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[Rhuen]

Its a normal day, until suddenly every radio station, every TV station, and even a projected voice inside your head appears. A woman's voice speaking in every language at once (you hear your own language in what you would percieve as a beautiful woman's voice).

Off the shores of Isreal, England, Japan, China, India, Aurstral, pretty much off the shores of the 200,000 highest populated or largest cities a six hundred foot tall image of a woman appears wearing a beautiful dress. Her ethnicity, clothing style *always regal though*, hair style, and other specific details such as voice all depend on the perception of the individual looking at her *even in play backs recorded on camera this happens*. (but always a woman of beauty and regal apperance)

She says to the world through all this mediums in unison.

"I am the personification of the supreme being who created this universe and many others. I have only once before appeared before the people of this world. I have left no messages for you to live by, and no rules to guide you; I granted your species like all others the power to make these decisions for yourselves and develop in your own ways. While other beings below me may have tried to guide you and claimed to be me such as I, know that they are not me. I shall return again when or if your people have made the next step in their collective development."

[Caulfield]

I would warn people of the tricks and signs given unto Satan in the last times and that there is only One God in heaven and only One Saviour of mankind, the Lord Jesus Christ.

[Rhuen]

To be honest, and not to start any discussion or argument, but if I heard about some guy alive today walking about the middle east giving sight to the blind, raising recently dead, removing "demons" from people, walking on water, and stopping storms, ect... and calling himself the son of God.

My reaction would be that he is a sorcerer, a con-man using trickery or fancy technology, a meta-human, or some sort of supernatural creature like an Incubus using its powers to immitate a god and thus get people to worship it for its own ends.

Divinity is in the eye of the beholder and one's expectations of what that should be like.

[FallingSpider]

I would probably going into hiding until the world has stopped freaking out. Then continue on as I have been because I am focusing on the journey I need to be on, not one that any world institution feels I should be on.

[TheUnknowable]

I'd try to figure out what the "next step in development" was. Then I'd try to convince others. Maybe. Or I'd just try to alter my brain so that I saw her as other forms than the original one I saw her as.

[CultHero]

I still think that if any omnipotent super-being was to make itself known the whole world would go ape-shit. Even though most people believe in one god or another I doubt many could wrap their heads around the manifestation of one. As I said in the previous thread like this one take War of the Worlds as an example, people thought the world was actually being invaded by aliens and it caused riots. If that happens because of an imaginary alien attack imagine what kind of chaos would happen if a god (of any kind) showed up.

[VictimofCircumstance]

I'd laugh at all my religious friends for wasting so much time on phony BS. As for the world, it's hard to say. I would guess that most religious fundamentalists would go crazier than they already are and most skeptics would continue there skepticism. I would hope that it would bring an end to religion but I doubt it would.

[Dhamien]

I'd roll a fat joint, and hope the bar was still open.

As for the world - they'd go ape-shit crazy.

[Rhuen]

Truth be told I am certain most people, despite any ego they'd show with a hypothedical if faced with this situation in real life would piss themselves and then enter a downward spiral of a psychotic breakdown from the combination of shock and denial as they mentally attempted to compensate for this massive blow to their social filters.

[Dhamien]

Rhuen, on 30 December 2011 - 04:51 AM, said:

Truth be told I am certain most people, despite any ego they'd show with a hypothetical if faced with this situation in real life would piss themselves and then enter a downward spiral of a psychotic breakdown from the combination of shock and denial as they mentally attempted to compensate for this massive blow to their social filters.

Was there any question as to why I would be getting high and drunk?

Edited by Dhamien, 30 December 2011 - 11:36 AM.

[passingover]

Rhuen, on 30 December 2011 - 04:51 AM, said:

Truth be told I am certain most people, despite any ego they'd show with a hypothedical if faced with this situation in real life would piss themselves and then enter a downward spiral of a psychotic breakdown from the combination of shock and denial as they mentally attempted to compensate for this massive blow to their social filters.

Well I think we're probably a lot more adaptable than you tend to give us credit for.  Not to say that some people wouldn't suffer a prolonged psychotic breakdown.

I do think if that's all the message is and nothing else is done then it will only lead to period of massive bloodshed as people react negatively and become more extreme in their views.

Personally I would not be so surprised by such a thing however I would be a little suspicious and I would also question the motivation for that message and appearance.  The message itself and the appearance would interfere with our development.  So why announce that you will be back when we develop more?  It would seem to defeat the purpose.  Why interfere in the first place then in this way?  It would seem irresponsible to me. Although I suppose you could say something like this might eventually cause an acceleration of development after an initial period of chaos.

Edited by passingover, 30 December 2011 - 11:44 AM.

[Dhamien]

passingover, on 30 December 2011 - 11:42 AM, said:

Personally I would not be so surprised by such a thing however I would be a little suspicious and I would also question the motivation for that message and appearance. The message itself and the appearance would interfere with our development. So why announce that you will be back when we develop more? It would seem to defeat the purpose.

Perhaps, but on the other hand, scientists do this all the time. Change the equation. Interfere, see what happens. Think about it, in the original post Rhuen made, it's said we have been left to our own designs, etc. Well, perhaps that was the problem in our development - religion. Religious fanatics were the reason that science came to nearly a screeching halt, because they couldn't bear the idea that the mysteries surrounding us could be explained in ANY other way than - "The Lord works in mysterious ways" - and perhaps the actual definitive of a higher power appearing to us would bring about the kick in the ass we needed.

