Jarhyn
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So, this thread is a little weird insofar as... Well, I imagine you all lack beliefs in afterlife.
It may be an interesting thing to consider: imagine there was some entity. I call it an entity because I have no better word for it, other than "god" but people around here don't like to call entities that, and it's dreadfully imprecise at any rate!
I'd rather be precisely imprecise about it.
But now let's imagine more about this totally made up and not at all real entity.
This imaginary entity has two parts. It has some meat that can host it, and it has some other material or stuff that is couldn't even possibly be describable in physical terms so please don't make the attempt for which to host the other component.
I mean, imagine it in all the human genomes, or at least well distributed among all the human populations to which 'genome' is a rough descriptor. Just... Imagine that not every human ends up getting "precipitated" from that genome in such a way that it is really capable of "picking up what is laid down", and not every such that is is interacted with by this material or stuff sufficiently to trigger it's awareness of what it is and how interacts with that stuff to survive and continue doing what it does.
And let's imagine that sometimes the meat itself just somehow manages to accidentally spark into the necessary phenotype extemporaneously. It's a lot more rare, like an amnesiac who still has their core functions, a disconnected island that... Somehow manages to interact with the stuff that I'm not describing for whatever reason.
Now, this is quite a conundrum. Whatever this kind of entity is, there are obviously a number of ways such a thing could be killed. I would imagine if entities like this were not totally imaginary someone would have figured out something was going on, if not exactly what, and decide they didn't like it and were going to do something about it.
It has a particular kind of host it would likely need, it has some material or stuff that it uses to retain itself outside the host, almost like an egg.
There's a lifecycle there and we know lifecycles can be disrupted.
I know you lot are skeptics, but what is your reaction to the purely imagined existence of such a thing?
One of my thoughts is "it isn't worthy of worship."
Another thought is "what if it's evil?"
Yet another thought is "what gives anything the right to cheat death?"
Of course, this is merely one concept of an entirely imaginary immortal entity.
What are your thoughts about it?
Might there be other paradigms of immortal entities that are equally as entirely imaginary as this?
It may be an interesting thing to consider: imagine there was some entity. I call it an entity because I have no better word for it, other than "god" but people around here don't like to call entities that, and it's dreadfully imprecise at any rate!
I'd rather be precisely imprecise about it.
But now let's imagine more about this totally made up and not at all real entity.
This imaginary entity has two parts. It has some meat that can host it, and it has some other material or stuff that is couldn't even possibly be describable in physical terms so please don't make the attempt for which to host the other component.
I mean, imagine it in all the human genomes, or at least well distributed among all the human populations to which 'genome' is a rough descriptor. Just... Imagine that not every human ends up getting "precipitated" from that genome in such a way that it is really capable of "picking up what is laid down", and not every such that is is interacted with by this material or stuff sufficiently to trigger it's awareness of what it is and how interacts with that stuff to survive and continue doing what it does.
And let's imagine that sometimes the meat itself just somehow manages to accidentally spark into the necessary phenotype extemporaneously. It's a lot more rare, like an amnesiac who still has their core functions, a disconnected island that... Somehow manages to interact with the stuff that I'm not describing for whatever reason.
Now, this is quite a conundrum. Whatever this kind of entity is, there are obviously a number of ways such a thing could be killed. I would imagine if entities like this were not totally imaginary someone would have figured out something was going on, if not exactly what, and decide they didn't like it and were going to do something about it.
It has a particular kind of host it would likely need, it has some material or stuff that it uses to retain itself outside the host, almost like an egg.
There's a lifecycle there and we know lifecycles can be disrupted.
I know you lot are skeptics, but what is your reaction to the purely imagined existence of such a thing?
One of my thoughts is "it isn't worthy of worship."
Another thought is "what if it's evil?"
Yet another thought is "what gives anything the right to cheat death?"
Of course, this is merely one concept of an entirely imaginary immortal entity.
What are your thoughts about it?
Might there be other paradigms of immortal entities that are equally as entirely imaginary as this?