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When the gods were more manlike, men were more godlike.
-Friedrich Schiller
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When The Gods Were More Manlike, Men

Friedrich Schiller
When the gods were more manlike, men were more godlike.
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The gods have fled, i know. my sense is the gods have always been essentially absent. i do not believe human beings have played games or sports from the beginning merely to summon or to please or to appease the gods. if anthropologists and historians believe that, it is because they believe whatever they have been able to recover about what humankind told the gods humankind was doing. i believe we have played games, and watched games, to imitate the gods, to become godlike in our worship of eachother and, through those moments of transmutation, to know for an instant what the gods know.
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Where are the gods the gods hate us the gods have run away the gods have hidden in holes the gods are dead of the plague they rot and stink too there never were any gods there’s only death
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But it seems that something has happened that has never happened before; though we know not just when, or why, or how, or where. men have left god not for gods, they say, but for no gods; and this has never happened before. that men both deny gods and worship gods, professing first reason, and the money, and power, and what they call life, or race, or dialect.the church disowned, the tower overthrown, the bells upturned, what have we to do but stand with empty hands and palms upturned in an age which advances progressively backwards?
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This is what i believe: that i am i. that my soul is a dark forest. that my known self will never be more than a little clearing in the forest. that gods, strange gods, come forth from the forest into the clearing of my known self, and then go back. that i must have the courage to let them come and go. that i will never let mankind put anything over me, but that i will try always to recognize and submit to the gods in me and the gods in other men and women. there is my creed.
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The thing about playing gods, whether you're playing thor and loki or greco roman gods or indian gods or characters in any mythology, the reason that gods were invented was because they were basically larger versions of ourselves.
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An irreligious man is not one who denies the gods of the majority, but one who applies to the gods the opinions of the majority. for what most men say about the gods are not ideas derived from sensation, but false opinions, according to which the greatest evils come to the wicked, and the greatest blessings come to the good from the gods.
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