It would be fun to think about this from a cybersecurity or system management perspective. The goal is to find things within the action range of humanity that would at least cause a minor annoyance.
Two starters in Christianity:
- DDoS hell to force god to adapt rules.
How? Make a lot of babies and make everyone behave like assholes. Following the rules, everyone should then go to hell, which would eventually become overcrowded. Being almighty, god could of course increase the size of hell, but I’d let that count as a minor annoyance. Also, there would be no supply of people entering heaven, which could be another annoyance. There is a potential that this leads to an adaption of rules, e.g., to be more lenient with some people.
- Collectively deny to procreate.
Deny to make new bebes so humanity dies out and god has nothing to distract from his boredom anymore.
Get in the Catholic Church. Bribe, cheat and blackmail my way into being a bishop. Borgia my way into the papacy. Surround myself with loyalists and on my first Urbe et Orbi just be like: “Psych! ‘‘Twas all a big fat lie. God isn’t real and we’re all rapists!!!. FU all!!”
By then I have obviously put the entire Vatican archive on Wikileaks and signed the entirely of church land and property and property over to local NGOs.
The concept of DDoS-ing hell just to annoy god is funny as shit
If you’re interested in one of the most interesting reads ever, there’s a book called Surface Detail by Iain M Banks (Author of The Culture series of scifi books, Use Of Weapons and The Wasp Factory, to name a couple of well known titles)
It follows a couple of storylines, one of which is a War against a civilisation that has developed a digital recreation of biblical Hell to trap and punish dissidents, and the physical war that led to a back and forth of digital fighting after military accelerationism reached a stalemate.
Thanks, I’ll check that out. I read a book by him once about a weird endless bridge and the protagonist being essentially caught in dreams but tries to escape through psychoanalysis. Something like that. The other books are on my (long) list though
Damn, now that sounds like a strong read.
Definitely know what it’s like with the long list of books, there’s a stack of them staring at me from across the room right now
It’s probably not wise to try and annoy a being not bound by causality, physics, or conservation of anything. Especially when said entity has previously near-eliminated our population and discarded essentially all of us to our own folly.
(Thankfully She got bored, picked the most stubborn group She could find to remember Her, spent a thousand years trying to teach them to be good, and finally said “oh fuck it, just watch Me”)
But what’s he going to do about it? I think the idea of resisting such a totalitarian system is at least interesting to think about. A fun exercises to explore what we could do despite minimal leverage.
When you know nothing but feel like the Greatest…
The problem is our unconscious-mind’s habits & reactions.
It’s much more fundamental than “the system”, because if we were put on a planet with NO system, we’d create a problematic one, within months, due to unconscious-instinct.
THAT is what has to be force-changed.
“physician: 1st heal thyself”
Humankind has to force our unconscious-mind to change its instincts/reactions.
Since humankind won’t do that, then universe is going to be cornering humankind into doing it, or into force-self-extinguishing.
That’s the ONLY method which applies necessary & sufficient force to our unconscious-mind’s habit, to MAKE it plasticize/learn, & at that level of force, it’ll take 6 or so decades.
So, I don’t expect humankind to outgrow our ignorance’s murderousness until the 2080’s.
IF humankind survives it.
There’s no way of escaping The Great Filter.
Either earn surviving it, XOR whole-species DarwinAward/extinguishment.
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