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[will_be_god]

There will be no classroom meeting tomorrow.

However, do not mistake this for a lack of a session. I instruct you all to meet with me in this entry and discuss, privately, your visions for a greater world. What you believe would make it ideal. Those things you would keep, those things you would alter, those things you would rid us of entirely. Be as detailed as you will, but approach it from an ethical standpoint.

I do so privately and virtually because I wish to free you from your inhibitions, that you may speak your minds without fear of judgment from your classmates. This will exist between only you and me.

You may do so at any time this week; however, I will expect all to have discussed such things with me by class time next week.


((As expected, all comments are private between Cyrus and whoever posts them. No need to establish this.))

Comments

[will-be-god.livejournal.com]

Very well. By removing the will to fight. By conditioning the brain's chemicals to never release those things that lead us to violence.

[another-trace.livejournal.com]

Is that even possible?

[will-be-god.livejournal.com]

Quite so.

[another-trace.livejournal.com]

How?

[will-be-god.livejournal.com]

This is not the time for me to speak. I will answer at another time if you insist, but this time is devoted to you.

[another-trace.livejournal.com]

All right.

[will-be-god.livejournal.com]

Now, I have asked you. Reply.

[another-trace.livejournal.com]

Well, you mentioned you would remove the chemicals in the brain that produce the emotions associated with anger and violence. I'm not so sure that would work. Now that I really think about it, I don't think it's within our capacity as human beings to control others' emotions and actions. We're not God.

[will-be-god.livejournal.com]

Not yet.

Fascinating that you state that it is God's domain to do so.

[another-trace.livejournal.com]

Why is that?

[will-be-god.livejournal.com]

Do you believe that? That a God has the right to do so?

[another-trace.livejournal.com]

I think he's the only one who has that right.

[will-be-god.livejournal.com]

And what qualifies a deity for that?

[another-trace.livejournal.com]

Because God's the one who created everyone in the first place.

[will-be-god.livejournal.com]

If that were the case, there is still no purpose to obeying blindly. Such things lead only to tyranny.

[another-trace.livejournal.com]

I didn't say that.

[will-be-god.livejournal.com]

Yet you say that a God has the only right to do so, placing such a being in an exclusive realm. Only God, you say, has a right to tamper with mortals. Yet you are opposed to such a tampering when performed by a mortal. There is no difference, yet you strike one.

[another-trace.livejournal.com]

There is so a difference! All I'm saying is God is the only one who has the right to do that.

[will-be-god.livejournal.com]

And what is that difference? Simply because one is divine? That cannot be enough.

[another-trace.livejournal.com]

Because God has power that we as humans can't begin to comprehend.

[will-be-god.livejournal.com]

Because God has power...

Power, as the saying goes, corrupts.

[another-trace.livejournal.com]

Maybe a human.

[will-be-god.livejournal.com]

And what places a deity above that?

[another-trace.livejournal.com]

The fact he's god?

[will-be-god.livejournal.com]

There must be a quality, not simply a title.