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You are god!
August 23, 2015 at 4:03 pm
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(August 23, 2015 at 3:52 pm)ForsakenHeretic Wrote: 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.
ForsakenHeretic got me to thinking ...
You are god. Why would you be good? What mandate is there for god to be good? Where would god even get morals from? Why would god even care?
What are your attributes? You can do anything you want without repercussion!
For me, the universe would be just one big ass video game and nothing would be safe. "Hmmm ... Let's see what this button does. Cool! Just flat out fuckin' cool! Where's that reset button, I wanna do that again."
You make people miserable and there's nothing they can do about it, just like god.
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RE: You are god!
August 23, 2015 at 4:10 pm
Uhm, why exactly do you feel the need to create the second you be god thread within a few days?
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RE: You are god!
August 23, 2015 at 4:13 pm
As God, My first act would be to unambiguously declare Myself to My creations.
My chief (probably only) commandment would be 'Be good to each other.' The importance of this commandment would compel Me to lead by example, thus the impetus to be good.
My chief attributes would be explicatory in nature. If one of My creations were to ask Me why their two years old daughter was stricken with liver cancer, I would tell them. If a supplicant asked why they didn't win the Lotto despite praying really, REALLY hard to do so, I would explain it.
If human beings continued to insist in invoking Me to make sure their particular sporting club won, I would be completely even handed - I would arrange for every sporting competition to end in a tie.
Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
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RE: You are god!
August 23, 2015 at 4:14 pm
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I was more interested in attributes than creation. The other thread was dealing with creation and it was not my place to derail the OP of the other thread.
You make people miserable and there's nothing they can do about it, just like god.
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Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends. There are some things we don't want to know. Important things.
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RE: You are god!
August 23, 2015 at 4:16 pm
Nope, just solipsistic.
I reject your reality and substitute my own!
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RE: You are god!
August 23, 2015 at 4:18 pm
To answer your question. If I were a god deserving the title, I wouldn't be interested at all. Only if I felt like playing a Sims game, maybe. But I think that would be way below an all powerful being.
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RE: You are god!
August 23, 2015 at 4:18 pm
It is kind of a good question. One of the reasons we can empathize with people is that we may experience the same thing they do. If you have someone who never goes through hardships, how can they empathize with people? Why would they care? People who get everything they want in life tend to be spoiled, selfish brats. They tend to be very self centered. The only thing that gives them a reality check is something bad happening to them. So you've got this deity who gets everything he wants. Even when he came to earth, he didn't really live like us. otherwise he wouldn't have said things like thoughts equaling actions, because he'd know we can't help what we think. We can't help our base feelings. Though Jesus did act considerably nicer than Yahweh.
Why care about other people when you aren't confined to the same things they are? I'm not sure.
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RE: You are god!
August 23, 2015 at 4:27 pm
Like I said I would be evil because I would get bored. I would just eventually not care what happened to my creation.
Personally I would not want to be Omnipotent. It may sound fun but in reality you would get bored fast. Even if I had an enemy like Satan or something similar, I'm still Omnipotent and would win in the end.
I'd rather be a Hindu God like Vishnu or Shiva or a Greek God like Ares, Zeus or Hades.
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RE: You are god!
August 23, 2015 at 4:29 pm
(August 23, 2015 at 4:18 pm)abaris Wrote: If I were a god deserving the title, I wouldn't be interested at all.
A point that I have brought up several times. One of the many reasons I know there to be no god. How could it have desires? The whole 'omni' thing. What possible attributes could a god really have?
You make people miserable and there's nothing they can do about it, just like god.
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Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends. There are some things we don't want to know. Important things.
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RE: You are god!
August 23, 2015 at 4:31 pm
I'd still be the wafflest
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