Most of the religious opinion you're getting...

samueldays asked:

Most of the religious opinion you're getting recently is shit tier. Try: the soul is not a separate object, the soul is the _pattern_. And you need something theist-like not to believe in objective morals but to _ground_ them.

I need to re-read this ask when I’ve had more than 4h of sleep.

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Anonymous asked:

There may or may not be a god. We're working on building a few of our own, to neutralise the threat posed by any preexisting gods. We hope to be in a position to withstand any divine hostilities by around 2085, but in the meantime diplomatic and economic countermeasures must make up the balance.

Man, this is a bit too close to some worldbuilding I did where, in the wake of a supervolcano eruption, a bronze-age civilization flipped from being polytheists to being anti-theists. The Storm the Heavens and Cast Down the Golden Thrones kind of anti-theists, not the internet article writing kind. (A cult expanded in the wake of the catastrophe and became the new religion.)

They are to train over multiple reincarnations for the literal, not metaphorical, battle at the end of time.

Anyhow, the good news is that gluten has been deemed one of their unholy foods.

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Anonymous asked:

Want some extra fun? Christian here who subscribes both to annihilationism (IE, the "hell = nonexistence" doctrine you're describing) *and* quantum immortality; I call this combination quantum universalism.

mitigatedchaos answered:

While many futurists anticipated broad advances across the technological economy, in fields ranging from computing to materials science, few foresaw the radical advancements in theology that advanced quantum theory would bring.

- The Quantum Fields of God, Ned Halibut, Kansas Revival Timeline, 2308 (retrieved from Church of Mars archives 2609 with permission of Father Gregory)

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Anyhow, that was an alternate timeline futurist shtpost, but more seriously that is more towards the kind of weirdness I would expect from Ultimate Perfect Good, as compared to some other theories.

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Anonymous asked:

God did exist, but He's been slowly fading out ever since He died. John Michael Greer had a good post about it: www(.)ecosophia(.)net/death-god-speculation/

Anon-kun brings us some excellent worldbuilding material.

Hey, you want to hear something?

If there are souls, and they aren’t just glorified backup devices, but are involved in our decision-making process, then the behavior of an ensouled body must be different in some way from an unensouled body.

And thus, the behavior of ensouled matter, too, must be different from unensouled matter.

The degree of difference in behavior from the hypothetical unensouled version would determine the magnitude of interference. If it’s fairly high (and it would need to be in order to justify certain religious beliefs), then it should be detectable statistically by comparison with control atoms.

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But yeah, the implications for theology convinced me of MWI's truth value significantly more than its implications for physics did.

I mean, the incongruence of infinite punishment convinced me more that religion was false than a number of things, so that does make sense.

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Anonymous asked:

While many futurists anticipated broad advances across the technological economy, in fields ranging from computing to materials science, few foresaw the radical advancements in theology that advanced quantum theory would bring.

- The Quantum Fields of God, Ned Halibut, Kansas Revival Timeline, 2308 (retrieved from Church of Mars archives 2609 with permission of Father Gregory)

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Anonymous asked:

One frightening possibility I have considered: Hell is not merely a misunderstanding of a single thing, but a conflation of two misunderstood things: the aforementioned cessation of existence for people who fail to recognize God, and an inevitable manmade Unfriendly Singularity that will cause a finite but vast amount of suffering for every person so unlucky as to be assimilated into it.

is this the thing where souls are tormented for some amount of time and then destroyed? I think at least one sect of one religion believes in that.

if it isn’t that, you’ll have to elaborate.

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IMO the many worlds interpretation is the single most shockingly underused response to the "omniscience of God vs free will" dilemma; I suppose that Christian apologists and theoretical physicists must simply travel in the same circles infrequently. God knows exactly what you're going to do, and the answer is an unimaginably large number of different things which separate yous will experience. Every moment has a single past and a vast variety of futures.

That was along the lines of something I considered, although I don’t really believe in Many Worlds myself.

Omnibenevolence shouldn’t be something we look at and it’s clearly wrong, but it could be something we look at and it’s clearly alien. So, “make all possible worlds, such that all possible people have a chance to exist” is more along the lines of what one would expect. Or, “God cannot imagine a world without creating it” (nesting realities proposal) “and this is part of the reason evil exists - lack of infinite forethought”.

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IMO it's not as alien as you might think, so long as you accept the existence of Heaven. Life as we know it is a minute portion of our life cycle, a tutorial, if you will. God is trying to make as many distinct beings as possible to enjoy eternity in Heaven; our finite sufferings here are random seeds for those beings, and the infinite joy that is to come infinitely outweighs it. It's not alien, just... Correct.

that sounds like something an alien would say

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