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RE: What Would the World b Like if You were God
August 21, 2015 at 6:06 pm
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(August 15, 2015 at 10:45 am)surreptitious57 Wrote: Human beings to be hard wired for non reciprocal altruism so think of themselves as a collective rather than as individuals in the same way as the social insects
such as wasps and bees and ants for example. Secularism and democracy as standard within all cultures. Free speech with zero limitation. All knowledge that is
absolutely necessary for the survival of the species in real time to be understood. Everything else to be worked out just like it has to be now. Critical thinking to
be sub consciously and non reversibly implanted in all minds at a specified universal age. Women to always have multiple orgasms. Men to learn the mastery of
foreplay and how to provide non self centred sexual satisfaction for their woman with emphasis upon sex from as much a spiritual perspective as a physical one
I then become human and activate a mind wipe upon myself so that my previous existence and capabilities are forever unknown both to me and to anyone else
A MIND IS LIKE A PARACHUTE : IT DOES NOT WORK UNLESS IT IS OPEN
That's a great attempt - for a human. The best in this thread up to this point IMO. But nobody here can imagine such power and such wisdom. We can figure out what we WOULDN'T do, though. We WOULDN'T be a megalomaniacal nut with flaws equal to the worst of humanity as a whole and none of its best points. Maybe that's the whole reason why there are so many atheists. We don't know what God would be but we sure as hell recognize what he/she/it WOULDN'T be.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
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RE: What Would the World b Like if You were God
August 21, 2015 at 8:04 pm
I was surprised by how impossible this question was for me to answer! I mulled over being a benevolent teacher and guide, making rape and violence and domination impossible, wiping out hunger and want . . . But you see, that just feeds into my old programming about what a deity SHOULD be, and the more you think about it, the more unworkable it is. Humans want a parent figure that WILL take care of them and reward the chosen ones for good deeds.
But what if evolution, all over the universe, is a similar process? Nature is brutal. Humans are brutal. And we define ourselves, indeed we improve ourselves, by struggling against hardship.
So I imagined a greater race or being that "seeds" intelligence, not unlike that 2001 film. (It's full of stars!) If you were a part of starting that process, you would have to have a non-interference policy. You would have to let the beings grow in their own way, and even sending messages to "prophets" about how to behave would destroy the experiment. The beings would have to be free to brutalize each other, if that was their evolutionary path. So any higher being who started the experiment would not be able to interact with their newly sentient lab rats in any way.
Grow, to take care of each other, the planet, and learn about the universe . . . or die out. That's all I came up with.
"The family that prays together...is brainwashing their children."- Albert Einstein
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RE: What Would the World b Like if You were God
August 21, 2015 at 10:05 pm
Well, it would be pretty ungodly.
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RE: What Would the World b Like if You were God
August 23, 2015 at 3:52 pm
To be honest if I was God I'd be pretty evil. It would suck to be here for all eternity, having people worship you forever would get repetitive.
