RE: If there is a creator, so what?
November 15, 2016 at 3:08 pm
(This post was last modified: November 15, 2016 at 3:10 pm by Whateverist.)
(November 15, 2016 at 1:22 pm)Ignorant Wrote:(November 15, 2016 at 1:18 pm)Rhythm Wrote: Why? [1] Define "some attention"? [2] That is, after all, the question in the OP. All this foreplay, lol...here we are. It's showtime.
1) Because everything I am and everything I do involves it in some way.
2) Interest in the nature of the relationship between me and it. Interest in what-it-is. Interest in the nature of the relationship between it and everything else. Interest in what that means for me.
Let's give this putative god a natural foundation as an advanced alien race. Let's further suppose, for whatever reason, that they are just delighted with us and want nothing more than to please and dote on us. (I'm thinking this approximates -nicient/-powerful/-benevolent god conditions without actually exceeding the sub-omni limits which pertain to all but the superdupernatural.) What then should be our interest in said creatures?
Me? I'm thinking we might be better off if we slip through under their radar. While there may be creatures compared to which we are but puppies, infants or even amoebas I question how healthy it would be to live under their protection. I feel like I'm taking a captain Kirk stance here but do we really want to become some higher form's pet or, worse, infantilized by trading in our self determination for their 'divine' protection? As for what they might teach us, unless they have the power to elevate us to their level of understanding wouldn't it be a little oppressive to know how incomplete and inconsequential our best efforts really are? I think we are a sufficiently capable and interesting organism to deserve to live and continue to evolve on our own merits. Besides, until we develop light speed propulsion, any advanced race would know better than to initiate first contact.
But if you're willing to allow that 'gods' might exist in the midjective realm, then I think a meaningful relationship is indeed possible.