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I just bashed my face into my desk twice... felt about as good :lol:Laurens said:That's two posts I won't get a response to now :cry:
KnowingLaughter said:I just bashed my face into my desk twice... felt about as good :lol:Laurens said:That's two posts I won't get a response to now :cry:
Really? Because I imagine I'd quickly grow tired of you people.
Well you said that any being with that much power would inevitably become corrupt. Though I don't know how you can say this, as nihilism does not allow for 'corruption' in the sense that your statement implies. Perhaps you are of some strange new form of nihilism?Exmortis said:Really? Because I imagine I'd quickly grow tired of you people.
I cannot make sense of that responce, sorry.
Well we who do not call ourselves nihilists are thusly capable, I'm not sure how you are doing so...Exmortis said:I would label corruption of a deity with anything that can harm it's creations. However that is just me, being one of the creations (hypothetically of course). Anyway, signs of corruption of a deity could include things in the general area of a giant foot dropping from the clouds and crushing entire townships or perhaps a pack of 300 foot tall, living teddy bears with a craving for human flesh. :twisted:
We are already capible to identify evil in our society, therefore why should our hypothetical selves be ignorent of what is evil in their situation.
Anyway, the point being that tormenting those infinitely weaker then yourself would get old fast - at least for me. I don't go around stomping on ant hills for my own amusement, and I don't really see how being granted unlimited power would make this sort of thing more appealing. So I disagree with your assessment.
So, in short, worship would have to be earned.
I suppose it might be worth it. To get eaten first, that is. Not to mention that your children might gain immortality (or at least agelessness, not unkillability.)xman said:Cthulhu?
Anachronous Rex said:Relatively simple question:
Supposing that there is a god, and that this god is in some sense knowable, what characteristics would such a being have to possess in order that you might worship it?
Anything at all, omnipotence, humility, wisdom, compassion, whatever; excluding, of course, "the power to make me do such things as worship it."
Xman wrote: Cthulhu?
Anachronous Rex: I suppose it might be worth it. To get eaten first...
Exmortis said:So, in short, worship would have to be earned.
No, respect is earned. Worship, is basically grovelling.
The subject of worship can persuade someone to worship it, be it by friendly means or no. Ultimately, whether someone lowers him\herself to worship is up to them.
I cannot think of any self-repecting, sound of mind human being who would lower him\herself to worship... anything really. I know that the thought wouldn't even cross my mind.