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I am now ExtantFrodo2 due to Google's stupid login crap.

Life is nothing more than animated matter. Mind (the software running on the substrate of animated matter: is what we cherish. The body is a piece of crap that is very fragile, poorly designed, badly powered, insufficiently self maintaining and this is all obviously due to the default effects of evolution. We are presently limited to the one substrate for existence of our minds. This is unacceptable. So we invent gods when we should be inventing a more durable substrate.

The sub-optimality of systems is one of the factors indicative of evolution. Evolution is great at quickly finding solutions that work (whether they work great or not) they just happen to work better than ones peers. It doesn't care what form that solution takes or what it limits in terms of other solutions. It doesn't/can't take into account any possible future use or detriment conferred by any new solution or mutation. All these things are inherent in evolved designs.


Why is the last resort of every excuse laid down for the god who does nothing ever for anyone. "He doesn't have to."
You're absolutely right.
He doesn't HAVE to care that babies die in tsunamis he could prevent.
He doesn't HAVE to remake our physiology so that we don't choke to death while eating.
He doesn't HAVE to remove the pain of burn victims.
But in my book that makes him a fucking asshole.
Don't ask me to think otherwise.
I don't have the capacity to be that inhuman.

So supposedly, god KNEW how to cure small pox ages ago but he just chose to let billions die of this horribly painful disease because he's so wise and compassionate. With friends like that, who needs enemies?

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