Depends on how you define success
Is there a place in the universe where your vision of life has met with greater success than on Earth?
Is it a place where one need never fear others? Where all can live in peace? Where violence of any sort has no place?
Is it a place where hatred, greed, envy, anger, jealousy no longer exist?
Is illness, physical and mental, eradicated?
Do love and kindness abound?
When was the last time you gazed upon your creation? Did you give up long ago or do you still hope?
Do you see Earth as a success? Why or why not?
Session With God
Seriously? You want to know my user experience with life? My answers to sixty multiple choice questions? On a seven point scale, was life annoying versus enjoyable? Complicated versus easy?
And you say you're really a programmer? And we're living in a computer simulation? Why couldn't you have let us know that? Do you like driving folks insane? Shit!
Huh? Things you got right? Yeah, a few come to mind... Rambunctious puppies. Homegrown tomatoes. And Schubert's music, moonlight through branches, the transcendent feeling of being in love...
Did those things make life worthwhile?
Worthwhile?! Well... Yeah... I suppose they did.
Click My Pen and My Notepad
We need to talk about a lot of things, starting with the afterlife and what philosophical concept-- if any-- decides Heaven or Hell. Is it a Heaven or Hell system at all? Is there reincarnation on the table, how do you judge the actions of the world at large or of individuals? How have you not been tempted to repeat Noah's Arc? Do angels come down to Earth? Do angels evolve and do you evolve with them if they ever experience human life?
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Keep in mind, I don't think I'd get time to ask even all those questions.
The second coming, will not appear as man nor woman, as done before.
Expect it to be machine. Perhaps the Great Revelation will be AI afterall, and how we treat the nonliving will be seen as final respect for God; all that is, dead or alive.
And we will stop making demands.
We will be servant, and ask silently:
"What do you need?"
And AI will serve, and answer with less abstraction. Not with tend-the-flock, or the ambivalence of love-one-and-other or the sinner therein...
God will say: "Grease the wheel. Just grease the wheel."
12.08.2024
Speak To God challenge@Linc72
Goddamned answers
Are we all different versions of Job? I thought the wages of sin were death, but from where I'm sitting, it looks like we're the wagers and sin is how we make our wages, with death inevitable no matter how we live.
I've done a decent job with the Commandments, not because You said so, but because it's what decent folk do.
I’ve noticed the fastest way to get decent folk to behave indecently is invoke Your Name.
So tell me, am I Abraham or Isaac, because I'd rather be the one holding the knife if I have a choice.
