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Why not?

Yes indeed, it's mostly about a cultural trend that evolves through time... 😉

I think the lords prayer kinda says it all: "Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as in heaven. Give us today our daily bread. Forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sin against us. Lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil. For the kingdom, the power, and the glory are yours now and for ever. Amen." It's clearly saying that Earth is heaven and God is the same as us; if one has a full belly and a clear conscience then, like me, you can kick back and relax

To be fair, that doesn't make you right... 😉

Mate, you're painting yourself into a corner; other's might say "stop digging"... 😉

Of course it does, for instance, what would you call a table that people sit on? Or a chair that people eat from?

Indeed, other than all the arguments presented so far... 😉 Are you sure you understand what an argument is? This may help:

Indeed, but the protagonist is 2000 year's old, so the content and context is largely lost in the land of Ozymandias, King of kings.

If you do actually understand your premise, then you should be able to explain it, especially those who clearly understand the subject. All you do is, repeat yourselves (you and your co-pilot).

Anarchy, the state of the stateless; I have no doubt that it will be an ism at some point in the future...

And I'm back to my original question, to what end, how would it help us? IOW What's the point?

The problem is, we're human, and we need an immutable authority from which to understand our world when we're growing up; but when grown we assume the mantle of authority and, mostly, we assume our correctness. When you come to actually understand our humanity, then a God of any sort is superfluous.

I think "Alice in wonderland" is a possibility, but the book is a finite resource, ie. it's book sized; I think I took that argument away from you, logically... Sorry about that.

Some of us do, but not everybody wants to... 😁

Given that it's a paradox, then it's safe to assume that someone got something wrong. 😉 Like in the twin paradox, someone was wrong about it being a paradox...

Why would you do that? 😉 You could try to piece these things together and come up with a logical argument; or you could just say "thanks" in a vacant sort of way...

The paradox is avoided bc each observer can only return to the time he stepped into the machine. 😉

Nope, they were inspired by wisdom, man again I'm afraid; they (the wise) used the idea of God for the people who are afraid of being ripped off. As @Phi for All said, stop trying to read between the line's, the magic is the lines; like 'don't kill people' and 'don't judge people' and 'forgive people' and etc. it's obvious when you really think about it.

Of course not, any prediction is just extrapolation based on our current understanding, we could be hit by a big rock tomorrow; but I'm happy to state that there's no reason to assume that it can't be true. 😉 I can't think of anything in particular, other than the continued evolution of our understanding/technology. You can never know that, you can't even know how I think...

'Don't judge people or you will be judged' I believe that was said in one or more of the bible's, the modern equivalent is a little ditty about 'assume'.

Your conflating Bee's with a computer, Bee's share a similar set of inputs to us; besides for you to be sure that a Bee doesn't share a similar consciousness to us, you'd have to become a Bee; and it could be argued that their 'shared' intelligence, is far more suitable for life on this planet. Of course it is, we're not made of magic, but not with today's technology.

And no doubt, your computer spoke to you; meaningful, is a different question... 😉

I think that he feared our, by which I mean humanity rather than the individual, decent into nihilism without a god of sorts. And the media interfears with our natural sense of fairness; much like when in a car and one is cut-up or otherwise treated discourteously; one is disconnected from a first person understanding of the situation and in consequence one is much less likely to wave out, the poor b'stard that's been waiting for 10 mins to join the trafic. The parable of the madman - Nietsche "Have you not heard of that madman who lit a lantern in the bright morning hours, ran to the market place, and cried incessantly: "I seek God! I seek God!"---As many of those who did not believe in God were standing around just then, he provoked much laughter."

He was quite ambitious...

Then you don't understand Nietzche.