I do make shit up for elaborate pranks because that is quite entertaining. Some of these pranks last days before I reveal it was a joke. My poor wife has probably been a recipient of about a dozen of these. 🙁
If a being, claiming to be an angel, appeared to you in your room, in the middle of the night, through a portal that extended, for what looked like an eternity, up through your roof into the heavens (basically, ignoring the matter that makes up your roof like some sort of neato portal), and assigned you a mission to assassinate someone important (doesn't matter...could be a political figure, religious figure, or business figure...it is just someone important to millions or perhaps billions), would you do it? If you would, what would the conditions be for the angel to prove itself that it was an angel?
Yes. But the proof I would require would be 3-fold:
1. Proof of precognition: Because I am supposedly going to prevent a catastrophe by killing this important person. So, clearly, this "angel" would need to prove genuine precognition. It would need to be extremely convincing.
2. Proof of godlike power: Because this being is expecting me to do something that I view as evil, I would need evidence of their godlike power or at least evidence (because Angels are messengers, generally) of the being that they are communicating on behalf of. This could be transmuting a pile of cheese into an equivalent pile of platinum. I would need to get the platinum tested and verified by a chemist before I would believe it. But that wouldn't be enough: I would need the angel show me something powerful that would convince me in other ways such as travel at superluminal speeds to a far-away galaxy or whatever. Something the seemingly defies physics. This one would be the toughest to prove, in my opinion. It would require the most evidence.
3. Proof that they were a righteous entity. One thing that almost anyone can agree on is the innocence of small children. Most are untainted by the evils of humans. So, perhaps, something transcendentally charitable towards small children, from this being, would be proof enough of righteousness. Perhaps curing an entire ward of child-cancer patients? Even better: giving me the knowledge to cure cancer easily and effectively (that way, it does not interfere, directly, with the "non-interference" idea that Gods usually adhere to).
I would want to think about those three things more in depth but that captures my requirements, for the most part. This does not rule out an extremely advanced being but, from my perspective, I would not be able to tell that they were just an extremely advanced alien, anyway. So it wouldn't matter, philosophically, from my limited cognition.
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Originally posted by Bardock42
I think children are born evil, so still no. Also if they were so powerful why the **** do they need me...
Remember...the non-interference clause...
Most dieties are not supposed to directly interfere with man's affairs due to the "free will" idea.
Originally posted by Bardock42
Do you like playing co-op games.
Co-op? YES! One of the best ways games can be enjoyed. MMO? **** now. Frustratingly evil time wasters.
SQ.
Originally posted by Bardock42
Yes I love co-op games.And curing all children's cancer seems like interfering on a pretty grand scale.
No, I have to do it. I have to make the conscious decision to cure the cancer. I can be handed the knowledge but the deity cannot cure it him/her/itself.
Originally posted by Bardock42
Even telling me to do something is interfering, so I don't know...this whole angel business seems fishy to me.
Indirect interference is allowed in these things. You know nothing, Bardock Snow.
Originally posted by Bardock42
Favourite food?
Depends on the mood.
Cheesecake
Pizza
Breakfast foods
SQ
Pizza.
SQ.
Originally posted by dadudemonJokes like that can be pretty harsh. A friend of mine told us that our mutual friend had his testicles removed and asked us to never bring it up because it upsets him. We were acting all sad and weird around him for months...
I do make shit up for elaborate pranks because that is quite entertaining. Some of these pranks last days before I reveal it was a joke. My poor wife has probably been a recipient of about a dozen of these. 🙁