Granted, this would be after war. A lot of war. Hell, we might not make it very far in our attempt to develop anyway, because, well kids, once the first nuke goes airborne, you can almost be guaranteed there will be more flying.

And besides that, who would be able to accept the being speaking in every vernacular at the same time? People are not only stupid and panicky in groups, they are also greedy. Who wants to share a new god with the people who blew this up in this country? (You can insert almost anyone into that statement, except like ... the Eskimos and the Aussies)

[CultHero]

What, don't you remember when a tribe of Inuit blew up the Sydney Opera House?

[UrbanDecay]

Dhamien, on 30 December 2011 - 11:57 AM, said:

Perhaps, but on the other hand, scientists do this all the time. Change the equation. Interfere, see what happens. Think about it, in the original post Rhuen made, it's said we have been left to our own designs, etc. Well, perhaps that was the problem in our development - religion. Religious fanatics were the reason that science came to nearly a screeching halt, because they couldn't bear the idea that the mysteries surrounding us could be explained in ANY other way than - "The Lord works in mysterious ways" - and perhaps the actual definitive of a higher power appearing to us would bring about the kick in the ass we needed.

I think you are wrong in the way you lump "religion" together.
It was essentially a judeo-christian thing to say. "God explains nature. It needs no other explanation."
Most religions before christianity gave what they saw or experienced in nature(physically or spiritually.) names, which turned into gods. You see this in Hindu religions, Native American religions, old european religions, and even asian religions like taoism and shinto.
Then, after Christianity reigns for a good while, people feel the need to call the things they find in nature "explanations" for it, and once something is explained it is filed away, just because we have named it in a scientific way there is no longer anything mysterious about it. So what is closer to religion?
Naming things that were part of the world before we named them in no way makes them explained. Science can make us evolve, use these things, adapt. Yet no amount of times something is named and "explained" to me will make the wonder or mystery of it any less. Especially when we get into harder areas...such as love and death. Those will always retain their mystery, regardless of the reasons given for it(mating or simply being the discorporation of a living thing)
Reading the essays in "Summoning the Gods" by Colin Cleary, who can probably explain this view a lot better than I do, I am convinced this is the way most indiginous religions thought. I don't think that hinders science, but it does hinder materialistic branches of atheism...oh and most of Christianity.

As for Rhuens question, I can answer honestly that I would shrug and continue with my life. Seems like the lady does not plan to come back in my lifetime and I really can't justify clamoring for this or that divine cause my whole life when I have family to feed and lots of shit to do. Plus, it seems like any god would do that right? It seems like there are many gods in history glad to fuck with us like this and if this lady is claiming that there are beings below her she is confirming she can be any one of them....Loki/Coyote come to mind....

[TheHeartlessOne]

I'd capture the being because I had been waiting so long for this moment. I'd spent years of my life predicting where she would show herself and now that she did I would spring the trap. An underwater fly trap (she was flying?) then hundreds of helicopters would swarm her and the people inside them would shoot sleeping darts at her.

Now that I had her in my custody, I would as her the Question that had started it all "Can you microwave a burrito so hot even you could not eat it?" and I shall reveal in her answer like a pig in a candy factory.

[Rhuen]

& which one of the 200,000 manifestations were you planning on trying that suicide mission on? LoL.

[Episkopos]

I would do nothing but bask in my own vindicated smugness, as that's exactly the divine message I've been hoping for: "I created you as intelligent beings and you're not doing it right."

I imagine that anyone who didn't want to believe it would find a reason not to with all due haste. The atheists would say it was a sham, the believers would say it's a trick of the adversary, and the agonistics would wonder what all this has to do with the price of bacon.

[TheHeartlessOne]

Now if it was Cthulhu who pranced around on top of the ocean it would be a whole different story. I already know that he could do that because we all know burrito's have tasty souls.

[Dhamien]

TheHeartlessOne, on 11 January 2012 - 09:36 PM, said:

Now if it was Cthulhu who pranced around on top of the ocean it would be a whole different story. I already know that he could do that because we all know burrito's have tasty souls.

I'm suddenly reminded of the short comic series "SQUEE!", an offshoot of the short comic series "Johnny the Homicidal Maniac" by Jhonen Vasquez.

Squee said:

"NOOO!!! I WILL NOT FEAST ON THE TOASTY SOULS OF THE DAMNED!!!!!"

[TheHeartlessOne]

Dhamien, on 17 January 2012 - 05:10 AM, said:

I'm suddenly reminded of the short comic series "SQUEE!", an offshoot of the short comic series "Johnny the Homicidal Maniac" by Jhonen Vasquez.

What a kwinky dink that the homicidal maniac was called Johnny.

Anyway my split persona will love to have a say in this everyday event. Tell you the truth I't would be all the rage and everyone will fight over who it is; "A test from God" "No it's our God" "No she's the real deal, lets have a orgy in her name" "She brings the devils will" "Why she not make me a sandwich?"

Anyway fights could lead to wars but that depends on more factors than I can predict when sober. In all the only concern I'll have is my safety and the safety of the people I possibly care about, I might even use it as a conversation starter next to the beer keg.

I must admit that "collective " is a very alarming word in her speech but she seems to be peaceful. "Seems".

Can the next add on have dragons?

Edited by TheHeartlessOne, 17 January 2012 - 09:54 AM.