Re: actual thoughtful question
 

I have to assume that even the kid Gods are omniscient, but only Fugee knows for sure.

Re: actual thoughtful question
 

Really? How could a goat be omniscient?

Re: actual thoughtful question
 

You just keep working on the heavy rock riddle. Leave the important conversations to the adults.

Re: actual thoughtful question
 

I was hoping God got instructions, because then if we could find out if em ignored them or read them, we'd know if em was a guy or a girl! Ha ha, get it? hahhaha

Re: actual thoughtful question
 

That was worse than my pun.

Re: actual thoughtful question
 

One with an Angry Fist?

Re: actual thoughtful question
 

I have you on ignore. What was your pun?

Re: Zulily
 

I can't figure out how to or remember how to send a PM other than by replying to one I've gotten.

Re: Zulily
 

Apparently, not me so much either. But I found an old PM from you in my box (insert random snide remark about my old, unmaintained box here), and replied to it so you'd have one from me.

Re: Zulily
 

You picked a good one, but now my reply won't send apparently because you need to delete some stuff.

Re: Zulily
 

In other words, you were right, you do need to clean out your old, unmaintained box.

Re: Zulily
 

Done- sparkly and clean!

Re: actual thoughtful question
 

To ostentatiously ignore them, all the better to prove His godhood.

Oh dear, stp.

Re: Towards A Virtual Williamsburg!
 

Ferrets notes that the entire Deity/Expanding Universe Issue was succinctly summarized....as most of life's issue are..... in Animal House (1978.)

Because I don't have Flounder Powers, or this Board's equivalent, I think you'll have to past the link into a browser.

http://blogs.citypages.com/blotter/2...nes.php?page=2

Yours metaphyisicaly,

Ferrets

Re: actual thoughtful question
 

You need to define terms. "Life" does not seem terribly unlikely given the math involved. Once you start talking about "organisms" those numbers collapse a bit, because life as we know it, with discrete bodies that compete and cooperate and fuck every now and then, is far from a likely outcome a second time around. The precise order of events in the geological record won't have happened in those exactly the same way anywhere else. Our present condition was an outcome of a billion trillion coin flips, were even a single heads where there should have been tails would change literally everything.

I know what I think, and it's this: there is almost definitely life out there. But the chances it has organisms on a physical scale similar or identical to ours can be ruled out, as can several other quirks of our environment -- bilateral symmetry, communication by patterned disturbance of air -- hell, even being "organic" (deriving energy and accumulating mass through the rearrangement of carbon) is supremely unlikely. Billion times a billion times is a lot, but if there's a form of life capable of traveling to meet us, we will not recognize it as "living" when it gets here. And its intelligence will also be unrecognizable, because it will have evolved to make success more likely in a totally different environment.

tl;dr: Slime molds yes; gaseous energy clouds yes; bipedal carbon-based humanoids ¡absoluamente no!

ETA: And by "supremely unlikely" I'm aware of the scale of the universe, and I'm ruling out that the billion trillion coin flips all came out the same in one or more other places.