The_Heretic

Now scratch computer games like Sid Meiser's CIVILIZATION for a moment. In those games you only play the eternal leader of one tribe/city-state/nation/empire.

Think of The Sims or Sim City or that older game where you're literally god competing with a rivel god for mortal followers and domion over a whole world. What kind of personality among us enjoys that? The game, Sim City was amusing to an extent, but eventually you have that evil impulse to bring disasters onto a city you worked so hard to plan, develop and maintain.

I never played The Sims, because watching people live their daily humdrum lives, in my estimation, didn't require a computer and I hate that soap operah shit anyway. I get more than me unfair share just within my own family.

As for the god game? Tried it for awhile, but too much effort and too difficult to get wily mortals to keep on the path I set. Constantly having to "amaze teh natives" with miracles and wonders, to then set them off for missionary work and even having to mold the land just ahead of where they'd step to aid their way. Fuck that shit! It's labor intensive! All while some wise-ass anti-god does the same thing to exact opposite ends just to fuck with'ya.



So if- as Christianity suggests, and the other Abrahamic religions somewhat elude to, that a real god has certain human aspects to it, then what? Think about this god sitting in front of its computer- or in front of its ant colony... watching... manipulating... brooding over every aspect of the lives fully within its unchallengable domion.

Would you trust it?

More importantly, I suppose, would you deem it worthy of the title "god?"

I suggest that whatever it is that passes for the real god [or gods- let's not be biased here] can't be remotely human. It has to be better, and possibly not even what we'd consider a person; something possessed with a personality. What if the god, in order to be all that's best in the universe and/or outside of the universe, has to be a thing, a phenomenon in order to pass muster? It still exudes unconditional love, omnipotent power and spiritual-intellectual illumination, just as a fire provides warming, versatility in purposes as well as light. But if it must be an impersonable thing to fit the bill would that not prove correct both the atheist and the theist/believer? And if so, is that so bad?

Questions?
Comments?
insults?

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mentor

When people visualize god overseeing the universe they are projecting their own personality onto god. It is indicative of a lack of imagination, or a level of immaturity, if one cannot visualize the universe without a "person" in charge, a person who is in fact very very much like themselves.

Still, I have played sim city, and I find it quite fun actually. And yes, I have brought on disasters. But that is no reason to believe that god is real, or anything like me!

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Environment Man

Of course I would trust God. Pay no attention to that Mentor for he hates God. Note how Mentor always brings things back to himself. He wants to be his own god. Give God his credit for Mentor has produced not one atom nor a hair on his own head.

And if it produced the Big Bang, all of physics including quantum mechanics and all of the cosmos and created people, animals and plants and an earth to live on.........sure I would think him worthy of worship.

If you could do all that I would worship you.

Malkavian

I played Black and White... You are really a god in there. You have to feed your pet representative to the 'people' and tell them when to work and when to fuck. Both you and your pet representative can perform miracles. Neat game.

Funny. I remember... to steal believers from other god or convert non believers, i'd starve and maul them to a near extinction, and then dump a ton of food on their heads. They were desperate and easily impressed. Kinda like in real life, lol.

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mentor

Of course if you could do all that and it was absolutely easy, that would be no accomplishment at all. Now if God had to overcome a significant challenge while creating the universe, then he would be truly worthy of praise.

And what would be the biggest challenge possible? Non-existance!


If God could create the universe while not existing, now that would be a feat worth worshipping Therefore the best possible god would be the one which created all we enjoy without the benifit of ever existing

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Malkavian

Lol. Post of the day.

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Environment Man

Sick. A truly sick proposition. And nonsense to boot. Why would God not want to exist. God is not stupid. But that post is.

Environment Man

Shows your level of development. That post was weak at best.

Malkavian

Well, god could get bored... I mean, infinity is pretty long time

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