Ideal wOrld

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both
and that change I'll leave to evolution

 

[whitewolf]

A mental change occurs either through philosophy or religion. Pick one.

Just out of curiosity, what physical change? Addition/loss of body part (elaborate more)? Screw evolution, fanthasize.

 

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philosophy
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body: a physical change so people could be gods i.e. live till they want to die
be young till they want to be young
a total control over a body

 

[whitewolf]

Then, what kind of role will religion play in your perfect world?

 

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there would be no organised religion
because it is a crowd control tool

 

[whitewolf]

Well, dont rush to say that. Religion is a set of morals for self-conduct (which we don't follow, but that's another story) and answers for questions about death and such. I see that a god does not need such questions answered. But "love thy neighbor" is what, in your society, could stop one god from wishing death upon another. Or, having no desires at all will lead to happiness, and here you again eliminate harmful interaction. Rethinking?

See, gods or not, we're still a large amt. of people on a small plannet (a crowd.)

 

[SVRP]

Which leads back to the basic problem why this world is not an ideal world. Man has to change with his dealings with other men. The "Golden Rule" still applies no matter what the person believes. But it is not one of the choices in this poll. Expand the choices.

 

[Clockwood]

The universe was perfect before life came and there was no perspective. Worlds could collide, stars could explode, and the whole universe could crumble to dust but that would be ok as there was no thought. It was a perfect jewel. Sterile but perfect.

After life evolved things became complex and full of painful choice. Should anything do anything something would be sure to suffer from it. Just to survive you must kill something, condemn something else to starvation, and displace something else. But you still have to go on.

That isn't to say I would put the universe back the way it was. Once we went through that there was no going back. It would be an infinitely greater crime to stop everything than to continue. A good thing is rarely perfect.