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1/15/2013 10:07:25 PM
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The Futurama Representation of God
Now, to start off you can saw whatever you will about the show. I am not here to talk about the show itself. The only thing I care to cover is the interesting way that I think they covered God in the show. Shown above is a clip from the ending of the show that highlights the basis of the theory.
[url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrqPYvO4qCE]In this clip here[/url] you see the rest of the theory. I think overall it is very interesting. There are so many who say simply that there is no outside force in life. Something had to start that Big Bang. You cannot argue that. Aside from that the thing that people call "luck" throughout history in events could be called divine influence. While I am in now way a religious person I find this interesting. I consider myself Agnostic, and this is about where my belief lies. There could be a god out there, I don't know, I can't know. If there is one he must be all knowing, but we will never know what he does or when.
They stated it more eloquently than I did in that clip, so hopefully that gave you the gist. What do you think about this interpretation? I think it is more believable than anything we were told before. Just something more to now think about.
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9 RepliesEdited by High Salinity: 1/16/2013 5:38:35 AMWe may live in a simulation. It may be an ancestor simulation. It may be the simulation of an entire universe, run by an alien being beyond our comprehension, yet mortal. Or beyond mortality. Perhaps it is incapable of looking at the details of its simulation. Maybe it watches the universe begin, swell, and meet its heat death in ten minutes, unaware of anything smaller than a galaxy, or maybe it watches the goings about of every sapient being in its simulation. Or every living being in its simulation. Maybe it cares about them, maybe it doesn't. It could feel bad when bad things happen to people, or it might see us as digusting creatures and our suffering as well-deserved. Perhaps it intervenes, but it might not. It can care, and still refuse to ruin its simulation by changing the effects of the choices taken within it. Maybe there's even an afterlife, if it cares enough about the creatures in its simulation to reward them for participating. If you're running a whole universe, or more than one, it can't be so hard to program in an afterlife. This doesn't really affect how I live. I don't consciously think about this most of the time, and when I do it just confuses me. I live as a moral person because not being a dick feels like the right thing to do, as a result of my upbringing and genetics. Probably.
