Why Do I Exist?

Re:Why Do I Exist? by ksaj on Friday April 02, 2021 @08:54PM (#26677483)

It's hard, but it's been done. Here's a story about Jacob literally having fisticuffs with God in a dark alley, and kicking His butt. After, Jacob freaks out realizing he met God face to face, beat Him up, and got rewarded instead of disappeared.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%2032%3A...

According to the ending, Jacob's only injury is a really big thing:

"Therefore to this day the Israelites do not eat the tendon attached to the socket of the hip, because the socket of Jacob’s hip was touched near the tendon."

It would be interesting to see if that is still true. And a theory of what Jacob did to make God call "Give!"

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Re:Why Do I Exist? by spiritplumber on Saturday April 03, 2021 @07:42PM (#26685730)

Yep. I actually use that in my story: armor and weapons turn out to be essentially useless against Angels, so the agency has to start a martial arts program.

There are exceptions, such as Terry Pratchett's meteoric-iron sword (taken to have Captain Carrot's characteristic of "being the least magical sword you could think of"); retrieving it is in itself a subplot. :)

You can find the whole thing (stories and RPG worldbooks) here: https://www.deviantart.com/spiritplumber/art/Left-Beyond-Add...

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