I’d want a god with a sense of humor and a fairly easy going personality. Somehow my mind keeps going back to “The dude” in the Big Lebowski as far as god’s personality goes. I also think he would be slightly embarrassed by all of this worship stuff.
Message from Fred:
“Guys, come on, get up off of your knees this really isn’t necessary. I don’t need to be reminded how great I am, I’m omniscient so I already know. If you want to make me happy go out and do something nice for some one else. And forget all that strike down the infidel stuff, it’s really bringing me down. They got their own thing going and that’s cool so just chill and let them to their thing. If they start getting in your face just mind your own business and leave the smiting to me OK? Peace out.”
No one has mentioned turning water into wine? shrug Maybe it doesn’t fit in with the weather motif. And that could get up the nose of the BATF.
In fact, I think we should wrap the assembly of Fred up quickly. If the government gets wind of it, we’ll have a bureau in charge of licensing the creation of gods so fast that our heads will spin.
Pansexual
Embodied, yet disembodied
Left-leaning libertarian social-welfare conservative
Likes, and is liked by, animals
Possesses all knowledge and memory of sentient life
Does not traffic in guilt or revengefulness, but does not hesitate to bring the self-doubt or karma where it might do some good
Agnostic…meaning that like most humans, e isn’t always that sure of emself
He needs the ability to bestow superpowers on me…that would be the only non-negotiable requisite ability. Once I have MY superpowers, then whatever else he does or doesn’t do is moot from my perspective…
Fred should have the power to make us feel connected to all life and all of the universe, and in the process heal all our emotional wounds. That’d be nice.
Perhaps we are expecting a bit too much from poor old Fred.
Immortal? Not quite. The heat death of the universe would prevent any manufactured being from being immortal. But Fred could be very, very, very long-lived.
Invulnerable? Nothing made from matter could be invulnerable. But Fred could be very, very, very difficult to destroy, and could have lots of backups.
Der Trihs’ idea about wormhole connections to a baby universe would be really useful in this regard if it could be done, but even godtech probably wouldn’t allow tiny portable wormholes of this kind. However there are lots of other tricks that would allow sufficiently advanced technology to appear to be miraculous.
Fred could reliably heal the sick and under certain circumstances raise the dead.
He could control the weather within certain parameters, smite with great vengeance and furious anger, and know an awful lot about his worshippers, more than they know themselves; this will probably have to do in the real universe.
In less than a thousand years we’ll probably be building Freds that would exceed a Norseman’s expectations of Thor, for example.
If you wanna make a god (fred)
the only power he really needs will be to control and change the laws of physics as he wishes.
think about it. it would include teletransportation. create new elements or materials even life out of nowhere, perhaps even see the future and past. if he wished to kill you. he could order your molecules to loose their conection, and u or anything would desapear into dust.
I dont know maybe i went too far i think im escribing the god that created the universe. if so disregard these power.
Yes, Fred could simply rearrange the molecules of many men, women, and children, and make them go away…but is so much more psychopathic to force a hundred + yr old guy to build a massive ship, and round up 2 (or 7) of every class of animal, and ride out the storm, while everyone ( and every animal) else slowly drowns…so much more fun to send a guy named Joshua into several cities, with orders to kill every man, woman and child…or to send 42 bears to maul little boys for making fun of a bald guy…so intriguing to send Moses into the city within hours of giving him two tablets, one that says not to kill, with orders to kill every man woman and child.
PS maybe I went to far as well, describing a mythical god that created the universe…if so, disregard
I’m with Skald on this one. There is NO way I could worship a male deity. Just isn’t going to happen. Be friends with? Yeah, sure. I’m friends with Hermes. But worship? Females are meant to be worshiped.
But, maybe that’s just me.
Fred should have instantaneous teleport abilities along with prescience. That would make him virtually invulnerable.