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- Feb 4, 2013
He doesn't have a code of ethics. Otherwise he'd have to punish himself. Half of his punishments are for calling him an asshole which he repeatedly does to everyone else, only in code.
Matthew 5:22
King James Version (KJV)
22 But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say, 'Thou fool', shall be in danger of hell fire.
King James Version (KJV)
22 But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say, 'Thou fool', shall be in danger of hell fire.
The Bible agrees with you, facepalm.
Anyhow, just thinking some more about Brad's empty, toothless threats of getting us all reincarnated as toads and hermit crabs.
He thinks the threat of us being reincarnated as non-human would frighten us, but ask yourself this: If you were a flatworm right now, would you be panicking and screaming about your condition? No, because you'd be a fucking flatworm and wouldn't have the intellectual capacity to be experience angst at your predicament.
It is almost the same thing as becoming nonexistent upon death. You don't experience suffering if you cease to exist, because you don't experience anything.
Being far enough down the evolutionary ladder would be indistinguishable, experience-wise, to not being able to think, feel or experience at all.
Even if he were to sentence us to "a hundred lifetimes as mouse" that wouldn't be too onerous, considering a mouse in the wild lives for around 3-4 months, a hundred lifetimes would add up to 33-40 years. A life that would be a short exciting, action-filled existence that I wouldn't even remember. Because my mouse brain would be too simple to record anything worth remembering.
So here's a gedanken (thought experiment) for you.
Lets think outside the box for a moment, and assume -- for the sake of this hypothetical mental exercise -- both Christianity and Hinduism are both wrong. There is no afterlife and no reincarnation. At all. When your brain dies, the "self" dissolves into the aether because there is no viable medium in which to instantiate it anymore.
Buuuuuut, Lets assume that the Transhumanist Singularity people are right, and within the next 50 years we are all able to transfer our consciousness into immortal cyborg transhuman bodies. The only way Brad could inflict his punishments on any of us would be to find each of us individually and forcefully transfer our consciousnesses out of our cyborg transhuman bodies (against our wills, mind you, which I'm very sure there would be laws against in the future) and forcefully transfer it into cyborg animal bodies.
I say we all make a pact if he tries that shit with any of us, we all gang up on him and forcefully transfer his consciousness into an immortal robotic Koi fish.
...a special very smart Koi fish that is just smart enough to comprehend how empty the life of a Koi fish is, but not smart enough to do anything about it.
...and this robotic Koi fish will live in a 30 gallon aquarium....a very narrow 30 gallon aquarium...so narrow that turning around would be difficult.
...and this aquarium is in an unlit room...in an anechoic chamber.
This way he experiences both an unfulfilling life of angst-filled, pointless ennui AND simulated nonexistence...simultaneously.
....and THAT, my friends, is how you existentially threaten someone by giving them immortality.
Buuuuuut, Lets assume that the Transhumanist Singularity people are right, and within the next 50 years we are all able to transfer our consciousness into immortal cyborg transhuman bodies. The only way Brad could inflict his punishments on any of us would be to find each of us individually and forcefully transfer our consciousnesses out of our cyborg transhuman bodies (against our wills, mind you, which I'm very sure there would be laws against in the future) and forcefully transfer it into cyborg animal bodies.
I say we all make a pact if he tries that shit with any of us, we all gang up on him and forcefully transfer his consciousness into an immortal robotic Koi fish.
...a special very smart Koi fish that is just smart enough to comprehend how empty the life of a Koi fish is, but not smart enough to do anything about it.
...and this robotic Koi fish will live in a 30 gallon aquarium....a very narrow 30 gallon aquarium...so narrow that turning around would be difficult.
...and this aquarium is in an unlit room...in an anechoic chamber.
This way he experiences both an unfulfilling life of angst-filled, pointless ennui AND simulated nonexistence...simultaneously.
....and THAT, my friends, is how you existentially threaten someone by giving them immortality.