Benj96

Perhaps we already do? Karma is that notion. And maybe it operates over such large times with so many variables that it's hard to figure out which har...

It would take 105.2 years @95% speed of light with the planet being 100 light years away. That is the time that will be experienced on board. They wou...

Many things are drugs: coffee (caffeine) , chocolate (theobromine, methylxanthine), alcohol, MSG (umami flavour which is broken down into a neurotrans...

I know what you mean, and I would say it is equivalent to an object looking for proof of its own objectivity while using the behavior of said object t...

Self medication is useful and ameliorates various things: anxiety, depression, stress etc. But like anything must be respected and used responsibly. U...

yes very interesting indeed. I'm not one for holding back on progress, or rejecting it, as progress will occur whether I tried to stop it or not. I si...

For example, the paradox that there are the same amounts of even numbers as there are odd ones , when dealing with infinities, this proves problematic...

It doesn't. And I didn't say that. Language is an approximate manifestation of one's thoughts on paper or spoken but isn't their thoughts exactly. It ...

Are you not using that exact function of characterisation of one's thoughts by the writing you put down here. I have access through your post to how y...

I would reflect firstly on why I needed to lead such a voyage in the first place? Was it because humans had destroyed our own planet so beyond repair ...

I couldn't agree more Punos. You and I are on the same page. I can't help but be concerned that the advent of an artifical intelligence greater than o...

Exactly what I think. Human form perhaps, as the lastest generation, the pinnacle prototype of life's/mother natures awareness, with God-like understa...

Wow such a lovely sentiment. I would say neither because we are the same thing. There is only one thing dreaming and its dream is split up into fracta...

I believe concepts/ideas/beliefs exist, the material/tangible objects exists, the immaterial exists (by necessity in order for material to exist), ima...

Santa as a physical person does not exist. But the "work of Santa", Santa's "action", does exist through those that either believe in him wholly/intri...

Well, in that case I shall answer my question reflected back on me by you. If I were God... ... I would ask first why I use the term "if" instead of "...

Haha yes indeed limits/parameters "define" things. They define perspectives/ referential viewpoints, and those in turn define what assumptions and con...

Of course not all thoughts have happened yet nor will they ever, as unique individuals have a unique set of thoughts by virtue of the fact that they (...

From the perspective of an adult yes. But I'm referring to the perspective of a child. How on earth is a child meant to know any better before they ar...

You said "I" would not have created "anything". Who is the "I" then? Would the "I" not have to exist in order to create nothing more than itself? Perh...

Any time Amity :) ill be sure to come back with more musings.

Well I can imagine most of us want to be Zeus in that case. And I can imagine Atlas was pretty miffed and resentful of Zeus for that fact. Just as the...

A moment to consider, what if God Vera passed the torch to you based on your skepticism and desire to point to a better explanation? Imbued you with a...

Quite right. It's terrifying to consider one's own full potential. And it's quite possible that the only limitations to such potential is self doubt, ...

An excellent addition to the thought experiment. I'm with you on it Vera. Brava. I don't suspect we could ever fully understand something so universal...

"Absolutely". Haha. Cue winky face. I agree Paine. I think the concept of something as grand as the universe and all of time, by an object (only a min...

Sounds like a good time Frank. Send pics of the beautiful ice sculptures haha. Perhaps you could do all those things simultaneously? "The sky is.. Wel...

I doubt it. Wishful thinking I'd say. My proof - the prevalence of the notion for basically the entirety of human existence thus far. There are still ...

Well, I would not go so far as to underestimate the human minds random imaginings in their ability to create reality and be created by reality. So man...

Haha yes! It crossed my mind also as I was witting it. Your extracts that you cited are very apt in regard to this discussion.

How can we identify irrefutable intent some billions of light years away before we emerged any more than you can identify irrefutable intent that Sara...

For me Santa clause is a patriarchal figure that is omniscient and knows when all children are "naughty" or "nice" and checks that list twice (he's th...

"Keep calm and carry on" as it were. Haha I like it.

Haha well who in your opinion doesn't want to know a greater truth? Some fundamental meaning or the basis for characteristics like beauty, knowledge, ...

So a passing the "torch" grand olympiad? One God resigns on their failures, asks for forgiveness for them (or is martyred for them, having taken full ...

Themselves I guess. Just as a perfectionist constantly criticises themself for failing to cross all T's and dot all i's.

In what way do you mean "exist"? As in exist as an object or person? As a concept? Or as the universe? I definitely think, at the very least from a ra...

And we are all typing in front of computers (or smartphones, ipads etc) each about "if I were God... Etc" Your dream/imagining matches the reality of ...

Very true. I wouldn't get to set any of them ofc. Haha. Witty, I like it :P Again very true! Opening my eyes here to something I ought to have seen as...

It's both of course. Why choose one part of the universe as a God posit over another? Humans (with minds, bodies, prejudices, biases - as components o...

Haha well I see your point. That being said, personally if a Creator wanted a bit of hype/bragging rights/look at what did vibes for their creation I ...

Doesn't narcissism require other selves? If a God was to exist as the entirety of everthing, to whom would it be being narcisstic for? As everything i...

It depends on the "it" you're referring to. Antinatalism and suicide pertains to "it" as a human (part of the total "it" - perhaps the part with the c...

I see. In what format would you choose to exist then? As an entity of pure mind/mentality and thought with no time, matter etc to sculpt your ideas in...

Well I would argue the "god in our image" doesn't equate to god being human, it equates to the laws, physics, constants and principles that make the w...

of Course "It" has the choice to refuse accepting that "it" is. Is that not the basis for both antinatalism and suicide?

Well how is one part of oneself inferior to the rest of itself? If my heart is inferior to by body, or my brain, or my liver for that matter, then I c...

In this case, rather than being emergent you are every present - omnipresent - at the start and the end, and yes some humans would have faith in you (...

Of course it fails. Because we are but Humans, considering what it would be like to be something beyond ourselves. I think whatever we can conceive wo...

Well I think any self respecting god would surround you with the opportunities, people and experiences to learn that for yourself. If you are to be to...