My dilemma.....

[adf1234]

I feel kind of stupid asking this but... If I were god then how do I beat this game...

 

[azzazza !?]

you don't want to. the biggest pickle is finding out why you don't want to (either be God and/or beat the game (if that isn't the same thing)). you can't force yourself to do/be such either, so don't count on that. when you do finally find out (and this will take you a while, because you'll need your sober self there as well) you will come to accept it. then you will be able to value 'it' correctly, for what it truly is.

in short; you won't beat it. but you will come to see it differently, in time. less.. adversarial
humility and acceptance are your best friends along the way

 

[solistus]

God doesn't get to play the game. He's stuck maintaining the servers all day. He made an account in his son's name, but it got banned. Or so I hear.

 

[Bardeaux]

I'm extremely confused @ this thread

 

[azzazza !?]

its confucian

 

[internettoughguy]

God doesn't get to play the game. He's stuck maintaining the servers all day. He made an account in his son's name, but it got banned. Or so I hear.

I heard he's going to start charging a monthly fee, use to be only catholics had to pay a monthly fee but word is everyones gonna have to pay the fee.
I refuse to pay a monthly fee until he fixes all these damn bugs and virus's i keep getting.

We can move to another server, But i hear it's hell.

 

[ASquishyApple]

hahaha best thread ever.

but in all seriousness i think you should listen to what azzazza said

 

[adf1234]

Thanks azza, I guess I worded it wrong, I don't want world domination or anything and it's not really about beating anything... But just on the .00000000001 off chance that when I awaken to discover that I am the one and only god. How do I live life so that I won't be disappointed? I guess we all have this problem~ Man I was high as fuck yesterday.

 

[Xorkoth]

You are the one and only god. So am I. How can you live life so you're not disappointed? Just listen to yourself and do the things that make you feel good and fulfilled.

 

[adf1234]

You can't be god You're merely some computer program I wrote Good advice though... I'm so smart. Thanks~

 

[hobhead]

all your gods suck flies off walls

 

[azzazza !?]

Thanks azza, I guess I worded it wrong, I don't want world domination or anything and it's not really about beating anything...

don't worry, i wasn't talking about that either

But just on the .00000000001 off chance that when I awaken to discover that I am the one and only god. How do I live life so that I won't be disappointed?

think about what this means for the you now.

 

[azzazza !?]

i typed up a more theoretically adventurous response at first though. don't really know what to do with that one now, i doubt its very comprehensible. i guess i'll just throw it out here as well, in case anyone can extract something from it

you would live your life the way you are living now. free. if with great power comes great responsability, then with ultimate power, comes ultimate responsability. your freedom is tied directly to your responsability. infinite power (=freedom) is infinite responsability; in this limit situation the duality collapses. one would be neither free, because one is accountable for everything, given that you have power over everything. you are responsable for everything (ie. you have to take care of everything, all the time. because everything is your own power. you'll say: well; i'm all powerful! i'll just choose to not take care of everything for a while... and here you are!)
but (and this is where it gets complicated), nor would one be responsable for anything, because one isn't free. i think i better leave this pickle in the jar for now.

In Levinas' theory (very very simplistically though), creation is not a myth that happened in some mythological 'time-before'; rather, it is happening right now, through your own freedom, which is your (domain of) responsability. it is an ontological precodition that you discover within your freedom as an absolute (ie. 'i could be God') Levinas calls this 'natural atheism'. God retracts himself as your creator, and you are essentially free in this absolute sense, striving for your self-fulfillment, a master of your own imagination. yet you do discover yourself as created, namely: you have been 'thrown into the world', something which your self had no control/choice over. furthermore, this world does not bend to you whims that easily. you have been created by, or according to, something 'above' your self/immediate control. this is where you find justice: which is to subjugate yourself to the rules you wish everyone else to be subjugated to (ie. Kants categorical imperative). you find yourself both creator and subject of the Law at the same time. these rules are Logos or 'reason'. when you find yourself disagreeing with them, think about them, earnestly. the truth will set you free and true freedom is honest surrender to necessity.
which is what could be considered as 'beating the game' (well, rather, 'dissolving' it. and 'game' and 'ego' are fully interchangeable too)

 

[Xorkoth]

You can't be god You're merely some computer program I wrote Good advice though... I'm so smart. Thanks~

Avoid this line of thinking. There's a fine line between realizing your godhood and falling into a messianic complex where you feel that you're above everyone and everything else. That's an ego trap.

The experience you describe is an experience we all share (though many people have not had it in this lifetime)... it is not something unique to you.

 

[medical_meccanica]

So I am really tired and was just about to go to bed when for some reason I checked bluelight and went to this thread...

Now I can't sleep. Seriously, I can't relax, I've read all these posts many times and I feel like my chest is about to explode...

 

[azzazza !?]

^there is a deeply dark and disturbing edge to this mode of thought, isn't there? in philosophy, solipsistic thought like this is perhaps the strongest position there is. yet it is the most useless one as well, shunned even. beyond that, the problem of ultimate evil is closely tied to it, you can sense the oppressing enclosure of the Fear. Levinas calls it the 'Il y a' (the 'there is') that makes itself noticed; an absolute, horrid, inescapable pointlessness of the I tied to itself. one feels trapped. Levinas' solution is a successful transcendence through Other (and it can only be successful through an other human being) by following the call of the ethical that allows the other to be a radical othernerness, irreduced to the totality of self, and therefor, above it. which expresses itself firstly as trust, and ultimately, justice.