Poll: Would you be a good god?
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I immediately remembered a line from "Röde Orm", a book about a great viking and his adventures.. (Red Snake, directly translated, but apparently the english translation is The Long Ships... Or just Red Orm.)
There is a part where Orm and his friend Toke are in Constantinople.. A man they have saved and befriended is telling them about Islam, and about how Allah or Mohammed forbid muslims to drink wine. Toke falls to his knees, praising his own gods for not giving a shit about what he drinks.
Just remembered it and thought I'd share it, that's all.
As for me, I would never want to become a god. If i truly had to, Im not sure what I'd do. Apart from being the most loving and kind god i can, that is.
I immediately remembered a line from "Röde Orm", a book about a great viking and his adventures.. (Red Snake, directly translated, but apparently the english translation is The Long Ships... Or just Red Orm.)
There is a part where Orm and his friend Toke are in Constantinople.. A man they have saved and befriended is telling them about Islam, and about how Allah or Mohammed forbid muslims to drink wine. Toke falls to his knees, praising his own gods for not giving a shit about what he drinks.
Just remembered it and thought I'd share it, that's all.
As for me, I would never want to become a god. If i truly had to, Im not sure what I'd do. Apart from being the most loving and kind god i can, that is.
I've played enough RTS's to know I'd make a lousy god. Something important would get left out, and as soon as I noticed it I'd be totally embarrassed, but by then the damage would be done. We'd be humming along, as I saw it, and meanwhile down below the "contented" villagers would be thinking, "What kind of douchebag god forgets to invent sex?"
I think I'd be "good and kind," but I would still make a horrible God. I just don't have the managerial skills for the job.
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OT:... maybe? Oh wait, NOPE. I'd probably be pretty cruel. Infinite existence is a monotony broken by human torture, unfortunately.
OT:... maybe? Oh wait, NOPE. I'd probably be pretty cruel. Infinite existence is a monotony broken by human torture, unfortunately.
I'd probably be like how many people see the Christian God: Never around. People would say, "God, please offer us your guidance!" and I'd go, "Shut up! I'm playing video games."
Define 'good' first. What does it mean to be a 'good' god? To be at every whim of your believers? To shower them in gold, food and happiness? Or does it mean to be a fair god that punishes the wicked and doesn't bother the faithful? Furthermore, what's good for one can be bad for other, so is it just the perception of your followers that describes your 'goodness' or is there some moral law above you as a god that decides about it?Audun said:
Try to explore the topic from that angle, would make much more interesting topic in a fictional book rather than the black and white scheme that's boring and predictable.
EDIT: If you haven't already, i recommend Neil Gaiman's "American Gods" as a food for thought about creating divine entity in fiction.
I'd be a pretty amazing god. There'd be evidence of me, so people'd have no problem being devoted. I'd answer prayers, encouraging people to pray to me, which would give me all the power I needed to ensure that anybody that harmed others decided, of their own free will, not to. I'm god, after all. I operate without the constraints of logic. I'd elevate humanity to the point where it could choose what to do with its own existence, and give them the choices. Retain their mortality, live a natural life, and die? Your call. Fly off and explore the cosmos? Your call. Just want to talk for a bit? Fine by me. Just watching the sheer range of choice, unconstrained by material concerns or the evil of others, would be fascinating.