Would you create god?

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02 Oct 2012, 2:49 pm

Suppose in the far future we determine that god does not exist, we know everything that is, and god it is determined does not exist.
Suppose the technology existed to create god (an all powerful being which can damn you to hell for all eternity if you do something it thinks is bad). Would you create it?

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02 Oct 2012, 2:56 pm

Not again, what with that business with the dry cleaning.

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02 Oct 2012, 3:03 pm

Maybe, but only if I could give her a nicer attitude.

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02 Oct 2012, 4:24 pm

If we could create God, wouldn't that make us gods, albeit higher ones?

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02 Oct 2012, 4:45 pm

Jono wrote:

If we could create God, wouldn't that make us gods, albeit higher ones?

It is possible to create something more complicated than one's self.

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02 Oct 2012, 9:48 pm

I would create it, and then humiliate it, kick its ass, beat it to a bloody pulp leave it in a ditch to die and drive away. Yeah I made that impossible but I'll do it anyway.

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02 Oct 2012, 10:15 pm

Um.... sure? Why not. So long as we're careful not to make god a jerk, then that sounds like a really cool innovation.

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02 Oct 2012, 10:17 pm

wcoltd wrote:

I would create it, and then humiliate it, kick its ass, beat it to a bloody pulp leave it in a ditch to die and drive away. Yeah I made that impossible but I'll do it anyway.

Wow, I think that makes you a jerk. In fact, probably a bigger jerk than god in many religious traditions.

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03 Oct 2012, 1:06 am

Only so long as I get to be the god.

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03 Oct 2012, 9:15 am

Awesomelyglorious wrote:

wcoltd wrote:

I would create it, and then humiliate it, kick its ass, beat it to a bloody pulp leave it in a ditch to die and drive away. Yeah I made that impossible but I'll do it anyway.

Wow, I think that makes you a jerk. In fact, probably a bigger jerk than god in many religious traditions.

well most gods are vengefull bastards with millions if not more on hteir conscience, in regards tot he other thread in ppr that may or may not be reason enough for such action s to be taken.

if we create a god which one should we create?
i would like one of the great old ones, nothing like a litlle forced insanity.

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03 Oct 2012, 11:14 am

wcoltd wrote:

that will never happen because it is impossible to create the force that created the universe, because to do so, it would require that you exist before the universe exists, and since you are a part of the universe, you would not exist before the existence of the universe to create the creator of you and all existence.

i am not going to respond to any detraction because my words are my final understanding that cannot be modified.

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03 Oct 2012, 12:13 pm

b9 wrote:

wcoltd wrote:

The word "suppose" means to ignore all that stuff you just said and just suppose. Like suppose that wasn't a circular definition just now and you get what I meant.
In other words "you refuse to suppose".

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03 Oct 2012, 12:55 pm

The concept of a god is not a good one, it tells a story of inequality, a superior being.

As Charles Darwin once said. God was created from the image of man, not man created from the image of god...

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03 Oct 2012, 1:33 pm

I've read a book that had an idea like this but can't remember its name (it wasn't that good). But its an interesting idea. I don't think it will happen though, even if it were possible, I don't think we would trust anything we create with our future.

As Arthur C Clarke said - we should reserve the right to pull the plug.

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03 Oct 2012, 7:57 pm

Chances are, we'd end up creating a demiuge more than an actual God. We already did this anyway. Its called money.

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03 Oct 2012, 10:43 pm

Something like this might happen

http://www.roma1.infn.it/~anzel/answer.html

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