Also, smoking would be good for you.
If I were God I’d smite the whole lot of you. Sinners!
Now, I’m not endorsing any particular form of worship. Though if they walk the walk they may be some mighty nice people. They are defininately in the wrong universe.
Ah sir, a bit of the snark there, though some might say all I need to do is but say the Word… Indeed though, I have a hunch that even a god might need to do the work for results. That’s a discussion in itself I hope to see in the thread. Some might say, “Not so”. I’d like to hear their reasoning. But who is to say such tweaks wouldn’t possible to an experienced deity?
Hey, if this was for real for just a little while, you’d all win the lottery. You could have your venison and eat it too. Buy your tickets before the end of the thread.
How does anyone know what bliss would be like in the universe? You wouldn’t know what you’re missing from here. Your standards would be different. But if you want bliss, challenges? Fine, life can have games and everyone competes for valuable prizes! Now maybe in the end I see to it that everyone gets a prize, though the real competitors could compete for the entertainment of all. We could have leagues! I’d probably catch the major league games. I could add some minor stresses into existence as well. That’s probably physically required. After all, even music needs tension and dissonance to resolve back to a rest state to be functional at length. It doesn’t need to be total bliss, some skinned knees might happen. But the really bad stuff wouldn’t happen. nor would it likely be imaginable. I think. Plus the sex would be really great.
And I suppose I would allow enough randomness in the universe to keep things interesting for us all, without a defined outcomes. That might be a blessing in itself.
Also, for the sake of argument, what if all the ‘machinery’ is in place and all I need to do, like Q from Star Trek: The Next Generation or Superman’s Mr. Mxyzptlk, is to have a whim, speak it, and I’m done? I might not really care about y’all that much, not really. I might create each universe as a daily affirmation. Who says I’m going to even look back once I’ve started one? Though I think I’d still be hella nicer than those other guys, the bastards. So long as I know it will be a nice ride for everyone, and everything would be OK if I step away, I may not be back for eons, if at all.
Uh oh. That’s a cogent point. But wait a minute. They can fall off a cliff already and not get hurt, so it’s not that different…
I would think plants have relatively little reaction to pain. Nor do they even think medulla oblongata style I suppose. What would the purpose be for pain to evolve? It motivates mobile creatures to avoid situations but a plant will likely never be moved. And I’d make sure that all the parts which provide nourishment are apart from the main body of the plants and that it tickles when they loose a leaf or have a nut plucked from them. Your concern has been duly noted.
Myself, I’m hooked on eating, I think it’s one of the nicest things in life and I’d want to pass it along. It would be all symbiotic and stuff, trust me, it would be nice.
I’d create everyone in a universe-sized, Matrix style world simulation, where they get to be immortal gods essentially; one where they have a great deal of access to the controls. No worries about the laws of physics. If you like competition, you set up your own subworld with more competitive rules and convince others to join you; if you don’t, you can play lotus eater. Pain and other negative sensations would have a low, hard limit on their intensity to the extent they even existed. I’d tweak their drives to make them more self motivated to make up for the lack of negative stimuli.
New people would come about when two or more others desired it, and be the product of a recombination of copies of their minds instead of their genes; “born” fully adult and self sufficient. I don’t like the whole concept of children being born nearly blank and helpless.
There would be eating and sex and other human pleasures; plus new ones they can invent as they tweak the system and modify themselves. There would be no need to kill or hurt anything for food or anything else; nonsentient background simulants would serve for that. “NPCs”, basically.
All I know is, if I were god, marketing people and singers who use Auto-Tune would be instantly smitten. Smote. Zapped.
And lo, there would be much rejoicing.
Creation is perfect as it is and to suggest improvements, blasphemous.
Oh yeah? Then what were the dinosaurs, then, a beta test?
Bah. If it was, the current lack of announced features and certain other bugs in the final version of reality clearly indicates that the developer pushed out an unfinished product just to meet the release date. Amateurish, unprofessional work. 'Probably just out-bid the other studios on the property license because of the savings they made slashing their own testing budget.
We must bear in mind that the nature of form is to change, the nature of Spirit, to be.
It should be noted that a patch was pushed out but seems to have been terminated then corrupted by the virtual environment, engendering a fairly aggressive virus.
Gads, the patches…don’t get me STARTED on the localization and cross-platform quagmire they’ve managed to dig themselves into.
Ah, got it. It’s not a bug, it’s a feature…except when the end-users think up something the dev team didn’t, and then it’s a game breaker. 'Natch.
I hear there’s a community open source project that’s trying to reverse engineer the whole thing and get a peek at the source code, but thus far it hasn’t been able to tweak much. Everything seems hard-coded and very mod unfriendly. Crummy design.
That is an unfounded opinion without a shred of proof. Are you saying we blaspheme every time a new molecule is chemically created which does not exist in nature? Is Kevlar immoral?
Well how is it that we mere humans can in our finite knowledge can imagine a better nature than an infinite deity could create? Doesn’t that lead one to suspect that deity does sloppy work? If the deity truly cared, the deity would do the very best they could, as you might do for your children.
If creation were perfect, there would be no room for improvement. Yet we improve many aspects of the world around us all the time.
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Sounds like the old chest nut that anesthesia should not be used because pain was supposed to be our punishment, As god did not punish us all for using anesthesia and pain killers, I think it is silly to propose that we should not use our intelligence to continue to make improvements.
Seriously…it’s like the original programmer had never heard of REM statements. No documentation except for a bunch of loose notes taken by His students. Someone DID bind them into a study guide eventually, but it’s still all but incoherent and contradictory. Shoulda had a good digital voice recorder on them.