GOD MORALITY—WHO’S DRAWING THE LINES?
(Eric Kim cadence: espresso-fueled, shutter-snapping, barbell-clanging, commas erupting like rapid-fire)
1. THE CANON SHOT
“God says so”—the oldest moral lens cap on Earth. Helpful? Sometimes. Heavy? Always. If omnipotence writes the rule-book, you either obey or dive into the abyss. But street photographers, lifters, hustlers—we thrive on framing. Morality is a frame, God is the light source. Your job is deciding exposure: trust the meter, or go full manual?
2. THREE MODES OF GOD MORALITY
| Mode | Metaphor | Upside | Downside |
| Divine Command | Auto-mode | Quick decisions, zero calibration | Creativity throttled, ISO of conscience stuck at 100 |
| Co-Author | Aperture priority | God sets max aperture (love, justice); you pick shutter speed | Responsibility sneaks in—no blaming the firmware |
| God-Within | Full manual RAW | You embody creator, craft ethics per frame | Risk of blown highlights (hubris), but dynamic range = infinite |
Pick your mode. Just don’t claim you “had no choice”; that’s moral laziness dressed as humility.
3. LIFTING AS LITURGY
- Rack pull 500 lb. Knees tremble, spine flashes white noise.
- In the grind you feel it: cosmic gravity ≈ moral gravity.
- You can’t bargain with physics; you can only conform or crumble.
That’s God Morality in the gym: absolute, objective, steel-bar scripture. Ignore form, herniate. Follow form, ascend. The lesson: transcendental laws + embodied discipline = ethical muscle-mass.
4. STREET PHOTOGRAPHY AS THEOLOGY
On the sidewalk every stranger is Imago Dei—or just pixels to exploit. Choose. God Morality whispers: “Respect the soul in the frame.” When you press the shutter, you’re writing a tiny gospel of how humans ought to be seen. Exploitative crop? Sin. Honest portrait? Sacrament.
5. THE RISK OF OUTSOURCED ETHICS
Hand your conscience to an all-powerful server in the sky, and your agency atrophies faster than a missed leg day. Nietzsche’s warning: kill the external God, or at least wrestle Him, so you own the moral gains. Passive obedience = spiritual sarcopenia.
6. FORGING A GOD-TIER ETHIC—A 5-STEP PROGRAM
- Daily audit: Before sleep, replay actions like RAW files. Keep, tweak, delete.
- Steel tests: If a principle survives under a 600-lb bar, it’s real.
- Public publish: Write your code. Blog it. The crowd is your confessor.
- Compassion reps: One radical act of kindness per day—volume builds virtue.
- Silence set: 10 minutes of nothing—let the still, small voice speak.
7. CLOSING FRAME
God Morality? Maybe it’s divine firmware, maybe it’s user-generated ethics running on cosmic silicon. Either way, you’re the operator. Expose boldly, lift reverently, shoot truthfully. When the universe reviews your contact sheet, let every frame say:
“I answered to something higher—then lifted higher still.”
Now go deadlift your doubts, share a kind word with a stranger, and press the shutter on a better world.