What will God do?
If we’re talking about the Christian God, I believe “Who knows the mind of the Lord? Who has been his counsellor?” suffices as a response.
What will God do?
If we’re talking about the Christian God, I believe “Who knows the mind of the Lord? Who has been his counsellor?” suffices as a response.
Wow, first time I can say that everything on both posts from **glee ** and **Liberal ** are unlikely alternatives.
Deep time alone shows that getting stuck in a specific religion is silly, and the nature of the universe shows to me that something that could be called god could be somewhere, but just not affecting this planet I grant you that, far from it, seeing were the action of the universe is: galactic centers with vast amounts of energy and dark matter, we are really in an area that is close to a dead zone.
While life as we know it is in this pale blue dot, it is here because it has adapted to use little energy (in contrast to the galactic center), and so we have to improvise on our sustenance, and we die. Here I do think that other beings are possible that use the vast quantities of power near the galactic center and live longer and do think our area of the universe is a dead one so there is no need to explore over here.
The items that we identified traditionally with god, the powers of nature, are actually deadly if we approach to them in our current form. Really not what was expected if we think god is love, earth is an oasis in a vast desert, but before you can come with the typical argument that therefore it was made just for us, the reality is that it was made for bacteria, insects and dinosaurs for about 300 million years. Now we are talking about the end of times after only 1/2 a million years after discovering how to make fire? Give me a break.
The universe is not for us, but for our descendants, both the human like and the electronic ones. What will the gods do when they come knocking at their doors? That is going to be their problem…
Lawyers.
He will send forth his lawyers, yea, verily a mighty host of them, and they shall wear fine suits and be shod in the finest wingtips. And they shall call themselves Lobbyist, and Advocate, and they shall descend upon the Scientists and upon the Lawmakers.
And they shall make a great noise on the liability risks of godlike achievement, yea, and shall weep, alas, alas for the insurance premiums, and they will smite scientific progress with restrictive information-sharing rules so no proprietary information may be spread unless it maketh billions for the stockholders.
And when Man is weary from struggling with the Lord’s lawyers, his eyes shall be opened and he will see, clearly, side effects, collatersal damages and unprogrammed costs of godlike achievement, and shall say to himself, sh*t, now we have to correct this before we proceed forward. And they will woe the day they met the immortal demon Entropy, who is also called Murphy, whose rule is of iron and bends not.
And lo, Man will cry out, Lord, doth thou not wish us to use thy gift of intelligence to further the lot of the humble on Earth, and raise up the banner of justice? Why must we then battle Murphy’s Law when we seek thy perfection? And the Lord shall smile and say to Himself, it is good for them to remain feeling challenged; but he shall not answer them, for it is also good that they figure it out themselves.
God gave the case and the contract to Harvey Birdman? 
Buddha will pat him on the back and say “Dude, it happens. C’mon, party over at Vishnu’s. Thor brought a keg.”