Why does God hate me?

[michael]

Five years ago I had a new slate roof put on my property during mid summer. The very first day after stripping off a good area of old tiles, the heavens opened up and the rain cascaded down.

Over the last couple of days, I’ve had to remove about a dozen courses of brickwork from a wall that supports a lean-to roof (bedroom, bathroom etc below) because the upper part of the wall was in danger of collapsing into the roof, this unfortunately has meant going down below the lean-to roofs lead flashing so I can now see down into the loft.

Yesterday, I tried covering the area with plastic tarpaulin. What does God do? Send 35-45 mph gusts of wind making it an absolute nightmare to secure down and today heavy rain which I understand is here for the foreseeable future. I’m now absolutely drenched trying to keep everything covered up. I’m sure that once the job is done it’ll be back to drought conditions.

If he exists then surely he’s having a laugh? I mean it's supposed to be summer time not Autumn. Maybe it’s got something to do with my property being an old Baptist chapel and he's trying to kick me out.

 

[LadyArowana]

Look, in all fairness to the deity he has been holding off on the rain for a very long time waiting for you to get to that job. Finally he has to listen to the prayers of all the gardeners and folks who need water in their non-mains supply houses and send a bit of precipitation, and you think it's His fault. :lol:

 

[worms]

Well last weekend, He gave me a dry morning to get a run of guttering down, waited till I was finished putting it back up, then while I was in for the obligatory Kit Kat, sent along a good going downpour so that I could check it was all working Ok. The ladder was still in-situ, so all I had to do was go up the ladder for a look-see. Couldn't have been timed better!

However, having had fairly non-stop rain for weeks, while the press has been full of drought stories from the South, I would like to put in a plea for a few dry weekends to get on with the painting!

 

[JoceAndChris]

Very sorry to hear that rain is ruining work but happy to report I had a nice deep bath. 8)

 

[middi]

Have you thought of seeking help from a different God, there seem to be a few about.

Middi

 

[jocelyn plummer]

Sounds like a Beeney job to me-----

 

[biffvernon]

There probably is no god ( I read it on a bus).

 

[Keithj]

As one of his licensed earthly representatives, I would say:
a) he very much exists, and
b) he doesn't hate you.
But you didn't want to know that.

 

[Penners]

Why does God hate me?

I've just consulted Her, and She says it's because you lied when you were seventeen.

 

[Feltwell]

I *was* about to say "That's a rather recent musical reference there Penners", but then I googled it and found out the song was released nearly 12 years ago. I thought it would only be 3 or 4. Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana and all that.

I'm still impressed. My own father, fractionally younger than your good self, would struggle with anything released after Don McLean's "American Pie".

 

[middi]

As one of his licensed earthly representatives, I would say:
a) he very much exists, and
b) he doesn't hate you.
But you didn't want to know that.

Perhaps God was on a day off, ( or the devil gave him a hiding) the day my three and a half year old son died of leukemia

Middi

 

[Keithj]

I know the pain well, middi. It is a sad and sorrowful world that we live in. I subscribe (as you would expect me to) to "though he slay me, yet will I trust him". It works for me.

 

[middi]

I know the pain well, middi. It is a sad and sorrowful world that we live in. I subscribe (as you would expect me to) to "though he slay me, yet will I trust him". It works for me.

How true

The use of the word "GOD" has been manufactured, expressed, associated, linked and inappropriately used in vain to what really is an expression of a human sereninty within oneself. ( as to where this leaves the cows , the pigs and everything we kill and eat I am not quite sure, but I am working on it)

( where the expression " him " enters the equation I fai to grasp )

Perhaps humans are only against " GOD " when things do not pan out the way they want them to be therefore serenity deserts them.

( ARE WE OFF TOPIC OR WHAT !!!!!!! )

Middi

 

[Keithj]

Off topic - for period property, I suppose we are. We aren't the first offenders, though
But then, there isn't a "bar area" forum for non-PPUK chat. Perhaps we should make a takeover bid for one of the moribund forums down the page

As to "him" as opposed to any other pronoun ... I learned English in those far-off days when if you didn't know the gender of the subject, you used the masculine form as shorthand. Nowadays, I suppose, the clumsy "him, her or it" is required.

 

[Penners]

I *was* about to say "That's a rather recent musical reference there Penners", but then I googled it and found out the song was released nearly 12 years ago. I thought it would only be 3 or 4.

12 years ago is recent, Feltwell. In fact, I regard anything post-Apollo-11 as "a few months ago".

Who are you again...?

 

[Feltwell]

I quite agree Penners - 12 years is quite recent - it was more a pop at myself for thinking the song was only 3 or 4 years old. Time is advancing at a seemingly more rapid rate lately I swear, which I am reminded of every time I look in the mirror!

Still, at least my daughter has given up on pointing out my grey hairs now, it's the ones with colour that are becoming more of the exception. I know, I should count my blessings, having hair to point out at all.......

 

[Penners]

I know, I should count my blessings, having hair to point out at all.......

I have hair!

Just in the wrong places.

 

[LadyArowana]

I know, I should count my blessings, having hair to point out at all.......

I have hair!

Just in the wrong places.

Would I be correct in thinking that suggested remedies involving either hot wax, numbing cream and lasers or tweezers would not be welcome?

 

[Penners]

Well guessed, Yer Ladyship.

Actually I don't believe that "remedies" for this condition exist - only temporary glabrousness is possible.

So I intend to relax and look forward to warmer ears in winter.

 

[AMc]

Why does God hate me?

From your description I think God loves you but may hate your house - perhaps she is trying to save you from an ancient curse?