(nobody remembers the omnisoul so i changed the title)
i was about to write this in some other thread but, since i love to hear my own ideas so much, i got sidetracked and it wasnt really appropriate. then i realized that its been over a year since i provided us all with a perfectly logical form of christianity that doesnt rely on illogical fairy tales, the meaning of which we are not supposed to question. (what does god’s son dying have to do with my sins? and then i have to eat/drink him? why does god care so much if i trust priests who want my money aka “Have Faith”?)
atheists: i think the following is a 100% purely believable theory of god that explains why he created absolutely everything in the universe exactly the way that he did. if you read this post and you still “believe” that god doesnt exist, you have to ask yourself why you dont believe that he exists. is it because you have actual evidence that proves he doesnt exist? is it because you dont like the idea that god did this to you? or is it because there is a larger, metaphysical problem with the idea of a creator who exists outside of time and therefore doesnt also need a creator, himself?
the reason why god created the universe is the same reason why anybody ever created anything: he wanted to obtain some selfish purpose. we are his cogs, we do what our environment forces us to do because thats what he designed the environment to do. just like cog number two moves because of his environment (cog number one) pushing on his teeth, our decisions are influenced by our environment, free will or not. poor people dont commit more crime simply because they all happen to have evil free wills.
the environment told us one of two things, we either need to be selfless in order to create the most happiness for all, or we need to be selfish in order to ensure our own survival and prevent the genetic propagation of sub-perfect-humans who deserve to die, and at least dont deserve to have their needs fully supplied if those same supplies can make a righteous rich person slightly more comfortable.
why do i think the environment told us either of those two things? because those are the goals that humans have. if god had full control over the shape of the universe and wanted humans to do something specific regarding their treatment of others (which seems to feel like an important category of the decisions im faced with), then he either failed, or he succeeded in making us selfish, or he is on the path towards making us all selfless.
why does the shape of the environment seem to cause selfishness? thats obvious: our brains tell us to be selfish all the time. when we think about getting out of our comfy chair and helping homeless people, thats not dopamine you feel, its your brain desperately searching for a reason to not care about homeless people enough to leave your chair. i kind of enjoy giving up things that i dont really care about to people who i know care more, but thats because its easy for someone as rich as me to give up many things. and it is clear that at some point, higher up on the scale, being selfless is clearly more painful for me and will be avoided.
but i dont like selfishness. when i say the universe has been designed to cause humans to behave a certain way towards eachother, i have to say that its possible that it wants people to be selfish because thats the way people are. people arent selfless, they are selfish, so if god has been succesful in his mission as of 2006 AD, then his mission is to create selfishness. clearly.
but i think a few other pieces of evidence contribute to the idea that he eventually wants selflessness and has not yet been succesful. the main thing is an economic principle called the Law of Diminishing Marginal Utility: when i eat one candy bar, it tastes good. when i eat the second, its still good but slightly less so. when i eat the one hundredth candy bar, even if it didnt hurt my stomach, it wouldnt really be that great, like buying ten TVs, or ten houses. the tenth one is not as valuable as the first one.
at some point, rich people get to the point where everything they buy is either an entirely new technology, or it is the tenth iteration of a joy that they have already experienced. and most new technologies really provide the same joy: “oo thats cool and makes my life slightly more convenient.” by the tenth time this happens, no matter what form the technology may take, its still less enjoyable than the first time. imagine buying your tenth tv and compare the joy you feel to the joy youd see coming from a poor person who never owned one.
so when a guy has a mid life crisis, this is him realizing that his money doesnt make him happy, even though he continues to obtain more and more of it. isnt it? what is it if it isnt that? ive never had one i dont know, but i cant imagine what else it is.
i also think that the main part of the mid life crisis is that your children dont need your help anymore. this illustrates the other piece of evidence that supports the idea that god wants selflessness. men who make tons of money are very happy because they know that their money is going to help someone who needs it. unless you want to force me to explain why you are wrong, do not tell me that they are merely living out their evolutionary DNA propagation because thats absolutely not what they are doing. (the selfishness of your genes causes your dick to feel good when you have sex, it does not cause the uncontrollable desire to have as many children as possible)
i need to get back to work so ill wrap this up: the omnisoul is the metaphysical manifestation of every soul, combined into one entity that “uses” the universe machine to recalibrate its constituent parts that have been knocked out of whack for some metaphysical reason. the universe machine causes the reharmonization of the omnisoul components (your souls) by placing each of them into various scenarios of varying motivation towards selfless treatment of fellow souls.
imagine you have a machine that, because of wear and tear, has parts that wobble and smash into eachother when you turn it on. fixing them is like sending them to ‘love your fellow machinery component’ camp.
when a soul is placed into a life of selflessness, he recalibrates himself into the large metaphysical entity and that entity then works more optimally. when a soul is placed in a poor person (if they ever even are which i want to doubt), they are merely being used for the purposes of motivating the selflessness of the others.
evil exists because without, there is no need for selflessness. god’s existence cannot be proven because what he wants from us is true selflessness for the sake of our fellow souls. he does not want us to know he exists because if we did, the motivation for our selfless actions would cease to be purely loving our neighbors and would be partially motivated by our desire to please or appease god.
does anybody think this theory is impossible? in order for you to be an atheist, dont you have to KNOW that what ive said is impossible? youre all actually agnostic.