developed merely listed.No sense why they related to. Sorry

[Davidgeo]

You've already betrayed your identity. Now, if you would be so kind, get the f**k away from me.