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If you remove the idea that 'God is good' and say 'we were created with purpose' it raises some questions

posted 5 years ago by [deleted]
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If humankind, and even animal kind, were designed with a spectrum between good and bad, smart and dumb, healthy and unhealthy, the question would then be why?

If everyone was made perfect, it would be a boring story. Are we designed as entertainment? A social experiment of sorts?

How will the humans cope with rapists living among them? Murderers? Cheaters? Liars? Will the heroes raise up and beat them?

Is it all designed? Removing the idea that God created something perfect and 'sin' invaded leaves us with the reality that we were purposefully designed to be both good and bad. The question then is why?

[–] CarterBlunt (1412) 5 years ago

The universe is just a simulation. Outside of the universe, there is a race with infinite lifespan, and everyone is about the same. Ethics, intelligence, health are all great. Also, there are over 99 billion trillion kajillion of them. Yes, it was very limited, but not necessarily boring. They created the simulation as just something to do, because they could. It turned out to be really meaningful to their culture. They get in a queue to join the simulation when there is an opening and well, live a life, for fun or learning or whatever. The life is always random, that's just always how it worked. There are never any updates to the simulation or attempts to create a new one, as they consider it a sacred thing at this point, due to how advanced it got. Anyway, after death, they get an afterlife scenario providing closure for everything they experienced, designed by the trillions of volunteer monitors for that organism. Then they wake up, remembering all their lives in a linear fashion, and reflect on their latest life and go, "that was awesome!" or "that was really scary!" or "I just got dumber for being that person" or "bacteria............ again". Then they get back in queue if they want, or go do other activities or chores in their utopian society based on LARPing. This is just something that popped into my mind right before I read this post. I can tell you my theory on how black holes, singularities and big bangs are related as well.