Submitted by SheikhJahbooty on Fri, 2006-12-15 14:54.
I want Homofidelic logovores that will try to maintain lifestyles that humans would be comfortable with.
I want Mythopoeic logovores that use their god-like condition to act out new version of human mythologies and religions.
Some religions are very forward thinking. Baha'is believe that every thousand years (give or take a few hundred) a emanation of God appears to reveal the scriptures for that age. That could be a creed, (or just a nation, maybe it doesn't allow for enough diversity to be a whole creed).
One creed could be Theotechnic logovores, who spend their resources trying to reproduce figures from human religions. What would you need to create a being that posesses the exact same thought process as Jesus, or Krishna? Could you do it in a virtual world, or would you have to build a physical model? How would you decide Jesus's DNA? If you do recreate him, is that the original Jesus, or the second coming. Muslims also believe in the second coming of Jesus, so a God builder nation that succeeds in making a Jesus will have a very different attitude toward their success based on whether they are Christian, Muslim, or just aethistic hobbyists.
If we really get inside their "heads" we could make up religions that the logovores might have. I'm sure we can make up religions that humans would have had right before the end.
One that comes to mind recently is that we are already computer programs running around in a computer simulation of the Earth. Maybe the logovores are running this simulation and when they let us out, they'll let us take part in their society. Wouldn't that be weird. The Mormons would be right, we would get to "heaven" and then we'd get to be "gods" of our own worlds.
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I want Homofidelic logovores that will try to maintain lifestyles that humans would be comfortable with.
I want Mythopoeic logovores that use their god-like condition to act out new version of human mythologies and religions.
Some religions are very forward thinking. Baha'is believe that every thousand years (give or take a few hundred) a emanation of God appears to reveal the scriptures for that age. That could be a creed, (or just a nation, maybe it doesn't allow for enough diversity to be a whole creed).
One creed could be Theotechnic logovores, who spend their resources trying to reproduce figures from human religions. What would you need to create a being that posesses the exact same thought process as Jesus, or Krishna? Could you do it in a virtual world, or would you have to build a physical model? How would you decide Jesus's DNA? If you do recreate him, is that the original Jesus, or the second coming. Muslims also believe in the second coming of Jesus, so a God builder nation that succeeds in making a Jesus will have a very different attitude toward their success based on whether they are Christian, Muslim, or just aethistic hobbyists.
If we really get inside their "heads" we could make up religions that the logovores might have. I'm sure we can make up religions that humans would have had right before the end.
One that comes to mind recently is that we are already computer programs running around in a computer simulation of the Earth. Maybe the logovores are running this simulation and when they let us out, they'll let us take part in their society. Wouldn't that be weird. The Mormons would be right, we would get to "heaven" and then we'd get to be "gods" of our own worlds.