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Author Topic: If There Was A God of Badness and not Evil  (Read 1762 times)

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If There Was A God of Badness and not Evil
« on: November 20, 2022, 08:35:50 pm »
What should they look like? What would be fitting? I don't have a philosophical grip on badness.

If you just toned down the devil it wouldn't really convey much about the nature of badness.
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Re: If There Was A God of Badness and not Evil
« Reply #1 on: November 21, 2022, 01:43:41 am »
I'd assume he'd look like the stereotypical bad guy from old movies, you know top hat and big mustache.
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Re: If There Was A God of Badness and not Evil
« Reply #2 on: November 21, 2022, 01:57:16 am »
People always say Big Bad, yeah.
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Re: If There Was A God of Badness and not Evil
« Reply #3 on: November 21, 2022, 02:18:31 am »
Their church bake sale would have over-baked cookies, not completely cooked cakes, and soggy pies.
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Re: If There Was A God of Badness and not Evil
« Reply #4 on: November 21, 2022, 02:34:56 am »
I don't understand what you mean with "badness". How does it differ from evil?
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Re: If There Was A God of Badness and not Evil
« Reply #5 on: November 21, 2022, 02:45:38 am »
Quote from: Quarque on November 21, 2022, 02:34:56 am
I don't understand what you mean with "badness". How does it differ from evil?
Maybe it's a lesser evil like stealing a stick of gum from a gas station, instead of blowing up orphans.
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Re: If There Was A God of Badness and not Evil
« Reply #6 on: November 21, 2022, 04:32:23 am »
Quote from: Quarque on November 21, 2022, 02:34:56 am
I don't understand what you mean with "badness". How does it differ from evil?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sd4SJVsTulc
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Re: If There Was A God of Badness and not Evil
« Reply #7 on: November 21, 2022, 07:01:48 am »
He dresses like the onceler, he loves the powerglove because it's so bad, he moonwalks into the room and sits in the corner of the bar with his katana ready to be drawn
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Re: If There Was A God of Badness and not Evil
« Reply #8 on: November 21, 2022, 09:09:04 am »
That's a good question actually. Is bad good at being bad or is it bad at being bad?

Quote from: Loud Whispers on November 21, 2022, 07:01:48 am
He dresses like the onceler, he loves the powerglove because it's so bad, he moonwalks into the room and sits in the corner of the bar with his katana ready to be drawn

Actually... I think this kind of inconsistency is quite realistic. Things are so bad they're good half the time.
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Re: If There Was A God of Badness and not Evil
« Reply #9 on: November 21, 2022, 11:18:29 am »
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Re: If There Was A God of Badness and not Evil
« Reply #10 on: November 21, 2022, 11:23:43 am »
He'd be awesome, overstepping social boundaries for breakfast allways messing with the gods of good and evil just for the heck of it. If their plans fail they become his because they were bad, but he does not feed on mediocrity, he merely thrives on failure. And I would be his avatar, up the winecellar I'd come with the comendment:

Failure to provide assistance to evil, good and mediocre is our duty.
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Re: If There Was A God of Badness and not Evil
« Reply #11 on: November 21, 2022, 01:23:54 pm »
For a second I read 'God of Baldness'.

Was disappointed when that wasn't the case.
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Re: If There Was A God of Badness and not Evil
« Reply #12 on: November 21, 2022, 01:54:36 pm »
You can choose to be free, but it will be the last choice you ever make, because everything else will follow from it.
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Re: If There Was A God of Badness and not Evil
« Reply #13 on: November 23, 2022, 07:10:45 am »
So he's wanting a bad guy that sucks at being a bad guy, than I suggest the guy who broke into a building and got stuck in a ventilation shaft and died.
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Re: If There Was A God of Badness and not Evil
« Reply #14 on: November 23, 2022, 07:15:51 am »
He'd be in bad with Madonna. (yes, bad joke)
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