If it was impossible to unbecome God how ought you make yourself not exist without making everything not exist? — Benj96
Unless perhaps the only way to not know yourself as you truly were is to exist in finitude within yourself. — Benj96
If you chose to wipe your own memory of self clean then you could exist as an individual questioning the entire universe like anyone else. — Benj96
What do you mean by "no longer exist" if existence as God is all you have ever known. Would you ha e to settle for merely pretending you don't exist? — Benj96
How could you really fuck up? — DingoJones
Probably not as I would have nothing to compare myself to, so how could I experience awe?
How would I know what I was? Who or what would tell me? Would I just know who and what I was?
What do you think my purpose would be? Are you positing this god after it has created something inferior to itself? Why would it have a need to do that? — universeness
Your purpose would be your own to decide I suppose, as you would be God. — Benj96
But your god would surely fail at what I am convinced (with my fallible human brain) would be its first thought. Why am I? — universeness
I thought about it some more, and I would actually make a committee before becoming God and consult with them about what to do with my Godly powers. The committee members would represent the interests of the people, and I would only do what we agree on, and nothing more. — ToothyMaw
Do no avoidable harm. Minimize suffering, maximize happiness for every sentient being in your area of influence. — Vera Mont
Absolutely. Everyone. Beam the new rules directly into their brains. — Vera Mont
They couldn't break out, but I'd lift out one or a group from time to time, as a reward for particularly good behaviour, and take them for a hiking vacation in the human-free landscape — Vera Mont
guess I'd better calm down the climate-change disrupted weather for their sake; stop those wildfires and floods.) — Vera Mont
You would retain the information your brain contained before becoming Go — ToothyMaw
I guess that would suck significantly less. — ToothyMaw
Good point. But I feel that something could bring it back. — ToothyMaw
I thought about it some more, and I would actually make a committee before becoming God and consult with them about what to do with my Godly powers. The committee members would represent the interests of the people, and I would only do what we agree on, and nothing more. — ToothyMaw
Well, at least I prefer your inference that we create god, it cannot create us or itself.if we had some means of making someone God, — ToothyMaw
So not an eternal god then, an emergent god that knew less than it did before it became god.
What label do you want to assign to this emerging god. — universeness
But your god would surely fail at what I am convinced (with my fallible human brain) would be its first thought. Why am I? — universeness
in the OP.if you were suddenly the creator. The start of all - the alpha, the end of all - the omega, and everything in between, what would you do with your time as this entity? — Benj96
This question is superb, but I'm afraid it's been answered via consensus in a way that's considered scientifucally impossible. Too, the hypothetical scenario fails to capture everything that is God. :smile: — Agent Smith
You are not an emergent god in the OP, you are the god that some humans choose to have faith in, to imo, try to, sate their primal fears. — universeness
Well I think any self respecting god would surround you with the opportunities, people and experiences to learn that for yourself. — Benj96
Too, the hypothetical scenario fails to capture everything that is God. — Agent Smith
in the OP.
You are not an emergent god in the OP, you are the god that some humans choose to have faith in, to imo, try to, sate their primal fears — universeness
That's not my issue. My issue is how this god perceives the reason for its own existence and why it would choose to create that which is and always will be obviously inferior to itself. — universeness
to the fact that it IS. — Benj96
Well how is one part of oneself inferior to the rest of itself? — Benj96
of Course "It" has the choice to refuse accepting that "it" is. Is that not the basis for both antinatalism and suicide? — Benj96
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