What if God was a Gamer?
Now and then I ponder religious questions. Not because I really believe in God, but because I wonder, what if there was/is a God? How would he be? Of all the religions that exist today, which one would most likely describe his/her traits the best? And what would God's plan be.
Having played several computer games in the past were one essentially plays God or a God like creature has made me wonder if a real God would treat us the way I would treat people in my Computer game. A Scary thought indeed :-D Before you shake your head, thinking this is farfetched consider this:
The universe is enormous, our planet is just a tiny drop in ocean that is the universe. Each individual human is in this context so infinitely insignificant to the universe as a whole as bacteria or virus are significant to us. Why would God care about what happens to us? There are probably millions of other planets with life on them. Most likely more advance than ours.
And why would an all powerful being care about anybody else in the first place. He can do whatever he wants anyway. But then why did he bother to create us in the first place?
This question make me think of computer games. As a player of a God like game (Populous, Civilization, Sims, Sim City etc) what happens to my virtual little people doesn't actually matter to me. However I would still create the world, because it is entertaining. Implying we exist because God was bored one day.
Which brings me to another point. Would you be all nice to your virtual beings in a game? Giving the everything they want etc? Of course not! What is the fun of that? I remember struggling to build cities in Sim City. When the cities became well developed and prosperous. It all became quite boring. Nothing of interest happened anymore. To stir things up and create more entertainment I would often create a earth quake, a volcano or send a storm or monster on the city. Just to see how the little Sims (the inhabitants in Sim City) handled all the chaos.
Actually one doesn't even need games to talk about this. I could use novels as an example too. In a novel the author creates a fictional world. The author doesn't really care about the characters, he/she creates. He/She could be "nice" and let his/her characters have nice happy lives and live forever. But that would be very boring. Thus the author lets all kinds of problems happens to his/her characters.
This might explain why there is so much bad things happening in the world. God simply does not find it very entertaining to let everything go our way. Now and then some really nice things happen. But maybe that is just because he takes a liking to one of the "characters" in his movie/story.
So given that our world is God own little movie or computer game. What are the answers to the big questions in life? What is the purpose of life e.g. What does God want from us? Nothing. Just that we play our roles. And life doesn't have a purpose other than giving God entertainment the way a book, movie or computer game gives entertainment to us.
Anyway, if God does exist. Let us all hope that he likes happy Hollywood endings.
Having played several computer games in the past were one essentially plays God or a God like creature has made me wonder if a real God would treat us the way I would treat people in my Computer game. A Scary thought indeed :-D Before you shake your head, thinking this is farfetched consider this:
The universe is enormous, our planet is just a tiny drop in ocean that is the universe. Each individual human is in this context so infinitely insignificant to the universe as a whole as bacteria or virus are significant to us. Why would God care about what happens to us? There are probably millions of other planets with life on them. Most likely more advance than ours.
And why would an all powerful being care about anybody else in the first place. He can do whatever he wants anyway. But then why did he bother to create us in the first place?
This question make me think of computer games. As a player of a God like game (Populous, Civilization, Sims, Sim City etc) what happens to my virtual little people doesn't actually matter to me. However I would still create the world, because it is entertaining. Implying we exist because God was bored one day.
Which brings me to another point. Would you be all nice to your virtual beings in a game? Giving the everything they want etc? Of course not! What is the fun of that? I remember struggling to build cities in Sim City. When the cities became well developed and prosperous. It all became quite boring. Nothing of interest happened anymore. To stir things up and create more entertainment I would often create a earth quake, a volcano or send a storm or monster on the city. Just to see how the little Sims (the inhabitants in Sim City) handled all the chaos.
Actually one doesn't even need games to talk about this. I could use novels as an example too. In a novel the author creates a fictional world. The author doesn't really care about the characters, he/she creates. He/She could be "nice" and let his/her characters have nice happy lives and live forever. But that would be very boring. Thus the author lets all kinds of problems happens to his/her characters.
This might explain why there is so much bad things happening in the world. God simply does not find it very entertaining to let everything go our way. Now and then some really nice things happen. But maybe that is just because he takes a liking to one of the "characters" in his movie/story.
So given that our world is God own little movie or computer game. What are the answers to the big questions in life? What is the purpose of life e.g. What does God want from us? Nothing. Just that we play our roles. And life doesn't have a purpose other than giving God entertainment the way a book, movie or computer game gives entertainment to us.
Anyway, if God does exist. Let us all hope that he likes happy Hollywood endings.
posted by Adam Smith at 02:32
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