Real World Philospohy

[deccan]

To Narf:

I would be very interested in hearing more about your religious beliefs.

And I sincerely have no idea of what you meant earlier about machinery and windmills. I'm afraid you're going to have to be a lot more literal and clear. Sorry.

Here's an exercise, Narf: try to imagine a world in which Christianity is literally true. In which, say miracles and appearances of supernatural entities like angels and demons are relatively rare, but indisputable events, in which the literal, never-changing, law of the Bible unquestionably sends people either to Heaven or Hell as appropriate, and God makes clear, explicit announcements from time to time, and people must obey those commands literally and blindly even though their purposes may be utter inscrutable and mystifying to human minds or face unavoidable, terrible punishments.

I can think of at least two science-fiction stories which describe such worlds. I'll give you the links to them later.

I don't know about the rest of you, and I'd see it as the worst possible universe to live in.