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Quote from: Strongpoint on August 14, 2023, 08:42:44 am

I had a thought recently. If we assume that an omnipotent being exists... Is it not outright pointless to create anything? This all-mighty wizard can wish into existence anything, making an exact copy of whatever we make. And that means that there is zero value in our achievements, legacy, uniqueness

Also, that being can even create as many copies of us as it wishes.

Quote from: Sister Miriam Godwinson, "But for the Grace of God" (from Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri)

Some would ask, how could a perfect God create a universe filled with so much that is evil. They have missed a greater conundrum: why would a perfect God create a universe at all?

Quoting one of my favorite games aside, our value would be, in the grand scheme of things, completely meaningless even assuming a purely materialistic universe. Realistically as a species we are not leaving this galaxy, even assuming very optimistic interstellar colonization. And the number of galaxies in the Universe is beyond our comprehension.

The solution I take, and that any rational person, atheist or theist, should take: why does it matter if our legacy is "important" to a vast and uncaring universe? Life's meaning is life itself. We can make our tiny corner of it better, so why stuff your head with this "oh boo hoo we don't matter" rubbish?

As for why we would be created... well I guess for the same reasons that when one is playing a "start from nothing" sandbox game like Powder Toy, or playing around with cellular automata in Golly, or idk, Minecraft creative mode in superflat, one generally tends to create things rather than sit around looking at an empty screen?

God is love.
Love spills over, demands an object of affection. How could such a God not create?

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I could see Jesus being aro/ace, or not. All we're told in the Gospels is that He could be tempted, but not overthrown.

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as funny as those other things would be

"I can understand you. Why can't I remember anything?"

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I appreciate when you guys do the legwork with the drink combos (lookin' at you Criptfiend,) 'cos it means I don't have to

Quote from: NUKE9.13 on June 20, 2023, 07:28:26 am

What I want to know is how Jack found a thread with no replies from 2017, and why he then decided to reply to it in the year of our lord twenty-twenty-three.

Well, one could sorted the "Forum Games and Roleplaying" subforum by Replies, to show the threads with Zero replies first.
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But I think what I instead had done is sorted by views, and found the first one with no replies that interested me.  When I saw this one, it was fate.

You can also just go to the very last page on the subforum, sorted by last replies. The current dead-est thread in FG&R is A hopeless attempt to start a nomic, created by qwertyuiopas in the year of our Lord 2008